Dancestors Cacao Ecstatic Dance : Spring Revival

With the coming of Spring and the movement of this Lunar Blood Moon Eclipse, Dancestors is moving into a new era. We have been consistently holding this space of ritual, connection, expression, and growth for nearly 3 and a half years. In this time we have come together in a network of loving and intentional movers who feel and care deeply about the earth, each other, as well as our local and global culture now and throughout time. For Kaitlyn, James, and I (Nash), this has been a place of deep learning in the art of how to hold space and offer our gifts to the world, while touching into our ancestral wisdoms. We are so so so incredibly grateful to each of you who has made the pilgrimage out to Dancestors over the years, and pray that you have received something you needed there, whether it be solace, joy, space to grieve, touch, affection, insight, beauty or some further balm, mysterious and unnamed. This has always felt like far more than just an ecstatic dance, despite the name we have given it.

From this recognition that we have been changed irrevocably, and knowing that we have changed others, our paths seem to be moving in a new direction. With our progression, Dancestors must also morph and shift. Our work with our music, cultures, art, ancestral wisdom, portals of life, mysticism, and spirituality has only continued to broaden and deepen both together and individually. There is a mystery and cultivation to the process of metamorphosis, as our intentions clarify and purify with the intertwining flow of our purposes. We are still in the question of what our dance will become... Perhaps a quarterly ritual? Perhaps a retreat? Perhaps a mini- festival? Perhaps aspects of each and yet something fresh? As we feel into this question, we would love to hear from you, we will have a feedback space at the dance to vision into our new era. 

Join us as we gather the Dancestors! 

 Dancestors is an ode to our Ancestors, our relatives, who share this world with us. We honor each other, where we have come from, where we are now, what lies ahead as we shake off the icicles and dreams of winter, stretching into a new awareness and livelihood. The journey is brought to you by the cohort of visionary artists Nash Atkins, Kaitlyn Cronin, and James Bird. 

This is a revival in the essence of the coming spring! 

We will take time to pray, meditate, and sing together with the spirit of cacao , then moving into a building dance journey. 

The DJed mix (by Father Otter) will be a foray into inspirational music from around the world that invokes connection to unfamiliar, dormant, or alienated parts of the self, to bring us into emotional, physical, and spiritual coherence. Dancing in cohesion with our Ancestors and the self can invoke powerful release and transformation.

After getting into the dance trance , the journey will culminate with a powerful live drumming session, leading us upward, and outward, cultivating a poignant intentional vibration together. 

A lilting energizing story songscape by James Bird and Nash Atkins will wrap you in its warm embrace to close the journey of this chapter. Prepare to be opened, interwoven, and healed through this night of powerful rejuvenation.

An incredibly curated seasonal altar prepared by Kaitlyn Cronin will be offered to sit with during the dance.

 The studio lighting is gorgeous and gives a highlighted glow-in-the-dark journey. Aerial hammocks silks are available for a whole new floating glowing rhythmic experience.

Please remove pointy or sharp zippers, sequins, jewelry etc. from your body and clothing before entering the silks. 

We require a waiver to be in the silks for the liability of the studio.

Sacred Roots Healing 
116 Pleasant st. 
Easthampton, MA 
01027 
Suite 247
$25/personlimited space so...reserve a spot! 
Venmo:@thedeepersong
or 
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The ticket includes cacao or an herbal drink and the ceremony please reach out if finances are a challenge, to work something out. No one turned away for lack of funds. 

Flyer Art by : @rattlesnakesandrainbows