Queers & Allies Ecstatic Dance — Monthly Gathering ✨
Overview
You’re invited to a clean, inclusive, pressure-free dance space where you get to move your body, feel your feelings, and be fully yourself — without alcohol, without performance, and without judgment. 💛
This is a queer-forward space that warmly welcomes allies and the wider community. Whether you’re brand new to ecstatic dance or a longtime mover — you belong here. 🌟
🎶 YOUR DJ & MUSICAL JOURNEY
Your night is guided by DJ Megi — known for playful, eclectic, heart-opening musical journeys that move through grounding, release, joy, sweat, softness, and collective energy. 💃🌀
No choreography.
No right way to dance.
Just your body, your rhythm, your breath.
🌀 THE FLOW OF THE NIGHT
🕖 7:00 PM — Opening Circle & Movement Meditation
• Right/left brain balancing
• Spinal health & nervous-system settling
• Drop into your body & into community
(On-time arrival encouraged, late arrival always welcome)
💃 7:15–8:30 PM — Ecstatic Dance Journey
A guided, expressive, DJ-led movement experience
🤍 8:30 PM — Closing Circle
Ground, integrate, and land together
🌟 THIS SPACE IS FOR:
🌈 LGBTQIA+ folks
🤍 Allies
🌀 Nervous first-timers & seasoned dancers
💛 Sober & substance-free humans
💃 All ages • all bodies • all genders
🫶 Anyone who wants to feel safe while they move
✅ WHAT YOU’LL FIND
✅ A consent-centered dance floor
✅ A sober, substance-free environment
✅ Movement as medicine
✅ Real community
✅ A dance floor that feels like home
🚫 WHAT YOU WON’T FIND
❌ Alcohol
❌ Club or bar pressure
❌ Hookup vibes
❌ Being watched, judged, or performed for
🌙 A NOTE ABOUT THE SERIES
This gathering is part of a weekly dance community, with this night offered once a month as a queer-forward ecstatic dance for queers, allies, and the wider community.
Our hope is that this becomes part of your weekly rhythm — a place where friendships form, regulars return, and a new sober, inclusive queer + ally space continues to grow in Santa Barbara. Whether you come once a month or every week, you are part of what’s being built here. 🌈💛
💧 WHAT TO BRING
• Water bottle
• Yoga mat (optional — for stretching or grounding)
• Comfortable clothes you can move & sweat in
• Layers for warming up or cooling down
• Anything that helps you feel supported (journal, shawl, small pillow)
• An open heart
• Whatever version of you is showing up that day 💛
📝 WHAT TO KNOW
• This is a sober, substance-free space
• This is a consent-centered dance floor — everyone honors boundaries
• No talking on the dance floor during the journey (connection happens before & after)
• You’re welcome to dance big, dance small, rest, stretch, or sit anytime
• Shoes off
• Phones off or tucked away to support presence & safety
• You never have to dance with anyone — your autonomy is always respected
• Late arrival is welcome, though on-time arrival is encouraged for the opening circle
✨ Come as you are. Move how you want. You belong here. ✨
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Highlights
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
The Dance Hub
22 East Victoria Street
Side entrance Santa Barbara, CA 93101
How do you want to get there?
OPENING
We begin with a gentle opening circle and guided cross body movement meditation led by DJ Megi. This right and left brain balancing movement awakens the spine, gets energy flowing, settles the nervous system, and helps you arrive fully in your body. No experience needed. Come as you are and ease into the dance.
DANCE WAVE
The Five Rhythms are a movement meditation practice that moves through flowing staccato chaos lyrical and stillness Each rhythm reflects a different quality of energy emotion and expression in the body Flowing is about grounding and circular movement Staccato is about clear expression direction and boundaries Chaos is release freedom and letting go of control Lyrical is lightness creativity and effortless movement Stillness is integration presence and rest We will move through one full hour long wave guided by eclectic playful music that supports grounding, release, joy ,softness, and connection.
CLOSING CIRCLE
COMMUNITY & INTEGRATION - We’ll gather together at the end of the dance to sit in the container we’ve created and gently land the journey. This is a time to share names, feel the collective energy, and connect as real humans in the room. You’re welcome to speak or simply listen. This circle is about witnessing, belonging, and growing into community together—a soft, grounded return after the wave of movement. This is where strangers begin to feel like community.
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