Sunday Morning Ecstatic Dance 5.17.26

Ecstatic Dance is a freeform movement journey, held in a safe and sacred container, & facilitated by trained facilitators and professional DJs. It’s a place where we can be our unique selves, and also connected to a common source. LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE- This event will cap at 25 attendees. Date: Sun May 17, 2026 Time: 11:30am - 2:30pm Flow (we will do our best with timing, we keep it slightly flexi in the moment) Warm-up: 11:30am - 12:15pm Opening Circle: 12:15pm-12:30pm Ecstatic Dance Journey (including cool down) 12:30 - 2:15pm Closing Circle: 2:15pm-2:30pm 🔥Warmup Leader: Ben Selin is a community builder, dancefloor enthusiast, and lifelong explorer of embodied experience. After completing his Yoga Teacher Training at the Mystical Yoga Farm last year, he has been diving deeper into practices that help people reconnect with presence, play, expression, and each other. His background in ecstatic dance, conscious community spaces, and somatic exploration informs the way he creates experiences that are grounding, joyful, and human. For this week’s warm-up, Ben will weave together elements of hatha yoga, laughter yoga, breath, movement, and connection exercises to help soften social barriers and bring people more fully into their bodies before the ecstatic dance journey begins. Expect a playful and gently immersive experience that invites curiosity, presence, and a little silliness along the way. Some light partner exercises involving contact will be offered, with options available for anyone who prefers little or no physical touch. 🎧 DJ Leading Our Dance Journey: DJ Shouk hearthis.at/shouk Shouk is a DJ and ambient experimental producer based out of the greater Philadelphia area. Massage Therapist and Sound Healer by day DJ by night Shouk aims to amplify the healing magic of dance and music. Blending House, Minimal Techno, Breaks and Latin house she creates a timeless uplifting and expansive experience. You can typically find ShouK at humble clubs, underground parties, ecstatic dance events or maybe even a yoga class. Wherever she her sonic journey will surely keep you moving while gently tugging at your heart strings. Don’t miss her energy, beats and magic on the dance floor. Shouk is an Armenian word that describes the bright rays of the sun as well as the shadow, reminding us that all shadows have light behind them. Day or night her goal is to amplify the golden frequency of healing joy sending it to all the dark corners of our being. Ecstatic Dance as we know it began in the year 2000, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Little did we know that this would inspire a movement, a culture, and a community, that would spread across the world. ✨️Dance with us on Sunday mornings in gratitude for being alive. Sunday has long been seen as a day to celebrate the Divine! We tap into that in a non-dogmatic way. A space for unity, community & connection to something larger than ourselves. Event Organizers: Boombox Ben (Ben Selin) Boombox Ben is an event organizer in Philadelphia. He came to Ecstatic Dance in 2023 and it has massively changed his life since then. Ben has been called to organize community events and share the joy that dancing has brought him. Veronica Carpenter of Blissful Butterfly Yoga Veronica is a yoga therapist and self-love cheerleader with over 20 years of experience supporting children and adults in mental health and caregiving. Rooted in her own healing journey, she helps humans reconnect to themselves through practical, playful practices. She began practicing ecstatic dance in 2021 and found so much joy and nourishment in a Sunday morning practice, and so here we are. Yoga helped her feel safe in her body, ecstatic dance helped her feel free. She now helps organize events to share that experience with others.