Become the Energy: Kundalini Ecstatic Dance Journey
The Invitation
What if ecstatic dance could take you somewhere you’ve never been before?
Not just a place to move your body and lose yourself in music, but a space to awaken something deeper—to shift your state of consciousness, unleash your life-force, and discover what becomes possible when you let the energy lead.
Become the Energy is a new kind of ecstatic dance experience: an immersive, intentionally held transformational journey that begins with breath-led Kundalini activation and unfolds into ecstatic movement.
Together with shamanic healers Onel & Chris of Awaken as Love, we’ll begin by awakening the energy within—opening the body, moving beyond the thinking mind, and creating space for a deeper encounter with yourself.
From there, the activation flows into an ecstatic dance set by legendary DJ Morgana, where music becomes the current, movement becomes the medicine, and the body becomes the instrument of your own unfolding.
Elana Stern, Tantra Collective founder, holds the sacred space and closed container throughout, supporting the movement of energy and guiding the field from activation through embodied ecstatic release into an integrated landing.
This is an invitation to move beyond the familiar, surrender to the intelligence of the body, and experience dance not simply as expression, but as a pathway to transformation and ecstatic bliss.
Come as you are. Breathe into what’s waiting to awaken. Let the energy move you into ecstasy.
We don’t just dance the energy. We become it.
The Practice
💫 What Is Kundalini Activation?
Kundalini is often described as our innate life-force energy—the vital energy within us that can awaken through intentional practice. Through guided breathwork, we’ll cultivate expanded awareness and invite a deeper connection with the body's energy, opening to new possibilities for presence, expression, and transformation.
💃🏻 What Is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic Dance is a judgment-free, free-form movement practice where music becomes the guide and the body leads, without choreography or prescribed steps. Beyond words, we let the body speak—releasing the mind’s hold, moving beyond habitual patterns, and discovering the freedom, aliveness, and expression that emerge when we let ourselves be moved.
The Journey
Your evening unfolds as a ceremonial arc:
- 6:30 pm
Arrival & Opening Circle
Arrive, connect, and establish a sacred, closed container rooted in trust, presence, and shared agreements for the journey ahead.
Grounding Practice
Root into the body, quiet the mind, and cultivate the presence to meet what wants to awaken.
Kundalini Activation
Through guided breath and soundtrack, awaken your life-force, shift consciousness, and open to the energy within.
Ecstatic Dance
Surrender to the music, let the energy move through you, and give yourself fully to the freedom of embodied expression.
Landing & Integration
Slow down, ground the energy, and create space for your experience to settle and integrate.
Closing Circle
Gather in community to honor the journey, witness what has moved through you, and return feeling grounded and connected.
Your Guides
Elana Stern, Host & Guide
Elana Stern is a devoted guide in Tantra Yoga, walking the path of love and supporting individuals, couples, and groups in cultivating sacred connection, embodied presence, and lasting transformation. She was drawn to meditation as a teenager, studied Eastern Philosophy and Religion academically, trained with celebrity fitness icons in NYC, and earned Yoga Teacher certifications in both Vinyasa Yoga (Cindy Lee lineage) and Restorative Yoga. Her foundation is further enriched by training in Tibetan Buddhist, Transcendental, Vipassana, Mindfulness, and Sonic Meditation modalities, as well as Pranayama breathwork and Reiki techniques. Her journey expanded through advanced certification with Yoga Chitta—a Black-owned yoga school serving the BIPOC community-where she mentors yoga teacher trainees. After a life-altering kundalini awakening opened the portal to deeper energetic and tantric realms, she became a certified facilitator of Tao Tantra Arts (Mantak Chia and Osho lineages) and a graduate of the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA). With a vision for evolving consciousness in Philadelphia, Elana founded the Tantra Collective—producing monthly offerings for embodied spiritual connection—and ONE LOVE HUB, the city's co-created community for conscious events. With decades of practice in movement, meditation, and energy healing, Elana's teaching bridges the physical and the spiritual. She invites you into a deeper relationship with your body, your breath, your heart, and each other—where love becomes the path home to your divine nature.
Become (Onel Fortune Perez), Kundalini Activation Facilitator
Become (Onel Fortune Perez) is an Artist, Reiki Shamanic Healer, and Kundalini Astral Journey Facilitator devoted to awakening human potential through energy, creativity, embodiment, and spiritual exploration. Through Become the Energy, Become creates transformative experiences that invite people to awaken and activate their own Kundalini life-force energy, reconnect with their Soul’s essence, and embody a deeper relationship with themselves, others, and the world around them. His work weaves together art, Reiki, shamanic healing, movement, breath, sacred embodiment, and Kundalini energy, creating spaces for self-discovery, energetic awakening, healing, and conscious transformation. Become the Energy—Art as expression. Energy as medicine. Embodiment as the path.
Chris Croteau, Kundalini Activation Facilitator
Chris Croteau—Warrior Turned Awakener—has lived two lifetimes of service before finding his third: the sacred one. Ten years in the Marine Corps forged his discipline and brotherhood. Eighteen years as a police officer deepened his capacity to hold the line between chaos and order, bearing witness to the full weight of human struggle. Then the deeper call arrived. Four years immersed in the conscious community dissolved the armor service had built, awakening the healer beneath the guardian. Now Chris serves as a facilitator for Awaken As Love, guiding others through Tantra, Shamanism, Embodiment, and Shadow Work. He is a Human Design Coach illuminating each soul's blueprint, an Embodiment Coach teaching others to return home to the body, and a Kundalini Astral Journey facilitator who helps others meet their inner fire and rise into wholeness. Chris embodies the warrior and the healer as one—discipline in service of devotion, structure in service of surrender. He now holds space on the front lines of consciousness, guiding others through the shadow and into the light.
Morgana Zilarra, Ecstatic Dance DJ
Morgana Zilarra is a New York-based Sonic Alchemist, Art and Music Curator and Event Producer who believes in the power of music and art to unite, uplift, heal and awaken the fire within. She delights in taking her audiences on celestial journeys of deep exploration with a unique musical style she calls ‘Melodic Magic’ which infuses Organic House and Progressive World Music with Melodic Techno, Psybient and Trance. Her mission is to transport her listeners to a completely uninhibited Zen and awakened state. A yogi and nature enthusiast, Morgana weaves earthy, progressive ethno world beats with a modern, electronic edge to stir you both physically and spiritually. Having performed at art festivals and exhibit openings, galas, ecstatic dances, night markets, street fairs and block parties across the U.S., Morgana made her Burning Man debut in 2022 spinning for Kostume Kult, Sweet Spot, Fire & Ice and ARCH Production & Design’s art car, ‘Harvey the Disco Kitty.’ She made her first overseas appearance New Year’s Eve 2025 in Casablanca, Morocco where she plans to return for an extended stay and tour. Morgana has also showcased her musical artistry at a variety of music festivals and wellness retreats including Vibe Fest, EarthVibes, iFEEL NYC's Summer Escape, Dance Beyond Campout, Kurtstock 2.5, the LightHouse Gathering and Peace Temple’s Fermenting Dreams, among others. An artist in residence at Hotel Nyack (a JDV by Hyatt property) the summer of 2023 and at La Redonda Tavern at the GARNER Arts Center in 2024, Morgana was one of the original Co-Creators and Resident DJ for Ecstatic Dance Nyack from April of 2023 to May of 2025. Morgana is also a founding member of the collective 'Cosmic Bliss' which offers guided meditative sound journeys, and the Creator and Executive Producer of the series 'Evening Salon' and ‘The LAB’ which are immersive art and music happenings that feature emerging artists in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City. Morgana has been working for several years with the GARNER Art Center in a number of capacities- as Executive Producer of GARNER’s 25th anniversary edition of the GARNER Arts Festival in 2026, Co-Producer of the Hudson Valley Maker Faire in 2023 and ‘24; as Music Curator for GARNER’S electronic music series ‘Sonic Alchemy’ hosted at Round Table Brewery; and was a featured artist performing at GARNER’s renowned Brick Alley Block Party in 2023. Retained in 2025 by the Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR) as Executive Producer, Morgana helped stage one of ACOR’s most successful fundraisers (Luminate) in December and also created a soundscape for the cocktail hour. She also currently serves on ACOR’s Poet Laureate Advisory Board and Selection Committee since the Fall of 2024. She has served on the Board of Directors at The Rockland Conservatory of Music and for artist Andy Golub's non-profit Human Connection Arts. Morgana is also deeply passionate about the environment and wildlife conservation and supports several local, non-profit organizations including Keep Rockland Beautiful, where she has both volunteered for area clean-ups as well as served as Board Director. She also supports the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, NY, the Audubon Society and The National Park Foundation, among others. When not creating community, platforms for creative expression, or DJing, Morgana loves gallery hopping, snowboarding, surfing, rollerblading, photographing abstract sculpture, writing poetry, and above all, her two children.
How to Prepare
To honor the container and support your experience:
Wear comfortable clothing for full-body movement and bring layers for periods of dance and stillness.
Arrive bathed, in clean clothing, and scent-free. Please avoid perfume, essential oils, and strong fragrances out of respect for the space and others’ sensitivities.
Eat lightly beforehand and allow time for digestion, as Kundalini activation and ecstatic dance tend to flow more easily on a light stomach.
Bring a mat, blankets, and cushions for extended seated and lying-down practices. A backjack is welcome if helpful.
Bring a water bottle and water to stay hydrated throughout the experience.
Bring a journal and pen to capture insights, reflections, or anything that arises.
Invite a friend to share this expansive experience.
Connect with your intention before arriving: What is ready to awaken through you?
Sacred Agreements
Ecstatic Dance is a free-form, nonverbal movement journey—a sober, barefoot, judgment-free space to move, feel, connect, and come home to the body. Dance however your body wants to move, with freedom to explore and express without choreography or expectation. Together, we create a space grounded in safety, presence, and collective respect.
We welcome you into this journey with these sacred agreements:
🍃 Come without agenda
Release expectations and allow the experience to unfold naturally. Arrive open to presence rather than outcome.
🕺🏻 Move your own dance
There is no right way to move. Honor your body, trust your rhythm, and allow your dance to unfold naturally.
🤫 Let the body speak
Please refrain from talking in the dance space. Let the music, movement, and presence carry the conversation.
💧 Substance-free container
We gather in clarity. Alcohol, recreational substances, and plant medicines are not part of this experience.
👣 Barefoot encouraged
Feel the Earth beneath your feet whenever possible. Supportive footwear is welcome if needed.
📵 Phones and cameras away
No cameras, photos, or recording. This is a sacred present-time space where everyone is invited to be fully seen—and fully free.
🙏 Consent always
This is a consent-based container. If you wish to dance with someone, offer with presence—a gesture, eye contact, a smile. If they choose not to engage, honor the “no” with grace. A simple bow with hands at heart is a beautiful way to decline or close a dance.
💗 Respect every body
Move with awareness, care, and sensitivity for everyone sharing the mandala. If connection isn't reciprocated, gracefully move on, honoring each person's space as we co-create a field of safety, presence, and belonging.
🌬️ Non-interference
Allow others their own experience without guidance, correction, interpretation, or interruption.
🧘🏽♂️ Self-responsibility
Honor your body, pace yourself, and take space when needed. Stay rooted in your own experience while remaining mindful of the collective.
🤫 Confidentiality & Personal Experience
What is shared within the retreat is held in confidence. Speak from your own experience using “I” statements, and refrain from sharing, interpreting, or speaking on behalf of another person’s experience. What is yours to share is yours; what belongs to another remains theirs
🤝 Foster a culture of accountability
If concerns arise, communicate directly and compassionately with those involved whenever appropriate. Rather than gossip, speculation, or rallying others against someone, we encourage honest dialogue, curiosity, and, when needed, facilitated repair.
🛠️ Accountability & repair
When appropriate, facilitated repair may be offered after the event to help address conflict or unintended boundary crossings and restore safety, trust, and integrity within the community.
🛡️ Zero tolerance for harmful behavior
Harassment, discrimination, aggression, non-consensual touch, sexual misconduct, or other harmful behavior will result in immediate removal without refund.
🕊️ Uphold the container
These agreements help create the sanctuary we share together. Anyone unable or unwilling to honor them may be asked to step out of the container or leave the event without refund. Thank you for upholding the integrity of the dance. journey
❓ FAQs
- What Is Kundalini?
Kundalini is often described as our innate life-force energy—the vital energy within us that can awaken through intentional practice. Through guided breathwork, we’ll cultivate expanded awareness and invite a deeper connection with the body's energy, opening to new possibilities for presence, expression, and transformation.
- What is ecstatic dance?
Ecstatic dance is a free-form, nonverbal movement journey—a sober, barefoot, judgment-free space to move, feel, connect, and come home to the body. Let your body lead and dance however you feel called to move. Please see the community guidelines above for the spirit and shared agreements of the practice.
- Do I need prior experience with Kundalini, Tantra, or dance?
Not at all. This journey is about embodiment, sovereignty, authentic movement, freedom of expression, and awakening. No experience is needed—just an open heart, curiosity, and a willingness to honor the container.
- What kind of people attend?
This is an inclusive space for a diverse, conscious community of humans of all genders, orientations, and backgrounds. Singles, couples, families, and friends gather here with a shared desire for awakening.
- Can I come alone, with a friend, or partner?
Come solo, with friends, or with a partner. This is a sovereign journey into your own body, held by the support of community.
- Is there an age restriction?
Yes. Participants must be 21 or older. This ensures the maturity and self-awareness needed to move energy freely and respectfully within the container.
- Are alcohol, intoxicants, or plant medicines allowed?
No. This is a sober event. The invitation is to be clear, present, and attuned in body, mind, and spirit.
- What is the COVID protocol?
Please arrive in good health, wash your hands upon entry, and stay home if you’re unwell. Your care supports the well-being of all.
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