Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Sol Rising

Weds Night - 2/27 - Sol Rising 7pm // Contact Improv - Samaya Storm (Samantha Sweetwater) 7pm // Yoga - Lucia Grace 8pm // OPENING CIRCLE 8-11pm // Ecstatic Dance Journey - Sol Rising 11pm // Sound Healing - Cyrena Giordano Ecstatic Dance: Ryan Herr - Multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer, Ryan Herr, has been weaving his mix of live and electronic music for festivals, retreats and events throughout the world for nearly 20 years. He has a diverse and dynamic background of musical genres and styles and has been creating music for yoga, dance, film, and meditation. He focuses much of his musical attention to the medicinal aspects of music and dance and always incorporates a heavy dose of improvisation into his live sets. In recent years he has been recording and performing with artists such as Shaman’s Dream, The Polish Ambassador, Wildlight, Ayla Nereo and SaQi to name a few. https://soundcloud.com/ryanherrmusic Samaya Storm (Samantha Sweetwater) - Samantha started channeling dances about war, peace, relationship and spiritual states beyond name or form at the age of 13. She has been a dance priestess ever since, traversing the realms of professional dance and choreography, contact improvisation, site-specific improvisation, capoeira, dance fitness, yoga teaching and training, massage therapy, events production and embodied community development. She is the founder of Dancing Freedom, Kick Ass With Grace Coaching and PeaceBody Japan. Her work synergizes mindfulness centered in the body, shamanism, soul alchemy, community practice, and an integral vision for evolutionary enlightenment into functional experiences that support individual and planetary wholeness. Her transformational offerings create a safe space to open the heart, express the soul, and to reconnect with the self-generating capacity to experience sufficiency and wholeness. She serves through authenticity, integral perspective, rigorous honesty, divine play, and presence. Samantha holds an MA in Wisdom Spirituality, a self-created degree in Social Theory and The Dance (from UCSC with Honors), is a certified yoga instructor, somatics practitioner, massage therapist, Dream Coach, Reiki Master, and an ordained priestess. www.dancingfreedom.com/about-us/samantha-sweetwater/ Upstairs: Free Coat & Bag Check (8pm - 11:30pm) Cushy Mats, Conversation, & Free Kung Fu Tea Service benefitting Om Shan Tea At the Bar: Brilliant Herbal Elixirs, Rhythmic Seed Dancing Cuisine & Firefly Chocolates Main Floor Windows: Meditation Altar & Table Massage available $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) Free Dance: Your Birthday Week! Ecstatic Dance is a Freeform Movement Journey DJ'd with Modern Bass Music spanning all Genres, Tempos, Emotions, and Intensities. You are Welcome and Accepted as You Are, in this Judgement Free, Open Community. 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, Booze, Phones, Perfumes, and each other's Space) www.Edance.org/w