We dance to free ourselves. We dance to come home. We dance to feel connection to each other. To the pulse. To our joy and our sorrow. To allow it all to move through. We dance like no one is watching or like the whole world is watching. We dance because we know it is the medicine we need. We dance to come home to ourselves again and again.
The Spirit of Dance Temple
Dance Temple is the heartbeat and core of a larger cultural transformation, providing a place for people to get real, express their sovereignty and cultivate trust within themselves and in community.
Region by region, Dance Temple upholds a devotion to creating inclusive, safer spaces for all walks of life to gather, to dance to great music and to move through whatever is alive for them in a non-verbal space. As well as being a central hub for conscious dance in each area, the Dance Temples hold a shared vision to be a sanctuary for embracing authenticity and sacred expression and provide a central gathering place for communities to unite, express and celebrate.
How are we different from Ecstatic Dance?
In truth, Dance Temple is quite similar to the broader movement called ‘Ecstatic Dance’, that is now found all over the world. That said, Dance Temple was created on a foundation of conscious dance facilitation and not so much DJing, although that did come later… The core collectives that make up the roots of the Dance Temple movement are comprised of seasoned dance facilitators who come from various lineages of conscious dance.
We’ve come together in the aim to weave a community space that appeals to a more diverse crowd while still holding a gently facilitated container to unify the group at times and lead people deeper into their dance practice. Rooted in 5Rhythms, Kundalini Dance, Inner Journeys, Authentic Movement and many more conscious dance forms, Dance Temple is an umbrella for the various forms of conscious dance and facilitators to come together to co-create vibrant community.
The Fundamentals:
- Freedom of expression
- Inclusivity
- Non-verbal movement space
- Respectful and consensual interaction
- Sacred space: welcoming prayer, ceremony, emotion and authenticity.
Begin and end together – facilitated open and close are core to our values of offering support to drop into the dance, connection to each other and ourselves, to deepening our intention and creating synergy in the space - musical journey through eclectic genres and following an ‘arc’ of tempo and energy: starting slow, building to a peak and then making our way back to a still point
Each DJ-facilitator brings their unique flavour to the basic format and as well the deeper purpose of each dance journey.
Learn more on the Dance Temple International Website
