Ecstatic Dance Festival 2025 - Movement, Music,Nature, Community &Wellness

ECSTATIC DANCE FESTIVAL:

Find your path. Unlock your potential. Learn. Explore. Create.

~ WHEN? Wed 23 July - Sun 27 July 2025 (arrival from 4pm on the first day, departure after 4pm on the last day)

~ WHERE? Gillingham, North Dorset (2h direct train from London)

Get your camping gear ready & join fellow conscious dance, music, nature, and healthy living enthusiasts! After our sold-out Ecstatic Dance Festival® last year we are very excited to announce our annual Ecstatic Dance Festival 2025! A gathering devoted to Ecstatic Dance, Movement, Embodiment, Holistic Wellbeing and a Down-to-Earth Spirituality. It's Ecstatic Dance plus much, much more! This is a wonderful invitation to get your dancing feet ready! We invite you to co-create this unique experience of togetherness with us! Attune to Nature, Dance on the Earth and beneath the Summer Sky. Your body, mind and soul with thank you. A transformational adventure and personal growth gathering with around fellow conscious dancers!

-No experience required to join the festival.
-All 18+ welcome (children/kids - this year's retreat will not be suitable for under 18's)
-Unfortunately no dogs/ other pets are permitted on site.

*****************IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - YOU NEED TO BOOK 2 TICKETS! ******************

📌1.FESTIVAL FEE: Book on Eventbrite (Super Earlybird: £160, Earlybird £210, Regular £260 + add Eventbrite fees)
-Please email us if you wish to pay directly and avoid paying eventbrite fees, thanks: ecstaticdancefestivaluk@gmail.com OR info@ecstaticdancelondon.com

📌2.CAMPING/ CAMPERS/ ACCOMMODATION/ FOOD/ SAUNAS: Book on venue's site
-*FOOD/CAMPING/SAUNAS: £280 for 4 nights
-ACCOMMODATION: £60-£200 for 4 nights depending on accommodation type chosen.

*All meals are included (3 meals per day, total 12 meals).
Venue runs a vegetarian/vegan kitchen and does its best to meet the most common food requirements for guests such as gluten free/ lactose free/ vegan and all dishes will be clearly labelled. Venue might not be able to cater for other special diets. Please complete dietary requirement section when you book part two of your festival ticket.

If you have any festival related questions, feel free to send us an email:
ecstaticdancefestivaluk@gmail.com OR info@ecstaticdancelondon.com

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WHAT TO EXPECT?

• Beautiful dance and workshop spaces with great sound systems including an indoor space, large Marquee, large Geo Dome, plus dancing outdoors and around the campfire (we will also have Silent Disco Headphone outdoor dances!)
• Great Ecstatic Dance DJ's and daily Live Music with the amazing URUBU Collective: Alua, Jansen, Carl & Seth plus awesome DJ's!
• MVMNT Drum & Bass & Breakbeat sessions with James Buchanan and his powerful sound system!
• A variety of Transformational Embodiment, Wellbeing, Movement and Ecstatic Dance workshops with different facilitators (Active Meditations, Yoga, Breathwork, Bioenergetics, Playfulness, Connection, Intimacy, Conscious Touch, Hugging, Singing, Cacao Ceremonies, Sound Journeys and of course Ecstatic Dance and much more!)
• Relaxing and Rejuvenating Massage/ Bodywork offerings (extra cost)
• Alcohol and drug-free environment
• Delicious 3x vegetarian meals per day, x12 total (we all eat together at set meal times)
• Indoor / Outdoor Cafe & Healthy Bar (for coffee, cake and other yummy creations!)
• Hangout on the sofas
• Campfire & Storytelling, Singing
• Saunas at lunchtime & evenings x7 total
• Sauna Whisking Sessions (extra cost)
• Beautiful nature walks
• Bodywork/Massage sessions (extra cost)
• Camping (bring your own camping gear)
• Campervan (stay in your own campervan) or Indoor Accommodation (limited availability) for additional cost , please book on venue's website.
• Facilities: Shower & Toilet block with hot running water, covered indoor/outdoor dining areas, tea/coffee available at any time, phone charging stations, 2 indoor workshop/dance spaces + large Marque, large Geo Dome and plenty of outdoor space for outdoor activities (slacklining, frisbee etc) and camping!
• Photos/Videos: We live in the age of social media and so to capture our alcohol and drug free festival, we want to share to the world that we can have a great time without intoxicants. We will be photographing and videoing this festival. We thank you in advance for accepting this fact, and we ask please not to attend if you're not happy being captured. Our media team, will of course be sensitive, and will only use the best shots of you.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME & LINE UP: ECSTATICDANCEFESTIVAL.CO.UK
(to be updated soon with 2025 line up)

(Bodywork session sign ups: at the festival's notice board, pay cash/card in advance directly to therapists. Please note - most boduwork sessions will be in a shared indoor wellness space divided by currtains, one or two private bodywork rooms & bell tents.

♥ EXAMPLE DAILY *SCHEDULE

7:00AM – 8:00 AM Good Morning Active Meditation/ Yoga

8:00 AM –9:30 AM Yummy Breakfast

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Morning Gathering, Ecstatic Dance & Sharings, Workshop

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Magnificent Lunch/ Dishes Help

2:15 PM – 6:30 PM Free time/ Sauna/ Cold Plunges/ Nature Walk / Massages/ Workshops

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Delicious Dinner/ Dishes Help

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM Evening Ecstatic Dance / Workshop

10:00 PM – 00:00 PM Campfire/ Sauna/Cold Plunges/ Dance Parties/ Concert /Gong Bath

*PLEASE NOTE: this is just an example schedule, all workshops and timings might change slightly as we want to offer some flexibility with the schedule during the retreat.

💜 ALL UPCOMING WELLBEING EVENTS, RETREATS, FESTIVALS +CREWING:

Website: ecstaticdancelondon.com/events
Linktree: linktr.ee/ecstaticdancelondon
Instagram: @ecstaticdance_london
Mailing list: https://ecstaticdancelondon.myflodesk.com/we-are-london

💛FREE CREW SPACES: We'd be very happy to hear from you if you'd like to help us in exchange for a free ticket! Requirement - you need to have attended at least two indoor events before you can join the crew. Please complete the sign up form and we'll be in touch.

SPECIAL EVENT SAT, 17 MAY: EPIC SOBER RAVE @ MINISTRY OF SOUND (BOOK HERE)

～ RETREATS & FESTIVALS 2025 ～

💜 MAY 7-11 SPRING ECSTATIC DANCE RETREAT
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecstatic-dance-spring-retreat-2025-dance-wellbeing-and-healthy-living-tickets-1219567311659

If you have any questions, please send us an email to: info@ecstaticdancelondon.com

WHAT IS OUR ECSTATIC DANCE FESTIVAL ALL ABOUT?

• Ecstatic Dance Festival® is an invitation to awaken the dancer within! Dance to feel alive, find your creativity, and free your body and mind through conscious dance!
• Connection with ourselves and our bodies explored through a cross-section of approaches.
• Live music with outstanding musicians
• Learn powerful exercises for grounding, releasing fear/stress/ tension/ trauma from the body and developing deeper presence and body awareness.
• Explore a wide variety of ecstatic dance and active meditation processes.
• Using music, movement, ritual, and connection to achieve a unified field of being.
• Rest, Relax & Rejuvenate with Sound journeys, Yoga Nidra, Massages & Saunas
• Attune to Nature and the living environment, release stress and come home to your Ecstatic-Self!
• Experiential not-to-be-missed retreat!
• This is an experiential playground for co-creating transformational experiences through dance and other movement and embodiment practices.
• It is full of Life-affirming transformational workshops beyond the old Drug and Alcohol paradigm

Whether you are looking for a way to better deal with the everyday stresses of life, get away from the City life and connect to Nature or whether you just simply want to try new body-mind based exercises, dance & laugh, meet and connect with new people, relax in the sauna, we invite you to explore the tools & practices during this deep dive of 4 days and discover the positive benefits for yourself.

<<<<<*~ PRACTICAL INFORMATION ~*>>>>>

EVENTBRITE ORDER CONFIRMATION: Email might be in the spam folder. Please check. Do not print any paper tickets, we will check you in by your name.

CANCELLATION POLICY

We offer this festival in order to support the growth of physical and mental wellness of attendees and it requires many hours of organisation and planning. We ensure we have sufficient funds to do this with the following policy:

- Participants join the retreat at their own risk. Ecstatic Dance London accepts no responsibility for spontaneous joy, open-heartedness or sore cheeks from too much smiling.

CANCELLATION BY ATTENDEES:

-All festival tickets are non-refundable. If you cannot attend the festivaldue to any reason or personal matter including covid, we will not be able to issue a retreat ticket refund, sorry.

-You are welcome to pass on your festival ticket to a friend, colleague or family member, resell your ticket or consider gifting your place to someone, there are many people in our network who do not have the funds to attend such a retreat. Please let us know name and email address of the person attending in your place by sending us an email with replacement person’s details to so we can transfer the ticket in their name.

CANCELLATION BY THE ORGANIZER/VENUE:

Due to situations beyond our control, Ecstatic Dance London reserves the right to change booking or cancel the festival and shall inform the customer as soon as possible. You may transfer your full payment to another retreat or you may request a refund of your payment to us, constituting a full settlement. Alternative arrangements will be offered but we do not accept responsibility for any costs incurred, including travel. Ecstatic Dance London is not responsible for your expenses incurred in preparation for any cancelled retreat such as travel costs, loss of work, and/or other costs associated with preparing for your trip. As organizers of this retreat, we do not take any responsibility for any matters beyond our control or for any covid related matters that occur during the retreat.

CARS/ TRAINS/TRAVEL

CAR PARK ON SITE FREE OF CHARGE: there is a car park available on site free of charge to all festival attendees. As much as possible, please arrange car shares to limit the carbon footprint and reduce the amount of cars on site.

LIFT SHARES: Attendees will receive a link to a WhatsApp group & a spreadsheet to arrange lift shares and train journeys. Link will be sent few weeks prior to the festival.

TRAINS: Nearest train station Gillingham, Dorset. Please check https://www.thetrainline.com for train tickets and train schedules. There are local taxi services and we will send a list in April with contact details to all participants. One way journey from station to venue will cost under £10. We do encourage car & taxi sharing if possible as it's more eco friendly.

FOOD (Please book ticket for this via venue's site as part of the second ticket to attend festival)

All meals are included (3 meals per day, total 12 meals). Venue runs a vegetarian/vegan kitchen and does its best to meet the most common food requirements for guests such as gluten free/ lactose free/ vegan and all dishes will be clearly labelled. Venue might not be able to cater for other special diets. Please complete dietary requirement section when you book Food/Camping/Accommodation/Saunas ticket through retreat website. Teas/coffees available at anytime with a selection of alternative milks. Filtered drinking water also available to refill your water bottles. There is also a Coffee/cake shop which is run by Osho Leela community and will be open at certain times during the day.

PLEASE NOTE: Festival takes place at Osho Leela and there is a community of people who already live there or have joined one of their live-in programmes. To support the community and help with the practicalities, retreat participants will be required to help once during the retreat with the dishes- either one day after lunch or dinner. Many thanks in advance for your support with this.

VENUE

Ecstatic Dance Festival site is located 10 minute drive by car from Gillingham train station in North Dorset

ADDRESS: Osho Leela Personal Development Centre, Thorngrove House, Common Mead Ln, Gillingham SP8 4RE

DIRECTIONS AND HOW TO GET THERE: https://osholeela.uk/getting-here/

WHEN: Wed 23 July - Sun 27 July 2025

ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE: We ask participants to arrive between 4pm-6pm on the first day to allow time to check-in, explore the grounds and settle in before we start. The festivalwill start with dinner at 6:30pm followed by a welcome session from 8pm. The festival will end at 3pm after lunch on the last day and there will be plenty of time to pack up and depart. Please do not leave before the end of the retreat. Aim to depart around 4pm to give yourself enough time.

EXTRA NIGHT’S STAY: Option to stay on site until Monday 28 July 11am for a reduced rate of £23 including dinner & breakfast. If you're staying in any accommodation, there will be a charge for extra night accordingly. Sign ups and payments - please go to the Osho Leela office directly on Sun 27 July after lunch.

WHAT TO BRING

We encourage all participants to have a Digital Detox during the retreat and to switch off phones. Maybe bring a simple alarm clock so you can wake up for morning meditations/yoga.

-If you have booked accommodation, please note that all bedding is provided .

-Camping gear for those who choose to camp (tent, pegs, mattress, insulating mat, sleeping bag or duvet, pillow, extra blanket, hot water bottle, lights to put inside the tent etc)

-Reusable water bottle

-Yoga Mat & blanket

-Ground coffee & cafetiere for coffee lovers (venue provides instant coffee and has limited cafetiere's so please bring your own if you have one). Community run coffee & cake shop will be open at certain times so you will be able to buy a proper coffee/lattes etc if you wish to.

-Torch (head torches are really useful)

-Clothing in layers suitable for movement/ dancing

-Clothing & boots/shoes suitable for hiking/ outdoors

-Waterproofs or umbrella in case of rain

-Warm jacket or jumper for evenings as temperature will drop during the night

-Swimsuit/ swim shorts for sauna

-Towel

-Ear-plugs (if you're a light sleeper)

-Toiletries: (natural & biodegradable products if possible please)

-Acoustic music instruments if you wish to such as guitar, ukulele, drums etc.

-Snacks such as nuts/ dried fruit/ flapjacks/ chocolate, avocados etc for when you get peckish or if you want extra yummy things

-Personal items such as phone/ charger/ card/ keys etc.

-Anything else you think will make the retreat more comfortable for you!

♥ FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS RETREATS/FESTIVALS:

“That was a very beautiful experience. An amazing journey inward & out. To express in a free space filled with joyful vibes & gorgeous smiling faces. In sound, in rhythm, in motion, in colour, in sweat, the Dance, the Soul.” Cath

“The smiles, the kind eyes, the bits when I lost myself in the music, the joy of the moments when it felt as if the whole room was jumping in unison.” Salvo

“ What a profound experience! The music was so beautiful ... it carried me effortlessly inward facilitating a deep connection to Spirit, moving my body in a way that I felt I had little control over. It was magical! Thank you ” Ashley

“Thank you guys. This was an exceptional experience of deep healing, awakening, and opening. I feel so light, peaceful, and full of Love. Through the workshops we took, I touched some of my wounds, gently but deeply releasing and healing what was ready to be alchemised. Thank you to all the other lovely participants. Please organise the next one soon! ” Tanja

“ The workshop gave me the opportunity to go deeper into my body and discover new experiences which I hadn’t been able to tap into before. It was a good mix of different exercises, and I had a really blissful experience with the breathwork.” Vijay

” I feel so grateful I had the opportunity to attend this workshop. I felt that Seth, through his presence, allowing, way of being, created a very unique, safe space in which I could release, discover, explore and meet different aspects of myself. I was amazed how during the two days I was – often unexpectedly and gently – led to bring forth and embrace a child, an ancient woman, an animal, a spoiled brat, a mother, a lover, a goddess… Also through Seth’s guidance and suggestions I felt within very short spaces of time both my immense sorrow/yearning/pain and my immense joy/gratitude, realising how close to each other these seemingly opposites are. Today I feel a more solid belonging in the world, and a heightened awareness of the soles of my feet on the floor, like the earth, was more magnetic!” Maria

BELOW ARE VIDEOS OF URUBU DANCE TRIVE BAND & VIDEOS FROM PREVIOUS CSTATIC DANCE FESTIVALS® . PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO WATCH THEM TO GET A TASTE OF WHAT TO EXPECT.

💜 ALL UPCOMING WELLBEING EVENTS, RETREATS, FESTIVALS +CREWING:

Website: ecstaticdancelondon.com/events
Linktree: linktr.ee/ecstaticdancelondon
Instagram: @ecstaticdance_london
Mailing list: https://ecstaticdancelondon.myflodesk.com/we-are-london

💛FREE CREW SPACES: We'd be very happy to hear from you if you'd like to help us in exchange for a free ticket! Requirement - you need to have attended at least two indoor events before you can join the crew. Please complete the sign up form and we'll be in touch.

SPECIAL EVENT SAT, 17 MAY: EPIC SOBER RAVE @ MINISTRY OF SOUND (BOOK HERE)

～ RETREATS & FESTIVALS 2025 ～

💜 MAY 7-11 SPRING ECSTATIC DANCE RETREAT
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecstatic-dance-spring-retreat-2025-dance-wellbeing-and-healthy-living-tickets-1219567311659

If you have any questions, please send us an email to: info@ecstaticdancelondon.com