Ecstatic Dance Gathering with Omar Aena & Toni Bergins

Join us for a very special Dance Lab gathering featuring an ecstatic dance journey with DJ Omar Aena and an opening class with Journey Dance founder Toni Begins.

We'll start with a guided exploration led by Toni, flowing into a DJ set with Omar.

This will be a safe and inclusive space, welcoming people from all walks of life to freely express themselves through movement. No prior dance experience is required, just come as you are!

Sunday February 19th 2023 / Doors open at 2:30 pm, Show starts at 3pm
In the Barnspace at Race Brook Lodge
864 South Undermountain road ( AKA Rt 41 ) Sheffield, MA
Ticket Price:  $20 (40% discount on overnight accommodation at Race Brook Lodge)

Omar Aena is a world-music DJ, community organizer, and event producer of Iraqi descent, based in NYC. Omar is the founder of Dance Lab, a Brooklyn-based collective that explores dance as a form of somatic therapy.

As a DJ, Omar mixes together traditional world music with electronic sounds, with a particular focus on songs from his middle-eastern heritage + hip hop from his upbringing in NYC.   

Toni Bergins, founder of JourneyDance transformational movement, has been leading thousands of people out of their minds and into their bodies, at Kripalu center and internationally.. She will take us on a healing and celebratory experience to connect with our bodies, our emotions and thé community of dance explorers. We will get deeply embodied, embrace our parts, release what needs to be freed, invite in wholeness, and fall in love with our own hearts.