Ecstatic Dance

Ecstatic dance is free dancing to music, with no steps to learn, usually in a group and without talking or alcohol. You move however the music takes you. Dancers describe a feeling of connection with others and with their own emotions, and some use it as a moving meditation or spiritual practice. Ecstatic dance itself is untested, but there is some evidence that dance and exercise may lift low mood: see “Ecstatic dance: what the research says”.