Ecstatic Dance Durango Colorado

We will have some fun with Brazilion Zouk dance as the 30 minute warm up, from 6:30 - 7:00 this Thursday. Come exercise your brain and body and try some new moves!

🗓️ Thurs, June 18th
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: Brazilian Zouk warm-up
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins

✨ What You’ll Learn:
• Zouk Basics & Movements – Master the foundational steps.
• Flow & Elasticity – Learn how to create that signature smooth, stretchy Zouk feeling.
• Lead & Follow Roles – Ganesh will be teaching both roles to the audience, so everyone gets a complete understanding of the connection.
✨ Beginner Friendly — No experience needed!
✨ No Partner Required — Come solo or bring friends.

Ganesh Monthu brings 7 years of Zouk & Lambada experience to the floor!

We are blessed to have DJ Luminous Heart shining the vibes for us to move, feeeel, integrate, upgrade, and frolic! ✨❤️‍🔥💃🌺💫 Hailing from Denver, this brother brings the love amplified to many Ecstatic Dances around the country 🔊🥰

🗓️ Thurs, June 18th
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: Brazilian Zouk warm-up
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins

Osha Rivera
Osha makes dance floors come alive, drawing emotion, rhythm and heart into something you feel long after the music stops. A dancer long before he was a DJ, his sets carry a potency and aliveness you can feel, an embodied dynamism built from 12+ years dancing weekly. Inspired by 5Rhythms, he mixes world bass, tribal, trap, organica, ethno house, dub, soul and more into tantric-inspired journeys of gentle invitations, building anticipation, undulating waves, peaks of release and sweet surrender.

This Thursday we join forces with and take eDance OUTSIDE to the beautiful river side paradise of located 20 mins south of Durango 🏖️🎶🥰

By request, we feature on the decks, spinning the vibes, fresh off a stellar performance at 🙌🏼❤️‍🔥🌀🫠

The dance is still the same price as usual, $20, which will be collected at the entrance to the river resort. There will not be a warm-up, but there will be a longer set than usual. Ecstatic Dance journey is 7-9pm.

4 day passes to Sangha Fest are also available at SanghaFest.org 💫 Sangha is an all ages community building, heart warming gathering featuring live music, DJs, kirtan, yoga, water play, and much more!

🗓️ Thurs, June 4th
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 Tico Time - 20 Road 2050, Aztec NM
🔄 $20

Wielding a style that blends organic instrumentation and vocals with deep bassy beats, expansive effects, loops, samples, and turntablism, CodeStar’s sets and productions are inspired by an invigorating love for music and dance. He brings a live and unique flavor to every occasion, activating the dance floor with tasty Bass, saucy grooves, House, DnB, world spice, and always the fresh cuts. In addition to being a seasoned Event Producer, MC, and Ecstatic Dance DJ, he has shared the stage with many talented artists, including Random Rab, Captain Planet, Geometrae, DRRTYWULVZ, Orenda, Beat Kitty, David Starfire, Chmura, Mfinity and more. CodeStar is a conduit for bringing magic into the moment, and spinning music into motion! To learn more, and for links to his music go to codestarmusic.com

Lets try something new! And have fun 😊 Our warm-up tomorrow (Thurs) features an intro level West Coast Swing class taught by Marty Saunders. and his group, .westies are the reason we have our beautiful venue, 🙌💛🤩 This 30 min class will equip us with some new moves for the dance floor!

🗓️ Thurs, May 21st
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: West Coast Swing warm-up
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins

West Coast Swing is a smooth, improvisational partner dance that evolved from Lindy Hop and is typically danced to modern music like blues, pop, funk, R&B, and hip-hop. It’s known for its elastic “slot” movement, playful musicality, and strong emphasis on connection and communication between partners, allowing for both structured technique and personal expression.

Luke Rain is bringing the drip beats to drop! 💧🔥💎 This man tours the country, feeling the pulse of ecstatic dances across the land ❣️ He is sure to bring the freshest dance floor grooves while dipping into his extensive catalog of original music 💿🫧🪩

🗓️ Thurs, May 21st
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: West Coast Swing warm-up
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins


Luke Rain makes cool, refreshing, bassy drops and brings the drip like a hip hop hippie. In both his DJ sets and his production Luke is able to bend and blend genres across the musical spectrum, flowing effortlessly between bass and hip hop, electronic and organic, left field and pop appeal. He finds himself equally at home at a festival, rave, renegade campout or ecstatic dance. A skilled professional DJ with years of experience behind the decks, Luke crafts unique, eclectic sets that allow dancers to flow, move energy and feel embodied. He plays from his extensive library of his favorite tracks across many musical styles, as well as songs he produced for heart centered musicians in the ecstatic community and his own growing catalog of originals, remixes and mash ups.

Tonight, we are blissed to be graced with a delicious heart opening Inner Rise Yoga warm-up this evening from Chakra Rose 🌹 💓🧘🏽‍♀️✨ This will be accessible and enlightening for all! Please bring a mat.

🗓️ Thurs, May 7th
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: Inner Rise Yoga warm-up
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins
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Inner Rise is a ChakraRose Yoga experience rooted in grounded presence, where breath and movement awaken the body’s energy. The practice builds heat and aliveness, allowing energy to rise through a sensual, embodied rhythm that is both powerful and deeply connected. Integration and radiance unfold naturally—anchored in the body and lit from within.

We are really looking forward to Flint Blade bringing his dynamic blend of live instrumentation and bassilicious live DJing. This talented musician has made a name for himself touring the country, and his last set in Durango was really good! ✨🎸🔊🥰🌀

🗓️ Thurs, May 7th
🕡 6:30 - 7:00pm :: Bass Yoga warm-up class
🕖 7:00 - 9:00pm :: DJed Dance Journey
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave.
🔄 $20 or $5 for last 30 mins


Flint Blade weaves sonic textures for the ecstatic dance-floor and beyond to create uplifting soundscapes live in the moment, with a special hybrid set combining live DJing and spontaneous live-looping for a unique ecstatic journey of the soul. Channeling inspiration via electronics, beatbox, vocals and various world instruments, Flint has made a name for himself by mastery of the Chapman Stick — a rare instrument invented in 1969 that most people have never seen or heard, creating rich tapestries of sound full of whimsy and wonder.

We are blessed and blissed to experience Cloud Forest Cacao in our Opening Ceremony at SUBMERGE ✨🤎✨ Cacao will also be available throughout the evening ☺️

Cloud Forest Cacao is locally owned and works hand in hand with family farmers to grow single-origin, regenerative cacao in Peru.

🗓️ Thursday, April 30th
📍 The Collective - 1315 Main Ave
🔄 $5 - 20 at the door

🕔 5pm - Doors Open
🕔 5:15 – Cacao & Opening Ceremony w/ Cloud Forest Cacao
🕠 5:30 – Connection Playshop w/ Andrea Dela Rainbow & The Venus Oracle
🕡 6:30 - Potluck & Live Music w/ Derek Abt
🕢 7:30 - Open Freestyle Cypher
🕗 8:00 - DJ set w/ CodeStar
🕘 9:00 - DJ set w/ Smiley Coyote
🕙 10:00 - DJ set w/ Jalü