Day 756: ecstatic dance

went to my first ecstatic dance session today and loved it

take one of the best part about edc — the ability to express yourself however you want, as weird as it may be — and then put it on a beautiful beach where everyone is completely sober and just having a good time

it’s funny how uncommon it is for this kind of environment to exist. a guy and his wife walking down the beach were gawking at all of these loonies just dancing away, and when i smiled at him, he made the motion of smoking a joint and gestured toward the crowd. surely, we were all high as balls to be doing this. i laughed and shook my head because ecstatic dance is very explicitly an alcohol and drug free event. i think that’s what special about it: the people coming here value a space where they can move however they want without the need to use substances to alter their experience (most often: numb their sense of feeling self-conscious)

LA is growing on me~