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Party with a purpose,  Power of play,  SpiritDanceJam.com here or not. Your choice

To celebrate life, relationships, community, and health in all its diversity…. with a toxic free environment and world beat music…I

Sometimes I feel like describing an event like SpiritDanceJam is like describing air to marine life. Society, the drug industry, media over the years has put such a mind job on the populace that it is hard to separate truth. The concept of the holy party, party with purpose. It’s anything but serious, yet it’s healing is profound.

      Last year I took a sabbatical in Northern California, a place I have been vacationing several weeks a year since graduating from Chiropractic school. Bonds of family, economics, and friends keep me here otherwise I would have relocated. The item I miss the most which is common in the west and practically unheard of here are a series of events I will collectively call Spirit Dances. They take many forms but have one thing in common earth based life celebratory world beat tribal music, meditative breaks, and a toxic free environment. Some include massage, murals drawings, and social tables with creative arts …

My recent Spirit Dance intensive spanned almost a year, filling in for a Northern California Chiropractor on sabbatical. I used this opportunity to go to 1-3 dances a week, including the Ocean burn, Venutician Rave, Cosmic techno Mass, Tribal Trance at the Health and Harmony Expo, pre -Burningman Rave, the biweekly dances in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Fairfax. A basic scenario would be coming in early before it was too crowded in tie dye, sweats or shorts, taking off my shoes while many others lying on the floor stretching, toning, and breathing to the meditative/warm-up cycle of the event. Then slowly standing, swaying, loosening up to the intermediated tempos, gaining momentum with the increasing pace. Looking around I see artistic improve, tai chi like movements, trance style, rolling on the floor by oneself or groups, bouncing about, playful, silly or serious… My eyes would shut ¾ way and in a trance like state I would ride the music to distant lands, feel the rythym of life and earth, shape shift from aborigine, to shaman, from eagle to cat, with the scent of primal and the feel of the ground beneath my feet. Looking about I see others doing their own thing, soloing like me, or sharing it by invitation and respect of space, some chanting to the music, some playing drums off on the side. After the first set I have broke my first serious sweat, purging stress, release some emotional blocks, bound up energy flowing, detoxing, heightened calmness, alertness spilling into periods of bliss.

The better events had the integrated balance of contemplative yin and the spiritual outward yang. The side effect of these events, which were the highpoint of my day and week, were being the best shape of my life, more energy than most half my age, while loving the process. Thinking back to the best relationships, friendships, and times stem from such events. Some of my most vivid spiritual experiences mix this in with a lifelong spiritual dedication, having an innate sense of the destructive/limited properties of drugs, being a dancer and audiophile, validated one of the core reasons why I am here on this planet.

Now that you heard my story let's discuss the dance itself. What is a SpiritDanceJam.com?

It incorporates the best of a "good nightclub" without the drawbacks. It is similar to the West Coast drugless RAVE parties, gaining popularity in areas such as San Francisco and Berkeley. The Dance is a well lit, spacious environment where nutritiously delicious, high powered healthy beverages are consumed while predominately fast paced dance music ranging from Tribal, Techno, to World beat is played. The music is balanced with Tone and stretch breaks and Social tables filled with games and creative endeavors (mural drawing). People are FREE to dance by themselves, in couples, or in-groups. It's FREE of punk, heavy metal, alternative styles favoring the more primitive lighter music styles from African, Latin, Reggae, Soca, Hip Hop,... It's FREE of Smoke and Alcohol, and their side effects of drunks, DWIs, driving problems, bonfire smelling clothing, skin, and hair, unhealthy people and their attitudes. It’s a great place for singles to meet and couples/friends to enjoy. It’s always happy hour with a variety of state elevating, immunizing, energizing beverages that make your body sing with energy, clarity, and alertness, and which you will still feel great the morning after. Its main purpose is to have fun, feel good, vitalize, and release stress. Its side effect will be increased tone, cardiac fitness, and fat loss. If you prioritize the main purpose (having fun, stress releasing, playing with the music) you will have more success with its side effects (great shape, feeling good, health). When this becomes a high point in your week it is easy to be consistent, that is when real progress is made.

Dance is the perfect aerobic exercise, its multi-movements strengthens, tones, and stretches all parts of the body, the music, passion, and imagination become the motivator of the body, the mind goes for the ride enjoying the process, it becomes aerobic play.

It has been used in a spiritual context to ground oneself, reach ecstatic states, to connect to that Universal Intelligence by many cultures and paths such as the Sufis (dervishes), Native Americans, Africans, Aborigine, as well as been an integral part of many cultures, parties and festivals.

What is my motivation for starting it here? Well, for one thing I am a Chiropractor who sports a large collection of danceable CDs, so you can say I am the original "disc" jockey. Ha Ha Ha. I love dancing, being social, and partying without wasting myself in the process. ,… The World beat music is a combination of club, reggae, Latin, African, Caribbean, Australian, tribal, with uplifting themes (Love, Life, Community Lyrics) strong dance beat, popular with adults of all ages predominately in the west coast presently Having lived in Northern California I have taken these things for granted, being single I presently have these choices: get sick trying to have a good time, sit home watch TV, or find a smoke free / alcohol free contemporary music club. Since the last choice, the best choice, is not readily available here I can either bitch and moan like some or create it myself. Well I am creating something I love and feel very strong about.

Here are my beneficial reasons …are they yours???

*Good size dance floor, room to move around *Not too loud, not too dark
*Sick and tired of trying to have a good time: Smoke induced headaches and painful Sinuses, smelly clothes and hair, sick feeling, aerobic dancing in a snog… you wouldn’t exercise in a refinery why dance in one
*Great for respiratory sensitive people (asthma, emphysema, …) singles, couples, substance abuse recovery, …
*Natural High Vitalizing Healthy (Cheaper than Bar) Beverages..Feel great that morning,
* A yin yang balance gets the most of contemplation and movement integration, detoxing, motion heals emotion
*Dance is the prefect exercise to stay in shape..7 - 3 minute songs are a good aerobic workout…for the heart, the physique, without multiple concentrations of 2nd hand smoke. Pleasure is primary the side effect is to getting in incredible shape (if consistent) and looking forward to the process
*FREE Dance…dance by yourself, couples, or groups, without any structure, posturing, or pretense do not want to think about any right steps or patterns…whatever way you feel like moving when you feel like moving,
*A safe space to play and connect, variety of activities (massage, drawing, games,), acceptance, life promoting networking (literature, clubs new, activities, healing events…) A healthy choice to a sick paradigm
*Community Service: cut down crime, violence, destruction, promotes positive activism, tolerance, and cooperation

Understanding the power of music and its effects on our states of mind and body dictates my music. The lyrics and vibes needs to be love based, life promoting, earth based, Conscious raising, diverse, energetic, grounded. The positive spin mix includes African, Tribal, Reggae, Latin, Club, Aborigine, Native American to help promote those uplifting high states. Where the attention goes energy flows so we don’t do anger, destructive, manipulative power, or violence common to a lot of our airwaves..

Here are some quotes that go with those reasons… ( orginals)

Prohibition doesn't work…superior substitution for substance use/abuse, Music is the language of the soul.
Dance like nobody is watching, work like you don't need the money, love like you never been hurt
Like a grateful dead concert without the drugs, The 60s without the chemicals, Finally a healthy choice, Unity through diversity, Eracism., Don’t kill yourself trying to have a good time, rhythm & recovery, dance out the demons, e-motional therapy, Avoid the toxoids, Move your feet to trim/lose your seat, dance you’re a## off, to the real movers and shakers… heart - beats, party and play with purpose, sole to soul, spiritual, wreck-creational drugs, conscious party, global carnival,…

Dr. O (Oberleitner) a multiskilled chiropractor, Health Promoter, event organizer, teacher, dance and exercise enthusiast and upcoming author of.. Fun Fitness and Aerobic Play, is available ….. for interviews or large group talks about the dance jam , fund raisers for charities…

To make this a consistent event we need your support. What can you do, tell others, invite your group, bring friends, and forward this message, the more the merrier. We need your help to continue the dance, welcome donations, grants, co-workers, your time & efforts, volunteered space , PA systems and other resources. …it needs to be self-supportive and expansive. Your support and spreading the word is necessary to the future survival of this venture, if enough support is demonstrated I (Dr.O) will rent out a space and keep this ongoing, please call or write with areas you like to help in, the simplest way to support this is to spread the word.

Sincerely,
Dancing Dr. O