Intro to Ecstatic Dance
Ecstatic Dance is a ritualised movement practice where music, body, and presence meet.
It’s an invitation to move freely, feel deeply, and reconnect with the innate intelligence of your body — beyond performance, substances, or social expectation.
At URUBU, Ecstatic Dance is both an experience and a pathway: a space to explore transformation in yourself, and, for some, a doorway into learning how to hold this work for others.
What Is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic Dance is a guided movement journey held within a clear, intentional container. The space is drug-free, barefoot, and non-verbal on the dancefloor, allowing participants to drop beneath the thinking mind and into direct bodily experience.
Through carefully curated music, ritual structure, and attuned facilitation, the dance becomes a vehicle for release, expression, integration, and renewal. Emotions move. Energy shifts. Stillness emerges naturally.
This is not choreography, therapy, or performance.
It is a practice of embodied presence — one that supports nervous system regulation, emotional clarity, creativity, and a felt sense of belonging within a shared field.
Ways to Experience Ecstatic Dance with URUBU
Join Our Weekly Ecstastic Dances
Experience the magic in one of our 3 locations across London
Festivals & Retreats
Delve deeper into dance with like-minded people at one of our Retreats & Festivals for every season
Online & in-person courses
Whether you're deeping your own personal practice, or feel the calling to facilitate
Origins & Lineage
Ecstatic Dance at URUBU is rooted in movement as ritual — drawing from somatic psychology, trance-based dance, active meditation, and expressive arts traditions where music and movement are used to access presence, release, and transformation.
Rather than performance or spectacle, the focus is on embodied awareness, emotional safety, and the natural intelligence of the body, shaped into a contemporary, ethical practice for modern life.
Real People. Real Results
Train as a Facilitator
For some, the dance becomes a calling — not to perform or lead from the front, but to learn how to hold space for others with integrity and care.
Our facilitator trainings are grounded in embodied presence and nervous system awareness,
These trainings are experiential, relational, and process-led. Progression is not about mastery or authority, but about capacity, responsibility, and readiness.
Practices That Nurture
Your Whole Being
Our practices support the whole self: body, breath, emotions, and creativity, through lived, embodied experience. Each offering invites regulation, expression, and reconnection, held in safe, attentive community.