ECSTATIC DANCE CARDIFF | ESSENSUALLY ECSTATIC GATHERING
COMMUNITY | FREEFORM DANCE | LIVE DJ | MUSIC
WELCOME TO ECSTATIC DANCE CARDIFF! WE ARE SO DELIGHTED TO DANCE, EXPRESS FREELY, CONNECT, EXPAND TOGETHER AT THE BEAUTIFUL COED HILLS RURAL ARTS SPACE, COWBRIDGE
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Our last dance this year!
What an incredible year we've shared together! This is the dance to honour all the dances.. Our final dance THIS YEAR and what an incredible year we've shared together! This is the dance to celebrate all the dances 💃
✨ Friday 19th December | 6-10pm (main event 7-9.30pm)
✨ At the magical @coedffest (20 min from Cardiff) 🐉
➡️ The Gathering
We’re thrilled to welcome international DJ Our Echo for a masterful set & the finest facilitation to honour the Winter Solstice. Welcome to a high vibe celebration, for our bodies to move freely, our hearts to awaken, and our souls to feel fully alive ✨
Together with Ecstatic Dance Cardiff founder Sea Gypsee & Yemaya holding a soulful cacao activation with live music, we’ll set intentions for this special time and connect with the beauty of the present moment 🌹
✨ Beginners welcome, no experience needed
If there’s one dance to close the year with, this is the one! Come if you feel the pull.
The tribe is ready for that final ignition!
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This is the essence of what we want to create. More than just a party, (which of course it is too!) it is also a gathering that build meaningful relationships and connectivity, authentic purpose and loving kindness. We are community that learn how to tap into the natural ways to celebrate life and grow together.
On this night, we will enjoy nature, meditate, set intention, dance freely, connect, lift up our energies to the highest states. A time to infuse our intentions as the sublime cacao, music and sounds circulate through our bodies. A time to fill our cups majestically, enliven our spirits in true community and remind ourselves how amazing we are! ✨🌈 💖
➤ EVENT SCHEDULE
≫ 6PM | Doors open, sauna, forest walk & food
≫ 7PM | Opening Circle and Cacao Activation with Live Music
≫ 7.20PM | Warm Up + Ecstatic Dance in the beautiful barn with fire place
≫ 9.25PM | Closing Circle
≫ 9.30PM | Social & food
10pm | Doors closed
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TICKETS
CONCESSION: £18
SUPER EARLY BIRD : £22 (until sun 30th nov)
EARLY BIRD: £25 (sun 7th dec)
GENERAL: £28
SUPPORTER DONATION: £30
No one is turned away due to lack of funds. Please reach out to us if you can't afford a ticket and want to join so we can sort something out.
* Ticket cancellation :
We do not offer ticket refunds, but if you are unable to attend and you let us know 48h prior to the event, we can give you a credit note for the value of your ticket to use for one of our future event.
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Arrival
6pm - 7pm
Delight in the beautiful surroundings of coed hills rural art space. You can enjoy a wonder in the forest garden, the stone circle, the woods, have a pick at the eco sustainable constructions or have a sauna.
Cacao Activation & Intention Setting w/ Sea Gypsee + Yemaya
7pm - 7.20pm
At the beginning of this session, we will introduce ceremonial cacao. As well as being incredibly delicious, ceremonial cacao helps us to ground, enhance our dance experience and open our hearts. It can also gently guide us to connect with hidden dimensions of ourselves. At Ecstatic Dance Cardiff, we prepare cacao with great respect for the indigenous wisdom keepers of this master plant medicine, infusing it with prayers and songs during the whole preparation process ✨
As we sip Ceremonial Cacao with intention and through a guided meditation to open our hearts, we will call in an intention for this year. The effects of cacao can vary from one person to another, but you can expect an improvement of mood and pleasure, stimulation of mental alertness and heart expansion.
As well as being one of the most potent superfood on the planet, this ceremonial grade cacao will help you to reach a state of mild euphoria, without altering your consciousness. It's a beautiful heart-opener and with intention, it can help you enhance your wellbeing to the next level. It truly is the new way to dance without alcohol and we absolutely love it!
What is in this cacao drink? ceremonial grade cacao, organic agave, vegan organic milk
Ecstatic Dance w/ Our Echo
7:20pm - 9.20pm
You are invited to this safe, playful space, where the whole of you is welcomed. In this session, you will gently be guided to breathe, let go of stress, recharge and move as you feel. Dancing and cultivating authentic movement from the inside is deeply nurturing and healing. Be prepared to deeply connect with the elements, move, sweat, experience and enjoy!
🌊 Unlike clubbing, ecstatic dance sets are built like "waves" moving from slow and mellow, to very dynamic and everything else in between; gently guiding you to stretch your body and mind in many directions, to experience the vast spectrum of your emotions with mindfulness and wild abandon. Most of the time when people dance it is to look good to others, but here, we dance to connect with our authentic natural selves.
Closing Circle w/ Our Echo + Sea Gypsee
9.20-9.30pm
We gather in circle to close the evening. This is a chance to feel connected in peace as a tribe. We tune into what is present within us, share and receive others experience in authenticity and non judgment. There will also be a chance to talk more by the fire after the dance.
Social Time
9.30-10pm
After the dance, for those who wish to stay, there will be organic food & a time for us to just be together.
Rich N Raw
Delighted to welcome Richard Havardi, talented vegan & vegetarian chef who will cook for us a delicious curry on the night, as well as sweet treats available on site. Richard is the founder of NAMA Foods, raw vegan restaurant in London and official cook at the stunning Temple Events, conscious clubbing in Manchester. He loves to create colourful, tasty and creative dishes with high quality ingredients that help heal the body. Meals available from 6pm (please book your curry in advance via the ticket link)
INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/richardhavardi/
WHAT TO EXPECT
❃ LIVE DJS | FREE-FORM MOVEMENT | CACAO | FOOD | COMMUNITY ❃
WELCOME TO A SAFE, INSPIRING & INCLUSIVE EVENT, A CREATIVE SPACE TO UPLIFT YOUR MIND AND CONNECT WITH YOUR BODY. JOIN OUR VIBRANT COMMUNITY AS WE GATHER EACH MONTH WITHOUT ALCOHOL, SHOES OR TALKING ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
THE MUSIC
ENJOY DIFFERENT TEMPOS & MUSICAL GENRES TO ACTIVATE YOUR BODY AND GO ON A JOURNEY WITH GLOBAL BEATS & RHYTHMS, WORLD MUSIC, EDM, TRIBAL HOUSE, TECHNO, AFRO BEAT, CUMBIA, REGGAETON, FOLKTRONIKA, SOUND HEALING, AND LOTS MORE.
DO YOUR OWN THING
ECSTATIC DANCE IS A SPACE FOR US TO LET GO OF STRESS, RECHARGE, EXPLORE MOVEMENT AND RELEASE. AS WE LISTEN DEEPER TO YOUR BODIES, THE DANCEFLOOR OPENS THE DOOR TO FLOWING WITH OUR EMOTIONS, CONNECT WITH OTHERS AND EXPERIENCE EUPHORIC RELEASE. NO EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED AND THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG WAY TO MOVE. THE FACILITATOR GIVES OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY BUT WE ARE TOTALLY FREE TO ENGAGE OR DO OUR OWN THING WITH THE DANCE.
➤ OUR ECHO
Our Echo is one of the world's most recognised and respected women of conscious dance spaces; known for her deeply rich offerings, ceremony leadership and work with not only the worlds finest music and now producing her own, but also exploring the depths and medicine in death awareness, shadow work and grief tending.
Her path through music has been one of personal growth, community, integration and dancing with the shadow. She invites us to experience these gatherings as sacred rituals, allowing ourselves to expand beyond the limitations of our perceived identities and embrace the infinite possibilities of who you truly are. Expect anything from World Fusion, Ethno Electronica, Spiritual House, Ambient Tribal, Organic Downtempo, Folktronica, Global Bass, Mystical Downtempo..
INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/_ourecho_/
➤ SEA GYPSEE
Sea Gypsee is a facilitator on a mission to inspire people to boldly engage in their life with heart and soul. She curates safe potent & inclusive containers to truly rejuvenate from the inside out. Through space holding, breathing techniques, meditation and music, Seagypsee guides us to simply come back to ourselves, explore the depth of our presences and invite ecstasy in the simplest way possible.
Seagypsee is the creatrix of Ecstatic Dance Cardiff. She has offered her unique energy in the conscious scene for places such as Ecstatic Dance UK, Brighton, Bristol, Bath, Paris, Lisboa, Temple Events & Baumka Conscious Clubbing in Manchester and also creates offerings at conscious festivals such as All About Love, Medicine Festival, Boomtown, Anthropos among others, as well as holding embodiment retreats in France.
INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/seagypsee/
➤ YEMAYA
A devoted student of nature based healing, Yemaya integrates her deep joy to share exquisite love, together with her clarity of listening to the wisdom of her plant and fungi master teachers. This alchemy is what she weaves through her delivery of sacred sound healing frequencies, activating profound inner trust, peace and understanding in others.
INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_earth_medicine_/
LOCATION
COED HILLS RURAL ARTS SPACE, COWBRIDGE
WHAT TO BRING
- an open, receptive mind
- comfortable clothing
- a water bottle to stay hydrated
COME JOIN US AND LET’S DANCE!
To join the community:
https://www.facebook.com/ecstaticdancecardiff
https://www.instagram.com/seagypsee/
Photography:
We have our own photographer at the event who is part of the dance group and will be covering the event. The photos will be used only for showcasing and promoting our events. Our photographer is very discrete and unobtrusive, however, if you would prefer not to be photographed, please let us know when you arrive.
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