About This Event
The Flying Sage and Crossing Worlds are excited to be collaborating to bring you Lumio. This is your invitation to a monthly ecstatic dance experience where freedom, presence and embodiment take center stage. This is a dance designed to facilitate your full expression.
At each of these events, we will dedicate time at the start for a facilitated experience followed by a semi-guided ecstatic dance. This month, Gabriel from Flow in Breath will be offering a gentle and grounding breathwork experience before we transition to dance facilitated by the incredible DJ duo Perspectiv.
In the heart of this experience lies a simple but profound ethos: Freedom. Leave judgments at the door as you step into a world of dance and full expression. To achieve this, we have a few simple rules that we ask everyone to follow on the dance floor. These rules are inspired by Ecstatic Dance LA but are modified slightly in that we welcome safe, conscious and intentional use of medicine.
BE FREE. DANCE HOW YOU WANT. NO JUDGEMENT.
BE PRESENT. NO PHONES. NO CAMERAS.
BE CLEAR. NO ALCOHOL. MINDFUL MEDICINE CONSUMPTION.
BE EMBODIED. NO TALKING.
BE CONSENSUAL. IF IT’S NOT A CLEAR YES, IT’S A NO.
By sharing in this agreement together, our dance floor can become a canvas for embodiment, allowing us all to dive deep into the music, rhythm and our own inner space.
Schedule:
Please aim to arrive early if you would like to participate in the breathwork. If you intend to come later, please arrive after 8:30pm.
6:00 ~ Doors Open
7:00 - 7:30 ~ Welcoming Circle & Intros.
7:30 - 8:30 ~ Guided Breathwork (FlowInBreath)
8:30 - 10:30pm ~ Semi Guided Ecstatic Dance (Michael Oliver & Perspectiv DJ Duo)
10:30-12:00am ~ More Dance
12:00am-12:30am ~ Sound Bath
12:30 - 1:00am~ Farewells & Closing Circle
Lumio is a collective vision that we are co-creating together. It's where the wisdom of psychedelics and expanded states merges with the power of dance and community. Join us on October 20th at Conscious Lab, but be sure to secure your spot early as our capacity is limited. Come, let's dance, let's transcend and let's dance together.
About Your Facilitators:
Gabriel Largaespada (Breathwork)
Gabriel is a movement coach at Restore Human in Vancouver, was born and raised in Nicaragua and has always had an affinity for the realm of the physical, the psychological and the spiritual.
Gabo’s connection to the spiritual realm was initiated through psychedelic medicines, meditation and breath work practices. He’s guided group meditations, facilitated healing events and now aims to continue furthering his passion for helping people through a modality that he finds incredibly powerful, psychedelic medicines.
Gabriel is a Community Leader with The Flying Sage and has facilitated many integration circles as one of the organization's core team members.
KAAN AKKAYA
Kaan was born in Turkey and lived in the UAE for 10 years before moving to Vancouver. His spiritual journey began in his late teens when he started practicing yoga, meditation and participating in plant medicine ceremonies. Kaan explores altered states of consciousness in a mindful manner and advocates for respect and reverance for the medicines. He has always loved movement; having trained in gymnastics since the age of 5, to playing competitive sports and practicing calisthenics, he puts a large emphasis on movement as it relates to breath and trauma stored in the body. Kaan has his 200 hour YTT and completed the Trauma Informed Somatic Breathwork Course by Tim Morrison. In his approach, he has been inspired by John Sutherland's Adaptive Bodywork and his teachings on active pain relief and human structural integration. Kaan's main aim is to explore the connection between mindful movement, the breath and trauma in conscious settings.
Michael (Semi-Guided Ecstatic Dance)
Michael Oliver is a community builder and psychedelic facilitator based in Vancouver BC. Michael founded The Flying Sage, a psychedelic community on a mission to democratize transcendence. Additionally, Michael serves as a guide through his own practice Legacy Journeys where he offers transformative psychedelic experiences towards embodiment and lasting change. One of Michael’s biggest passions is dance and he has always loved to express this way. Ecstatic Dance holds a special place in his heart and something that was igniting for him both at Envision Festival and Embodiment Ecstatic Dance in Guatemala.
Perspectiv (Music)
Childhood friends Shamil & Jason from Moçambique, became the DJ & producer duo Perspectiv when they both moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2016. They run their own events brand called ‘Crossing Worlds’ and have become a staple for afro-house & organic music in the Vancouver nightscene. The duo weaves their multicultural backgrounds into a story that takes audiences traveling through through sonic landscapes that span from Latin America to their mother continent of Africa. Perspectiv reveals a wild passion for transcending the boundaries of different genres and always aim to connect people to their roots, a portal that often only music can unlock. With releases on Inward Records, Lump Records, and 3000 grad they enjoy producing world and groovy soundscapes. The duo have an upcoming EP on Cafe Anatolia and one more surprise release for this year.
Register
This event is open to the public and early bird tickets are $45. This is a 19+ event. General Admission tickets will be $55. We suspect this event will sell out so please make sure to reserve your ticket soon! We can’t wait to breathe and dance with you!
