Devadance Ojai

06/09/2024

Aloha Dancers! I’m in town for a week or so.
Hope you’ll come out to SB on Fathers Day and dance with me! ⚡️💜⚡️

05/25/2024

Aloha,

I wanted to hop on here and just share a little bit about my intention and the energy I’ll be bringing to the Bay Area and beyond on my summer tour.
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Here in Hawaii, every time we pray or do good deeds, it is believed that we increase our MANA (spiritual magnetism). In this way, Mana is something that can be cultivated through your practices, rituals, ceremonies, prayers & offerings. We can also deplete our Mana by being negative, worrisome or from not taking good care of ourselves and one another.
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Ecstatic Dance has become a way that I bring a lot of MANA to share with the dancers.
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My return to the Bay Area for me is about bringing this energy of transformation through on the dancefloor - A prayer to help us remember who we are and how sacred this life and this practice of coming together is.
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I’ve been dancing nearly every week since even before I discovered Ecstatic Dance,
I had mystical experiences dancing with the Sufis, Native Americans and Africans, and it was at raves that I went to in the early days where I first tasted what Unity on the dance floor.
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This practice of dancing is a practice of renewal - one where we clear our own energy field individually and within the sacred container of ecstatic dance - we offer one another a space free of judgement - a clear space of appreciation and reverence for the sacredness of this life and the opportunity to be in a human body.
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The energy that can be felt within the commUnity has the potential to heal us by renewing our faith in one another, to give us hope that we can get through whatever comes up and to activate our love on a soul level - being fully present to what is, here and now.
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To take it one step further, we can dedicate our practice to the upliftment of ALL BEINGS EVERYWHERE - where not one is left out.
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My sets will be infused by prayers from around the world -
Prayers of reverence & love.
Prayers of freedom & release.
Prayers of renewal & gratitude.
Prayers of healing & Unity.
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This life hasn’t been easy for any of us. Especially in these times now.
Let us bring the best of ourselves to the dance floor once again
in honor of the One who made us and all life everywhere.
Let us ripple out this love far and wide throughout the cosmos like the light of a radiant star burning bright.
For the benefit of All beings everywhere.
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Come prepared to dance hard
and to go deep in discovering just how incredibly blessed we can be together.
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*we’re working on adding a special event in Seattle still and will announce that once it materializes.
**special call to all our Florida Qi Tribe - we’ve got something special happening July 13 in St Petersburg - more details about that coming soon.

All blessings 💫

02/26/2024

Beyond Inspired to announce HOALOHA 7:
Poranguí // 2 Day Equinox Immersion at Kalani

Early Bird Tickets available: http://movementtemple.org

Poranguí is a world soul artist, live looping musician, and a one-man orchestra whose unique background and ethnomusicology training at Duke University have shaped his distinctive sound. Raised in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S, he has spent over twenty years as an artist, musician, educator, filmmaker, consultant, and therapist, utilizing the healing properties of sound and movement to promote individual and collective well-being.

I first met Poranguí and Ashley in 2012 at their home in Sedona with brother, Elijah Ray and the Band of Light. With his heart wide open, he blew my mind then - It's been a long time coming to host them and this Spring Equinox the stars aligned to bring them into our sacred container of HOALOHA.

This event will sell out - Highly encourage everyone to get your tickets now 💛

02/12/2024

Excited for my return to the valley of the Moon 🌙
It’s been over 5 years since I’ve shared my music medicine in Ojai. Since then I’ve been holding it down on Big Island, the BIRTHPLACE of Ecstatic Dance.

Thanks to Elisa Rose for offering me the space This THURSDAY NIGHT!

Hope to see all you DevaDancers!
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01/29/2024

If you’re in the Sherman Oaks area:

Get ready to experience the ultimate spiritual journey through the power of movement and music at Sacred Dance - where your soul will groove

01/08/2024

Looking to start up Devadance Ojai again. What days and times would you want to see DevaDance being on? LMK in the comments below.

12/27/2023

I wanted to connect and reach out to see if the Ojai community is looking to start up DevaDance again? If so, leave a comment below and we can get the healing party started again. Hope everyone is having a Happy Holidays and New Year!

12/16/2021

Aloha OJAI Dancers!
We’d love to potentially kick the new year off dancing with you!
We haven’t been to Ojai for several years now and are wondering if we can even have a dance?
It might help to know that we are legally a church now, called Movement Church.

Some of you may have noticed that we’ve been hosting Sunday morning dance on Big Island every week. Big Island is the birthplace of Ecstatic Dance.

If anyone has some intel that could assist us in learning if and where we could put together a couple dances for ya’ll. Please reach out and share what you know!
Mahalo & Happy Holidays!
We hope to be dancing with you soon!
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