Bringing Kohala Together on the Dance Floor
Rhythm Sanctuary Kohala is a North Kohala Community Resource Center Project. This means your donations are tax-deductible.
Upcoming Music Events:
The TECHNICIAN (Danny WADDELL)
A fixture in the Hawai‘i Island ecstatic dance scene in recent years and a regular guest facilitator at Kalani Ecstatic Dance, Danny Waddell—also known as The Technician—makes his Rhythm Sanctuary debut this Sunday.
Rooted in the belief that music and movement can shift states, open hearts, and restore balance, his sets create a container for journeys that invite dancers to drop deep into themselves and into the heart of the human experience.
With a sound that moves beyond genre, Danny meticulously crafts his sets with intention, offering soundscapes designed for depth, surrender, and liberation through the embrace of it all.
His relationship with dance music spans over three decades, beginning in the Atlanta rave scene, evolving through the Orlando club circuit, and finding renewed purpose within the Hawai‘i Island ecstatic dance community.
The evolution of his style mirrors the evolution of his own consciousness—shaped by years of exploration, practice, presence, and deep listening.
Danny is grateful for each opportunity to co-create and learn within community, and to walk a personal and collective path of discovery, healing, transformation, and cultivation of all the good things.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
May 17 - Danny Waddell
Visit Danny Waddell on SoundCloud
May 24 - Eliya Bird
Visit Eliya Bird on Soundcloud
May 31 - Blythe
JUNE 7 - SHUNYA
JUNE 12 (FRIDAY EVENING) - NTU
Rhythm Sanctuary Kohala Dance is held every Sunday morning
10:00 am – 12:00 Pm
New to Ecstatic Dance? Come at 10:00 and we will give you a brief introduction
The Barn at Kohala Village
55-514 Hawi Road, Hawi, Hawaii 96719
Hawi is the north side of the Big Island of Hawaii approximately 1 hour north of Kona and 35 minutes from Waimea
10:00 Invocation and Music starts
11:45 Music Ends, Closing circle
$12-$20 Sliding Scale (donation based)
With donation of $20, $5 goes to the DJ tip jar
Dance passes: Five dances for $60
Accompanied and Participating children are Free.
Cash, Venmo and Check are accepted
"Manuahi mau no nā kānaka maoli"
What is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic dance is a free-form dance movement inspired and led by carefully crafted music with the intention of creating a healing journey. The music follows a wave form, starting slow, moving to a peak, and descending into stillness. No dance experience or partner is necessary or needed.
In Ecstatic dance participants gather to dance to music without the need of following the instructions of a leader. In Ecstatic Dance the music is the leader, and participants are free to weave their way through the music.
Ecstatic dance is an environment without observers, judgements, attitudes, conversations, shoes, alcohol, or substances. A space where everyone can feel safe to be spontaneous and move however their body wishes.
The intention of Rhythm Sanctuary is to create a safe and open space for freestyle dance movement, where individuals are encouraged to engage in a somatic journey both internally and with community.