What to expect
Five days of Ecstatic and Conscious Dance
A shared lab environment & guided master classes
A meeting place for dance lovers
Deepen and broaden your dance practice
Beautiful retreat center in a nature reserve
Vegetarian community cooking
Led by 3 facilitators who share 50 years of teaching dance, facilitating workshops, DJing, community building and organizing ecstatic events
“Untangle my feet
from all that ensnares
Free my soul
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.”
Hafiz
We believe Ecstatic Dance only works when it has a strong beating heart.
The guidelines are simple, but how do we make it sacred, authentic and transformative?
Program:
Below is a short impression of the program. In reality the program will be more flexible, organic, and adjusted to the needs of the group. Although each day has a theme, we’ll weave all the topics throughout each day of the week. It will be an intense week – with a lot of information and practice. We recommend that you give yourself this entire week for your own training, growth and learning.
We will train all days, including some evenings.
Day 1 (Wednesday 5th June 2024): Arrival and Dance together. Getting to know each other and our hopes & fears. Practicalities and creating a space to learn and play together.
Day 2 (Thursday 6th June 2024): A dive into the his/her/our-story of Ecstatic Dance and the art of creating a safe / brave space for dancers to get wild and free.
Day 3 (Friday 7th June 2024): Skills and tools for facilitating a ceremony, ritual, or a warm up. How to get dancers in tune with themselves and with each other? Learning about the dance journey. Organising our own Ecstatic Dance.
Day 4 (Saturday 8th June 2024): Music: choosing the right music for every crowd, learning about the effects of music on a dancer’s body and how to go with what is in the room while gently leading it.
Day 5 (Sunday 9th June 2024): Troubleshooting & Integration: what can go ‘wrong’ and how to navigate these situations. Harvest of our week together and closing ceremony. And a surprise learning experience…
If you come an evening in advance, you can also join for the epic dance of Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. Plus: there will be plenty of other choices during the week to go and get your groove on!
Investment for the training:
777 euro – (early bird – for the first 7 people who sign up)
888 euro – (full price)
999 euro – (in case your company or cooperation pays for the training)
555 euro – (alumni – for those who have already followed a training with us)
During this training we wish to create an intimate dancing and learning community. We therefore have places for max 25 participants.
The full investment includes: 100 pages manual, all teachings and the dance that we will organise together with/for you. Plus: a life-long connection with a community full of like-minded people, to support and inspire you along the way.
Location:
Ter Gouwstraat 3, 1093 JX, Amsterdam
Dates:
5th-9th June 2024
CANCELLATION POLICY
Please let us know as soon as possible if something comes up and you cannot attend the workshop. Please make all cancellations by email. If you wish to cancel 4 weeks before the training starts, you will receive your down-payment minus 55 euro registration fee. If a cancelation happens after that time we keep the down payment. No refund is available for withdrawal once the training has started.
– During this week training we wish to create a small and intimate dancing and learning community and therefore have places for only 25 participants.
Tom Goldhand, Caroline S’Jegers and Léon Beckx have danced and worked together on many dance floors and look forward to share their wide range of experiences with you
