Dancing with Eros: November Gratitude and Harvest

❤️ November theme: Gratitude and Harvest ❤️ How is gratitude a doorway into Eros. When we experience "not gratitude" how does that impact the love that flows through us in our lives in our dance? ❤️ Dancing with Eros ❤️ Inspired by Touch&Play, we present, Dancing with Eros, a monthly dance event with the explicit intention of exploring our erotic energy in the dance. Let’s explore for ourselves and together in community what it means to dance with Eros. As a society, we have been acculturated to have shame about our sexual desires. In many dance communities in the country, we have struggled with issues of consent and sexuality in the dance spaces, so much so that many local dances seek to explicitly keep erotic energy separate from the dance. This is an invitation to allow and follow our erotic energy, with consciousness and care, consent and healthy boundaries. Erotic energy is creative energy. Let your creativity flow. Definition of Eros: the sum of life-preserving instincts that are manifested as impulses to gratify basic needs, as sublimated impulses, and as impulses to protect and preserve the body and mind. The focus of this event is to explore erotic energy through dance and movement. There will be a designated cuddle space. If your dance becomes slow and floor bound, consider moving to the cuddle zone. If you wish to bring your dance connection into a more explicitly sexual connection, consider making a date outside of the event! ❤️ FLOW ❤️ 8:00 pm Doors open 8:30 pm Doors Close: Opening circle with Rachel Santos and context 9:15 pm Dance with Eros, with DJ Journey Weaver 11:15 pm Closing and Integration Register at www.yoursacredpelvis.com/dancing-with-eros ❤️ Honoring the Container ❤️ 1. Arrive by 8:30 pm to be present for the setting of the sacred space. 2. Please keep casual conversation outside of the dance space, but please do use your voice anytime, in order to set or clarify your boundaries or ask for what you want. 3. This is a shame free zone. We are practicing shame resilience through artfully learning to honor our own boundaries and honor the desires of others, whether or not we choose to meet them. 4. Explore consent, verbally and non-verbally. Be forgiving and truthful with yourself and others in the event of a consent accident. This is how we learn and grow. 5. We have Safety Angels should you need support throughout the event. 6. Allow yourself space from the digital world and simply Dance with Eros within and around. 7. No exchange of bodily fluids on the dance floor. 8. There will be a designated cuddle space. 9. This is a body positive space. Reveal yourself to the extent that feels empowering and exciting AND keep your genitals covered. ❤️ Location ❤️ Karuna Yoga 25 Main Street Northampton, MA 4th floor above Fitzwilly’s building ❤️ Pricing Structure ❤️ $15 online $20 at the door Inquire about work exchange options DJ Journey Weaver Inspired by a love of dance and connection, Journey moves your spirit and form through space with the push of beats and the invitation of melody. From organic world beats to ambient chill, deep house to global base... each set is nourishingly familiar yet cravingly unique. Founder of Nexus Ecstatic Dance Amherst, producer of Ecstatic Dance Boston, and co-founder of I-Opener Dance, she also helps to create dance events in NYC, throughout Massachusetts, and with several festival organizations around the world. www.djjourneyweaver.com Rachel Santos Rachel Santos is a devoted explorer of the wondrous landscape we call body. Through dance, yoga, chi-kung, bodywork, healing arts, and Tantra her journey continues to reveal the heavenly treasures and pleasures we are all here to experience! Through her work with the 5 Elements in Tantric, Healing Tao, Shamanic and other traditions she feels deeply rooted, guided and inspired by the wisdom of Mama Nature. She is the founder of Heart-On, and a professional “FunRaiser” who harnesses the power of music and dance for social justice. www.hearton.life Chaya Leia Aronson Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN is a bodyworker, health and sexuality coach, dancer, lover and mother. Chaya believes that we source our creative, life force expression through our pelvic bowls and if the energy is blocked here, it greatly affects our capacity to be our full authentic selves in the world. Her passion is to support pelvic and abdominal health and healing. The main forms of bodywork she practices are the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Holistic Pelvic Care™. Bellydance, contact improvisation and yoga have been the central core of her spiritual and physical practice for over 20 years. She weaves the knowledge she’s gained about movement patterns and body structure into her work to assist clients in actively healing their own bodies and spirits. www.yoursacredpelvis.com