Ecstatic Dance is an opportunity to connect with your body and community with free form expressive dance. Join us for an expansive Saturday afternoon of movement and music in the beautiful Kingston venue, Assembly!
~Live Music Guided Warm Up with Matthew Beck and Malerie Day
~Ecstatic Dance live DJ set with Melissa officinalis
~Closing Sound Meditation with Melissa officinalis & Matthew Beck
We will be honoring the container of the space, which includes these guidelines:
~ this is a judgement free dance journey, feel free to express yourself!
~ limit conversation on the dance floor, this keeps the energy flowing (there will be a designated space and time to chat)
~ this is a substance free event
~ no phones, photos, or videos on the dance floor, there is so much magic in full presence
~ we invite you to explore the shoe-less experience of dancing barefoot
Our featured artist for this dance is Melissa officinalis!
Melissa officinalis (Melissa Scheibner) is an ecstatic dance facilitator and DJ, sound meditation practitioner, herbal medicine steward, and community organizer. Her artist name comes from the botanical name for the plant Lemon Balm, whose plant spirit medicine is uplifting and grounding. She is passionate about bringing community together for holistic experiences, connecting with mind, body, spirit, and nature. She is an event producer of Hudson Valley Ecstatic Rhythms, and Hudson Valley Silent Disco.
Melissa officinalis is deeply connected to Ecstatic Dance being a global dance community and the magic of dance bringing people together. She loves collaborating with dance communities along her travels, including Ecstatic Dance OC in California, Ecstatic Dance Charleston in South Carolina, on the Big Island of Hawaii with Exploring Within and at the Mauna Kea Resort, and at Dance Beyond Campout in the Berkshires.
Weaving beats from around the world, her sets are a heart opening journey, closing with live sound healing instruments.
IG @glitter.and.sage
Live Music Guided Warm Up with Matthew Beck and Malerie Day
Matthew and Malerie will open the afternoon with a special live music, slow flow dance. They bring live vocals, flutes, guitar, synths and guided partner exercises to help us drop into our bodies, connect with our Spirits and energy, and to step into deeper connection with each other.
About Matthew Beck
Matthew is an Intuitive Reader, Energy Healer, and Sound Bath Facilitator who creates soundscapes with live-looped flutes, guitar, percussion, bowls, rattles, spoken word and recordings from nature. He weaves music with the intention to transport listeners beyond the surface into their ethereal nature, essence and formless dimensions within the body.
In addition to his healing practice, Matthew runs the creative agency, Elevate Living Courses where he has supported over 400 healers, therapists, organizations, and spiritual teachers in developing their businesses and professional trainings.
IG @subtle.energetics
About Malerie Day
Malerie Day is a Woodstock-based singer and somatic practitioner who weaves voice, intuitive sound, and embodied expression into spaces for connection and transformation. Through channeled vocals she follows the energy of the moment, inviting dancers to deepen into their bodies, move freely, and connect with their own inner rhythms.
IG @malerie.day
Closing Sound Meditation with Melissa officinalis and Matthew Beck
We gently land our dances with a special Closing Sound Meditation with Melissa officinalis and a guest musician, featuring live instruments such as shruti box, koshi chimes, shakers, rain stick, singing bowls, vocals, guitar, and more. Please feel welcome to bring a blanket to sit or lay on for this experience.
Stay connected with Ecstatic Dances in the Hudson Valley:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/928362491103306/
IG @hv.ecstaticrhythms
IG @hv.silentdisco