Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Avani (Tyler Blank)

Weds Night - October 23rd - Avani (Tyler Blank) 7pm // Contact Improv - Shannon Sahaja 7pm // Yoga - David Schlussel 8pm // OPENING CIRCLE 8-11pm // Ecstatic Dance Journey - Avani 11pm // Sound Healing - Sita Devi AVANI / Tyler Blank (San Francisco, USA), is an Ecstatic Dance DJ, and Founder of Ecstatic Dance Oakland, SF, Fairfax, and the EcstaticDance.Org NonProfit Community. His music style can be called eclectic, eccentric, sometimes even ecstatic. He plays every emotion, tempo, and genre possible to produce a journey of sound for the embodied spirit to experience itself. Avani appreciates both the sacred, and the profane… the spiritual and the sexual. Come take a ride, through the chakras, around the globe, from the ancient past through the distant future, arriving and enjoying, the right here and now. www.Avani.Dance Shannon Puja Sahaja is devoted to helping people dance and move and connect with their bodies so that they can be happy and healthy and enjoy life to its fullest!!! Shannon teaches a unique and innovative style of dance that creates a safe, playful, and loving space for you to release inhibitions and dare to be seen. Dance is her first language and she has performed, taught, and trained in dance for the past 20 years. Her main influences for Being Danced are contact improvisation, Burning Man, and spontaneity. www.ShannonSahaja.com David Schlussel is a yoga teacher, life coach, husband, and father. David experiences yoga as the practice of reconnecting with our wholeness. When we operate from our wholeness, we experience the incredible strength and flexibility that is our potential. David coaches his students from fixed ideas about what they can and can’t do, towards life as a playful exploration of possibility. David began his exploration of yoga with Ashtanga, where he learned the benefit of regular consistent practice. He continued his training by studying Dynamic Yoga, where he discovered the deeper strengths available through activating along the muscular and energetic pathways of the body, and where he developed his passion for yoga philosophy. He is currently inspired by Anusara Yoga, which has infused his practice and teaching with an empowering understanding of alignment, therapeutics, and fun. David’s classes are a flowing celebration of our bodies, designed to exercise, educate, integrate, delight, challenge and recharge. He is known for his warm approachability, contagious curiosity, gentle and liberating hands on adjustments, facilitating healing of old injuries, and offering concepts that support his students both on the mat and in their daily life. www.YogiLifeCoach.com Sita Devi - As a natural performer, Sita was put into dance and gymnastics at the age of three and soon began choreographing small theater for her parents' dinner parties. Her performing career advanced, receiving a BFA in dance from University of California Santa Barbara and is a co-founder and facilitator of the Ecstatic Dance Retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii. After some years of performing, Sita began to dive deeply into her yoga practice, realizing that this was the true path of her heart. www.SitaDeviLove.com There are 3 simple Guidelines to maintain a Safe and Sacred Space together. 1. No Talking on the Dancefloor 2. Move as You Wish 3. Respect the Space (which includes no Shoes, no Drugs, no Booze, no Phones, no Perfumes, and Respecting each other's Space) $18 Drop In Multiple Discount Passes also Available at the Door 4 for $15 each ($60), 10 for $13 each ($130) Cash or Card. Online or at the Door. Free Dance: Volunteers arrive at 6pm Sharp OR Stay till Midnight (check in at the Front Door first) Free Dance: Your Birthday Week! Upstairs: Free Kung Fu Tea Service benefitting Om Shan Tea At the Bar: Brilliant Herbal Elixirs & Rhythmic Seed Dancing Cuisine (Raw Vegan) Main Floor Windows: Meditation Altar & Table Massage available www.Edance.org/w