Portals: Dance Meets Tantra x Austin
Fri Nov 21 2025 6:00 PM - Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:30 PM
🌳Austin Ecstatic Dance Center
At Dance Meets Tantra, we explore the edges of these thresholds and how to cross over them into what lies beyond. This year’s theme ~ P O R T A L S ~ invites 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 fourth 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 three days, 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.
Each day 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 Friday evening 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?
On Saturday, 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?
On Sunday, we take it all onto the dance floor at Austin Ecstatic Dance, weaving what we’ve discovered into the wider community. We close the afternoon together in ritual, integrating the journey and sealing what has been opened.