PORTALS: a 1-day immersion in Austin TX

🌳Austin TX

Every moment can be a threshold.

At Dance Meets Tantra, we explore the edges of these thresholds and how to cross over them into what lies beyond. Last year's theme ~ P O R T A L S ~ is back! Portals is an invitation for us to notice them ~ in dance, in breath, in connection. Each step becomes a gateway. Each interaction, an opening. Together we step into the unknown, where shadow itself becomes a passage into freedom.

What you find will be uniquely your own, and yet woven with the collective body of us all. Portals remind us that transformation is always near, as close as presence itself.

Dance Meets Tantra returns to Austin for the seventh time. What we have experienced is that this is not just an event ~ it is a shift in the way that attendees move in other areas of their life, both on and off the dance floor. For a full day, we gather to remember what it means to be fully, unapologetically alive.

There are transformations we can’t reach by ourselves. Alone, dance frees us. Together, dance opens portals ~ into intimacy, presence, and collective current. Tantra deepens this journey, inviting us to meet shadow and eros, body and spirit, not as concepts but as lived truth.

What to Expect

Each activity builds on the last through movement, intimacy practices, ritual, and integration. There’s no pre-set script ~ the facilitation responds to the room, the people, and the moment.

We begin the day by noticing how we have arrived ~ what’s alive in us right now, and what is ready to be worked with. The focus is authenticity and expression: Who am I in this moment? How can I be even more true?

Then, we expand. Having touched into who we are, we step into the field of relationship. How do I meet others from this place of authenticity? How does my expression shape connection? What becomes possible when I show up fully?

Finally, we take weave it all together with an Ecstatic Dance, practicing what we’ve discovered on the dance floor. We close together in ritual, integrating the journey and sealing what has been opened.

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