LUNA Women's Ceremonial Ecstatic Dance

I continue to hear the roars and whispers from women in our community. The hunger for the deeper spaces. The desire for the real, raw magick that doesn’t bypass the pain we can all see and feel in the world. The call for the experiences where the sacred, the wild and the utterly human meet in our profound learning experiences. LUNA is an answer to this time to gather and this invitation to learn how to hold the paradox of the times we are navigating. To reclaim sovereignty and create synergy in connection with women and the holy feminine pulse that moves through us. To liberate ourselves from the stories that shackle our connective power still. To activate our aliveness together. To dismantle the fear that fractures into jealousy, judgment, shame and defensiveness amidst our sisters and within our greater lives. To pull the ancient feminine remembering and relational power through the thousands of years of conquesting, warring consciousness. This is the women’s ecstatic dance ceremony to bring it all. The fullness of the sacred dark, the sacred light and to dance with our shadows until they too have an opportunity to turn to love. Our time has come, to both celebrate, elevate and transform as well as grieve and rage and feel the fullness of what we are navigating. THIS MONTH WE ARE NAVIGATING THE THEME OF PERFECTIONISM We have been taught to crave a perfectionism that doesn't exist. A fantasy. A fable. A polished story that doesn’t hold the full complexity or colours or feelings of what it is to navigate the world and be human at this time. And we have learned to use the sword of judgment against our bodies, our emotions, our choices, We’ve also learned to destroy our relationship with others when our perfectionism turns into judgment against others. And it rips at the fabrics of our friendships and intimate relating. We have learned to punish and beat ourselves up for not knowing how to do something…when we haven’t learned how to do it yet. We learn to hide, force or freeze in the face of our learned perfectionism patterns. Out of fear of getting it wrong…we run away or hide…or force every detail into place while destroying our relational world in the process, including with ourselves. Yet under the distortion of perfectionism is a signal for the beauty and magick and flow that is possible in life. So we’re coming together to shatter the illusion perfectionism without losing the signal of the flow, alignment and connection we are learning to birth in our lives and the world. It’s time to embrace the mess and magick fully. Luna is presented by Unity Productions and is hosted and stewarded by Reva Wild. A prolific and masterful facilitator, singer and space holder in the Toronto and Southern Ontario community, Reva brings over a decade of experience in dance, trauma healing, and feminine embodiment. She brings a grounded, utterly human approach to unearthing the messy, raw magick of what it is to transform the collective intergenerational pain we are all navigating into full, shameless aliveness. A teacher of sacred eros holding deep mastery in the art of untangling rational conflict, she brings a deep presence and calls women to their sovereignty and power through ecstatic play and invoking the primal feminine that’s been waiting under your skin. Reva will also be making her DJ Debut as WILDCARD and bringing the last decade of collecting and creating transformational playlists for ecstatic dances and primal embodiment. Her intention for this debut set is to bring you on a journey through all parts of yourself and ignite your aliveness as we journey through the theme of Perfectionism and the invitation to embrace our flawed, imperfect, strange and beautiful selves. Sacha Bryce is an EFT Teacher and Practitioner and will be leading a guided tapping session as a part of the Luna journey. Sacha is an EFT Tapping practitioner & trainer and guides women to step into confident leadership & service beyond their fears. Her life has been dedicated to learning various healing tools and modalities to expand consciousness, fostering greater freedom, joy, and abundance in both her own life and the lives of others. She passionately believes in the power of women coming together to create portals of healing and magic. LUNA is Presented by Unity Productions MONDAY AUGUST 19th Investment: Early Bird: $30 General Admission: $35 Door - $40 LOCATION: East Side Beaches Secret Lakeside Sunset Paradise Guidelines: Love & Respect Yourself Love & Respect Each Other Love & Respect The Space Learning & Curiosity We are fundamentally learners and invited to practise being curious. This is an invitation to recognize that every experience is a descriptively an experience that we learn from and to activate more curiosity and the creative and relational power that unleashes. Practising Post-Judgement & Post-Shame & Post-Fear We commit to practising the alchemy of turning judgement, shame and fear into opportunities to connect, self reflect and get even more curious. We recognize that moments of judging ourselves or others will come up the same with shame and fear as they are learned responses and frames of understanding in our larger cultures. This is a space to practise what happens when we can recognize them and work to move beyond them. Self Holding & Interdependent Connection We dance with the paradox of sovereignty and connectedness. You are invited in this space to practise holding yourself, your emotions, your regulation and your sovereign choice and to practise inviting connection, co-creation, co-regulation and support. Practicing Consent & Building A Fuck Yes Culture This is a space where we ask with our words, eyes and body language to invite contact, touch and dancing together. We are encouraged to go slow enough that we can really attune to ourselves and each other. We are creating a culture where it is common and standard to share our boundaries and desires so we can create fuck yes experiences together. Holding the Sacred At the Center We are in the art of remembering what it really takes to hold our lives and life as sacred, holy and utterly important. Your body. Your breath. Your history. Your Learning. Your messes. Your magick. Your intention. Your speaking. Your eating. Your choices. Your connection. This earth. The water. Our food. The animals. The sky. Our Relationships. Learning to hold all of this as sacred is a key to relational power being liberated in our own lives and each others. This is a SOBER space. Zero tolerance for alcohol or high doses of medicines or substances. This is a firm boundary and you will be asked to leave or a taxi will be called for you. We understand as a part of sovereignty, some folks may choose to microdose or smoke cannabis. At Luna though we are encouraging a sober container, we invite all medicines to be engaged with utmost care and in a way that keeps you more present and connected. A Note for Non-Binary & Trans Femme Folks: Luna facilitators and the Luna community welcomes non-binary and trans femmes to participate if they feel the capacity to be in women’s spaces where wombs, pussies and and menstrual hormonal cycles are spoken to and honoured. All of us have come from wombs and pussy. And up until the past 100 years, the understanding of what a woman is was not disconnected from womb carriers and those with pussies. We also recognize that in many indigenous communities over thousands of years and different cultures in the world, third gender expression and two spirit folks have been seen as powerful healers, space holders and invited into reverent roles beyond and within the sacred work of women and sacred work of men in those communities and cultures. We think it is important to continue to speak to biological women’s experiences and bodies in this space while our language will still reflect invitations for Fems without wombs to connect with their feminine essence and be welcomed into the connective experience of sisterhood. If this approach to inclusion is challenging for you to be with, we invite you to connect with the queer dances and trans femme spaces that will be geared specifically to your experience navigating the world. This is a very polarizing and heated topic we are navigating as we work to hold the both/and stance around inclusion without losing the devotion to women and to our connection with what womb and pussy really mean in the world we are navigating today. If you are non-binary or trans and curious about attending, feel free to message Reva @ [email protected]