AGREEMENTS

 In order to honor the sacredness of our service we ask you to follow these agreements: 

Respect

Respect and care for yourself and honor the boundaries of others.

Honor

Honor the integrity of the ceremonial space by refraining from conversation.

Consent

Obtain consent before making physical contact with other dancers.

Natural

Attend ceremonies in a natural state, and refrain from using alcohol and drugs.

Sacred

Leave technological devices outside the sacred space.

Connect

Connect directly with the earth by being barefoot during ceremonies.

Core Team & MINISTERS OF MUSIC

Lamara Heartwell is the Co-Founder of Dance Tribe and Executive Director of Inspiratia. She’s also a Body Intelligence expert and creator of Wise Women Unite, a movement for women to claim their bodies as an essential source of intelligence, power, and pleasure. Movement and body awareness have always been at the center of Lamara’s life. From the monkey bars to the uneven bars, dance floor to forest floor, yoga to contact improv., she moves to love and loves to move.  

info@sbdancetribe.org

Ishmiel Lounsbury co-founded Dance Tribe and has been in the ecstatic dance scene for over 20 years. “Music and dance take us right to the present moment,” he says. “Through ecstatic dance we can let go of our worries and express a true and authentic part of ourselves.” He creates sets that invite dancers to move from a deep internal place to a celebratory ecstatic high and finally to a quiet, grounded stillness. He fuses music from around the world. info@sbdancetribe.org.

Marcelino Sepulveda is Dance Tribe's manager. He oversees staff and helps to coordinate the organizational aspects of running the weekly dance, including scheduling DJs and DJing himself. He plays ‘international liberation dance music’ drawn from a wide range of genres, incorporating various styles to transport dancers to many beautiful places in one vast, interconnected journey. “Funky, shamanic, devotional, deep, upbeat, with absolutely sublime chaos in the mix, these epic excursions take you back to your essential awakened self,” he says.

marcelino@sbdancetribe.org.

Natalie Diane is a lifelong dancer and lover of movement and music. She discovered Dance Tribe in 2010 and fell in love with the freedom of expression and community connection she found there. Now she serves as the Communications Director for Inspiratia, the non-profit organization that hosts Dance Tribe. She can be reached at admin@sbdancetribe.org.

Aaron Musicant completed the Ecstatic Dance Leadership Training in Oakland, California and now DJs regularly for Dance Tribe. He also facilitates a monthly First Friday Ecstatic Dance at Yoga Soup. Dance Tribe was his first foray into the world of ecstatic dance in 2010, and now he's thrilled to play for the community that nurtured him into becoming a local ecstatic dance facilitator.

Bobby Sol was born and raised in Santa Barbara and has DJed in town for 25 years. He has studied musicianship, music production, dance, choir, and the violin, guitar, and keyboard. He’s been playing for Tribe since 2011, and currently runs his own mobile DJ service. He says that ecstatic dance has opened him up to a world of music that crosses all genres, emotions, and experiences.

Kiaora Fox is the only 5Rhythms© Waves teacher in the Central Coast, she also teaches Yoga and Pilates. For much of her life Kiaora has studied in the healing arts and finds the best way to integrate any of life's experiences is through exploring the awareness of self in authentic movement.  She brings a robust lifetime of wisdom in embodiment practices to her role as Minister of Music. 

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