Ecstatic Dance Event Listing

Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter by Richard Powers

For centuries, dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise.  More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being.   Then most recently we've heard of another benefit:&nb ...

10 things you might know about love by Barbara Fredrickson

1. It can be hard to talk about love in scientific terms because people have strong pre-existing ideas about it. The vision of love that emerges from the latest science requires a radical shift. I learned that I need to ask people to step back from their current views of love long enough to consider it from a different perspectiv ...

Jewel Mathieson – We Have Come To Be Danced (poem)

  We have come to be danced Not the pretty dance Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance But the claw our way back into the belly Of the sacred, sensual animal dance The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance The holding the precious moment in the palms Of our hands and feet dance. We have come to be danced Not the ...

Johnny Cash Project

Sexy on the Dance Floor – by Tim Hartnett Ph.D

There is a freedom I feel on the dance floor that I find nowhere else. I can dance my own dance, or invite connections with others. When I want to part, I can simply dance away. When I want to dance sexy, I am free to express myself.   I think we all value this freedom, however we may choose to use it. And we cultivate this freedom toget ...

Contacting the Soul

Contact Improvisation for me has been like riding the vanguard of human development. So here we stand at what may be one of the edges of human expansion, stretching the envelope that contains us. Contact Improvisation is not just another dance technique or discipline. It is a forum for discovering who we are beneath our skins. It is a place where o ...

Featured Event: Dance Journey – Berekely

Dance Journey is an Ecstatic Dance / Conscious Dance Venue. The best of the S.F. Bay Area DJ's playing in two room, plus monthly live music. All this for only $15.   Find out why many consider Dance Journey in Berkeley to be their temple. Dance Journey gracefully holds the middle groun ...

Featured Event: NCDC Summer Camp

Summer Dance Camp June 15-24-2013. You are invited to dance, play, celebrate and grow as we co-create a dance village for nine days in the southern Sierras, with daytime classes in a wide range of movement modalities as well as music and art, and all kinds of great evening events. Relax, sun yoursel ...

Featured Event: CI Jam at Harbin

Harbin Hot Springs Date: May 23, 2013 - May 27, 2013 Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm 18424 Harbin Springs Road, Middletown California Contact Phone: (510)459-4284 Web Address: http://www.harbinjam.org/registration.html Cost of Attendance: See website Come Dance, Play, Dine, Soak and Create! "Let th ...