A finely curated ecstatic dance journey to support the rising up of the deep feminine as an embodied reality for our times; a nourishing, multi-nuanced soundscape honoring the 100,000 faces of the goddess for all beings.

ECSTATIC DANCE:  RISE UP! DEEP FEMININE ECOLOGY curated by DJ KALI

We start with a short warm up; then a shake to soften, surrender & empty out; after which we turn East to honour the element of Air (Potential & Possibility); then South to embody the element of Fire (Passionately on Purpose); continuing to the West to bathe in the element of Water (the Ocean in the Drop); moving up to the North to ground in the element of Earth (Gratitude for Support); and integrating all in the Centre of the HeartSpace as Ether (which cannot be sensed, only directly known through embodiment).

SHAMANIC MEDICINE WHEEL JOURNEY for WILDLINGS, Curated by DJ KALI

A playlist to accompany you on a deep forest immersion ~ the lungs of the earth ~ walking with gentle mindfulness and gratitude for all the life and protection our great breatxkeepers gift us, and all our relations.   The phyto-chemicals released by the trees gives humans a sense of wellbeing and ease, and we in turn give the trees their carbon dioxide.  It is a mutually beneficial, symbiotic, sacred relationship since time immemorial.  Put on your headphones, purge, announce your name & intention, ask the forest permission to enter, leave an offering, open your hearts and hands to receive, and penetrate her green depths.  Enjoy!

SHINRIN~YOKU FOREST BATHING Curated by DJ Kali Satyagraha

A Conscious Dance Journey to Balance the Polarities into Harmony & Unity

DANCING THE SHADOW & THE LIGHT IN UNCERTAIN TIMES - Curated by DJ Kali

After a delicious warm-up, we shake a little to defrag, and then move around the hoop of life the African Wisdom Tradition way - east / air / inspiration; north / earth / gratitude; west / water / emotions; south / fire / action and centre / ether / spirit.

ECSTATIC SHAMANIC DANCE FOR LIGHTWORKERS IN CHALLENGING TIMES

The whole of life is in movement.  When we move our bodies, we start to synchronise in with the universal movement of life.  Eventually, instead of us moving our bodies, we find we are being moved, rocked and propelled by life, and not by our minds.  Everything becomes effortless, and we flow with the tide of our desire to discover our bliss.

Ecstatic Dance Journey ~ BEING AT ONE WITH THE ONE ~

High vibrational sound journey for our cellular structures to catalyse into states of higher consciousness.  Let's dance beyond our known and unknown limitations, for we are truly multi-dimensional beings capable of co-creating anything with existence.

So, my question is, what world do we want to birth right now?

Ecstatic Dance Journey ~ EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS ~

A dance journey curated by DJ Kali ~ the Dancing Dakini ~ to support you to dance your polarities, surrender your stress, integrate and balance, and elevate your oxytocin levels to ecstatic, grounded highs x

ECSTATIC DESCENDENT & TRANSCENDENT BLISSDANCE JOURNEY

A fabulously eclectic curation of downtempo, mostly old school dance tracks remixed with a contemporary twist to add freshness & fun to your conscious clubbing! Created to celebrate my birthday this year.

Although the playlist says it's over 5 hours in duration, it is actually just under 3 hours, with a 2 hour silence at the end :-)

Here is what a client said about it:  'I want to say a BIG THANK YOU for your incredible playlists on SoundCloud!  My kids and I have been boogying just on your birthday playlist for 3 days.  What a selection!

Enjoy beloveds!

Kali's BIRTHDAY BOOGALOO

In today's over-packaged, homogenised, polarised and terrorised world oriented around fear and lack, we've forgotten how to come back home to love, to self, to community, to wholeness, to our connection with the earth, and to all our relations.

Indigenous, pagan and nature-based cultures have always known how important it is to dance our shadow and our light, our fear and our love, our lower and higher selves - all within a safely held, sacred container, with protocols and agreements as communicated by the wise elders.

This powerful dance journey is curated to take you into aspects of self we don't normally access in our day-to-day, busy, 'civilised' lives.  It invites the dancer to step into the unknown:  to unravel, unwind, unfurl and peel back the layers obscuring the truth and beauty of who we really are: wild, untamed, feral, free and fabulous!

Ecstatic Shamanic Dance Journey: PAN'S FERAL RITES OF PASSAGE

Old school remixes and fun contemporary dance tracks to get you moving to the beat of your life!

Here is a client testimony for this playlist:
'I had pack up my home this weekend, and I had so much resistance in my being; having to let go of a place I love so much.  I put this playlist on repeat, and it just shifted into an amazing space - the frequency is incredible.  I could feel the celebration and love and joy you put into it DeeJay.  I danced through the packing, and everything turned out OK.  Magic, pure magic.  Thank you.'

ALL THE PEOPLE DANCE!

A rocking, funkadelic party playlist to promote feel-good joy, togetherness and fun times for the festive season.  Who needs drugs when we can attain a natural high through great music, stimulating our innate supply of serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine?

This journey is not as long as 3 hours as there's a long silence at the end - I think it's just over 2 hours of happiness.

MUSIC IS MY MDMA

'This curated deep dance meditation is based upon mythological Persephone’s journey: from carefree girl under the loving care of her mother, Demeter, to abducted maiden dragged down into the underworld against her will to be the bride of Hades, the king of death.  One minute her life is carefree and protected, the next everything's turned upside down, she tastes violence and danger for the first time, and is dropped into hell.  In the world above, Demeter plunges the world into a similar darkness, and turns everything into winter (as above, so below).

Persephone remains in the underworld until Demeter negotiates a compromise with Zeus, who allows Persephone to return to the overworld.   But because she ate of the seeds of the pomegranate fruit, she is bound to the underworld forever, and so must return every 6 months of every year. Upon her re-emergence, Spring and Summer return to earth, and life is renewed in abundant celebration.

Interestingly, it’s said Persephone learned to appreciate the underworld, as well as to love Hades, her captor-husband, which is such an archetypical journey – a key right of passage we must all undertake.  There's the time of our youthful innocence, and then an initiation into adulthood, where our childhood dies.  And there are so many symbolic births and deaths within one incarnation – in fact, every in breath is a rebirth, and every out breath a death.  

When we face and master our fear of the unknown, when we gently loosen our hold on our ego identity, when we can find the courage to face darkness, chaos and change, and we can mature into sovereign beings.  And taking our evolution even further, we can find pleasure in pain, and gain in loss...'

Because the theme is such a seminal one, this journey is quite a challenging one, and I urge you to stay the course and not drop out if discomfort or fear arises – this is normal and it’s about exploring them, knowing that you are held in a safe container of presence.  Also, by staying, you get to complete the entire cycle of life, death and rebirth, and to integrate and balance everything that’s come up for you.

PERSEPHONE'S JOURNEY: FROM LIFE TO DEATH TO REBIRTH

A fantastical party mixed tape to get everyone on the dance floor, from the youngest to the oldest.

Lay Down the Boogie

Curated for Retreat Yourself 2019, this journey starts as a lying down meditation, followed by a very slow arising and stretching into the body.  From there we travel around the medicine wheel beginning Direction East with Air, then moving North (as I live in the Southern Hemisphere) to Earth, West to Water, South to Fire, & ending on Ether & a Closing Circle.  In deep gratitude to the sacred musicians who channel Source.

Shamanic Medicine TranceDance Journey #1 @ DJ Kali for RETREAT YOURSELF, 2019

An expanded consciousness, Shamanic Trance Dance journey, inviting you into a deep alechemical connection with all that you are as spirit embodied in flesh.  The best natural high there is.

Shamanic Medicine TranceDance Journey #2 @ DJKali for AFRIKABURN 2019

This exquisite Shamanic Medicine TranceDance journey has been created for more experienced dancers and movement meditators.  Whilst the design is the same as all my Shamanic Medicine Trancedance channellings - ie moving around the medicine wheel from east (air) to north (earth) to west (water) to south (fire), and alchemising all 4 elements into ether;  the music invites a deeper focus AND a deeper letting go at the same time.  The journey supports moving in completely strange and foreign ways at tiimes, exploring the unknown, and shaking up the hard neural pathways of the brain that no longer serve us. There are parts that open to our deep earthiness, sensuality and bliss, including sexual taboos and fear, and parts that support playfulness and child-like spontaneity.  To dance the journey from beginning to end - through the easy parts to the more challenging (for each person these parts will be different), takes experience:  it requires an authentic presence to be fully embodied and the space for everything at all times.  This is embodied spiritual practice.  I gift it, and dedicate it, to all the dancers who have been exploring the space of movement meditation with me for many years.  I am because of you.

Shamanic Medicine TranceDance #3 @ DJKali for Deeper Meditation

A powerful, shorter dance around the medicine wheel, honouring the directions and gaining wisdom and balance from embodying the elementals, we start briefly with ether, then we progress to some earth trance shaking for release & invigoration before starting with fire in the south, and moving in the direction of the sun in the southern hemisphere journeying east to air; north to earth; west to water; and lastly within and all around back to ether - the mystical plasma that integrates all elements yet cannot be sensed with the senses, yet without it light & sound waves could not travel through space.  This is for all the dancers in lockdown needing a dance of balance, centredness and ultimately, peace and calm.    If you'd like to join my weekly, facilitated online class, join Deeper Dancing with Kali on Facebook x

Shamanic Medicine TranceDance #4 @ DJKali For SPIRITFEST 2020

This conscious dance journey is especially designed to support our seismic metamorphosis into the golden age, where chaos, disruption, fear & anxiety reign before transitioning.  I recommend beginning the movement meditation by lying down for the first track.  Towards the end, there is another spoken meditation, which you may want to lie down for too.  And then there's a final track to bring you back to standing & integration.  Please join my weekly facilitated conscious dance classes by liking my Deeper Dancing with Kali page on Facebook.  Anybody in a body can move.  No right or wrong way to dance, just your way.

Shamanic Medicine TranceDance #5 @ DJKali for Crone Corona Metamorphosis

An exquisitely curated ecstatic trance dance wave for conscious dancers by DJ Kali.  Join my facilitated classes by liking Deeper Dancing with Kali on Facebook.  Anyone in a body can dance.  No right or wrong way to move - just your way!  For beginners and experienced conscious dancers.  All welcome.

ECSTATIC DANCE #1:  EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS @ DJKali

DANCING EMPTINESS
An ecstatic sonic dance wave to explore the embodiment of our true natures as essentially empty - full of nothing - yet radiant, luminous, subtle and eternal.  From a warm up to a long, extended shake to empty out, we drop down into the parasympathetic nervous system, where all healing, nourishment and relaxation happens.  A big bonus is the dose of oxytocin which floods our bodies, giving us a sense of belonging and connection.  This dance journey is especially suited to experienced conscious dancers, yogis, flow artists, somatic explorers and meditators. Join me on Saturday afternoons for facilitated dance journeys - check out Deeper Dancing with Kali on Facebook.  Also, please consider supporting this work by making a small donation - every little helps x

ECSTATIC DANCE #2: DANCING EMPTINESS @ DJKali

A metamorphic conscious dance journey for these times of momentous change, to support our flexibility and flow with what is right now.  The journey begins with a brief warm-up and light shake, then starts with the caterpillar as a tiny egg, hatching and eating its own body weight in fuel per day, until so fat, it cannot move any more, and spins a cocoon around it to keep invaders out, and protect its resources.  However, imaginal disks appear, and attack the caterpillar, but he is too strong and powerful to be overcome.  Eventually though, through co-operation and collaboration, the imaginal disks of the butterfly kill the caterpillar and eat its soupy remains.  The butterfly forms inside the chrysalis, and eventually emerges triumphant, to fly to great heights, before laying her caterpillar eggs.

 It's only when caterpillarness is done that it becomes a butterfly. That is part of the paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. While it’s the job of the caterpillar to resist the butterfly, it’s also the job of the butterfly to become stronger because of its advances, & eventually overcome the caterpillar. The whole journey from caterpillar to butterfly occurs in organic time, through an unfolding process over which neither has control.

The journey goes something like this: a caterpillar crunches its way through its ecosystem, cutting a swath of destruction by eating as much as a hundred times its weight in a day, until it's too bloated to continue & hangs itself upside down, its skin then hardening into a chrysalis.

Inside this chrysalis, deep inside, tiny things called ‘imaginal disks’ begin to form. Not recognizing the newcomers, the caterpillar’s store of powerful energy easily snuffs them out as they arise. But they keep coming faster & faster, then linking up & co-operating with one other, until a tipping point is finally reached. The caterpillar’s immune system eventually fails from the stress, & the disks become imaginal cells that build the butterfly by feeding on the soupy meltdown of the caterpillar’s body.

When the butterfly is ready to hatch, the chrysalis becomes transparent. The need for restriction has been outgrown. And the whole journey is connected to the breath: the butterfly pops its chrysalis by taking a deep, full breath. As the butterfly emerges, it's still upside down. It immediately turns right side up & proceeds to hold its chrysalis with such reverence, you can almost hear it saying thank you to from whence it came.

ECSTATIC DANCE #3: METAMORPHOSIS - CATERPILLAR TO BUTTERFLY @ DJKali

A dance journey to safely guide us into the depths of winter hibernation and emptiness - a form of death - and back out again into spring and summer rebirth.  The dance begins with a warm up and a solid shake out, then takes us down into the bowels of our dark mother earth, to Hades, before bringing us back up into the light, renewed and re-embodied.h

ECSTATIC DANCE #5 SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE WINTER SOLSTICE @ DJKali

A conscious, ecstatic dance journey curated by DJ Kali to support your experience of being in form - full, of the earth, finite, mortal, with an ego and nervous system - and yet also mystically formless - empty, unlimited, of spirit, infinite, immortal, eternal, full of nothing.  How to alchemise these seemingly opposite states into one holistic, balanced love making with the whole of existence?  This is the inquiry...

ECSTATIC DANCE #6 SAMSARA LOVING NIRVANA #2 curated by DJ KALI

A funky ecstatic trance dance journey through the elementals

SHAMANIC ECSTATIC TRANCE DANCE Curated by DJ KALI

A concentrated conscious dance journey for those who love shamanic medicine music to move to:  warm up, a check in with our revered ancestors, followed by some soft shaking, then a brief twirl through the elementals, ending on a rousing tribal anthem of awakening.
WE ARE A TRIBE AWAKENING. Aho, aho, aho!

MEDICINE WHEEL SHAMANIC DANCE JOURNEY curated by DJ KALI

I've been facilitating conscious dance journeys since 2012, mostly in South Africa, but also in the UK & Holland.  My invitation is to drop deeply into unconditional, loving intimacy with ourselves, with the other, the group, & ultimately, the beloved.

From the still, silent ground of our being, we can ripple & flow outwards to dance with all of existence, drinking and kissing the moment, allowing this precious life to breathe, dance & celebrate us!

There's a shamanic quality to many of my journeys, as I employ expanded consciousness - through breathwork & subtly communicating to the nervous system -  to pierce the veils of illusion & unconscious constructs we've wrapped ourselves in.  Ultimately, embarking on a dance journey from beginning to end - surfing our own unique edge - leaves us on a natural high, vibrating with the eros of existence :-)

From holding regular dance spaces, I've become known for my high calibre music curation, & out of this, DJ Kali Satyagraha ~ the Dancing Dakini ~ was birthed.  Despite not having any technical DJ skills (yet), I've attuned my ear manually to mix music from the intuitive space of the deep feminine.  I hope you enjoy the playlists I post from time to time.  Should you support me financially, you assist me to continue to offer therapeutic movement classes to underprivileged communities, children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and anyone who wants to dance freely, at a very low cost.  This is my passion, and I want to share it with as many people as possible.  Namastè.

I am available to put together conscious dance playlists for special occasions, and to DJ for conscious partygoers wanting to celebrate life and love.

DJ Kali Satyagraha ~ The Dancing Dakini

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