Ecstatic Playground

🌝Full moon women’s dance on Tuesday 14th Jan 🌝 I’ve been invited to facilitate, for January’s Wolf Moon 🐺 🌕 so come along and check out this new groovy ecstatic dance (at The Bath House in Hackney) with @ecstaticdanceculture.ldn and let’s all Howl at this Wolf Moon!! Teaming up again with my fav girls from @forgotten.fun - DJ Kata @kata_forgottenfun - Sound Experience with @sashastarseedofferings LINK IN BIO 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕 Ecstatic Dance Culture presents Women’s Full Moon Dance’s! Each month we come together to celebrate ourselves & ride the energetic waves of self expression through dance with our DJs, sound healing, cacao and luna rituals. This monthly dance is for women, people who identify as women and non binary. You’re welcome to arrive before the opening circle to ground, settle into the space and enjoy a hot cup of ceremonial cacao with like-minded friends. This dance is hosted at The Bath House in Hackney Wick, which is one of our favourite spaces in creative East London. The dance hall features an incredible custom made Quadraphonic Soundsystem to fuel your dance with 360° of audio. ❤️ Our Manifesto ✨ Dance the way you love… ✨ Wild souls gather united by music... ✨ Liberate your moves with radical acceptance... #ecstaticdance #ecstaticdancelondon #wolfmoon

There’s a new ecstatic dance in town with my pals at @ecstaticdanceculture.ldn !!! (I will be a guest facilitator and DJ in the coming months, yay. Very excited about this new project.) ✨✨✨This coming Thursday 14th November!! A brand new Women’s Full Moon Dance at The Baths ( 80 Eastway) Hackney Wick. 🌕🌕🌕 Ecstatic Dance Culture presents Women’s Full Moon Dance’s! Each month we come together to celebrate ourselves & ride the energetic waves of self expression through dance with our DJs, sound healing and luna rituals. With Dj - Tigerbalm on the Decks @tigerbalmmusic Facilitation by Kata @kata_forgottenfun And a Sound Experience by Kristi @tedesura I’ll be there!! #dancedancedance Ticket in bio

The drizzle did not deter our dedicated dancers!!! Oh no! It was muggy and there were some vicious mosquitoes lurking around but we danced, grooved, laughed, skipped our way from dusk to darkness. Thank you to a small but perfectly formed group. We loved collaborating as always with @ecstaticplayground.uk And @forgotten.fun can’t wait to bring you more. Let’s dance through the changes of the season together. 🪩🪩🙌❤️🎉✨✨✨🌳🌱

Ecstatic dance using silent disco headphones outside Total one off :) Be spontaneous and come dance with us Thursday 7-9pm Mabley Green, Hackney (Link in bio) We will dance barefoot until the sun goes down #silentdisco

Event coming up in 2 days! Wanna come to an outdoor ecstatic dance? Using silent disco headsets. It will be at Mabley Green in Hackney on Thursday from 7-9pm. Ticket in bio! £15 DJ Kata @kata_forgottenfun is going to take us on a magical journey with @ionaexpress facilitating the warm up. Come experience all the benefits of dancing outside with your bare feet on the ground! And dropping into the body to feel bliss. DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE #silentdisco #ecstaticdance

🥁🥁… Ecstatic Playground has a new logo! 🟣🔷🔺✨ We are BACK after a mini break and have fun plans coming up this autumn and beyond, woop woop. Working on the website next, all part of a bit of a rebrand and visioning exercise. A bit about the logo we came up with - we have 4 key shapes, circle, diamond, triangle and star, which represent our core pillars: ⭕️ Express 🔷 Connect 🔺 Play ✨ Dance We make shapes on the dancefloor to move our bodies, and these shapes make up the dance. You’ll be seeing a lot of the shapes in our logo in our posts, these shapes make up our visual brand. Just playing with shapes to create things :) Can’t wait to dance with you soon ❤️

The amazing Dance the Medicine team!!! Really honoured to be part of this international team, they really are phenomenal Ecstatic Dance DJs and embodied leaders in their communities around the world in conscious dance. Leading the way, creating ripples all over the world! It’s moments like this when I realise that ‘heaven has a plan for me…’ following the signs, believing in my passions, doing what I love… finding myself on an international team teaching Ecstatic Dance facilitation training. Wowza. With my idols: @estapolyesta in Holland @fabio.djronin in Italy @alexsevilladj in Spain @ecstaticdancemontpellier Sophie in France And Anahata G (aka Grant) And head honcho @bernice_raabis in Canada who is the founder of @dancethemedicine

It is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is MOVEMENT: moving more for our mental health. YES!! Movement is hugely important!! Moving isn’t just about physical exertion, it has massive benefits to our mental health! That’s why my limited company is The Movement Movement Ltd - gotta keep moving. Although the advice is slightly patronising telling us to ‘stretch whilst we boil the kettle’ (see 2nd image)… trying to fit in ‘moments of movement’ whilst we are chained to the desk, working hard for the man 😡 Makes me mad. We’ve created a world of sitting down indoors staring into screens, when really we want to be outside in nature, frolicking around… no wonder our mental health is suffering! A little stretch whilst we boil the kettle isn’t gonna fix our problems. We need to re-wild!! Ok thats not gonna happen overnight so we gotta start somewhere… so move your body… dance it out… every single part of your body is crying out to be moved, from finger wiggles to ankle rotations and neck rolls. When I go to ecstatic dance I need to stamp my feet and shake it all out and get sweaty and jump up and down - it’s a cathartic release. That’s how I keep my mental health in check!!! We’ve got to get out of heads and into our bodies. Go dance for several hours straight my friends… Then redesign your whole life around moving more… the Embodied revolution ❤️ #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #movementculture

Excited to be facilitating at another wonderful Ecstatic Dance retreat with @ecstatic.experiences ❤️🌳💃 This is the summer edition, 2-5th August - what a wonderful time of year to be at @embercombeuk sleeping in the yurt village, eating fresh vegan food, enjoying outdoor dances and other workshops. A healthy, nourishing, uplifting, connecting experience. It will be my 6th retreat and they get better and better! So looking forward to it. #ecstaticdance #retreat #ecstaticdanceretreat #danceretreat #transformationalretreats 🎟️ Tickets through @ecstatic.experiences and also linked in my bio

Will be on the facilitator team for this week long in person training at @embercombeuk retreat centre in May. If you want to facilitate ecstatic dance and conscious dance, this might be the training for you! Use code IONA50 for a discount. Find out more here @dancethemedicine #dancefacilitator #ecstaticdancetraining

We are so excited to be spending this Saturday with fun enthusiasts at THE REALLY JOYFUL RETREAT! @yogacampus in London. We can’t wait to share our creative expertise with you all and have a day of joy, laugher and exploring. Group singing, movement, games, art, poetry, ecstatic dance. How else would you want to spend your Saturday?? 🤷‍♀️ Still some last minute tickets available. Link in bio! #creativeretreat #retreats #events #workshops #creativeworkshops #voiceactivation #singing #art #poetry #ecstaticdance #improv #movement #londonevents #london #letsgetcreative #saturday #dayretreat

On 16th March - we are putting on a ✨Really Joyful Retreat✨ for the day. We took to the streets of London last Friday- singing and playing piano in St Pancras station, meditating in Liverpool St Station and doing impromptu dances around sculptures in Spitalfields. To tap into the energy of FUN in our city :) We’re on a mission to raise the vibration, and launching this with our retreat! Tickets on sale now so JOIN US for a whole day of creativity, joyful and relaxing practices, with the girls from Forgotten Fun and Ecstatic Playground. We are bringing a smorgasbord of activities, inspired from all the things we have discovered on our journeys, to make us enjoy life more, feel more ALIVE and happy. We know life can get us down sometimes, so it’s important to take time out to be in the vibration of JOY, with other like-minded people. It is going to fun and nourishing ❤️✨☺️ #dayreteat #joyretreat #joytotheworld