Ecstatic Dance Vienna - Rise into the New Year

Dear beautiful, amazing, dancing people! Happy New Year!! :) We're gonna begin an hour earlier with a strong collective prayer/singing circle led by the Moondance Sisters and Antara Dakini! _____________________________________________________ 17:00 Arriving in Silence: We ask you to come onto the Dancefloor in Silence to prepare for the „Journey“ ahead. 17:30 Beginning Circle and then praying/singing/drumming together with the Moondance Sisters and Antara Dakini The Moondance sisters gather since 3 years to rise, honour and send their love to Mother Earth with their Songs and Prayers, They will sing medicine songs from various different tribes and traditions, to help us connect and unite how our ancestors used to. They will bring the Mother Drum "Huehuetl" that represents the beat of Mother Earths heart. www.moondanceaustria.com 18:30 Dance introduction by Antara Dakini, inspired by her Liberation Dance Liberation Dance is a deep, transformative experience that Antara usually guides on dancefloors all over the world for around 2 hours or longer; There, she is guiding people with spoken word through different processes and states of conciousnness, accompanied by beautifully selected music. To keep in the Spirit of Ecstatic Dance we will get a glimpse of what she does as our dance introduction and then journey onwards without her spoken guidance, with music selected by her and DJ Bramaji. www.liberationdance.com 19:00 Ecstatic Dance journey with DJ Bramaji and Antara Dakini DJ Bramaji is DJing since more than 20 years. He played through many music genres with the vision of connecting inner- and outer worlds through music and the intention of creating a danced ritual of oneness, a meditation through movement. He presents music, art and dance in combination with a journey of sounds from around the world, within this dance of existence; that´s the driving force behind the work of DJ Bramaji. Together with songs selected by him and Antara Dakini, they will guide you on a beautiful journey. https://m.facebook.com/XisDance/ 21:00 Live Sound Journey mit Ananda Naia Singer, musician and soundhealer Ananda Naia will help us with a soft landing after the dance. He is the creator of Kailani - a new instrument received and born here in Austria. With its soft and transcendent spherical soundscapes it opens the passage beyond our mind and helps us to reconnect with our true essence. www.kailani.at 21:30 Ending Circle and then Open Space 22:00 Official End Entry: 20-40Eur ______________________________________________________ What is our Intention with creating the local Ecstatic Dance here in Vienna? To provide a „Sacred Space“ for inner and outer movement. A Space where we connect to ourselves through Dance, Meditation and Prayer. A space where it is welcome to be you in all of your glory – in all of your aspects, seen and unseen. It is a space where transformation, relief or an emotional process can happen. Of course, none of that must happen. Just know that it can and that the space welcomes it. It's a place to float in trance, to go on your own inner dance journey. It's a place to explore how I relate to myself and the other – each encounter can be a practice of mindfulness. Do I judge, do I try to please, am I authentic in my presence and how does it feel when I am not? And, it's a place to dance, of course. The variety of expression of movement is infinite. We invite you to express all that you feel through your movement! It's a place to roll on the ground, jump, be crazy, have fun, laugh, cry and be. We believe that dance is a universal language which can bring us closer together as a human family! We as a community are consciously co-creating and holding that space together. We as the initiators are giving our best to keep the space clear and clean. We want to create the most amazing dancefloor that is possible – together with you. Please, be a part of it. And please, respect the space. The most important guidelines: No talking on the dancefloor, No alcohol and no drugs, No movies or pictures, Respect your own space and that of each other. This video sums it up quite well:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTnRHkMChbI:)