Dance Medicine Philly

08/02/2024

Let your body be blessed with the voice of Faye as we cool down from our dance journey with a delicious sound bath ✨

🧚🏼‍♀️ Faye Adinda, aka Faye Ma, is a medicine musician who weaves sonic tapestries of healing and liberation. With a gift for capturing the ebbs and flows of life, Faye’s music offers a transformative experience that soothes the heart and awakens the spirit.

🧚🏼‍♀️ Through lyrics that speak truth and melodies that uplift, Faye’s songs invite listeners to embrace their own resilience and connection to the world around them. With every song, Faye shares a healing embrace that reminds us of our shared humanity and the truth of who we are

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SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!

07/28/2024

Warm up your body with Somatic Alchemy led by LaVina!

🌹 LaVina is a trauma-informed Somatic Therapist, a Sexual Shamanic Practitioner, and Intimacy + Relationship Coach. Her mission is to support others in embodying a life of deep pleasure, aliveness & freedom through self discovery, intimacy, somatic exploration, and authentic expression.

🌿 She believes in the power of welcoming the full spectrum, and she is here to help you discover safety in your body as a pathway of awakening the innate wisdom of the human soul to bring harmony & peace to the Earth.

🕊️ LaVina invites you to connect with the essence of your Soul // Inner Truth, to Remember your Divinity. Her guidance supports you to fully land in a state of deep safety in your body, to experience ease in being, and to know liberation.

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07/23/2024

It’s time to get into our bodies and out of our minds on the dance floor fam!!! Can’t wait to move with you!🕺🎶

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧

We’re so excited to have DJ Vortexual bring the vibe!✨

🔊 Riley Leachman ( Vortexual ) is a underground DJ currently residing in Philadelphia. From an early age, he was immersed in the world of sound, exploring and innovating until everything finally came together five years ago when he discovered his true calling as a DJ. Since then, he has been igniting ecstatic dances across eastern US

🔊 Vortexual’s musical palette transcends boundaries, seamlessly blending instrumental mastery, ambient enchantment, tribal medicine, and irresistible melodies. Get ready for a mind-blowing sonic journey, from deep transcendence to pulsating bass-driven heights.

🔊 Behind the decks, Vortexual exudes a magnetic presence, effortlessly channeling the crowd’s pulsating energy. Surrender to his sonic alchemy as he weaves a tapestry of beats that ignite your soul and move your body.

👉🏼 Explore Vortexual’s soundscape on SoundCloud: www.SoundCloud.com/Vortexual 🎶

Early bird tix are LIVE!
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07/12/2024

Warm your body into movement with Jai Buddhi🧘🏼‍♀️as she gets us ready to groove!✨

🌺 Jen Hombach has been practicing yoga for nearly a decade and is a 500-hr RYT who trained in both Philadelphia and India. Fresh back from two weeks on the Big Island of Hawaii — the birthplace of ecstatic dance— she is bringing a vibrant playfulness and sense of aloha to her classes — presence with the breath in the joy of being right here and now, in community.

🌺 Jen brings authenticity and a healing intention to her classes, seeking to encourage personal freedom within the structure of the vinyasa flow. She pulls on traditional Hatha and Ashtanga lineages, while working in some intuited movements for funkiness and fun. Drop in, open what’s stuck, and fall in love with yourself right where you are.

See you TOMORROW!!!
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07/09/2024

Summertime and the livin’s easy... time for us to get our bodies back on the dance floor together to shake it out, PLAY and PRAY! 🤸🏽☀️

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟑𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧

We are so ecstatic to welcome Kerry Bo Berry to the stage!

🪩 Having grown up in South Africa and been majorly influenced by the house music scene, Kerry has had a deep connection to music and dance since a young age. She aims to capture the minds and hearts of her audience with heart warming & fun vibes.

🪩 She got her start behind the decks in the dust, for Camp Charlie, at Burning Man 2013 and was a resident DJ with the notorious Steampunk Saloon until their recent disbandment. Burningman is still her favorite place to DJ, from the Opulent Temple White Party, for a crowd of naked burners and Alex Grey at the foam dome, or for a crew of rowdy cheerleaders aboard a giant c**k car. She loves to play a saucy mix of Bass House, indie Dance, nuDisco, Deep House, and wants nothing more than to boogie down with you!

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07/09/2024

🫠 Let yourself melt into the healing sounds brought to you by Richie Parrella, as you fully receive and integrate all the yummy vibes of our dance🪈✨

📿Richie is a Somatic Therapist, Certified yoga teacher, Reiki Master and sound healer trained in Prana yoga, based in the lineages of Kundalini and Ta**ra yoga and Ayurveda in the lineage of Dr. Vasant Lad.

📿He facilitates sessions, classes, and groups with the intention to create a safe space for others to explore their inner experience, create transformation, as well as reduce stress, anxiety, and support the allowing of the body, mind, and spirit’s natural ability to heal. His teachings are rich in yogic philosophy, breath work and mindfulness.

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07/04/2024

Summertime and the livin’s easy... time for us to get our bodies back on the dance floor together to shake it out, PLAY and PRAY! 🤸🏽☀️

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟑𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧

We are so ecstatic to welcome Kerry Bo Berry to the stage!

🪩 Having grown up in South Africa and been majorly influenced by the house music scene, Kerry has had a deep connection to music and dance since a young age. She aims to capture the minds and hearts of her audience with heart warming & fun vibes.

🪩 She got her start behind the decks in the dust, for Camp Charlie, at Burning Man 2013 and was a resident DJ with the notorious Steampunk Saloon until their recent disbandment. Burningman is still her favorite place to DJ, from the Opulent Temple White Party, for a crowd of naked burners and Alex Grey at the foam dome, or for a crew of rowdy cheerleaders aboard a giant c**k car. She loves to play a saucy mix of Bass House, indie Dance, nuDisco, Deep House, and wants nothing more than to boogie down with you!

📣Stay tuned for warmup and sound bath✨

Early bird tix are LIVE!
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06/17/2024

🧨Warm Up Facilitator Highlight!

Join DMP’s own .journey for a Dance Improvisation warm up!

Do you ever feel like you’ve run out of Dance Moves, or find yourself in habitual movement patterns? Would you like to shake it up and find new ways to creatively dance without trying to make it look any certain way?

🕺Dance Improv is a seemingly unstructured process of generating spontaneous movement material through creative explorations including body mapping, change in pace, height and weight dynamics and so much more.

Rather than focusing on a particular technique, Dance Improv offers prompts that can be interpreted and evolved in countless creative combinations. Think less about figuring out how to do a movement and more about letting a movement prompt MOVE YOU!

What to expect..

- Warm ups with line drills incorporating locomotion drills, floorwork & animal movements.
- Dance Improv Prompts/Games
- Partner Exercises for exploring Contact improvisation
- Free Flow Jam

You won’t want to miss this warm up with Jacob! Join him to discover new ways to spontaneously create dance moves and connect with others on the dance floor!

06/11/2024

Dance Medicine Family! It’s summertime and we’re back with a few ecstatic dances this season. 😎💃🌞

📣We are saying goodbye to the mosquitoes and airplane mode because this season we will be wiggling in a new indoor (semi-outdoor) spot that encourages us to PLAY!🤸‍♂️🪘🌀

Join us on Sunday, June 23rd as we move our bodies at our NEW LOCATION the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts in Germantown. We are so amped about this new location and it will be our home for the fall and winter dances 🦋

Let’s give a big DMP welcome to our West Coast DJ, Merlin Sky 🪄🎧

🔊As a lifelong dancer, Merlin understands the necessity of crafting dynamic flows that allow for many different planes of physical and emotional expression - ranging from intentional ecstatic dance waves, all the way to late-night warehouse throw-downs. He enjoys creating these experiences with many genres: trap and world bass infusions, progressive house and techno, latin and world beats, medicine music, and more.

🔊Having toured up and down the West Coast, playing both ecstatic dances and festival stages, Merlin is here to make Magic, and express the dance of life through his unique sonic wizardry.

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05/09/2024

05/08/2024

🌼Have you met Henrick!?💗

🔥Our Sacred Fire tender🪵🪨🌾

One of the most magical elements of our annual campout is the relationship we get to cultivate with the ELEMENTS!

For 3 days we will be immersed in Mother Nature’s wonder with a rushing waterfall🌊
Surrounded by 8,000 acres of beautiful green forest🌳🌿🌲🍃
Breathing in FRESH clean air 🌬️
and CAPTIVATED by the incredible Sacred Fire🪵🔥🪵 built, held, and cared for by this precious man.

And, BONUS there will be fire arts performers that will be carrying the torch 🗽 and spinning this powerful life force energy with absolute finesse for all of us to witness + receive!

— THANK YOU Celestial Dragons Collective 🐉

The lighting of the sacred fire is destined to be pure magic🪄
We get to celebrate the gift of being kept warm by the flame 🔥 and granted the opportunity to bear witness to some of the greatest art forms being expressed through the beautiful humans who have devoted their precious time + energy into their craft! 💫

If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet … what are you waiting for !?
Link in bio babies ! 🎟️✨

05/06/2024

❔Are you counting down the days until we get to blast open our hearts, dance our prayers, and swirl in the love of community !?

I know we are!

If you were there last year, then you must remember the incredible offering from

Would you like to see them again this year !? 🪶

Tell us your favorite part about this special gathering through the poll — and if your favorite part isn’t listed as an option, tell us in the comments !

We want to hear from you 🦋

05/05/2024

Hey Momma’s ! 🌈 ☀️ DID YOU KNOW?!… 🦋

We are going to have an extra special Kid’s Village space set up this year by our very own .inspace — as well as having the support of a children’s behavioral therapist to oversee and curate fun activities with the kiddos!

You know what this means …?

It means you will have the extra support and spaciousness to take a break, go out and enjoy your time on the dance floor or in a workshop !

None of us would be here if not for our Mothers.. and we get to spend this Mother’s Day weekend together.
It’s important to us to have some structures in place to acknowledge, honor, and support the momma’s who are choosing to spend this special weekend at our campout.

In addition to the kid’s village tent, we will also be holding a workshop specifically for the Mother’s this weekend…

So if you or someone you know thought they couldn’t make it this weekend because it was Mother’s Day… let this post be your sign to flip the script !

We want YOU there .. and if you know some momma’s who you think are meant to join us, then spread the word!

We have just 5 more days until we come together in celebration of life through dance, prayer, ceremony, song, and of course COMMUNITY.

We love you !!!

🪄Learn more at dancemedicinephilly.com/campout or click the link in our bio for tix ! ✨

05/02/2024

🔔 The schedule is finally here!!! 🔔

🚀Our highly anticipated 4th Annual Campout, just 7 days away!

Get ready for a weekend filled with electrifying beats from globally recognized DJs and our beloved local favorites, alongside an array of captivating workshops all day and night.

🎶 Immerse yourself in sound journeys amidst the stunning backdrop of nature. Whether you’re a seasoned festival-goer or a first-time camper, there’s something for everyone at our campout experience.

Don’t miss out on this unforgettable weekend! Reserve your spot now and join us for an adventure like no other. See you there!

what are you most excited about? let us know below 😎👇

04/22/2024

This is IT! Our Final Dance before our Campout!
The season of inside events is officially coming to it’s closure. 💃🏾LET’S DANCE🕺🏽

Join us on Friday, April 26th as we move our bodies (for potentially the last time) at the Lithuanian Music Hall!

We are SO STOKED to welcome Joro Boro & Keena Maya to the stage ✨

🔸Joro-Boro🔸 is a producer and DJ primarily interested in musical genres short-circuit
cultural flows and in sounds that circuit bend the archaic and the futuristic. His sets
bring a more profound experience of the origins of music as sound energy and a
connection to the beyond. He has performed with 2melo, Anna Morgan, An-ten-nae,
Balkan Beat Box, DJ Spooky, Filastine, Gogol Bo****lo, M-1 (Dead Prez), Method Man,
Omar Souleyman, Prefuse 73, Questlove, Talib Kweli, The Human Experience,
Tinariwen, Uproot Andy, Z-Trip, and others.

Website: joro-boro.org
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/joro-boro
Facebook: facebook.com/joroboro
Instagram: instagram.com/joroboro

🔹Keena Maya🔹•*The depths of Keena Maya’s sound are incantations, drawing us down into our roots,
grounding us into our bodies, and invoking the incandescent deity within us to rise. Artist,
DJ, instrumentalist, and mystic, her BASS BLISS sets are not just heard, but felt.
Hailing from Brooklyn, she is half of the live ritual bass project b e i n g - s o u n d and a
pillar of the feminine-powered Collective BAE. In 2023 she released her debut single ‘A
Deeper Calling’ and is currently working on a few releases for 2024, including an EP with
Natalia Clavier.
Keena Maya is, so that we may become.

WEBSITE https://keenamaya.com/
SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/keenamaya
SPOTIFY https://sptfy.com/7jXQ
BANDCAMP https://keenamaya.bandcamp.com/
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/keena.maya
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/keena.maya.DJ/
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/
TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/.maya
BANDSINTOWN https://www.bandsintown.com/a/15504248

✨These two will both be at the campout🏕️ as well, and if you don’t already know them ... trust me, you want to.
They’re AMAZING!

🕊️EARLY BIRD IS LIVE!🎟️

11/09/2023

In 1 sentence can you describe what feelings come through for you when dancing with community?

11/07/2023

🎶And look who’s back to gift us with an incredible sound bath …



They call me Tamrah The Messenger.
Eye am a master reiki teacher and vibration sound practitioner.
Founder of Sol Eyelignment Elevation (S.E.E. private nonprofit).
Eye am music!
One of my main purposes is utilize sound, frequency and vibrational to uplift the vibration of your so(u)l and the universe!

Get your ticket with the link in our bio! 🎟️✨

11/06/2023

Are you joining us next Sunday Morning ? 🌞

We’ve got a special warm up planned for you with our very own Alison !

For this ecstatic dance warm-up, Alison draws inspiration from embodiment practices in subtle alignment to the energies of the Scorpio season, as well as other water signs. Our focus will be on bringing awareness to all things fluid including the lymphatic systems and joints, with special emphasis on the spinal and sacrum areas, all supported by various flow floor work and contact play.

💃🏾 Alison is a certified JourneyDance guide, who brings her experience in co-leading and collaborating various conscious movement explorations set to an eclectic range of music.

Her conscious movement journey is deeply rooted in embodiment practices, where she wholeheartedly embraces communal-style movement, and fosters connections with others through the transformative power of affirmations and vocal improvisation.

📝 In her free time, Alison finds immense joy in crafting and performing poetry and spoken word. She is also certified in Cardology which incorporates the study of numerology and astrology through the ancient, mystical science of playing cards as a form of divination readings through a solution focused based approach.

You can follow her Cardology Instagram page here : ♥️ ♣️♦️♠️🃏

Finally, Alison is an original founding member/supporter of the Celebrate All People/Celebrate Being Team.