Saturday May 4th Ryan Herr • Ecstatic Dance Silicon Valley

• NEW DAY & NEW AMAZING DANCE SPACE • This Saturday morning May 4th welcome back to the ballroom Musician & DJ Ryan Herr of Ryan Herr Music. • LISTEN • https://soundcloud.com/jumpsuit-records/ecstatic-dance-vol-1-mixed-by-ryan-herr • WEB • http://www.ryanherrmusic.com • FB • https://www.facebook.com/RyanHerrMusic ABOUT: Ryan Herr has been weaving his mix of live and electronic music for festivals, events, ecstatic dances, and retreats throughout the world for nearly 20 years. His sets are loved for his synthesis of original and live elements and his uniquely designed blend of genres and cultures, both contemporary and classic, mixed with on-the-spot compositions and original remixes. Many have come to know his music through his collaborations and performances with The Polish Ambassador, Wildlight and Ayla Nereo. Ryan has become a featured artist/producer on many of their album releases and has produced several successful remixes for TPA's label, Jumpsuit Records. He also recently produced the Wildlight - The Tide (Acoustic) album as well as co-produced Ayla Nereo's "The Code of the Flowers". He has a diverse and dynamic background of musical genres and styles and has been creating music for yoga, dance, film and meditation throughout his career. He has performed at many major festivals around the country, including Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, Beloved, Lucidity, Arise, Imagine, and Phases of the Moon. He focuses much of his attention on the medicinal aspects of music and dance, and always incorporates a healthy dose of improvisation into his live sets. WEEKLY SATURDAY MORNING'S - PALO ALTO CUBBERLY COMMUNITY CENTER, GYM A (our new Dance Cathedral) 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto See map below for easy details to find the new dance space and read the IMPORTANT message below. We will be dancing in a magnificent Dance Cathedral, Gym A at Cubberly Community Center. The city and their team have ushered us in, welcomed us and is taking great care of our weekly dance offering and our community. IMPORTANT: How to find us? Enter Cubberly from Middlefield Road at intersection of Montrose. Park near theatre. Or park curbside. Free parking either way. Walk behind the theatre and follow the map to Gym A. MAP: https://cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=50466.82&BlobID=68297 9:00a Contact improv warm up class with Karin Moriarty Class included in cost of dance donations welcome please gift directly to the teacher. 10a - 12p Ecstatic Dance, a conscious freeform dance and movement meditation. COST: $20 Drop in Cash or credit card at the door. Kids under 14 free and must be attended by a guardian at all times. Quantity dance passes available at a discount. Scholarships available, limited and must be reserved in advance Email: [email protected] by Wednesday before the dance. Work trade/volunteering available upon request. JOIN: Weekly community newsletter https://tinyurl.com/y85sqv9m FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/201282369993345/ FB Page https://www.facebook.com/ecstaticdancesiliconvalley/ FB Contact Improv Silicon Valley:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1489236951289206/ MEMBERSHIPS & AUTO PAY: Tax deductible by law, monthly auto-pay memberships available online: www.clubconscious.org Become a steward of this dance space. Your membership allows you a free dance when we dance the 5th week of the month. You simply sign in at the door and you do not need to pay at the door. WHAT IS CONTACT DANCE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzb9Hnjnd5g ECSTATIC DANCE LIVE DJ'S + NO TALKING + NO SHOES + NO BOOZE Please sign in at the door take a deep conscious breath begin your embodied journey and arrive. Remove your shoes, turn off all phones before entering this dance space. No talking in the dance space, this is a sacred movement meditation space for introspection and full embodied expression inspired by music. Use Namaste prayer hands if you would rather not dance with others, or to complete your dance with others. Quiet area in the lobby for whispering. Kids must be attended at all times. CLOSING CIRCLE Closing Circle after dance is a facilitated intentional circle, a sacred space. We come together to complete our dance experience and to practice expressing with words our embodied experience. This space is not here to discuss what happened before the dance or what you think might happen after the dance. Please honor this dance practice and the medicine it is here to provide for the community. There are other circles dedicated to other personal processing. Please respect this intentional space and the people in it and commit to the agreements of the closing circle. GIVING & RECEIVING This is not a promotional and advertising space. Giving and receiving is a practice of trading with community. After dance bring clothing, food, items that no longer serve you and might serve someone else. In closing circle if you are feeling the need for support from the community this is the time you might ask. Someone may raise there hand to connect with you after the circle is closed. COMMUNITY PICNIC Picnic outdoors when weather permits. Bring healthy food to share. Please clean up after. Use eco-friendly containers and utensils if possible.