If you're craving a New Year’s that is intentional, meaningful, and truly connected, this gathering is for you.

Not a bar scene.
Not a club bender.
Not another chaotic countdown.

Just real people, real energy, and a beautifully curated dance and musical journey.
Brought to you by Ecstatic Dance Toronto, one of the longest-running conscious dance communities in Canada, with over 1000 gatherings since 2006.

✨ WHY THIS NIGHT IS DIFFERENT
This evening is built around one simple idea:
How you enter the year shapes how you live the year.

This New Year’s Dance Celebration is more than an event—it’s a portal. Rooted in Ecstatic Dance Toronto’s vision, it honours the profound meeting place between body and soul, where movement becomes the language of deeper intelligence. Born from the understanding that modern life often pulls us away from our inner compass, Ecstatic Dance Toronto creates spaces where wisdom returns through sensation, rhythm, and presence.

Dance—one of humanity’s oldest technologies for remembering—has always helped us cross thresholds. On this night, it becomes the medium through which we shed the old, reclaim the vital, and open our vision to what wants to emerge in the coming year.

As the music carries you from stillness to release, from intensity to spaciousness, you’re invited into direct experience: no choreography, no instruction, no words, no alcohol, no performance—just you, a safe space for your body’s truth, and a room full of people who welcome you exactly as you are. We ask ourselves: how might we dance fiercely in the face of change? This celebration is a reclamation of raw life force, an antidote to disconnection in an overstimulated world. We dance to let go, celebrate, integrate, and remember ourselves more fully. Together, we welcome 2026 through movement that creates space for clarity, creative possibility and the next expression of who we are becoming.

Community Practices & Live Elements
Throughout the evening, you’ll experience:
* intention setting
* breathwork & grounding
* rhythm activation
* guided singing circle
* sound healing
* a guided dance journey with DJ’s
* an alcohol free and high vibration environment
* a meaningful midnight moment
These elements weave the night into a journey that is alive, soulful, and deeply human.

🌙 THE MIDNIGHT MOMENT
Instead of the usual countdown, we will pause together.
A collective breath. A room of hearts opening at the same time.
A crossing into 2026 marked by stillness, clarity, and intention.

This is the kind of midnight that stays with you.
A New Year’s celebration your future self will genuinely thank you for.

🧭 FLOW OF THE NIGHT

7:30PM–8:15PM Arrival · Grounding · Warm-up
8:15PM–9:30PM Opening Circle · Intention Setting · Rhythm & Voice Activation
9:30PM–1:30AM 2hr Dance Journey · Breathwork · Sound Healing · Midnight Moment
Social Time · Smoothies (Vegan + Protein) Served All Night
1:30AM Sweet Dreams · Doors remain open all night

We encourage you to arrive by 8:15PM to experience the full arc of the evening.

💛 WHAT TO BRING
* A water bottle (refill available)
* Comfortable clothes you can move in
* An item/focus for the intention altar (optional)
* An open heart

One night. Ten facilitators guide you through the full arc of transformation:
rhythm activation, breathwork, wild dance journey, sound healing, integration.

Your New Year's lineup:
✨ Intention Circle
Set your vision for 2026.
🎤 Collective Voice Activation
Individual tension dissolves as we enter group harmony.
🔥 Rhythm Activation
Leave your thinking mind and awaken your body.
💫 Unity Dance
You belong here exactly as you are.
🫁 Guided Breathwork
Release what isn't yours to carry.
🎶 Live DJ Ecstatic Dance Journey
Wild spirits, dance into the fullness of your being through waves of pure energy.
🥤 Nourishing Smoothies
Transformation requires fuel. Protein and vegan options served all night.
🌙 Sacred Midnight Tea Ritual
A pause. A collective breath. A reset.
🔮 Cosmic Soundbath
Healing frequencies for full integration.
🫶 Intimate Relating
Ground into 2026 with people who see you.
💎 Closing Circle
Leave awake, aligned, and alive.

🎟 TICKETS
$55 —Early Access Dec 6–21
For planners who want to join with a gentle discount.
A spacious window to say yes.
$65 — General Access Dec 22–28
Standard pricing as we move closer to the celebration.
Most people join us here.
$70 — Final Release Dec 29–30
For the last-minute “I know I need to be there” decision.
Final chance to enter the field.
Tickets are limited and last year sold out.
If you feel the pull, reserve your spot early.

🌟YOU WILL LEAVE FEELING
* grounded
* clear
* connected
* energized
* inspired
* emotionally lighter
* aligned with what you want to create in the coming year


🌐 ABOUT ECSTATIC DANCE TORONTO
We are Toronto’s leading conscious multi-cultural dance community, hosting 1000+ gatherings since 2006. Tens of thousands have moved, healed, celebrated, and transformed with us.

We dance in a beautiful 5000 sq ft sacred space in downtown Toronto.
All bodies, ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience welcome. *Alcohol & drug free*
We ask for no shoes on the dance floor. Just presence and an openness to new experiences.

📣 INVITE YOUR PEOPLE
Share this experience with the friends who want to start the year awake, aligned, and alive.