Ecstatic Dance Oakland @ Sweets Ballroom
June 4th - DJ: Qoi
Contact Improv: Maria Zotov
Yoga: Satya Gita
Opening Circle & Meditation: Tyler Blank
Tea: Aless Shanti
Food: Sacred Decadence (Leela Maya)
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DJ: Qoi
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Arrive when you wish:
6:45pm - Doors Open
7:00pm - Contact Improv Class (Main Floor)
7:00pm - Yoga Class (Upstairs)
7:50pm - Opening Circle
8:00pm - Ecstatic Dance
10:30pm - Sound Bath / Closing Meditation
10:45pm - Good Night Everyone!
Sweets Ballroom
1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA
19th St. BART
Secured Covered Parking: Dalziel Garage
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
$6.30
Tickets:
Available at the door with Cash / Card / Venmo
$25 Drop-In
$20 Circle Passes sold in 5 packs ($100)
Volunteer Opportunity: Show up at 6pm sharp! for Opening
or ask at the door for Closing Opportunities.
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Contact Improv: Maria Zotov
Maria (Masha) is a traditional style yoga teacher, who studied in India. She left her Civil Engineering career to become a full time Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher. Her current hobbies besides yoga are partner acrobatics, contact improvisation and chess.
With 6.5 years of experience teaching and 17 years of practice she’s currently leading group and corporate classes as well as privates and teaching in wellness retreats in the Bay Area.
Maria is mindful about efficient and safe alignment for injury prevention, helping to lose joint stiffness using traditional Hatha yoga techniques. She's enthusiastic about Ashtanga Yoga for a balanced, strong and flexible body and uses breathing techniques to boost energy levels, improve focus and concentration, stress and sleep problems reduction and others.
IG: @traveling_yogini_maria
Yoga: Satya Gita
Satya Gita is a long-time, devoted practitioner and teacher of yoga. In her more than 20 years of practice, she has studied many forms of yoga, including Jivamukti, Integral, Ashtanga, Standing Wave Yoga, Forrest, and Anusara. Born in Oslo and raised in Trondheim Norway, she studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast before moving to New York to study and teach at Jivamukti. She was also certified at the Integral Yoga Institute and studied Standing Wave.
Satya then created and implemented a yoga program for Harbin Hot Springs, an internationally known retreat center in California. During this time, she founded her own teaching style called Anahatha Yoga, which utilizes physical postures and alignment to open energetic dimensions and pathways in the body. Preparing the body in this way opens the student’s awareness to more subtle dimensions of Being in an embodied way. She has been teaching and developing this form for 18 years, as well as training and certifying others in the approach. She continues to offer classes and workshops using Anahatha yoga to help students deepen in themselves.
https://satyaaune.com/about-satya
Opening Circle & Meditation: Tyler Blank
Founder of Ecstatic Dance Oakland, San Francisco, Fairfax, & EcstaticDance.org Community, Tyler is also an Ecstatic Dance DJ, & Partner Yoga & Contact Improv Guide. www.DoublePlay.fun & www.SoundCloud.com/mrblank
Food Service: Sacred Decadence (Leela Maya)
Leela started her journey as a raw vegan dessert chef in 2007 during the early days of Cafe Gratitude where it first began in San Francisco and Marin County. It was working there that she discovered the power of intention, community, & how truly nourishing food felt like sensual kitchen witch craft for her soul. It was love at first bite. Since then she has been a chef and product developer for local healthy food companies like Urban Remedy and Good Earth.
She is wholeheartedly happy to serve the Bay Area Dance Community in nourishing connection from within.
When she is not playing with her food, Leela teaches Play based Authentic Relating & Connection Classes, Full & New Moon Circles for Womyn+, & Cacao Ceremony Soundbaths. She believes that love, joy, connection, and play are key ingredients to a healthy happy life. Blessed Be and Bon Appétit!
To learn more about Leela’s offerings, to order a cake/food, or to schedule a one on one session, you can check out her website:
www.LeelaMayaMagic.com
Or follow her on Socials:
Insta:
@LeelaMayaMagic
@SacreDecadence
Upstairs Tea Lounge: Aless Shanti
Alessandra/Aless, is a dancer and yogini, tea amateur and cacao passionate!
She often starts her day with a cup of tea. From Puer to herbal teas, she appreciates the medicine of plants. When she sits for her meditation or movement practice, the cup of tea guides her to focus and be present.
She has always loved sharing tea with others, during her travels all around the world she had the opportunity and interest to learn about medicinal plants and tea. Recently she has been initiated how to serve puer in a more ceremonial way, she is continuously learning and humbled by the culture of tea in China and Japan.
Alessandra loves crafting herbal blends combining medicinal properties in tea, but above all, she is a passionate chocolate maker! Her recent creation, La Gourmande, delicious raw cacao truffles, pair divinely with tea. Both tea herbal blends and cacao truffles are available for purchase.
With her love, she will be honored to serve tea on Wednesdays nights.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571863295250
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All are Welcome, Without Restrictions or Limitations.
We only ask that you refrain from:
1. Talking on the Dancefloor
2. Using your Phone
3. Wearing Shoes or Scents
4. Using Substances (Be Yourself!)
Thank You for Respecting the Space so that everyone may Move, Celebrate, Heal, & Pray in their own unique way... Together.
Tix available at the Door:
Drop-In: $25 (Cash / Card / Venmo)
Circle Dance Passes: $20 each (sold in packs of 5 for $100)
Available at the Door.
@ Sweets Ballroom
1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA
19th St. BART
Secured Covered Parking: Dalziel Garage
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
$6.50
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Website:
https://ecstaticdance.org/dance/oakland-ecstatic-dance/
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