About this Event
🗓️Date: Friday 31 October
🕕 Time: 19:00–23:00 (arrival from 18:30)
📍 Location: Skipton Community Sports Hub
🎟️ Tickets: Early Bird £16 · Standard £18 · Bring a Friend (x2) £32
🔞 Age Limit: 18+
✨ A substance-free sanctuary: A safe space to express, explore, and simply be ✨
Step into a night of creative freedom and embodied joy.
This is your invitation to let go of what weighs you down, reconnect with the wisdom of your body, and rediscover the freedom of moving and creating without judgment.
Your body already knows how to move – it remembers freedom, flow, and expression. When you move consciously, tension melts away, your nervous system restores balance, and you return to a deeper alignment of body, mind, and spirit.
Start the night with a cup of ceremonial cacao from our bar (available at an extra cost) –a heart-opening drink rich in magnesium and antioxidants, known to lift mood, increase energy, and deepen your connection to yourself and the music.
We’ll begin with gentle breathwork and yoga-inspired movement to ground and awaken the body, before flowing into a freeform ecstatic dance journey – no choreography, no expectation, just pure authentic expression.
If you need a pause from dancing, drift into our expressive painting corner which will open at 21:30. With brushes, colours, and paper waiting for you, this is your chance to let your inner world spill onto canvas, giving shape and colour to what words cannot capture.
There will also be a dedicated space to connect off the dancefloor, and an outdoor space to ground on the earth whenever you need fresh air, quiet, or stillness.
We’ll close the night with a soothing integration – helping you land softly, grounded and renewed.
🌀 What to Expect
- Breathwork and gentle yoga to awaken the body
- Ecstatic dance journey – no talking, no alcohol, no judgment
- Expressive painting corner – a creative space to explore what’s moving through you on canvas
- A dedicated space to connect off the dancefloor
- Outdoor space to ground barefoot on the earth
- A calm, grounding integration to settle your system
- A conscious, heart-led community
- Optional Extras: A sober café with sweet treats and ceremonial cacao to open the heart and warm the spirit
🔬 The Science of Movement & Art
Ecstatic dance isn’t just fun – it’s profoundly healing.
- Free, unstructured movement activates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering stress hormones and restoring calm.
- Moving without choreography can bring the brain into a flow state, increasing dopamine and serotonin—neurochemicals linked to joy, connection, and creativity.
- Somatic psychology shows that when the body guides the movement (instead of the mind), we naturally release tension, rebalance, and strengthen emotional resilience.
And when words aren’t enough – art speaks.
- Free painting activates the right brain, unlocking intuition, imagination, and emotional processing.
- Creative expression bypasses the rational mind, allowing unconscious feelings to surface safely.
- Free art-making has been shown to reduce cortisol, easing stress and supporting wellbeing.
✨ Together, ecstatic dance and expressive painting form a powerful cycle: the body releases, the heart expresses, and the mind integrates – opening you to healing, growth, and freedom ✨
🌿 What to Bring
🧘♀️ A yoga mat (we have a limited number to borrow) for opening and closing practices
🧣 A blanket or jumper for comfort during rest and integration
👀 Feeling self-conscious? That’s completely normal – especially if this is your first sober dance!
👣 No dance or art experience needed – just bring your body, your breath, and an open heart.
✨ Leave lighter. Move freer. Express deeper. Return to yourself✨
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Skipton Community Sports Hub, Carleton New Road, Skipton, United Kingdom
GBP 13.70 to GBP 27.80
