Ecstatic Dance & Journaling Workshop

Welcome! I'm so excited for you to join for an evening of ecstatic dance, meditation and guided journaling. This will be a chance to slow down and connect before the holidays. If you haven't been to an ecstatic dance before, here are some guidelines! *No talking on the dance floor *Please do not use your phone, so we can be fully present! *No shoes when dancing! #freethefoot (this is a movement I am trying to make happen) *No drugs or alcohol. This is a sober dance party :) *Always make sure you have someone's consent when dancing! Wear clothes you feel comfortable dancing and sweating in, a water bottle, and if you can please bring a notebook and pen! Following the dance, there will be a live performance by the very talented Gabriel Jiménez. (IG: Gabrieljimenez.music) Doors open: 8:20 Dance starts at 8:30! Doors close: 8:45 We will end by 10! Location: 280 Broadway. Enter at 53A Chambers Street, between Broadway and Elk. ---- Julia Edelman is a writer, ecstatic dance DJ, and workshop facilitator. She has been a contributor for The New Yorker since 2015, is the author of Love Voltaire Us Apart, and has written for animated TV on Netflix. Drawing from her experience as a writer, she combines ecstatic dance movement with guided meditation and journaling to create a grounding workshop where participants can drop into their bodies, and then use writing prompts to better explore this heightened sense of awareness. (IG: juliaedelman_) Gabriel Jiménez multi-instrumentalist musician and music therapist with years of experience, originally from Mexico. His path through the practice of Yoga inspires this high vibration sound in service to life, to achieve self-realization of being. From the approach he has had with ancestral cultures and medicines, together with the experience acquired in trips around different parts of the world his training as a musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist is born; sharing high vibration instruments from different cultures such as: Handpan, tibetan bowls, ocarina,native american flutes, didgeridoo, guitar and more.