Ecstatic Dance - DJ Heidi - Soundbath by Ashish Dha

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Warm Reminder: this workshop is part of Intimate Dancing Day: Peace, Ecstasy & Awakening. If you're interested in multiple workshops, the full day package is more affordable than booking individually. If you book early, you get sweet summer discounts... find our current deals below.


Welcome to an evening of pure flow and ecstasy. As the sun sets on Armistice Day, we gather to move, dance, and celebrate peace and love in our world. Piero hosts this evening as part of a full day journey. Would you like to follow your flow and your heart in this musical dance journey? Ecstatic Dance is a free form of dancing. You are invited to follow the flow of your body in the moment. Everything is welcome, also if you feel emotions are coming up. You can put them into movement or silence, whatever fits for you.

The DJ is guiding our dance in a two-hour journey. We start with a warming up opening to get into your body and out of your mind. Ingrid Depoorter, a dance and movement therapist and Trance Dance Facilitator, will introduce us into this sacred space with warmth and grounding presence. We end with a closing soundbath.

The evening opens with an ambient concert by Ashish Dha, an Indian classical singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who specialises in Hindustaanee raag music. Based in India, he regularly tours Europe with concerts and workshops, and gives online lessons in music, mantra and naad yog (sound yoga). His ambient concert will weave together the sounds of voice, piano, Indian bamboo flute, and other world instruments, to facilitate self centering, and create a musical atmosphere to help us ground ourselves for the rest of the evening's journey.

DJ Heidi (Sunset Dance) is known for guiding ecstatic dance journeys with intuition, skill, and heart. Her sets create containers for collective movement and transformation, holding space for the full spectrum of embodied experience. Blending tribal, retro-house, trance, techno, classical music and other rhythmic styles to provide a supportive and energetic atmosphere for the dancers.

The evening closes with Ashish Dha's soundbath, wherein Sacred Sounds of Sanskrit, natural voice, singing bowls, and more, will facilitate your transition from external ecstatic expression towards your inner golden silence.

ECSTATIC DANCE GUIDELINES (a blend of agreements)
We dance without shoes
We dance sober, no alcohol or drugs
We dance without talking in words, only with our body language
We touch only with consent
We feel the energy of others
We stay true to ourselves
We remember to breathe
We respect the space and each other

WHAT HAPPENS?
6:00 PM: Doors open – Be mindful: doors close at 7:15 PM!
6:15 PM to 6:45 PM: Ashish Dha's ambient concert
6:45 PM to 7:10 PM: Welcome and grounding with Ingrid, opening ritual, agreements, warming up
7:10 PM to 9:10 PM: DJ Heidi's guided dance journey
9:10 PM to 9:30 PM: Ashish Dha's soundbath and closing

WHO IS THIS FOR?
For those ready to dance, to feel, to release. For those who want to move with others in ecstasy and peace. For anyone drawn to collective embodied celebration. No dance experience needed, only willingness to follow your body and your heart.

INTIMACY LEVEL
WHITE: Free-form conscious movement, mostly clothed. Touch is always optional and consensual. We stay away from erotic energy.

TIMING
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM | Planeet Mars

WHAT'S INCLUDED
Tea, infused water and juices
Ashish Dha's ambient concert and soundbath
DJ Heidi's guided dance journey
Ecstatic Dance introduction by Ingrid Depoorter

DANCING FOR PEACE
On Armistice Day, we gather to celebrate the healing power of dance and connection. A portion of your ticket will go directly to peace initiatives and activism. We believe all beings deserve to experience what we create here together.

START WHERE YOU ARE
If this event feels too intense for you, Feeling Your Yes is a gentler entry point. A monthly gathering focused on consent, boundaries, and nervous system awareness. We're also available for individual sessions if you'd like to build confidence before joining the group.

OUR GATHERING IS AN ACT OF COLLECTIVE POWER AND HEALING
This is personal AND collective work. We cultivate awareness of our own intuition, boundaries, and nervous system and we do it together. In a world that disconnects us from our bodies and silences our voices, this gathering is an act of collective power and healing.

WHAT WE COMMIT TO
This is a trauma-informed, consent-based space. I facilitate with awareness of how trauma lives in our bodies, and I create structures for safety, choice, and agency. I'm also continuously learning and open to feedback.

WHAT WE ASK OF YOU
You know yourself best. You are the expert of your own body and boundaries. Please honour what feels true for you. That might mean stepping back, taking a break, or leaving. There is no shame in that. If something doesn't feel right, please let me or a spaceholder know. You are responsible for your own wellbeing.

OUR SHARED COMMITMENT
Healing isn't linear. Sometimes what we need includes discomfort, vulnerability, and working at our edges. We work together with intention, care, and honesty, and we meet each other with accountability when things go sideways.

ACCESSIBILITY & INCLUSION
This workshop is LGBTQI+ and BIPOC friendly and welcomes neurodivergent people. Everyone can participate, even if you have a disability or are ill.

Newcomers are welcome if you're curious and reasonably grounded. If you'd like a gentler foundation first, Feeling Your Yes (monthly) is designed as an accessible entry point. If you're working through significant vulnerability, grief, or trauma right now, individual sessions help you build capacity before group work.

I'm committed to listening to your needs and exploring what's possible together. Early communication helps us prepare well, and I'm honest about our limits. If you're able to bring additional support for yourself, whether that's a trusted friend, professional assistant, grounding tools, or specific practices, that helps us create sustainable space for everyone.

INTIMACY LEVELS
True Intimacy workshops are predominantly white: conscious, caring touch above the clothes, we stay away from ero.tic energy. Most offerings are clothed.

If you are interested in more sen.sual and ero.tic events, join us at House of Delphine: https://www.houseofdelphine.be

Read everything about colour codes here: https://wareintimiteit.be/kleurcodes-colour-codes

ABOUT PIERO
Piero uses no pronouns and considers themselves polysensual, pancurious, genderqueer, justice seeker and mystic lover. Piero lives and works in Ghent as a trauma-informed and body-oriented intimacy coach, (cuddle) workshop facilitator and embodied changemaker.

Piero creates a safe, warm and stimulating group environment that invites transformation and healing. Piero wants to inspire people to experience intimacy more consciously and, together, to eliminate taboos, blockades, violence and traumas. Piero dreams of a world in which self-care and self-actualization go hand in hand with love, justice, equality and solidarity.

"I recognise my own privileges and traumas from the past and present and am aware of how they may hurt or disadvantage people. Like everyone else, I have blind spots and am open to feedback, self-reflection and reconciliation. With my life experience I am building a safe, transformational and connective space where you can feel home." Piero Flor

https://www.trueintimacy.be/about-me

STAY CONNECTED
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CANCELLATION POLICY
https://www.trueintimacy.be/clear-agreements

BOOKING & DISCOUNTS
Early Bird Discount Codes:
* Until 5 August: 30% discount - code: JULY30
* Until 31 August: 20% discount - code: AUGUST20
* Until 30 September: 10% discount - code: SEPTEMBER10

MORE INFO & TICKETS
* MORNING: Dynamic Movement Meditation: https://hipsy.be/shop/233135-dynamic-meditation
* AFTERNOON: Intimate Dancing: https://hipsy.be/shop/233137-intimate-dancing
* EVENING: Ecstatic Dance Night with live dj & life soundbath: https://hipsy.be/shop/233141-ecstatic-dance-dj-heidi-soundbath-by-ashish-dha

* FULL DAY PROGRAM: Intimate Dancing Day - Full Day Experience: https://hipsy.be/shop/232970-intimate-dancing-day-peace-ecstasy-awakening