It is a subscription service for conscious dancers and movement meditators who want to learn and practice with me as a teacher-facilitator.

When you sign-up, you make a monthly pledge and you receive a monthly dose of resources: DJ mixes, guided practices and more. These resources are designed to support you to integrate a life-changing movement practice into your routine.

It works through a platform called Patreon, which takes care of all the financial and technical stuff, allowing me to focus on the creative part of being in service to your dance practice.

1. A device that can access the internet and download recordings.
2. As decent speakers or headphones as possible.
3. A space or place where you feel safe enough to relax into moving and following the dance.
4. An ability to take responsibility for your own safety, experience and well-being. Classes and workshops are led by spaceholders. This work needs you to be the spaceholder for yourself. Which is a great thing to develop or enhance as a skill.

If you’ve been to 5Rhythms or Movement Medicine classes/workshops or similar that may be helpful. However it’s not a pre-requisite; if you’re new to this way of dancing / have always felt too shy to dance with others / whatever – it’s fine! Go to the practice intros and guides first and take it from there.

It’s really up to you, your personal approach to practice – and whatever works.
You might just use each wave once during the month, or you might use every recording many times over.

I recommend looking for a way to build a relaxed but regular commitment into your routine. How that looks will be a function of your life and schedule, of what you want and of when/how the windows are. Some people practice first thing every morning, some do evenings. Some have a dance during lunch-break and some keep the weekend clear.

As Gabrielle Roth put it, find “the discipline to be a free spirit”…

Yes, feel free to use the recordings and other resources with close people for personal practice only. Please read the below for the parameters of this.

If you are using the resources with other people you live with or see often, please adjust your Patreon contribution to reflect that extra energy you are drawing down. Use the name-your-amount option on Patreon. Thanks for your integrity.

Feel free to let me know you are doing this and with who, so I can include you all in my awareness and the energy of the work.

PLEASE NOTE: this is not the same as using the resources in any kind of professional or commercial capacity for group, one-to-one or other work / spaces. If you would like to do this I am open to it if your work is safe, aligned and ethical, but only with explicit and prior permission, and subject to appropriate payment and clear understanding that you hold full liability for your space. Contact me and we can discuss: xian@glimpsesoflight.art

Not at present.
Nurturing and facilitating community in a good way is something I am passionate about, and I love the way the dance opens up extraordinary possibilities for human connection and embodied community.

However, I have enough experience to know that community takes a lot of work to hold properly, and I do not want to do it in a half-baked way. Virtual community forums offer possibilities but also have their limitations. I am currently more able & inclined to put my energy into the creation of the recordings to the highest level I can. So the focus of Dancefloor Jedi is providing resources for dancers to practice autonomously at home and in their own space.

Meanwhile however – you are an agent of seeding/growing community if you want to be. So if this calls, I suggest and encourage you to find and nurture connections with other dancers in your network and the wider field, through existing community spaces and forums (both in-the-room and digital) – or through creating new ones.

Note: if you want to use the resources with others, please see the FAQ about this and adjust your Patreon contribution accordingly. Thanks!

I am a trained teacher of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms practice (2005) and was one of the first ‘pathfinder’ teachers of Movement Medicine (2011)

My movement teaching and DJing draws on a blend of these two potent maps, supported by aspects of Taoist, shamanic, animist and artist practice, all of which I have studied and practiced for over two decades.

I got into ecstatic dancing in my bedroom as a teenager before discovering raves; its been around 25 years since I realised we can use dance as an explicitly conscious meditation practice.

George Lucas described Jedis as “warrior-monks who keep peace in the universe”

In my experience, embodied movement practice is a path of cultivating peace; firstly in the inner universe that is our personal consciousness, and from there into our complex, beautiful and changing world.

These planetary times need Jedis, and the dancefloor is a life-affirming training ground wherever we find ourselves.

Most of the practices are Audio Recordings. The reason for this is that I find radio-style voice guidance more effective for immersive practice then when a screen is the main interface.

There will nevertheless be some Video to bring you intros & demos and to help you connect visually with the teaching and my way with it.

The monthly Transmission is a Radio Livestream on the first Thursday of the month. That brings the option of implicit or direct connection with other dancers tuning in at the same time. Recorded Archives of Transmission are available to listen back later if you can’t make it live.

You access the resources through the Patreon app or website, which give you a an easy to scroll and search feed of everything I post on Dancefloor Jedi.

You don’t need to be online to use the recordings – through the Patreon app you can download everything for Offline & Anytime Access, so you can listen anywhere and at the time of your choosing – in nature, underground, wherever!

You can even also use the simple RSS function to set-up Dancefloor Jedi as a Podcast that comes through on Apple Podcasts or any similar app that supports RSS.

You do need to be online for the Transmission livestream.

Soon you will also be able to access all the resources through a page here on glimpsesoflight.art – this needs a little more set-up which will happen once the service is up-and-running!

The JEDI MONTHLY RHYTHM is as follows:

First week of the month: Recordings released Friday end of day / Saturday morning
(1x Guided dance journey + 1x music-only DJmix version)

Second Thursday of the month: Transmission Deep Radio Live Broadcast
(listen live or listen back later) Livestream time 20h-22h uk time

As and When:
When I’m teaching ‘in-the-room’ and its possible to offer a livestream from the event, these dates are announced in advance and in the monthly update. Recordings from these broadcasts may or may not be released, depending on what the quality control department says…

Extra Practices, other resources, bonuses and spontaneous offerings are released at different times as it flows.

Patreon should let you know by email or through the app when new resources are published; check your you notification settings if you need to.

Yes of course! You can sign-up, see how it works and try it, and if you don’t want to continue you can easily cancel at any time.

You also have the flexibility to change to a different tier in my Patreon if you find that would fit better, or if you have a busy/skint month and want to pay less while staying connected.