about conscious dance
A week-long training program for people who wish to create, facilitate and lead Ecstatic Dance!
A learning experience into the core principles that make Ecstatic Dance a magical journey...
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FOR THE LATEST INFO VISIT HEARTOFECSTATICDANCE.COM
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Heart of Ecstatic Dance is a 7-day training program for everyone who feels the calling to create a dancing community. You will learn to manifest, hold, and facilitate your own unique Ecstatic Dance. It is a learning experience into the core principles that make Ecstatic Dance magical: holding and creating a safe space, dealing with challenges on the dance floor, building an inclusive community, and creating an ecstatic journey through conducting different ceremonies and soundscapes.
Every dance floor is special and each dancer is unique. It’s like learning a new language. It asks for curiosity, patience and lots of practice. In this program you will have hands-on experience with leading ceremonies and playing music - both in the training and by being involved in one or more Ecstatic Dances in Amsterdam. You’ll learn the ’magic tools’ as DJ’s, organizers and ceremony leaders that can create our ecstatic chemistry. We believe Ecstatic Dance only works when it has a strong beating heart. The guidelines are simple, but how do we make it magic?
TRAINING
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16-22 August 2020
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The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Mirror Centre
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During this week training we wish to create a small and intimate dancing and learning community and therefore have places for only 30 participants.
INVESTMENT
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Special: the first 4 subscriptions- € 550
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Early bird price (till 1..2020) - € 700
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Regular price - € 850-950 (according to income and financial ability)
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
To join this training please send us an e-mail with a description of yourself and the reasons behind your wish to join this week. Mail to:
heartofecstaticdance@gmail.com
Once received you will get a confirmation mail and all info will be sent to you. Also check our website for the event: www.heartofecstaticdance.com
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FACILITATORS
Tom Goldhand * Caroline S’Jegers * Léon Beckx
have danced and worked together on many dance floors and look forward to share their wide range of experiences with you.
Tom Goldhand is a dancer, dance teacher, group facilitator and a Dance therapist (MA). Tom has been teaching, creating and facilitating dance for over 15 years. He is the co-founder and facilitator of Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam, and owner and manager of Sadhana Dance School. In the last years alongside the weekly classes, Tom facilitates movement and personal development week workshops and retreats in Europe.
“I see myself as an improviser, I dance to discover, uncover and recover. My dance gravitate more and more into exploring movement with awareness and this is what I like to share, whether it is in dance improvisation – the art of here and now, working with partners in the form of contact improvisation, going deep into Authentic Movement or high and above into Ecstatic Dance”.
His website: www.tomgoldhand.com
Léon Beckx is a dancer and a psychologist (MSc). After studying Gestalt therapy he came across the 5Rhythms in 2001 and fell in love with the Conscious Dance form. In 2008 he trained with Gabrielle Roth to become a teacher and has since then been teaching Conscious Dance in the Netherlands and abroad. Besides dance, Léon is a lifelong student of martial arts, a somatic practitioner and a playback theater actor and weaves these practices in his teachings. His teaching style is experimental and subtle with much focus on our bodies innate intelligence.
Léon will also bring his extensive experience with facilitation, community building and community art to the training. From 2007 he has been working as a senior trainer and co-director for a Dutch NGO ‘Diversity Joy’, working with diverse and often marginalized communities and educating facilitators (inter)nationally.
For more info see: www.conscious-dance.com.
Caroline S’Jegers, the founder of 'ícaro - roots to create, is an embodied Conscious Dance entrepreneur and trainer. She is the co-organizer of Ecstatic Dance Belgium and is passionate about sharing her (he)ART - from teaching workshops to DJ'ing and leading ceremonies at dance communities and conscious (club) events all over the world.
As an embodied dancer and DJ, Caroline uses music as poetry, while speaking the language of the body and listening to the heart's longings. The sounds of DJ CaroLine can be summarized in three words: uplifting, deep and soulful. As a psychologist and a cultural anthropologist, Caroline has absorbed herself for years in the deeper-lying healing aspects of dance across cultures. Bringing dance back to the land, Caroline envisions a future where community life flourishes and respect for Mother Earth deepens...
Her website: www.carolinesjegers.com.
