Tina

Dance and music connect people all around the world

I have always been fascinated by this. The ecstatic energy that arises when many people move and sing in the same rhythm at a concert or a party gives me goosebumps even today. As a young woman, I constantly sought this feeling of belonging.

In the past, I often went to clubs and raves, searching for the thrill in the bass that could sweep everyone away. I was convinced that the more intense and louder the music, the better the experience. Back then, I already felt there was a truth in dance that the mind could not grasp.

Then came the time when I stopped drinking alcohol. I was glad to let go of that wild youth phase, as it had been very destructive for my body and my soul.

I was aware that I no longer fit into clubs and raves when sober. I thought I wouldn’t dance anymore and would likely have to forgo the accompanying communal experience in the future. Luckily, this was far from true, and through a friend, I discovered Ecstatic Dance. From the very first time, I realized how much I had been searching for this. I was still quite insecure, but I felt my body and psyche harmonizing. It marked the beginning of my journey into free dance and movement as medicine. A journey that led me to my awakening body and back to myself. A journey that showed me what it truly means to dance in community, to connect, and to communicate through the body and express emotions. A journey that has clarified many misunderstandings and healed numerous physical and emotional wounds. And it will certainly continue to heal.

When we are ready to listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we are often surprised by what they can tell us. Deep-seated beliefs and old traumas come to the surface and reveal themselves. They want to be healed, and the emotions want to be felt.

In my training as a dance and movement therapist, I am learning how to support such processes. I want to help others rediscover themselves in their bodies, free their emotions, and reconnect.

Let us dance together to the never-ending rhythm of life. Let us celebrate community and life together. Let us come together and show ourselves as we are. Let us collectively embrace what is and heal ourselves and the world.

With love, your Tina (🩵)

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Mathias (co-facilitator and DJ)

Where language ends, music begins

My journey from the past to the present has always been accompanied by a love of music. As a small child, I could easily be soothed by the sound of a record player and, above all, it always enthused me. And this enthusiasm remained and became an inseparable aspect of my nature over the years of my youth.

I was able to escape into music, it was a wingsuit for me. It inspired me and without it, everything was just ‘mono’. So I immersed myself in a wide variety of styles and ended up in the field of electronic music sometime around the 2000s.

In the years that followed, I experienced again and again in clubs and at raves how the intensity and depth of this music could give me dizzying highs. At the same time, the mantric character of the bass lines provided meditative immersion.

Whenever I found another diamond while searching the net for new tracks, I couldn’t wait to play it to friends who shared my passion for the beauty of sound constructs.

As soon as I did, I felt my enjoyment of such a song increase with every share. My indulgence of it grew exponentially with each additional pair of ears that savoured it.

And so it seemed like a sensible step for me to start playing the tracks that mean so much to me in trusted circles of people who are in love with sound and movement. In the meantime, I have long since outgrown the hedonistic scene of club culture and arrived at ecstatic dance. There I was able to experience the ecstasy that can only come from a clear and undiluted devotion to the audible and to the people present. And it is precisely this ecstasy that I want to combine with the euphoria that music has always given me.

Everything is made of frequencies. And I want to embrace them.

Greetings from the muses, Mathias