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URUBU® School of Transformational Arts (USTA)
Pioneering the UK's first ecstatic dance events. School of Transformational Arts!

https://urubu.com/
Embodied practices for presence, healing, and conscious facilitation
Train with us: https://ecstaticdancelondon.myflodesk.com/urubu Originally formed in 2008 as a Live Music Ecstatic Dance Collective ‘Urubu’ has since developed into a holistic wellness event organiser based in London facilitating Events, Workshops, Festivals & Trainings for living a Healthy and Embodied Life! Pioneering Conscious and Wellbeing Events since 2009!
- Ecstatic Dance Events in the UK (DJ & Live Music) - Body-mind Integration Practices
- Cacao Ceremonies - Gong Baths & Sound Journeys - Conscious Connections
- Aerial Relaxation Pods - Active Guided Meditations
and much much more! "Global music phenomenon the Urubu Collective, has taken London by storm with their twice-monthly ecstatic dance events!! Urubu delivers a captivating blend of exotic improvisational world grooves from ambient, meditative piano & vocal pieces through to high octane Afro-percussion. Expect Tribal wildness and beautiful songs, Gongs, sound healing and more." Youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-pDjJkPP0&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MUnYggBVI

01/04/2026

🌿The R I T U A L 🍃
✅Saturday, April 25 2026
A One-Day Transformational Retreat

🌀Join us to step over the threshold into “the Ritual” and gift yourself a full day of transformation, healing, empowerment and reset.

💫You’ll be guided through a breakthrough programme including:
* Welcome Ceremony
* Ta***ic Trance Dance process
* Conscious Connections & Ritual Breathwork
* Group Sharing / Integration time
* Shamanic Bass Temple - Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony

🧘You’ll leave feeling recharged, lighter, clearer and deeply connected to your true self.

📹Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTseES4DNg5/?igsh=dHBpMG81MGd4dHh1

📣Dear dancers, consciousness explorers and lovely people!
You are warmly invited to join us in London for this Powerful & Immersive Experience of Somatic Embodiment, Conscious Connections and Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony.

✨Step into this transformational & very powerful personal growth all day retreat!
👉Dance, Move, Connect, Release, Meditate & Celebrate with us!

You’re welcome to come for the whole day or drop into individual sessions. All are welcome!

📣Join us on April 25th, 2026 for this One-of-a-Kind Transformational Urban Retreat.
It’s an exploration of the practices and principles of Embodied Relating with 3 beautiful journeys!

✨The RITUAL✨ all-day workshop Includes:
1. Ta***ic Trance Dance Ritual
2. Conscious Connections & Ritual Breath Workshop
3. Shamanic BASS Temple - Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony

🎫More info & booking comment THE RITUAL & we’ll dm you more info! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ritual-kundalini-rising-tantric-trance-dance-conscious-connections-tickets-1985828936807?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Check out our video to get a taste of the experience: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddj19xC-b0

“We have come to be danced... not the nice invisible, self conscious shuffle... but the matted hair flying, voodoo mama shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance... the strip us from our casings, return our wings, sharpen our claws & tongues dance... the shed dead cells and slip into the luminous skin of love dance..”
- Jewel Mathieson

29/03/2026

🔥 Ecstatic Dance Festival UK presents:
✨ SPRING AWAKENING Ecstatic Dance Retreat

🌸 Ready to cross a threshold and reawaken your life force, body, heart & soul?

Join us for a powerful deep-dive retreat experience with the pioneers of ecstatic dance in the UK.

This is not just another retreat.
We’ve been holding this work for many years: with 15+ retreats, 6 festivals, and 100s of ecstatic dance events behind us.

Expect a heartfelt, expertly held experience: a space to move, breathe, laugh, release, rise and reconnect…
with your body, your life path, other dancers, and the natural world.

Over the retreat we’ll be sharing a rich mix of:
✨ Unique embodiment workshops
💃 Daily ecstatic dances
🌿 Nature connection
🍲 Community meals
🔥 Sauna
…and more

📅 Join us for the full 5-day retreat or weekend only
April 8–12 or April 10–12
📍 Gillingham, Dorset
🛏 Indoor accommodation

⚡ Super Earlybird tickets ending soon!

🎟 Tickets + full details:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-awakening-deep-dive-ecstatic-dance-embodiment-wellness-retreat-tickets-1976731914368?aff=oddtdtcreator

🫶 Many people come alone, make new friends, and leave feeling part of a real community.

📣 Join our WhatsApp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IuJVuQiUmENDJGD7bhYRZr?mode=ems_copy_t

✨ Follow us on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ecstaticdance_london?igsh=MXFmdm01NzRtd2xndg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

17/03/2026

🍃SPRING EQUINOX - SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE & CACAO CEREMONY

📣You are warmly invited to join us for this special SPRING EQUINOX event - Blindfolded Shamanic Trance Dance & Cacao Ceremony experience.
🗓️When? 11:45am-2:30pm, March 21st
📍Where? Tufnell Park
🎫For booking and more information:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983477681138?aff=oddtdtcreator

You are warmly invited to join us for this powerful embodiment workshop/active meditation!
🔥Blindfolded Shamanic Trance Dance & Cacao Ceremony

🌀Our journey begins in the dark.
The blindfold comes on. The outer world dissolves. With cacao warming the heart and ancient shamanic drums calling to us into the dance…

✨Shamanic Trance Dance is an ancient technology of consciousness, rhythm guiding you beneath the thinking mind into embodied knowing.
Hear the ancient pulse calling you into ritual..

🌀This is an invitation into a ritual practice/active meditation inward journey... a blindfolded, free-form movement experience.

In the dark, the mind quiets and the body becomes the guide. Breath, drums and different musics work together to shift you into a deeply aware state. In this space beyond self-consciousness, emotions can release, insight can arise, and a more instinctive, intuitive intelligence begins to move through you.

🌍Rooted in global shamanic traditions, this is a practice of embodied transformation, a dance to connect you to your own inner wisdom and the wisdom of the planet.

You're welcome to come for the whole day or drop into individual sessions. All are welcome!

🌞Part of our all-day transformational workshop TRYBE.
More details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trybe-trance-dance-rage-ritual-ecstatic-dance-cacao-tickets-1983448790726?aff=oddtdtcreator

🍃SCHEDULE🍃
◈ 11:45am-2:30pm Blindfolded Shamanic Trance Dance with Cacao Intention Setting Ritual: Trance Dance is an invitation to a dance journey into yourself. You go inwards with your eyes closed and with the help of a blindfold, to see with your heart and connect with the wisdom inside you.

FACILITATOR
Seth Newman - https://urubu.com/
''My purpose is to facilitate rituals that empower “the whole human being” through dance and music. Like Bioenergetics and other somatic processes, for me, Trance Dance was another door to inner discovery and transformation. I have always been passionate about contemporary forms of music and dance that reclaim our vital energy and our creative potential. I believe that “letting go into life” is synonymous, with our “surrender to the body”. Letting go to the natural flow that moves through us. Letting go, to let flow! It is through “the flow experience” that we express, feel and find ourselves, without being connected to “flow” nothing creative happens.'' - Seth Newman

16/03/2026

🔥RAGE RITUAL® - Join us to Unlock & Activate your Roar
A unique Anger/Assertiveness Workshop rooted in Bioenergetic Alchemy® emotional expressive exercises from the URUBU School of Transformational Arts: www.urubu.com

This workshop is about reclaiming life-force!
We see Anger, when expressed consciously, as a clean energy.
It sets boundaries. It restores dignity, and it protects.

What? the Rage Ritual® process
When? March 21st 3:30-5:45pm
Where? Tufnell Park
🎫For booking and more info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983959665767?aff=oddtdtcreator

🔥RAGE RITUAL® - Unlock & Activate Your ROAR
Rage Ritual® is not about chaos. It’s about reclaiming life-force! Anger, when expressed consciously, is an honest & life-affirming energy. It sets boundaries. It restores dignity. It protects what matters.
✨Through our unique guided process, breath and embodied activation, you’ll be invited to unlock your roar in a space that is structured and grounded.

More about Rage Ritual®?
This is a movement & embodiment workshop designed to help you to release your natural anger & aggression in a safe space, and in a safe way, without judgement and with a positive appreciation of your innate power and strength!

Often in our culture, we are taught from a very young age to hide our emotions and bottle up the anger, sadness, and pain that we feel inside.
Rage Ritual® will teach you how to get in touch with these feelings, and express your natural emotions in a healthy way, & in a safe enough space.

**Part of our SPRING EQUINOX All-Day Transformational Gathering - TRYBE® - Trance Dance, Rage Ritual®, Ecstatic Dance + Cacao: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983448790726?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/03/2026

🌀SPRING EQUINOX GATHERING
Step over the Threshold into our Spring Equinox portal. ✨🔥

TRYBE: Urban Retreat & Ecstatic Dance Gathering
On Spring Equinox 2026 we gather in the heart of London to step across a threshold together.

🔥EXPERIENCE A POWERFUL, SAFELY HELD SPRING EQUINOX JOURNEY
Featuring: Blindfolded SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE + RAGE RITUAL™ + PRANA MYSTIC

🌿When: March 21st, 11:45am–10pm
🚇Where: Tufnell Park (2 minutes from the station)
🎫Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983448790726?aff=oddtdtcreator

You are warmly invited into TRYBE: a transformational urban retreat woven from three powerful experiences:
1) Blindfolded SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE & Cacao Ceremony
2)The RAGE RITUAL™ process
🌍 PRANA MYSTIC: Global Bass | Ethno-Fusion | Folktronica | Shamanic Soundscapes Ecstatic Dance

1. SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE begins in the dark.
The blindfold comes on. The outer world dissolves. With cacao warming the heart and ancient shamanic drums calling to us… into the dance… we turn inward to dance our prayer.
Shamanic Trance Dance is an ancient technology of consciousness, rhythm guiding you beneath the thinking mind into embodied knowing.
Then we move into fire. 🔥

2. The RAGE RITUAL™ is not about chaos. It’s about reclaiming life-force. Anger, when expressed consciously, is clean energy.
It sets boundaries. It restores dignity. It protects what matters.
Through our uniquer guided process, breath and embodied activation, you’ll be invited to unlock your roar in a space that is structured, grounded and safe enough.
And as the sun sets, we gather again. 🌅

3. PRANA MYSTIC rises — global basslines, ethno-fusion textures and shamanic soundscapes carry us into ecstatic dance. Cacao flows. Intentions are seeded. Bodies sweat. The dancefloor becomes temple and playground at once. 🌀💫
No talking. No alcohol. Just presence, music, and raw human electricity.
Dance. Move. Connect. Release. Meditate. Celebrate.

TRYBE is a modern-day-sanctuary for Londoners who crave something deeper than the usual night out.
Each gathering is like a mini urban retreat, a space to drop armour, meet your edges, rediscover emobided-joy and stretch beyond your usual way of being.
Come for the full arc of the journey or drop into individual sessions. All are welcome. No experience necessary.

SCHEDULE
◈ 11:45am–2:30pm Blindfolded SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE with Cacao Intention Setting
◈ 3:30pm–5:45pm The RAGE RITUAL™ - Unlock & Activate your Roar 🔥
◈ 7pm–9:45pm Ecstatic Dance: PRANA MYSTIC with Cacao Ceremony 🌍✨
◈ 9:45pm–10:15pm Optional fruit social to nourish after the dance 🍊🍇
Bring a yoga mat & blanket for the daytime journeys. Blindfolds provided.
Complimentary raw vegan cacao in the evening.

UPCOMING RETREATS & FESTIVALS
💜 APRIL 8-12 ECSTATIC DANCE SPRING RETREAT 2026: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976731914368?aff=oddtdtcreator
💜 JULY 22-26 ECSTATIC DANCE FESTIVAL 2026®: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979930666923?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/02/2026

✨VALENTINES WEEKEND! Join us for a selection of ecstatic dance events!
📹Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUVpWzPDMAH/?igsh=OG91bGhuOG1oMDNi

💚 SIGN UP! to our mailing list for updates and discounts: https://ecstaticdancelondon.myflodesk.com/we-are-london

⭐️13 FEB - CACAO DANCE TRIBE - Afro-House & World Beats
More info & Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/498619222517?aff=oddtdtcreator

⭐️14 FEB - VALENTINES DANCE -MY ECSTATIC ODYSSEY: Deep & Euphoric House
More info & Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980637149030?aff=oddtdtcreator

⭐️15 FEB - CONNECTIVAL: Connection, Embodiment, Ecstatic Dance & Community
More info & Booking:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981004496777?aff=oddtdtcreator

🌟 Ecstatic Dance London – February 2026 Sessions! 🌟�Ready to move, release, and reconnect? 💃✨🧘�
SPRING AWAKENING
💜APRIL 2026 - ECSTATIC DANCE SPRING RETREAT- Conscious Dance, Music and Healthy Living Gathering: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976731914368?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/02/2026

🌀 THE BIG LOVE EXPERIENCE Bioenergetics • Breathwork • Ecstatic Dance
📅 Saturday 21 February 2026
⏰ 11:45am – 10:00pm

💚 SIGN UP! to our mailing list for updates and discounts: https://ecstaticdancelondon.myflodesk.com/we-are-london

Dear friends,
We’d LOVE to invite you to this month’s all-day Ecstatic Dance Gathering
💫Each month we offer Londoners a chance to go deeper into our transformational work.
🌺 This month’s journey:
THE BIG LOVE EXPERIENCE - Bliss beyond fear - a heart-expanding, soul-liberating day of Somatic Release, Breathwork Journey, and a beautiful Desert Grooves infused Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony!

This is not your ordinary Ecstatic Dance gathering.
It’s grounded in the Humanistic Embodiment practices that I’ve been teaching for over a decade, and enriched with the transformative power of Conscious Connected Breathwork.
Together, we explore an embodied natural state of aliveness the Kalahari Bushmen call ✨ “The Big Love.” ✨

🌀 THE JOURNEY
✨ 11:45am – 2:30pm
🤸‍♂️ Bioenergetic Alchemy™
Stress & tension release through embodied movement (Humanistic Embodiment created in the 1960s)

✨ 3:45pm – 5:45pm
🔥 Bioenergetic Breathwork
A guided conscious connected breathwork ritual

✨ 7:00pm – 10:00pm
🎵 Desert Grooves Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony Middle Eastern & Indian-infused rhythms
Deep dance • ceremony • community

🎟 Booking & info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980481460361?aff=oddtdtcreator

🎥 Curious about Bioenergetic Alchemy™?Bioenergetics for the 21st Century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrELWRAqkU

26/12/2025

🌀 Ignite your creativity in 2026
Join our ONLINE Mental Health + Creative Wellbeing Coaching series: The Artist’s Way ✨

☔️ The January Blues (we know them well)
If you’re feeling low, uninspired, stuck, or even depressed, or you feel that something needs to shift, come join a warm online community and get creatively reconnected through January & beyond.
We’re not looking to push through blocks, but in a kindhearted way, come home to our creative nature.

🗓 12-week online series
💡IMAGINE: creativity processes, inner enquiry, guided meditations, grounding practices, weekly check-ins & accountability
❤️‍🩹A supportive, authentic space-deep, encouraging, and human. Simple practices to ground our creative flow state.

🔥 Start the year how you’d like to continue.
Because the way we begin January quietly teaches our nervous system what’s possible.

What you’ll walk away with:
• a simple weekly structure that builds momentum (even on low-energy weeks)
• tools for moving through blocks, perfectionism, procrastination & inner criticism
• more creative confidence-and a felt sense of aliveness
• a community you can lean on (instead of doing it all solo)

✅ READY TO BEGIN?
Join the January intake now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-artists-way-12-week-course-to-awaken-your-inner-artist-tickets-1977208351404?aff=oddtdtcreator

Or, if you want to feel it out first: Book a quick chat / DM me “ARTIST” and I’ll send details + help you decide if it’s a fit.

🎟 Spaces are limited to keep the group intimate: reserve your spot early.

15/12/2025

🌀MEDICINA – Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony
🌟A Winter Solstice Ecstatic Wonderland!
🗓️December 20th 7:00pm–10pm
Musical Vibes: Global Bass | Folktronica | Medicine Music | Shamanic Soundscapes�

💫An uplifting Solstice dance-as-meditation, starting with a ceremonial-grade cacao ritual and intention setting with Seth.�A full power joyful ecstatic dance journey into release, expression and inner luminosity.�Followed by an optional fruit social.��

✨Why Join Us for Winter Solstice?
🧘A sanctuary in the city for movement, reflection & creativity
✨A rare chance to reset before stepping into the holiday mayhem & 2026
❤️A warm, conscious community of like-minded creatives.
💡Tools you can bring into daily life
🌀A full spectrum day - from creative visioning to breathwork to ecstatic dance and expression!
No experience needed. All backgrounds, all bodies, all levels welcome

SCHEDULE
11:45am–2:30pm ENVISION Workshop
(60 min break)
3:45pm–5:45pm THE GATHERING
(75 min break)
7:00pm–9:45pm MEDICINA – Cacao Ceremony & Ecstatic Dance
9:45pm–10:15pm Fruit Social

🎫For booking and more info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1974879916994?aff=oddtdtcreator

📣Join our WhatsApp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IuJVuQiUmENDJGD7bhYRZr?mode=ems_copy_t

✨Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecstaticdance_london?igsh=MXFmdm01NzRtd2xndg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

💙UP FOR NYE SOBER RAVE & CONSCIOUS CLUBBING?
Join us for our New Year's Eve Conscious Clubbing Event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968273191099?aff=oddtdtcreator

15/12/2025

🌀THE GATHERING – A Solstice Conscious Connections & Breathwork Ritual
🗓️December 20th 3:30–5:45pm
🧘An afternoon of embodied presence, relational practices and breathwork.
🧘Guided meditations, somatic grounding, heart-centred connection and a simple yet profound breath ritual utilizing conscious connected breath + gentle eye-gazing.
🌟A beautiful way to reconnect with yourself and with others during the Solstice.

✨Why Join Us for Winter Solstice?
🧘A sanctuary in the city for movement, reflection & creativity
✨A rare chance to reset before stepping into the holiday mayhem & 2026
❤️A warm, conscious community of like-minded creatives.
💡Tools you can bring into daily life
🌀A full spectrum day - from creative visioning to breathwork to ecstatic dance and expression!
No experience needed. All backgrounds, all bodies, all levels welcome

SCHEDULE
11:45am–2:30pm ENVISION Workshop
(60 min break)
3:45pm–5:45pm THE GATHERING
(75 min break)
7:00pm–9:45pm MEDICINA – Cacao Ceremony & Ecstatic Dance
9:45pm–10:15pm Fruit Social

🎫For booking and more info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1974879916994?aff=oddtdtcreator

📣Join our WhatsApp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IuJVuQiUmENDJGD7bhYRZr?mode=ems_copy_t

✨Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecstaticdance_london?igsh=MXFmdm01NzRtd2xndg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

💙UP FOR NYE SOBER RAVE & CONSCIOUS CLUBBING?
Join us for our New Year's Eve Conscious Clubbing Event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968273191099?aff=oddtdtcreator

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