New Year's Eve Sober Celebration

New Year's Eve Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony

Celebrate the start of a New Year with your dancing friends and a night of free-flowing movement and gathering in community.

SunFire Dance & Ecstatic Dance Bournemouth are collaborating this year to bring you an exciting sober dance party to welcome in 2026.

☀️ We dance from 19:45-01:00 at the beautiful AK Dance Studio in Poole

🧡 Opening and closing sharing circle

🧡 Cacao Ceremony

🧡 Ecstatic Dance with DJ Motion, DJ Fribbo and DJ Jude'z

🎵 Let the ecclectic mix of music guide you as you express yourself through dance and let go of any inhibitions

🧡 Vegan cafe by Shanti Pantry & Kitchen

🍹Fresh Juice & treats stall

🧡 Chill out zone

🧡 Free parking on site

What to bring:

- Water bottle

- Comfortable clothes that you can move in - some like floaty garments, other's like wearing yoga style clothing.

- Layers /Warm coat.

- Mat or towel to it on.

- Musical instruments (optional)

-Bring Sober/alcohol free drinks to share if you want to.

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REFRESHMENTS

This year we are supporting our local tribe with their enterprises and we will be offering a Vegan Café and Juice Bar, run independently.

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AGREEMENTS:

This a sober event. Arrive sober and remain so throughout the event.

We dance barefoot.

We refrain from conversations on the dance floor.

Be respectful of yourself and others.

Move spontaneously to an ecclectic mix of music.

Event details:

⏰️Time: 19:45 - 01:00

📍Venue: AK Dance Studio, 16 Alder Hills, Poole, BH12 4AR

📅 Dates: 31 December 2025

🎟Tickets:

£20 SUPER EARLY BIRD

£25 Early Bird

£35 Standard (+Eventbrite fee)

£25 Concessions (+Eventbrite fee)

£40 Late release (+Eventbrite fee)

Bring a friend and get their ticket half price

Children are free to attend

Teenagers pay by donation

Your ticket purchase contributes to the hire of the venue, expenses, insurance, equipment and running costs; and is very much appreciated, so that we can continue to offer our events in so many beautiful locations in Dorset.

If you would like to attend, but are in financial need act us directly ([email protected]). No one is turned away. And we can always use your help in exchange for a ticket.

CREWING

If you would like to join our SunShine Crew at this event and assist setting up and clearing afterwards, in exchange for a ticket, please contact Jude'z at [email protected]. You assistance is very much appreciated.

🚗PARKING: There is ample free parking on site.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY

We will be taking photographs and videos at this event. Please do not scroll on the dancefloor and keep this a device free zone so that we can all enjoy the evening without distractions.

www.sunfiredance.com

ABOUT DJ JUDE'Z SUNFIRE (Judy Lancaster) Jude'z has a background in drama, dance, voice, and breathwork modalities. Conscious dance has been a vital part of her life. Her vision is to create safe spaces where individuals can express themselves freely, without restrictions, and can utilise conscious movement to release, receive, embrace and heal, as well as revel in the joy of the dance. She is a conscious dance facilitator and Ecstatic Dance DJ who holds SunRise and Full Moon dances on the beach, dances in the Woods, Celtic Calendar Conscious Dance, Movement Meditation, monthly Ecstatic Dances, and has held a series of mid-week Ecstatic Dances in Boscombe.

www.sunfiredance.com / [email protected]

Instagram: @sunfiredance.community

Facebook: SunFire Dance

DJ Motion (Nick Windsor) Transformative sound journeys, weaving global rhythms with embodied movement to awaken freedom, play, and connection.

Movement, energy, and flow have always been at the heart of Nick's life — from snowboarding and windsurfing to running and dance. As DJ Motion, he brings that same embodied connection into each sound journey, weaving rhythms that invite freedom, play, and presence. His sets draw on global sounds and ancestral beats, blending familiar grooves with unexpected treasures that awaken new movement in the body. Each journey is crafted to guide the room through waves of energy, from grounded stillness into ecstatic release, always returning to connection and integration.

DJ FRIBBO - DJFribbo(Ian) weaves medicinal musical journeys playing an eclectic mix of World/Tribal/Medicine and Underground Dance rhythms and beats.

Ian is @elevate.Salisbury’s Ecstatic Dance resident DJ,

You can follow Fribbo and @elevatesalisbury on instagram, and Wiltshire Ecstatic Dance and Elevate Conscious Gathering on FB

https://www.instagram.com/frib3o?igsh=ODQwdWJlNDJzdWts&utm_source=qr

ABOUT SUNFIRE DANCE

SunFire Dance offer Ecstatic and Conscious Dance events in Dorset. Jude[z] was inspired to start her Ho'oponopono Movement Meditation, Beach, and Celtic Calendar Conscious Dances, and this has grown to include Ecstatic Dance in Wimborne. at Gaunts House There is something magical about coming together in community, whether it be dancing on the beach under the illuminous full moon or in the crisp morning air watching the sunrise, gathering around a fire in community and sharing a conscious dance. It is always a special event.

Please see our website for more details: www.sunfiredance.com.

Sun - born in the place of the Sun. Invite a ray of sunshine and light into your life. No matter how dark, cold, frozen or bleak life may seem. Move and ignite your passions.

Fire - it only takes a spark to get the creative fire burning. Fire can also burn away the old, that which no longer serves us. Out of the embers, new shoots and regrowth can form to transmute it into new life, new hope, a new dawn for you. Fire for warmth, for life, for nourishment

Dance - dance to move energy, dance to energise, dance when filled with sorrow, dance when filled with joy, dance to connect with others, dance to connect with self, dance your journey, dance of life.

Looking forward to seeing you on the dance floor.

Dance the change you choose to be - within yourself, your commmunity and our world!

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AK Dance, 16 Alder Hills, Poole, United Kingdom

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