Ecstatic Dance
Mushina is well known for his charisma and contagious energy, becoming one of the most
present artists in the Ecstatic Dance scene both as a musician and a host.
It is very usual to see him playing in the middle of the crowd in big 360 circles, as for him the sharing of conscious energy and love through music is his biggest stimulus.
When not touring the world he is very active in his community in Portugal, creating all kind of activations related to music creation, singing circles, holistic practices, events and festivals. In his live performances he often invites guest artists to play live in his musical expression which explores a combination of ancient wisdom and indigenous cultures tribal soul in a deep, modern and organic groove. After dedicating himself to writing new music, a new album was born and released with the purpose of sharing his experiences with the people who have this common passion and style. The album, V Imperium (fifth empire) borrows its name from an esoteric legend that speaks of a spiritual and cultural world unity under the guidance of the Portuguese nation. A Portuguese man by blood, Mushina embodies in this album his mission to spiritually elevate people through music.
Links:
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SOMA Breathwork
Niraj Naik is the leader of the global breathwork community and the founder of Soma Breath Framework. Also known as the Renegade Pharmacist, he is a UK pharmacist turned holistic wellness expert, brain-training enthusiast, and spiritual ceremony facilitator. Overcoming corporate burnout and chronic illness, he healed himself through breathwork and diet adjustments, inspiring his mission to share this wisdom. Niraj’s music productions and therapeutic music technology is used by some of the world’s top therapists, health spas/brands and yogis including Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof (real life superhuman with 20+ world records), the world renowned Garuda Yoga by celebrity yoga teacher James Da Silva (Madonna/Coldplay), and Rapid Transformational Therapy by celebrity therapist, Marisa Peer, and Rituals (leading spa and cosmetics brand).
Medicine songs
Alma brings over a healing breeze from the rainforest, messages from ancient tribes. Thanks to her guides and teachers from Latin America, she gradually started to remember and reconnect back to the sacred work with the ceremonial chants of the Ícaros and Medicine songs. Her intention is to bring the gifts and forgotten wisdom of ancient natural cultures to the people so we they can renew our strong connection to our ancestors, roots and the nature spirits around us. Icaros are ancient, indigenous ceremonial chants through which healers weave the energetic web of the human body. With their high vibrations and healing frequencies, they take us into a deep meditative state of our visions. They bring to the surface blocks that prevent us from living in connection and clear deeply stored and unprocessed emotions. In a very magical way, they support and enhance the healing effect of the plant masters of the rainforest, helping us to connect to the wisdom and message they are ready to impart to us. Working with Icaros is a very ancient technique of energy work that involves a complete cleansing and healing process in a very clear and conscious way.
Concert
Maok is known in Europe as an improvising musician, singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, and is sometimes called a "man-orchestra". Maok organizes his own concerts and conducts music therapies as he trusts that music can heal and inspire. He also writes compositions for theater and dance performances and films. His music is very diverse, ranging from guitar-driven romantic pieces to lucid soundscapes interspersed with all sorts of natural and industrial sound effects. The music he creates is dreamy, mystically tuned, which heals and inspires. One of his colleagues described his work in the following words: "Maok simply allows music to flow through him without restriction. Without limiting the flow of creativity to any genre boundaries. He is open, free, living and creating here and now." According to Maok, his main influence is love and life itself. People come to his concerts to relax, immerse themselves, sleep or dance. He has been making music for thirty years, releasing 25 albums in that time.
Ecstatic Dance & Movement Workshop
Founder of Our Echo Yoga School, DJ, Movement Facilitator, and writer,. Music is medicine. My sets are impromptu selections, and tailored to the emotions surfacing on the dance floor within community. My path through music has been one of personal growth, community, integration and dancing with the shadow. Within my sets you will get glimpses and doses of Latin funk, throbbing bass, ambient strings, tribal drum, conscious floetry, and binaural beats.
Through dance, everyone can discover, unleash, and enhance their individual potential to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. By engaging our senses and listening to our bodies, we connect to others and shape a consciousness that extends beyond our own."
Embodied Aliveness
Katia Buben is a guide of transformative journeys through
guided body sensorial meditations in the Ecstatic Dance Circle. Embracing her Slavic heritage and delving into human values, Katia leads participants through dance and subtle movements, encouraging them to explore the depths of their being and finding more space for their unique way to express who they are. In the dance circles, Katia offers a unique opportunity for individuals to forge a connection with their inner truth, tapping into intuition, and cultivating a profound sense of empowerment through the nurturing embrace of feminine energy. Her approach involves a fusion of exercises, diverse movements, and guided sensorial meditative journeys, creating a space for a powerful and distinctive journey for all who enter the circle. Katia extends her embodiment practices beyond Ecstatic Dance Circles, offering personalized sessions to foster sensuality, body connection, and explore personal values. She also serves as a channel for messages from the Akashic Records,connecting individuals with their higher selves.
Live Ecstatic Dance & Sufi Workshop
Joseph Pepe Danza is a musician and performer from Uruguay who spent years wandering the planet while discovering and performing traditional music from around the globe. His music is highly influenced by India, Brazil, Africa, South America, Spain, and Japan. These regions uniquely flavor his authentic jazz, rock, and pop performances. Parallel to his musical studies, he also pursued a path of Spirit that includes years in India practicing yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, zen meditation in Japan, the Gurdjieff system in North America, Dervish practices with Turkish Sufis, sound healing in Bali, and shamanic knowledge with South and North American First Nations Medicine people. Pepe has extensive international experience teaching meditation, yoga, sound healing, tantra, and Daoist practices, besides being a sought-after performer, recording artist, and storyteller. He was a founder and artistic director of the Sacred Music Festival in Vancouver, Canada, for four years and has won several awards for his compositions for film and theater. Pepe lives from the deep conviction and experience that Music is a powerful transformative force and that Humanity and our dear Planet Earth are ready to shift to a higher frequency. He is here to serve that work in whatever way and whichever place he is invited.
Embodied Human Design Workshop
Julia is an investigator and practitioner interested in both physical/material and esoteric/spiritual worlds. She dedicates her life’s work to continuously sharing, creating, teaching, and studying. Mentors from Slavic, Hindu, and Western traditions stand amongst her muses, as she spent her early years in esoteric schools of India and Israel. For the last decade, she focused exclusively on working with the Human Design System. As a professional analyst and teacher, Julia teaches the system in the Ministry of Education (in Israel), organizes worldwide Human Design events, and works individually with parents, partnerships, and businesses. She is also a dedicated yogi, a mindful herbalist, and a lover of natural living & healing methods. The deeply personal and experiential nature of her work creates mutational processes for her clients and students and directs their life into the personally unique path of the true inner self.
Ecstatic Dance
Tristan, co-founder of Ecstatic Dance Koh Phangan in Thailand, orchestrates weekly Ecstatic Dances and is the visionary behind the “Ecstatica Festival. ” A devoted enthusiast of live music, playful expression, and the profound impact of dance and music, he traverses the globe from Thailand and Mexico to England and Sweden in pursuit of creating transcendent experiences.
As an Ecstatic Dance DJ and facilitator, Tristan fosters a genuine sense of unity that transcends conventional boundaries. Through his dance, imbued with elements of consent, freedom, community, friendship, and love, he establishes a secure and transformative haven for all participants. Committed to fostering a supportive space where individuals can freely explore and express themselves, Tristan believes in the profound potential of dance and connection as catalysts for personal evolution and growth.
Ecstatic Touch & Ecstatic Love
Lilia studied Political Science and History at the University of Oxford and then added Gender & Development at the London School of Economics. A publicist, designer, traveller (and revolutionary at heart), she is deeply in love with Bhutan, where she also leads expeditions and helps out with several projects in the development and charity sectors. Co-founder of Ecstatic Fashion, Ecstatic Travel and several other ecstatic projects under Ecstatic s.r.o. Member of the board and founding team of the Happy Czech Republic Foundation and Friends of Bhutan: Czech Republic. She leads the Journey of Ecstasy and Women's Stories project, where she guides women on a journey to understand and honor their bodies and their cycles in all stages of reproductive life and to embrace their uniqueness. She is the author of four books on women's issues, including the highly popular Women's Stories and a provocative jewelry collection. Co-founder of the first ceremonialist training in the country, where she focuses on developing feminine potential and the return of rites of passage. As a doula and accredited Active Birth teacher, she teaches antenatal classes and accompanies women at birth. She is the author of several books and a provocative jewelry collection. She has studied around the world, particularly with Michel Odent, Janet Balaskas, David Deida, Sarah Buckley, Penny Simkin, Kathy Jones, Elena Tonetti and Lynnei Shrief, and continues to further her education. She has spoken at TEDxPragueWomen, Women to Women, Inspired Women, World Respect for Childbirth Week and the Czech Dul Association.
Biodanza & Surrender to Love Workshop
Cristiano is a Biodanza (Rolando Toro System) Facilitator, certified by the Biodanza SRT School of Portugal and also a Didactic of the same System. He is part of the teaching staff at the Institute of Applied
Psychology in the postgraduate course "Human Development and Therapy through Expressive Arts" and also collaborates with the Portuguese School of Biodanza in the accompaniment and supervision of students and new teachers. In the last few years he has dedicated himself to the creation of diverse signature workshops such as: "Roots in the Earth, Roots in Heaven"; "Chaos, Creativity and the Return of the Sacred"; "The Birth of the Cosmic Man"; "Under the Sign of Affection"; "Surrender to Love"; "Sacred Warrior"; "Ecstatic Lover"; "Mystic Magician"; "The King the Queen"; "Equinox and Solstice Celebrations" in Nature. Regular Didact In Berlin and Portugal; Also with agenda in Spain (Gran Canaria, Seville, Merida), France (Toulouse and Nantes), Montreal (Canada).
Cristiano is one of the teaching staff at the Institute of Applied Psychology in the postgraduate course "Human Development and Therapy through Expressive Arts" and also collaborates with the Portuguese School of Biodanza through supervision of students and new teachers.
Yoga & Women Circle
Markéta Faustová has been teaching yoga for more than twelve years. She considers her main teacher to be Shiva Rea, the founder of Prana Flow Yoga. In addition to her Prana Flow Yoga training, she has done many other trainings - power yoga, tantra yoga, fascial yoga, touch, movement, voice, ritual workshops and trainings. In her classes she focuses on stretching and releasing the body from tension, finding flexibility, fluidity, softness and strength. She connects movement with breath and in whatever way is offered, opening a pathway to self, to stillness and understanding.
Yawanawa song circle & DJ set
Ecstatic Dance DJ and the Founder of Ecstatic Dance Vienna and organiser of shamanic and medicine retreats in Austria and worldwide.
Ecstatic Kirtan
Main singer of Mahadeva Kirtan project. SInger and actress.
Live Ecstatic Dance & Ecstatic Kirtan
Drummer, percussionist, producer, author, music teacher, active studio and concert player. From a rebellious rocker, he has gradually worked his way up to a sensitive and perceptive player with a relentless appetite for exploring the unknown and experimenting. Music and instruments of different cultures became his great love. His outlook on music and the meaning of life underwent a gradual transformation. Yogic culture, Eastern philosophies and trips to India, where he could spend time in the presence of spiritual masters like Mooji and Sadhguru were such a natural consequence of his personal need for self-development and self-discovery. All of this was also strongly reflected in his music. This year Marek has toured several European capitals such as London, Paris , Milano , Vienna , Ljubljana with the world famous Indian formation SOUNDS OF ISHA, accompanying the spiritual master SADHGURU. Marek is currently the drummer of the band of Richard Autner, Martin Geisberg and various other projects. You can see him as a drummer in the production of Macbeth at the Slovak National Theatre, where he is also the author of the music for this performance consisting only of drums and percussion. He created a formation called Mahadeva Kirtan Project where he is the drummer and percussionist.
Intuitive and Impro Singing
*Guide through music, singing, instruments, movement, yoga, rituals and ceremonies.
*She feels at home in vocal improvisation. In the pure presence and connection to the memory of her Soul, she spontaneously flows in shamanic, Indian, Disha and angelic postures, both rhythmic, dance-first and in gentle tones from the landscape of the heart.
Ecstatic Dance & Movement Dialogue Workshop
Jakub Cerulík is a Slovak choreographer, dance performer, ICF accredited somatic coach (Prague, Somatický koučing s.r.o.), certified facilitator of intuitive and therapeutic dance (Brno, Move Art s.r.o.) and DJ for self-development events and Ecstatic Dance (DJ Native Mind). During his studies of Art History at Charles University in Prague, he devoted himself to the philosophy and psychology of art with a focus on the therapeutic overlaps of art and rituals in different periods and cultures. While studying Dance Theater and Performance Art at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and while studying Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, he researched usecases of expressive therapies, psychodrama and coaching in the creation of a work of art and the reverse usecases of artistic procedures and practices when working on personal development. Later, during training in Somatic Coaching in Prague and Facilitation of Intuitive and Therapeutic Dance in Brno, he adopted a non-judgemental approach and consistent work on the client's resources. He is currently studying Interactive Media Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, where he explores the possible usecases of artificial intelligence, bio-electronics, virtual reality and digital media in the process of self-development, personal work and work with the body. Jakub works integratively with techniques that incorporate body, breath, voice, word, imagination and object, while the long-term basis of his practice is creative work with the principles of somatics and embodiment in the coaching process. The main purpose of his work is to bring people into contact with their body and its natural intelligence."
Concert & Voice Opening Workshop
With their songs they will take you to places where the breeze blows, caressing the soul and ears, bringing hope into everyday reality. The acoustic performances are made up of vocals, guitar and percussion. The main theme of their music is connection - with ourselves, with others, with nature and with the mystery that transcends us. Apart from performing, they are also involved in other interesting projects - Mirka is the author of the ZNEJ - Let Your Voice Guide You voice workshops and Ondrej has found himself in shamanic drum making and facilitation.
Tribal Trance Dance
I am Guy or Dj Colibri. I’ve been involved in Conscious Dance Practice for 30 years, beginning with ‘Biodanza’ and then creating ‘Colibri Heart Tribal Trance Dance’, ‘Bliss Conscious Clubbing’ and ‘Dancing Heart Path Journeys’. I have been Djaying as Dj Colibri for 5 years and have incorporated Ecstatic Dance Journeys as one of my forms of Conscious Dance Practice. I bring a Wealth of Experience and Wisdom to this Masterclass for You. I have also Trained in Meditation, Mediation, Shamanism, Tantra, Qi Gong, Healing and Energy Work, Conscious Creativity, Conscious Communication, Conscious Relating and Conscious Parenting and also work as a Heart Fire Life Coach, Public Speaker, Content Creator and Inspiration Course Designer. I Love to Work with People, with Transformation and Awakening, activating our Energy and Consciousness and opening ourselves to Be Heart Inspired, so we live the lives we Love on Purpose.
Ecstatic Dance
He started DJing in 2000. Music led him through clubs and festivals to Ecstatic Dance. His sunny energy and careful music selection regularly takes spontaneous dance lovers from calm to dance ecstasy and back again. He has been busy with his own productions, conducts movement workshops. He believes that life is dance and our dance is therefore an organic celebration of life itself. Jobbi loves to make people dance and celebrate together in joy and freedom. He loves the magical connection that is created through music and dance.
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