This is the set I played for Ecstatic Dance Cairns first flight out of Cairns, to the Daintree jungle, where the Great Barrier Reef meets the ancient rainforest. Older then the Amazon Rainforest, the Daintree is world-heritage site to the most pristine origins of some of nature's most wild and untouched earth elements. 

As community we gathered, to pray, to dance, to laugh, to release and to celebrate what is is to be humans deeply connected, in these times. With ourselves, our bodies, and all of life and the Earth herself. 

This was the first time an all drug & alcohol free dance event was hosted on this side of the river, and an absolute success for all it's humble heart-centeredness and community it brought together. The first of more to come! And a pleasure to share such intentioned sounds from across the world, with FNQ familia inspired by the rich natural setting. This was an all adult, all adult age demographic, danced barefoot on the earth, ecstatic dance journey!

May this prayer, from the jungle in our backyard, move yours, to a family united, healthfully, happily and whole-heartedly, as I believe we are all destined to be: FREE.

Ecstatic Dance Journey 'In The Daintree' August 2021

EMILY EMBER is a dancer,  DJ, vocalist and budding music producer/ritual artist known as ‘Spring Jaiah’

Growing up in the bushland of tropical far north-eastern Australia, she spent her twenties travelling the world in pursuit of body-mind healing which revealed the power of practice on intentional dance floors and music can have on community. Since her first event in the area as far back as 2015, in 2021 she founded Ecstatic Dance Cairns, bringing diverse flavours and global rhythms to men and women, through full bodied emotional and danceable journeys moving the FNQ region ever since. She is also a somatic-psychology/BA Psych/Couns student, shamanic practitioner and servant of creating and facilitating safe spaces for self and community transformation.

Some of her music flavours explored in 2025 include afro beats, world, global bass, drum and bass/jungle, melodic & ethnic house plus many more… in effort of fusing sounds from all across the world, from the Africas to the Andes, Bristol to Berlin and beyond in cathartic ritual ecstasy.

Everything Emily does is to serve re-connection of earth-wisdom and sacred remembrance.

Contact: springjaiah@gmail.com