Ecstatic Dance & Sound Healing August

🔥SPECIAL EDITION - DRESS TO EXPRESS🔥

Winter's here. So we're bringing the festival to Manly. 🔥

That outfit sitting in your cupboard waiting for a festival — the sparkly one, the wild one, the one that's too much for a normal Friday? Wear it. This is the night for it.

Dress to Express is an invitation to stop editing yourself. Wacky, wonderful, sparkly, cosy — or completely, plainly you. No dress code, no pressure. Come as you are, or come as the version of you that only shows up at festivals. Both belong here. 🦄

Then we dance.

The night: ❤️‍🔥

90 minutes of music from DJ SELF, built as a journey — from your first careful steps, through building rhythm, into full release, and landed gently on the other side.

Then you lie down, and Mia Burlinson takes over with a live sound bath: seven crystal bowls tuned to the chakras, soulful guitar, soothing handpan, and her ethereal voice — to integrate everything the dance just moved.

No shoes. No alcohol. No phones on the floor. Just your body, the music, and a room full of people choosing to be real for two hours. 💃

New to this? You're exactly who this is for.

Ecstatic dance is free movement — no steps to learn, no one watching, no way to do it wrong. You move how your body wants to move. Most people arrive nervous and forget themselves within ten minutes.

Sound healing is instruments and frequencies played live while you lie still — melodies and tones that settle the nervous system, ground your energy and bring you back to balance. You don't have to do anything. You just receive. ✨

The flow of the evening:

7:00 — Arrival, landing in the space, gentle movement to warm the body

7:15 — Mia guides a drop-in to your body and energy

7:20 — Dance. Flow. Expression. Freedom.

8:20 — Gentle cool-down, intuitive movement, finding your way to close your dance

8:30 — Sound journey: integration, grounding, stillness, rejuvenation

8:55 — Closing circle, an optional word, and a united close 🙏🏽

Your facilitators:

Mia Burlinson is a professional vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and soul-based musician whose ethereal soundscapes and angelic vocals carry listeners on a profound inner journey. With a lifelong devotion to music, she specialises in the sacred art of sound healing — weaving seven 432Hz crystal bowls attuned to the chakras, handpan, guitar, a handmade medicine drum and chimes to elevate vibration and harmonise the energy centres. At the heart of her work is her most powerful instrument: her voice, guiding the receiver into deep serenity, grounding and renewal.

SELF is Adriano Barcellos — DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist. He builds sets as journeys: deep, rhythmic and emotionally intelligent, moving a room from its first careful steps to full release, and landing it gently on the other side. Across music, spoken word and immersive experience the through-line is one question — who we are underneath what we perform. On the dance floor, that's not a theory. It's just permission.

Mia & SELF are so excited to bring you this one. It's going to be special. 🦋🎶💃