Queers & Allies Ecstatic Dance — Monthly Gathering ✨

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, created especially for anyone who doesn’t always feel safe or seen in typical nightlife or hetero-leaning dance spaces. Whether you’re brand new to ecstatic dance or a longtime mover — you belong here. 🌟

We are intentionally building a new sober, inclusive queer + ally dance community in Santa Barbara — rooted in consistency, care, joy, and real human connection.

🎶 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

🤍 8:15 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. ✨