Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance

05/08/2024

Have you seen our ad in Natural Awakenings Gulf Coast Alabama-Mississippi?

We’re pretty happy with how it turned out!

Here’s to growing our community and to embracing the ceremony of life ✨🤍✨

05/04/2024

Be in your bliss with us on May 19!

DJ Ananda Bliss is bringing her signature elemental dance journey and Lauren Lee will guide a meditative somatic warmup session.

We’ll open our hearts with lovingly made cacao and nourish our souls around the bonfire 🔥

We are thrilled to be back after a few months away. Hope to see you there!

04/24/2024

Gulf Coast Parents, this one is for you!!

Let’s channel our kids’ boundless energy towards practices that help them manage their big feelings in healthy ways. We will have fun playing with breath and movement while making new friends!

This offering is a partnership with Wholesome Wellness and Breath. We would love to see a good turnout — please help us to spread the word!

Registration is available on Eventbrite

04/23/2024

Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance co-founder, Lauren Lee performed with her band, la’ra’le, at the MS Mississippi Cannabis Festival on Saturday to celebrate wellness and to encourage ongoing plant medicine advocacy.

Be sure to follow the band page to stay updated on upcoming musical releases!

04/04/2024

New Study shows Dancing is best
exercise to combat Depression!

Data shows that dancing may treat depression
symptoms better than SSRIs.

“They buried the lede on this new study,” he wrote. “It’s not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That’s kind of beautiful.”

…science is catching up with what we already know in the Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance community. One of many reasons why our events are so uplifting!

Data shows that dancing may treat depression symptoms better than SSRIs

03/31/2024

Parents! Our first event designed for kids is sure to be a fun family gathering. We’re so excited to be partnering with Wholesome Wellness and Breath!

Join us for the first Wholesome Wellness and Breath Youth workshop and collaborative family event! As a mama of two with limited support, these are the types of community experiences that I have longed for. I have had these workshops up my sleeve for several months now and I’m so excited to begin this chapter!

This event will be hosted by Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance who plans to facilitate the freeform movement portion. The movement portion will then be followed by emotional and interpersonal intelligence activities and mindful breathing exercises with Wholesome Wellness and Breath. All ages are welcome.

Direct link to registration below ⬇️

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soul-family-wellness-registration-873673118817?aff=efbevent

If you would like to host a youth workshop please visit my website at www.wholesomewellnessandbreath.com/youth-workshops and fill out a contact form at the bottom💛

01/24/2024

What is the Music, Movement, and Meditation event series?

We create a space for you to experience the freedom and connection that your soul longs for.

We invite you to listen to your body’s innate wisdom.

We hold space for your heart’s intentions and vulnerabilities.

As much as we are aligning with light and love, we welcome you to explore your shadows.

This is a space for healing and growth.

It is also a space for fun, silliness, and making new friends.

We’d love for you to join us!

Swipe to see our group in action! ➡️➡️➡️

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01/04/2024

Heart opening cacao 💚
Somatic movement ✌️
Elemental soundscape 🎧
Beachside sunset 🌅
Warm bonfire 🔥
Tea and soup 🍲 ☕️
And, community connection…

The most uplifting combination you can imagine.

We hope you will join us!

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-movement-and-meditation-tickets-787371799247

Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance is a community in coastal Mississippi that hosts healthy-living events.

12/18/2023

Positively beautiful co-creation ✨🌅🔥

Immense gratitude to all the sweet souls who joined this evening’s gathering!

The power of these connections is palpable. We’re showing up to build conscious community on the gulf coast one dance at a time!

Here’s to love, light, and raising the collective vibration 💫🤍💫

12/16/2023

Thanks to Ocean 7 WXVO for helping us to get the word out about the Movement, Music, and Meditation event tomorrow!

12/12/2023

Dancing on the beach at sunset 🌅
Bonfire lighting the faces of new friends 🔥
Music uplifting your spirits 🎶
Meditation grounding your body 🙏
Warm cacao opening your heart 💚

YOU can experience this profound event!

Join us on Sunday, December 17 at 4pm on Front Beach in Ocean Springs for Movement, Music, and Meditation.

Come with friends or meet new people when you arrive. All are welcome here. 🤍

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Registration available on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-movement-and-meditation-tickets-761399194487

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This co-ed gathering is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who share a love of music, dancing, and mindfulness.
We’ll begin with sharing heart-opening cacao. Tiffany Gayatri Devi guides meditation while we sip this drink made from raw chocolate that carries a sweet and connective spirit and facilitates spiritual awakening.

Then, you’ll be invited to get silly during a short guided dance warmup led by local musician and dancer, Lauren Lee aka la’ra’le. We’ll then immerse ourselves in the elemental musical journey led by Amanda Mavar Schmidt, aka DJ Ananda Bliss.

Let go of stress, tension, and inhibitions while experiencing the power of free form movement meditation. The session will close with a multi-instrumental sound healing and a prayer circle.
Whether you're a seasoned yogi or a beginner, this event welcomes everyone.

Get ready to rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul at Music, Movement, & Meditation!

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This event is a production of Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance, which has hosted 5 prior similar events for the Gulf Coast conscious community over the past 2 years.

Get ready to groove, stretch, and find inner peace at Music, Movement, & Meditation—an in-person event for healing and connection.

12/12/2023

Meet our team! We are passionate about building conscious community on the Mississippi Gulf Coast & honored to guide the participants of our cacao ceremonies and ecstatic dance experiences 💚

We hope to see you at our next event, happening in Ocean Springs on December 17 from 4-6pm — with a bonfire to follow!

12/04/2023

We are so lucky to have the one and only DJ Ananda Bliss, Amanda Mavar Schmidt, bringing the tunes. The sonic journeys that she weaves are powerful.

We hope you will all come experience her music with us at our next event — on December 17 on Front Beach in Ocean Springs!

Until then, check out this recent mix for some at home grooving 🎶 💃🕺🎶

https://soundcloud.com/ananda-blisss/dance-the-medicine-dj-camp-wav

DJ camp in Amara valley, Spain…what an amazing experience! Enjoy the journey with a taste of funk, electro, jungle… dance away!

11/25/2023

We’re so very grateful for our community. Thank you for your trust. It’s an honor to serve yall! 🤍

Hoping you all had a wonderful holiday. We look forward to dancing with you all again on Dec. 17 🏝️🔥🌊

11/20/2023

What could be better than dancing around a bonfire at sunset on the beach?! 🏝️ 🔥✨🤍

Join us for Music, Movement, and Meditation on Sunday, Dec. 17 at 4pm!

Registration is open on Eventbrite
👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-movement-and-meditation-tickets-761399194487

Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance is a community in coastal Mississippi that hosts healthy-living events.

08/12/2023

So cool to have opening guided movement from la’ra’le at the last Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance event!

Check out this mandala meditation on YouTube & be sure to subscribe! 🙏🤍✨

* the lightness * la'ra'le * .just.be. join us on a journal of arrival...lyrics: larale reneesoundscapes: Charles Actual mandala artwork: "Throat" by Summer ...

08/11/2023

We are so grateful for Amanda Mavar Schmidt as a local ecstatic dance DJ here on the coast. Check out the set she played at the last Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance event!

Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance Journey at Unity in Gulfport, MS. Flow, dance, feel and release.

07/23/2023

Now on Instagram!

https://instagram.com/gulfcoast_ecstatic_dance

01/30/2023

So much gratitude
for everyone who
joined us at the
3rd Gulf Coast Ecstatic Dance event!