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. Use this button and select “Rhythm Sanctuary Kohala” to donate.
Upcoming Music Events:
DJ BLYTHE
DJ Blythe started dancing in Berkeley, California in the 70s with the Hare Krishnas. When not basking in the raw elemental energies of north Kohala, Blythe's avatar has the day job of a meditation teacher and author. At sundown however, Blythe emerges as dance prana fanning a hot mix of world music, deep house and American soul. Blythe welcomes your offerings of inhibition, anxiety, shyness, stuckness and grief as fuel to feed the conflagration of unbridled joy we share in the temple of Kohala Rhythm Sanctuary.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
FEB 15 - BLYTHE
FEB 22 - MAC
Visit MAC (Mackenzie Amara) on Soundcloud
Mar 1 - Cedar Roots
MAR 8 - Velvet Wild
Mar 15 - Odysseus
Mar 19 - Rhythms of the Night Dance, 6-8 pm
Music Facilitator: Aīkeön
Mar 22 - No Sunday Dance
Mar 29 - Stereogab
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 Welcome (New to dance? Come at 10:00 am)
10:05 Music Starts
11:45 Music ends, Closing Circle
With payment 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"
$12-$20 Sliding Scale Entry (pay what you can)
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.