**SOLD OUT** PASSAGE: An Intimate New Year's Eve Gathering by Dance Meets Tantra

Welcome to PASSAGE by Dance Meets Tantra—your intimate, tender, playful and deeply connected alternative for crossing into 2025.

If you’re anything like us, you’re looking for something different this New Year’s Eve.

Do you ever feel pressure on New Year’s to ‘just be happy’? Tired of the usual scene of people chasing superficial highs? Imagine instead an evening crafted to honor the full spectrum of what the New Year can bring.

At PASSAGE, we make room for your full humanity while building coherence, intimacy, and depth in a warm gathering of friends and like-minded community.

Our evening unfolds in three parts:

1. Opening & Building the Container: We’ll begin the night by building a beautiful container and then move into a series of practices and rituals to invite embodied authenticity and connection.

2. Temple* Flow into 2025: After we build coherence and connection we’ll move into a temple that will hold us all as we cross the threshold into 2025. We’ll play, dance, and honor the turning of the wheel in a structured, yet spacious temple that invites freedom, depth, and heartfelt expression. DJ Maya Light will be weaving the musical journey. 

*Note: when we invoke the word ‘temple’ we do not mean play/sex party. We are referring to a co-created, prayerful space that welcomes a wide range of your humanity, including all emotions and sensations, with the intent of connecting to the divine. Certainly, there will be space to explore your erotic and ecstatic desires…however, it’s not our aim to be sexual or for you to necessarily “play” with others. Please read on for more about sexuality in the container. 

3. Nourish and Reflect: After midnight, we’ll enjoy delicious nourishment prepared by our co-host Enki, creating a space to settle, connect, and share reflections. This grounding experience will help close the evening in warmth and community as we step into the new year together.

PASSAGE is an opportunity to:

໑ Dance your dreams awake with incredible music by DJs like Maya Light

໑ Meet and connect with a like-hearted community committed to stepping into 2025 with purpose, depth, and aliveness

໑ Be held in a ritual container that honors every part of you—your tenderness, your magic, your fear, and your joy.

໑ Explore eros in a highly attuned and permission-full space

We are brimming over with our full f*ck yes to be offering the Dance Meets Tantra version of New Year’s Eve to the Bay Area community.

About Dance Meets Tantra

Originating in Boulder, CO, Dance Meets Tantra has been traveling nationwide (and soon internationally) offering sold-out monthly immersions that explore the intersection of conscious dance forms with relational intimacy, somatic attunement, ritual & ceremony, and kink & shadow work. It is truly a transformational journey and an emerging body of work dedicated to empowering communities to relate with more authenticity and aliveness while creating safer spaces where individuals can embrace their wholeness—both the light and the dark—while cultivating a collective consciousness that is profoundly greater than the sum of its parts.

Dance Meets Tantra is also a movement. Across the country, we’ve seen an outpouring of yearning, love, and passion for conscious dance to evolve—embracing a fuller spectrum of human expression, and creating safer ways to welcome deep vulnerability and eros.

Perhaps you’ve been feeling this call– for dance to become more attuned and embrace a wider spectrum of expression, and for tantra to be more embodied, playful, and vibrant. You instinctively know that something extraordinary happens when embodied movers gather with full permission to be alive, to connect, and to share their magic.

This is Dance Meets Tantra.

A Note on Tantra

For us, tantra is the practice and art of being fully alive. Our intention with Dance Meets Tantra is to support individuals in deepening their love, respect, and relationship with themselves, others, and the earth. We believe that dance, eros, and tantra are fundamental aspects of living a vibrant, empowered, and creative life. Through various explorations, we aim to liberate creativity and life force, inviting you to step into your fullest expression.

A Note on sexuality

Dance Meets Tantra certainly embraces a sex-positive culture, however, our containers do not focus on sex, sexuality, or connecting in sexual ways. Our boundary in this container is no lingering or intentional genital touch. 

The reason we include sexuality in the boundaries of our container is for more room to be authentic and to be human (since sexuality is an important part of being human), rather than any goal or outcome of sexuality.

For more details on sexual energy and our approach, please visit our [FAQ] (https://www.dancemeetstantra.com/faq).

How do I know if this is for me?

໑ You've read this far and are feeling excitement

໑ You're longing for a New Year's Eve that feels attuned, deep, authentic and alive

໑ You want to spend the New Year with an incredible community of embodied, loving, powerful souls

*If you're feeling the call, we invite you to join us. If you have more questions, please feel free to reach out to us directly at play@dancemeetstantra.com, read our FAQ: www.dancemeetstantra.com/faq, or text our team directly at +1 (628) 252-8187 (Enki).

*Space is very limited and this will sell out.

Diverse Backgrounds Partial Scholarship

At Dance Meets Tantra we understand that various forms of privilege can play a role in financial access to our containers. We believe that diversity is an important aspect of building a truly transformational journey and we desire to impact and support all people with our work. We are providing some partial scholarships for people from diverse backgrounds who may not otherwise be able to afford the full ticket price.

Partial scholarships are generally about 30-50% the cost of a regular priced ticket. The tickets are non-refundable.If you purchase a scholarship ticket and can longer attend, you may find someone to purchase your ticket from you.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/jJe1cCb4fshLDgQb8

Logistics and FAQ

Arrival: Doors open 630pm and a mandatory opening circle and container setting will start at 715pm. Late comers will not be admitted. There will be no exceptions.

Completion: this New Year's Eve immersion will complete by 2am. 

COVID/Health Protocol: please be self-responsible and caring for the group by monitoring your health and exposure leading into our journey. Please take a self-test on the morning of if you have any questions about your exposure.

Nourishment: snacks will be available throughout the evening and some special savory and sweet nourishment will be provided after midnight!

Space: is limited to the first 70 sign-ups.

Address: 2820 Seventh St, Berkeley, CA 94710

Refund & Transfer Policy:

- There are no refunds. Tickets are transferrable to another participant in advance of the event and we ask that you be responsible for finding the buyer.

Your Dance Meets Tantra Guides & Team: 

Spencer Jacobson - Co-Host of Revel & Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra

Spencer is a transformational facilitator, DJ, poet and serial entrepreneur with a passion for the art of gathering humans to experience the deepest truths of ourselves individually and collectively. His facilitation style invites self-expression, connection, and creativity while playfully and safely exploring the edges of our comfort zone. He is forever a student of embodiment and healing arts, having studied 5Rhythms dance, tantra, contact improv, ontological coaching, cranialsacral therapy, and yoga. Through training and deep personal experience, he is committed to creating safer spaces that hold a trauma-informed perspective. He is co-founder of www.dancemeetstantra.com and www.emergence.love - and previously founded www.guided.co - an organization that has coached thousands of business leaders around the world. "Your heart knows the way, run in that direction” - Rumi | www.spencerjacobson.com | @spencerjacobson_

Pronouns: He/Him

Maya Light - DJ

Maya Light loves to dive into the depths of connection and expression through the unique and captivating conversation that is awakened on the dance floor. She plays as a director of the human experience, offering countless pathways and possibilities of movement through the range of diverse music she shares.

Drawn to deliciously wompy, heart-bass world beats, she encourages a rich exploration with a dynamically nourishing and inspiring journey of sound.

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Pronouns: She/Her

Enki - Co-Host

Enki’s life & service is dedicated to a vision of personal transformation and spiritual growth that embraces the entirety of human experience–from the darkest to the most sublime–with tenderness and play. He holds temple space for groups and individuals where everything from the rawest emotional process to the heights of ecstatic pleasure are welcomed and celebrated as access points to the divine. His work is informed by many lineages: from Zen to the Sufi mystics; Taoism to esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. https://enki.love

We look forward to seeing you there! Please reach out to play@dancemeetstantra.com or +1 (628) 252-8187 (Enki) with any questions. 

With love,

Spencer, Enki, Maya and the Dance Meets Tantra team