Such an uplifting beat, it takes me to another dimension!

Recorded under the November full moon of 2021 in my quiet home amidst the forests of interior British Columbia, Canada.

Life is sweet ✨🦻🏼

Portal

Here is a live mix from Inner Eye Ecstatic Dance 5.5.22 

As a DJ the dancefloor feeds us and Ecstatic Dances are some of my favorite journeys since we move through multiple genres and BPM's. I love to see the bodies moving in all the ways while we transition between movements, moments emotions and tempos following the common thread that ties us all together... MUSIC

@InnerEyeEcstaticDance

https://linktr.ee/TAKIMBA

Inner Eye Ecstatic Dance 5.5.22

Set up the studio on Friday the 13th and recorded some of my favorite new jams into a sweet little mix.. 

Perfect afternoon listening.

Cactus Breath

Burning Man. It's the sum total of what makes being human an extraordinary experience, and that feeling has been my constant and consistent theme on the playa since my first time out, in 1995.  In this unscripted, 75-minute mix, mid-tempo organic house explores and celebrates the cultural nuances of mystically joyful and mesmerizing melodies and the deep push of pulsating rhythm and groove. The sounds of Aboriginal Australia, The Middle East, The Celts, and Africans of North, East and West origination, The sounds of the natives of the  Caucus Mountains and SE Asian steppes are all woven together in an unstoppable flow for the dancefloor.

I encourage you to explore and discover the incredible music the following artists have created, whose music ended up in this mix. Behind every tune is years of each and every producers picking up and practising an instrument, spending years learning music composition and music software and hardware, doing countless gigs, signing music contracts, dealings and negotiations JUST to get THEIR art to YOUR ears and DANCEFLOORS. To all that, I say: Thank you!

In order of appearance:

Aldous Huxley interview
@Didgi-Taal
https://soundcloud.com/boddhi-satva, https://soundcloud.com/fnxomarofficial
https://soundcloud.com/karmaamusic
https://soundcloud.com/benarsenalofficial
@Megablast
@BaikalNomads
https://soundcloud.com/shkoon-music
https://soundcloud.com/abelrayofcl
https://soundcloud.com/cosmonaut
https://www.beatport.com/track/blessing-sergii-petrenko-dub-remix/14458420
https://soundcloud.com/moonanga-music
https://soundcloud.com/cafedeanatolia/elias-fassos-risk-gr-anasa-cafe-de-anatolia
https://soundcloud.com/ben-bohmer
https://soundcloud.com/pipeandpochet/t-puse-dor-reuveni-purpose-original-mix-1
@KERIMKAAN
https://soundcloud.com/agawe
https://soundcloud.com/hvmza @GazMawete

DRAGONFLY - BEYOND DUST ( SOUNDGARDEN) BURNING MAN 2022

An incredible festival, an incredible dance: In the late night steamy heat of the Costa Rican rainforest we Invoked the sacred through sonic alchemy and surrendered to the divine.  This set was the culmination of everything I strive for on the ecstatic dance floor - in the amorphously porous container of a festival a multi genre, tempo-twisted offering of deep groove and penetrating cadence elastically stretched the potential for expression over 108 minutes of unpredictable storytelling as each dancer exploded into the hyper-nowness of being.

#Bassmusic
#House
#Downtempo
#Halftime
#Drum&Bass
#Sacred
#Psytrance
#Latin
#African
#Brazilian
#Love
#Freedom

DRAGONFLY - SPIRIT CATCHER @ ENVISION FESTIVAL ECSTATIC JUNGLE DANCE 2023

My live set from the Earth Stage at Dance Beyond Campout 2023 ! 
Such a pleasure to share <3

Keena Maya: Ecstatic Dance @ Earth Stage, Dance Beyond 2023

July 1, 2023

My 12th year performing at Priceless was the most fun I've had yet. Thank you to all of the planners, volunteers, and attendees that make Priceless happen. Deep gratitude to the musicians who made the music in this set, especially previous Priceless guests El Búho (@el-buho), David Last (@davidlast), and Rumpistol (@rumpistol). 

Special shout out to my forever inspirations for Forest vibes - Ganucheau (@ganucheau) and Dr. Toast (@drtoast). It still feels like everything I do with music is trying to do for others what they have done for me. 

Happy Priceless.

Griffin Crafts - Priceless 2023

Here is the mix from Sunday Dance in San Rafael California.  It was a beautiful Sunny Summer day outdoors and this set reflected the beauty of the day.  It is the perfect Summer Sunny Dance mix.  The vibes were off the charts, hope you can feel it in the mix!

Everybody Loves the Sunshine!
Feel what I feel what I feel what I feel when I'm feelin'

IN~JOY!

Sunday Dance San Rafael 8-13-23

My 20th anniversary at BurningMan, it was an honor to play my first set ever on the playa on burn night!
Everyone who made it that far felt the energy of that night- pure magic! Worth the muddy muck to dance with family along side the legendary golden dragon and its non-stop immaculate musical offerings <3

Abraxas )’( Burn Night -Burning Man '23 mix by djCatnip

Light will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage,

For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain
You hold the title to.

Love will surely bust you wide open
Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy

Even if your mind is now
A spoiled mule.

A life-giving radiance will come,
The Friend's gratuity will come

O look again within yourself,
For I know you were once the elegant host
To all the marvels in creation.

	- Hafiz

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down
in always widening rings of being.

	- Rumi

Recorded live at the Skyway Love gathering in the Oakland Hills. February 11, 2017. Beaucoup new material I sourced for this mix, much of it from a playlist I compiled for two dear friends exquisite celebration of union a month ago.  Yours in light and love ... 

00:00 Jessica Rotter - Open (Rhye cover)
03:03 Yaima - Gajumaru
08:14 Elephant Revival - Raven Song (Wu Wei Remix)
12:30 AtYyA - Adhitthana + Thomash - راوي (Raoui)
18:45 Wu Wei - Syncretic
21:33 Erothyme - Silent Orbservers
24:16 Nicola Noir - Tenemosavida
29:20 AtYyA - Drippin (Ft Celestial Pine)
32:50 Goopsteppa & AtYyA - Nocturnal
34:45 Dust Red Skies - Rescue Me
39:04 Milosh - The City
41:31 Maximus MMC & FAB - Sorry
45:40 Wayvee - Black Magic
48:23 HUCCI - The Fall
51:55 Headphone Activist - Cloud City
56:23 Made In Heights - Panther

Open (live February 2017)

◦❍◦ EVERYTHING TURNS IN CIRCLES AND SPIRALS WITH THE COSMIC HEART UNTIL INFINITY ∞

THIS VIBRATION KEEPS GOING ∞∞∞

IT BECOMES BORN AND EXPANDS OR CLOSES AND DESTRUCTS ~ ONLY TO REPEAT THE CYCLE AGAIN IN OPPOSITE CURRENT ∞

LIKE A LOTUS, IT OPENS OR CLOSES, DIES AND IS BORN AGAIN.

SUCH IS ALSO THE STORY OF THE SUN AND MOON,

OF ME AND YOU.

NOTHING TRULY DIES.

ALL ENERGY SIMPLY TRANSFORMS ◦❍◦
» Sᴜᴢʏ Kᴀssᴇᴍ
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LISTEN: a journey of slow, sensual rhythms collected from around the world with deep basslines for deep movement. Infused with binaural beats to sync brainwaves with body.
Inspired by full moon MOONLIT gatherings @collective_BAE with Ambrosia nourishment. May we move with our full power.

drėėėmy | MOONLIT: BASS YOGA (feat. Poranguí, AtYyA, Phaeleh, Dirtwire, Supertask)

Debut single ' A Deeper Calling ' is OUT ! 

The depths of Keena Maya's sound are incantations, drawing us down into our roots, grounding us into our bodies, and invoking the incandescent deity within us to rise. She is a sound artist, DJ, producer, and instrumentalist. Her global #BASSBLSS sets revel in the low-end, an electronic transmission of world music for heart expansion via the dance floor.  
 
She is one-half of  @being-sound - with her partner @Joro-Boro. Together they perform live #RitualBass.  She is a member of @BAEsound , a feminine powered mindful music collective, a resident of @ecstaticdancenyc, and a contributor to the global Ecstatic Dance community.  

Keena Maya is from Brooklyn and now resides in Hudson, New York, She has performed at  venues like House of Yes,  Knockdown Center, The Sultan Room, The Good Room, Judson Memorial Church, Basilica, PS21, and festivals like Dance Beyond Campout, Dance Medicine Campout, and Impulse Festival.
 
In 2024, we can expect Keena Maya to release her debut EP of #BASSBLSS. 
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Keena Maya is, so that we may become. 
Connect on Insta : @ keena.maya

@keenamaya

Keena Maya: Ecstatic Dance @ Earth Stage, Dance Beyond 2023

Keena Maya

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