VESICA - Sun. Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Sweets Ballroom

Dec. 17 - DJ:VESICA Contact Improv: Shira Yaziv Yoga: Satya Gita Sound Healing: Emily Lewis, Chris James Timing: (Arrive when you Wish) 9:45am - Doors Open 10am - Contact Improv (Main Floor) 10am - Yoga (Upstairs) 10:45am - Opening Circle 11am - Ecstatic Dance 1pm - Sound Healing / Meditation 1:11pm - Good Day! - Time for Picnic After Dance Picnic is held next to Lake Merritt near the Fairyland Sign by Whole Foods on Grand Avenue & Harrison. Tickets: Available at the door with Cash / Card / Venmo $25 Drop-In $20 Circle Passes sold in 5 packs ($100) Volunteer Opportunity: Show up at 9am sharp! for Opening or ask at the door for Closing Opportunities. @ Sweets Ballroom 1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA 19th St. BART ------- Dec. 17 - DJ: Vesica Contact Improv: Shira Yoga: Satya Gita Sound Healing: Emily Lewis, Chris James DJ: Vesica is Initiator and Co-founder of Ecstatic Dance Berlin, where she is a resident DJ and the organizer of Ecstatic Dance Sundays. Vesica, while born & raised in Berlin, has lived most of her adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Oakland Ecstatic Dance saved her in 2008, when her doctoral dissertation on spirit possession & psychiatry was literally driving her mad. Ever since, Ecstatic Dance has been her twice weekly, non-negotiable pilgrimage to the dance floor -to get down and right with herself, her community, her body and the Sacred. It is no surprise then, that Vesica is a dancer’s DJ deeply steeped in West Coast Bass music committed to the Heart, Soul and Funk of her dancers. Catch her this Spring on her US West Coast Ecstatic Dance tour and in the Netherlands. https://soundcloud.com/vesica-ecstatic Contact Improv: Shira Yaziv is a dancer, teacher, bodyworker, and facilitator. She enjoys encouraging people to be in their bodies while learning new skills, being creative, listening and adapting to the changing present moment. Shira is the co-founder and owner of Athletic Playground, a dynamic indoor space, inspiring physical play through a wide variety of movement classes. She offers private sessions, group classes, workshops, bodywork sessions and retreats. More info: shira.yaziv.com Yoga: Satya Gita Satya Gita is a long-time, devoted practitioner and teacher of yoga. In her more than 20 years of practice, she has studied many forms of yoga, including Jivamukti, Integral, Ashtanga, Standing Wave Yoga, Forrest, and Anusara. Born in Oslo and raised in Trondheim Norway, she studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast before moving to New York to study and teach at Jivamukti. She was also certified at the Integral Yoga Institute and studied Standing Wave. Satya then created and implemented a yoga program for Harbin Hot Springs, an internationally known retreat center in California. During this time, she founded her own teaching style called Anahatha Yoga, which utilizes physical postures and alignment to open energetic dimensions and pathways in the body. Preparing the body in this way opens the student’s awareness to more subtle dimensions of Being in an embodied way. She has been teaching and developing this form for 18 years, as well as training and certifying others in the approach. She continues to offer classes and workshops using Anahatha yoga to help students deepen in themselves. https://satyaaune.com/about-satya Sound Healer: Emily Lewis, Chris James Emily Lewis is a singer/songwriter & producer living in Soquel, California south of the bay area. She writes evocative, melancholic, reflective indie dream folk & downtempo electronica. Emily Lewis’s voice is both smooth and dusty. Her music is dreamy, vocal-centric with rich layered harmonies. ----- Website: https://ecstaticdance.org/dance/oakland-ecstatic-dance-sunday-morning/ ----- @ Sweets Ballroom 1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA 19th St. BART