Abandon the arduous every day for a while and embark on a transformative journey. Ecstatic Dance Festival Holland welcomes you to share your personal embodiment journey with a team of experienced facilitators over the course of 6 exciting days.  Participate in workshops, music performances, yoga, and other powerful activities to connect with your bodily experience.

The festival organisers say:

“Ecstatic Dance Festival Holland is a place to discover and embody the Joy of Being, where we celebrate and welcome every aspect of your individual and unique expression. Because everyone has a different temperament, we invite a diverse team of facilitators to suit the many pathways to the heart. We invite you on a journey that will be YOUR journey. We encourage you to listen to your needs and feel free to choose what you want to experience and when you want to participate, as we have a variety of offerings. We offer plenty of space for you to be active and enjoy passive integration time.”

“Ecstatic dance is becoming a familiar household name, but what is it, exactly? Furthermore, who gets to decide what ecstatic dance is or is not? Definitions are subjective. The beauty of ecstatic dance is that there are no definitions of what takes place in its open space of possibilities. Yes, we have shared guidelines that establish an atmosphere of safety and trust, but what happens in the dance is spontaneous, fresh, unknown and unknowable. May we sink into gratitude for a space where we can BE without the expectation to become or unbecome.

Community is an essential ecstatic dance aspect. We emphasize the importance of gathering and pouring our authenticity into an open space of acceptance to liberate expression, inviting all parts of ourselves to come out and play. Along the way, trauma finds new pathways, tensions touch the possibility of ease and relaxation, tightly held stories find fresh formulations, expression is liberated, and we open our hearts to the possibility of discovering and understanding the beautiful movement of healing.

Healing comes from the word wholeness or holiness. Our dance invites the possibility of bringing disembodied information that we habitually fragment from the whole back into alignment, harmony and the wholeness of Being. Another word for this process is embodiment. Whether it’s anger, rage, ecstasy, euphoria, happiness, celebration, sadness, grief, stillness or silence, we embrace and welcome all regions of ourselves to move, express, and transform, for it is natural for the changeful to change.”

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