Whelmed & WonderFULL

A Lammas SoulDance Ceremony celebrating the juicy ripeness of the embodied now

Aligning with the season, we offer who and what we are to the world– the fullness of ourselves, our perfectly imperfect on-the-journey souls.  Lammas, the mid-way point between summer solstice and fall equinox, is a time to give thanks for the great abundance of life. After these summer weeks of full sunshine, when roots keep drinking from the deep waters of spring rain, our BodySouls remember what it is to be ripe and flushed and full.  We take our cues from the fruits of our gardens, the ripeness hanging from the trees, the deep greens of the forests.  As first full harvests are gathered, and fruit seems to overflow, we move with the abundance of our lives.  When it’s so easy to dip into scarcity, to move from lack, we let our bodies show us what it is to move from juicy fullness– the blood pumping in our veins, a deep breath, the sweat that pours from our skin.  Together, in the dance, we celebrate life, we honor what is juicy and ripe, and we let ourselves fall effortlessly from the branches of our lives.

DETAILS

When? Friday, August 2, 2024

What time? 7 - 9 pm

Where? First Unitarian Church of St. Louis

What’s the investment?

I’m trying out a sliding scale model in the hopes of better supporting our emerging community and allowing everyone who feels called to access the dance!

SupportED Rate – $13 // Standard Rate – $33 // SupportING Rate – $53

Paying the supportING rate directly supports someone only able to pay at the supportED rate.  Paying the standard rate supports me, the space and this growing community in a way that feels sustainable.  Please pay what you can as we build community of generative abundance! 

REGISTRATION

Advanced registration is required! Please no walk-ins, thank you!

What’s SoulDance?

SoulDance is a style of free-form, conscious dance born from Erin’s 22+ years of moving in this way! In the safe, sacred container that is SoulDance, you get to move however you want to, however the music, energy and community move you! You cannot do it wrong. You will be held in loving, accepting space, and gently guided to drop into your own body’s wisdom. SoulDance engages the movement form of Evolve Ecstatic Dance (also developed by Erin). The Evolve Arc follows 7 organic movements that will open you more and more into the energies in motion— Enter, Explore, Engage, Expand, Evolve, Emerge and End. When we drop into the body’s inherent wisdom and joy in motion, so much can happen! We release, we process, we have fun, we gain clarity and insight, we connect, and we heal in ways that are beyond words. No prior dance experience of any kind is needed. Your body and your soul, held in community, know the Way!

Thanks for dancing with us! I’m Erin

I’m a movement minister, midwife of the Soul and priestess of the Divine Mother Love.  My world opened expansively when I began dancing authentically over twenty years ago.  Since then, I have pursued the dance in myself and all over the world, studying with teachers of the 5 Rhythms, Dancing Freedom, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Contemplative Dance and other modalities.  Dance is by far my favorite way to pray and practice this being human.  I especially love dancing in community and cultivating community of liberated beings, dancing into joy and healing.  I’m also a spiritual innovator, doula, theAlogian and writer, exploring all the ways the Divine Feminine is coming into being in new ways now, in our time.