Sundari Women's Only Ecstatic Dance, Cacao & Sound Ceremony

Sundari sisters Katie and Elissia are delighted to welcome you to a very special cacao ecstatic dance night, solely for women.

Ecstatic dance is a free-movement practice that encourages you to tap into the innate power of your body in order to connect deeply with yourself, and if you feel called others. For 2.5 hours on Saturday 22 November, we'll go on a journey of exploration together, starting with an opening cacao ceremony to set intentions and drop into the heart, followed by a live DJ set with guided warm up somatic practices to get you out of your head and into your body, closing with a relaxing sound bath and sharing circle in order to land back down to earth after the cacao and music-fuelled euphoria! All we ask of you is to bring your whole raw self and remember that every part of you is welcome in this inclusive and sacred space. This is a chance for you to move through anything you want to shift, express yourself without words, embracing the whole range of emotions that music can stir within you, and of course, make new beautiful connections with other women as we celebrate love - both for yourself and your sisters, new and old.

Ecstatic Dance Guidelines For This Event:

1. Phone-free space to honour everyone's personal journey

2. Talking-free space to enable presence and expression through the body

3. Shoe-free space to ground yourself, connecting with the earth

4. Drugs and alcohol-free space to embrace mindfulness

5. Nudity-free space to ensure inclusivity

Each Ticket Will Include The Following:

•⁠ ⁠Opening cacao ceremony

•⁠ Guided warmup practices

•⁠ Ecstatic dance journey

•⁠ ⁠A relaxing sound bath

•⁠ ⁠Sharing circle to close

Please Bring:

•⁠ ⁠⁠Comfortable clothes to move in

•⁠ ⁠⁠Some warmer layers for the sound bath

•⁠ ⁠⁠A water bottle

•⁠ ⁠⁠An open heart and mind

Dinner After the Dance

There'll be an option to hang out with your new women's community at the beautiful OMNOM restaurant downstairs after the dance finishes, where a vegan Indian feast will await us at 8.30pm! If you want to enjoy this part of the night, please book the ticket that includes dinner, and a vegan set menu will be arranged for you.

About Sundari

Calling all beautiful women looking for softness, sharing and soul connection. We are Sundari, a collective of women on the search for a safe space to open their hearts, share their rawness, shine their inner beauty and create long-lasting meaningful friendships with fellow sisters. Sundari means 'beautiful woman' in Sanskrit and that's exactly how we hope you'll feel at the end of each of our community events, connected to your divine feminine and to a sisterhood of other beautiful women, whether new friends or old.

About Elissia

Elissia's yoga journey began in her early teens, but it was in 2020, during her first 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, that her life truly transformed. She furthered her studies with Yin Yoga under Norman Blair and completed a 300-hour Kundalini training in Rishikesh. However, her profound healing work truly flourished through ecstatic dance, altered-state breathwork, and the use of plant medicines. This exploration led her to complete cacao facilitator training in 2023, deepening her connection to Ixcacao, which she now shares with many. After taking a year away from the hustle and bustle of London, Elissia immersed herself in the spiritual richness of India and later at a retreat center in the Midlands. There, she deepened her teaching practices while exploring Tantra, womb healing, and a community-driven lifestyle. Now back in London, Elissia is on a mission! To create nurturing spaces for women. She hosts regular sister circles, where women can be seen through the lens of love and support from one another. These gatherings empower participants to surrender, release, and connect with their divine feminine essence. Elissia's vision is to cultivate and expand these beautiful sisterhood communities around the globe, fostering connection, healing and empowerment among women everywhere.

About Katie

After years of personal practice, Katie journeyed to Bali in 2022 to complete her 200 hour vinyasa-ashtanga yoga teacher training. There she experienced other life changing practices such as active meditation, pranayama, sound healing, chanting and ecstatic dance. Back home, Katie found her purpose in making heart-led, mindful mediums that transformed her own life accessible to more people, and began running corporate retreats that combine personal & brand growth for business founders in September 2023. Her years of working in the corporate world of advertising communications enable her to do so in a grounded, approachable style that feels relevant in daily life. Outside her business retreat work, Katie takes immense joy in holding monthly women’s circles and sister sleepovers for Sundari with Elissia, connecting to a beautiful community that continues to grow. While her personal practice is predominantly ashtanga, she loves teaching vinyasa, candlelit yin yoga & always incorporates mantra and sound into her classes; Katie is a classically trained singer-songwriter, and more recently trained in sound healing with Silence & Noise and Reiki with Pete Masella.