Black Forest Ecstatic Dance Festival 

Next Date: 24.-27.Juli 2025




☀️In Dancing in the summer sun...☀️
Warm summer nights together around the campfire under a twinkling starry sky....⭐⭐

We are looking forward to getting together for 4 days this summer. Lots of time to immerse ourselves in dance and community.
There will be yoga, a cacao ritual, singing circles, workshops on contact improvisation, meditation, dance in nature, authentic encounter and playfight.

Community
We are a very open and welcoming dance community that is constantly growing. People from all over Germany and Europe are becoming more and more part of the Tribe. 3-4 times a year we organize Ecstatic Dance Festivals out of this collective. New people are very welcome and our setting is very inviting to get to know each other.

Children
There will also be a kids space and one or the other offer for children.

Location
This summer we will be at the new festival location in the middle of the Black Forest for the 2nd time. It is a wonderful place with a huge soft meadow in the middle of a large forest. 


Djanes/Djs und Livemusik

Dj Yarun Dee 

Dj Yarun Dee from Amsterdam has become one of the most important Dj's in the European Conscious Dance Community in the last eight years! He plays at Ecstatic Dances and Conscious Festivals around the globe and creates epic dance journeys together with the dancers!
His multi-style Dj sets have a wide range of influences from all over the world. Cosmic, profound, sensual, grounding, celebratory and heart opening with a base of lush melodies and earthy tribal beats.

https://soundcloud.com/yarun



Dj Subtill

Till has been a passionate DJ since his youth and has played in various areas. He has been organising regular Ecstatic Dance events in Freiburg for 11 years. His DJ sets include different dance qualities and range from natural-meditative to ecstatic-wild.


https://www.instagram.com/dj_subtill/

Mystical Mystery 

Engelbert is a spiritual musician who creates singing circles, sound journeys and live ecstatic dances with his project ‘Mystical Mystery’. He loves the nature of sound, which allows our consciousness to wander into mystical spaces.
As a multi-instrumentalist, he plays Persian santoor, handpan, percussion, guitar and flutes. He combines these instruments as a one-man band. 

www.instagram.com/mystical.mystery 

AHAWA 

Ruben and Selina create a unique atmosphere of connection with their music. AHAWA, the Hebrew word for love, stands for their passion for music and for each other.
You can expect profound lyrics, dreamy soundscapes and pulsating beats - a concert experience full of inspiration that invites you to pause and dance.

https://www.instagram.com/ahawa_music

Workshops 

Lou Porier

Contact Improviasation


Bio: 
Practitioner of danced and poetic movement. She weaves her research between theater, dance and the art of storytelling.
She is particularly moved by the complexity of our relationships and the creativity that lives in every human being. 
Her practice of Contact Improvisation has nourished this fascination for almost 20 years...
Actress and coach, specialized in movement, lives and works in Freiburg

Workshop:

In this workshop we will explore the basic principles of this dance that incorporates touch, with games in pairs (or more) and some technical and physical elements directly related to this dance practice.




Angela Scheubeck

Voice development and singing circle

Bio: 
I have been involved in bands, music projects and choirs since I was a teenager and have been lucky enough to learn from great voice coaches. I have been leading large and small singing circles for about seven years, also in combination with voice development. As an osteopath and body therapist, I am also researching how breath-music-voice can be effective as "medicine". 

Workshop:


Anyone can sing! What do you need to be able to sing freely and wholeheartedly? I invite you on a journey of discovery! We will experiment with body sound spaces, breath and voice and then move into a singing circle together. 

Miriam Seifert

Embodied Nature

Bio: 
Miriam studied art education. Since her training in dance, improvisation and performance in Freiburg and Bologna, her interest shifted from drawing to dance and she now works independently in her own performance projects. She is particularly interested in somatic approaches to dance and movement, Instant Composition and Butoh. Since 2023 she is in training to become a somatic movement educator in Body-Mind Centering.

Workshop:


The course takes place in the surrounding nature, which we want to encounter through sensory awareness and dance. By connecting with its qualities, we set our bodies in motion.

Rike Köstlin

Himalayan Kundalini Kriya & Embodied Movement

Bio: 
Rike has been living in the northern Black Forest, her home, for two years. Her work with Yoga, Embodiment, Psycho Neuro Energetics and Breathwork aims at a new flow of life energy and the reconnection with oneself in order to work from this loving and living connection into one's own environment.

Workshop:


With Pranayama and Himalayan Kundalini Kriya, we coax the body and voice out of the reserve and create a space in which we can feel ourselves more finely and perceive energy movements more consciously. I look forward to creating a vibrant and light-filled field with you in which we can experience our inner freedom, strength and gentleness in a new way.

Lena Reichmayr

Yoga

 Bio: As a body therapist, I support people in their individual healing process.
I found my access to this through yoga, which was constantly inspired and expanded by other body-based elements and inner postures. 
I have often witnessed the potential that yoga has to anchor oneself in oneself again, to find peace and one's own strength, and I am happy to be able to bring this into the world.

Workshop: 

Through conscious and mindful movement, close listening and connecting with our breath, we get in touch with ourselves and can come back to ourselves and our center. A mixture of strength and gentleness, tension and relaxation in constant accompaniment to our breath. 

Aniketa Hoffmann

Dance your Medicine


 Bio: DJane and transformation facilitator.
Ecstatic Dance I CranioSacral Work I Shamanic Body Knowledge
In this format I combine my knowledge.

Workshop: 

You travel to your place of power with a heartfelt prayer, a wish for support, a question, ... while I sound the drum.
The answers you hear, feel, see and taste come to life in your body in the (Ecstatic) Dance.
In this way you take the gold of the journey directly into your life: in your body, in a movement, in your breath, knowledge in your cells.

Luna Viola Schneider

Tai Chi

 Bio: Growing up in a tai chi and karate school, 
my interest in leading a conscious life with lots of exercise. 
As a non-medical practitioner and nurse, I am constantly trying to find out 
what keeps us humans vital. 

Workshop: 

In this workshop, I would like to give you an insight into this fine, 
very powerful art of movement, Tai Chi, which teaches me to always 
stay in the flow. 
We will go out into nature, be in stillness, practise Tao exercises 
and walk the beginning of the Tai Chi form. 

IMPRESSIONS 2024