Dancing in the Dark
A Winter Solstice SoulDance Ceremony
In Person in St. Louis
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
6:30-8:30 pm
This winter solstice, you are invited to dance in the dark.
In ancient times, winter solstice marked the longest night, and the biggest risk. Would light come in the morning? Would the log catch flame again? Without electric light and heating, our ancestors stood on a precipice that literally meant life or death. Light and warmth led to life; darkness and cold to death.
Dancing in the dark asks a lot of us. It asks us to come to the edge, to loosen our illusions of control, to dance until we find our wild again. It asks us to trust the seasonal turning— of nature, of time, of the times, of Life that is intimate with death.
The body knows the way. Your blood and bones in the beat of the music know the way.
Join us to dance our way towards the light, fully surrendered to the dark.
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 loving 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, embodied SoulCare practitioner, birth doula, and writer, exploring all the ways the Divine Feminine is coming into being in new ways now, in our time.