Ecstatic Dance & Conscious Dance: Exercises & Activities
What you'll learn
- New exercises and activities to try in your ecstatic dance or conscious dance group
- Approaches to intrapersonal and interpersonal healing through dance
- Activities that encourage a broader range of dance movements
- Dance exercises that build group cohesion
Requirements
- Basic experience in ecstatic dance or conscious dance facilitation
Description
This course explores a wide range of different activities, exercises and ideas that conscious dance and ecstatic dance facilitators can try in their ecstatic dance workshops and groups.
The course is based on a broad conception of 'ecstatic dance' that refers not only to dance practices aimed at ecstatic and otherwise heightened states of consciousness but also as an arena in which to explore other aspects of mental health improvement, personal development, and social and emotional growth. To this end we explore a range of fun interpersonal dance activities as well as more typical activities that involve mindfulness, embodiment, and visualisations.
Activities range from the silly to the serious, some focus on interpersonal development whilst others focus on intrapersonal healing, some ideas are fully-developed whilst others are 'half-baked' and put forward in the hope that you will add seasoning; the course aims to explore as wide a range of possibilities and ideas as possible and I hope to add new ideas to the course as students contribute to it.
The activities and exercises in this course are based on my 15+ years of attending ecstatic dance workshops and groups around the world, the countless hours I've spent in personal private ecstatic dance practice, many nights dancing like a lunatic on psytrance dancefloors, a lot of reading on the subject, as well as my own imagination!
The ideas, activities, and exercises explored in this session are offered in the hope that ecstatic dance facilitators will use them in more experimental approaches to ecstatic dance: I hope that you'll try some of them out and see what works for your group and which ideas are of benefit to your ecstatic dance workshop participants.
The course is light-hearted, unpretentious, casual and informal! It's aimed at ecstatic dance facilitators, dance instructors wishing to explore ecstatic dance in their work, and dance and movement therapists.
Keywords: ecstatic dance, conscious dance, dance rituals, ecstatic dance facilitator training, ecstatic dance workshops, ecstatic dance activities, ecstatic dance group exercises, professional development
Who this course is for:
- Conscious Dance Facilitators
- Ecstatic Dance Facilitators
- Dance Instructors
- Those wishing to start their own ecstatic dance workshops or and groups
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 1,543 Reviews
- 18,043 Students
- 7 Courses
Adam Godwin (MA) is from Oxford in The United Kingdom
Adam has studied philosophy and psychology for over eighteen years and his academic focus has been phenomenology, metaphysics, ontology, existentialism and clinical psychology. His overarching specialism is comparative clinical psychology and the history of psychotherapy.
Moreover, he is a specialist in the study of comparative mystical traditions with extensive personal experience with Zazen (Soto Zen Buddhist meditation), mindfulness meditation, and ecstatic dance. This passion for the study of mystical traditions is also rooted in an enduring love for mystical poetry from the Christian, Taoist, Buddhist & Sufi traditions.
Qualifications:
BA - Psychology & Philosophy (The University of Reading, UK)
MA - Philosophy (The University of Reading, UK)
CPPD - Clinical Hypnosis (The London College of Clinical Hypnosis)
PGCE - Secondary Education - Philosophy & Religious Studies (Liverpool Hope University)
C.E.L.T.A.
Professional Background:
Forensic Mental Health Support Worker (2 Years)
[Mainly working with those diagnosed with schizophrenia and 'personality disorders']
Supported Housing Support Worker (2 Years)
[Working with homeless people suffering from drug and alcohol addictions]
Academic Support & Social Mentor (2 Years)
[Supporting undergraduate and postgraduate university students in need of assistance with their learning]
Secondary School Teacher (4 Years)
[Teaching Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology & Religious Studies in a British state secondary school (12-18 year-olds)]
Digital Educational Resource Design (7 Years)
[Eventually founding The Global Metacognition Institute]
Other Relevant Experiences:
"I have spent 6 months training in mindfulness-based meditation techniques in a Soto Zen Buddhist Monastery in the UK.
I also frequently attend conferences and healing festivals in order to learn about a wide variety of approaches to alternative healing and therapy.
My courses on Dance Movement Therapy, Ecstatic Dance, and Conscious Dance are informed by over eighteen years of therapeutic dance experience that have been central to my own personal and spiritual development.
I have a longstanding passion for philosophy and psychology and my overarching aim is to share that passion with people around the world via professionally-designed online courses."