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Walking the Path of Beauty & Way of Love
🌹 Divine Feminine Mentor
🌹 Astrology Guide
🌹 Kundalini Dance Priestess
🌹 Ecstatic Dance DJ
🌹 Ceremonialist

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Lila will be our journey weaver this Thursday at Dance Temple! Join us for an evening of deep release and connection 💖

Two volunteer spots available in exchange for dance- please message Sarah.

Beaver Point Hall
7-9
$20
Under 12 and over 89 free
Cash preferred or etransfer prior to dancing to dancetemplelove@gmail.com by @anandalila

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11 days ago

Introducing our two newest feline friends who we have yet to name. If you have some good ideas, please post them below. 🐈 taken in Salt Spring Island, B.C. by @anandalila

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Wow. Hats off, hands up and deep bows to us! In my experience, we all showed up with brilliant presence, gracious reverence and heartfelt care to the 2026 Dance Temple Gathering.

I’ve spent this past week digesting, integrating and ruminating on the beauty that was embodied in our full weekend together... I am in awe of how this dancing community showed up to deepen in our steps towards creating safer space for us to dream, heal and grow into the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

What a gift to co-create a space where our local indigenous hosts feel welcome and valued to bring protocol, wisdom, language, healing and gifts to our shared table.

Where our ancestors are honoured and our children celebrated.

Where our grief and joy are welcomed as we get to know ourselves and each other.

Where we are held by so many incredible space holders, the grace of the land and its creatures and the benevolence of the unseen realms.

May we continue to seed this dream: one of inclusion and participation, of healing and transformation, of authenticity and freedom, of respect and reverence.

AND PLAY!!! I love playing with you… I had so much fun.

Lifetime highlight: @shanleyspence ‘s performance during Saturday night set with @shaunamoves_ @cedar.mathias @raraavisjourneys and @connie_amanita with @hersoftpower @anandalila @sarahetherington1212 and Jaz onstage dancing

Thank you all.
Huy ch q’u Siem ✨❤️✨

To support this way of walking together, as was spoken into by Joe Akerman and Wisdom keeper Qwiyahwultuhw, please consider checking out the Qushin’tul website and donating to the yearly pilgrimage bridging local communities and culture for learning, healing and connection.

link in my BiYo too:
https://www.qushintul.ca/how-to-support

Scroll to donate options; chuffed online fundraiser Or e-transfer to: WalkingTogetherInUnity@gmail.com

#consiousdance #embodiedleadership #dancetemple #dancetemplegathering by @anandalila

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2 months ago

August is asking us to come home to what matters most. ❤️‍🔥

Leo season opens with Mercury and Jupiter urging fuller self-expression - take up space, trust your voice, let yourself be seen. Mid-month, a New Moon eclipse asks us to release what’s no longer aligned and step more fully onto our own path. Then Virgo season arrives, turning our attention to the rituals and daily practices that actually nourish us.

Thanks for the inspo - @chaninicholas · @anandalila · @kirsty_gallagher_ · @iamnataliemiles · @spiritdaughter

Swipe through all five. Then tell us in the comments: which message found you this month? ✨ ✨ by @anandalila

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Four dances. One community. This is it. 🌈

Introducing our Main Stage Collaborative Dances - four anchor moments this weekend where everything stops, and the whole community comes together on one dance floor.

Each dance is collaboratively held by DJs, musicians, and facilitators from across the Dance Temple community, weaving their hearts, their sounds, and their gifts together for our community.

🌙 Friday Evening: Welcome Dance
Driem aka Aaron Hanford - @driemmusic | facebook.com/aaron.handford
River Helen Pattison - facebook.com/helen.melon.31586
Michael Fraser - @michaelfrasermusic | facebook.com/mfraserviolin

🌅 Saturday Morning: Reunion Dance
Jaz - facebook.com/jazmin.love.5011
Cat Ness - @hersoftpower | facebook.com/cat.ness.674586

🔥 Saturday Night: Celebration Dance
Naomi Jason - @njoynaomi | facebook.com/naomi.jason
Shauna Devlin - @shaunamoves_ | facebook.com/shauna.devlin.54
Cedar Mathias - @cedar.mathias | facebook.com/cedar.mathias
Rara Avis - @raraavisjourneys | facebook.com/raraavisjourneys
Connie Quayle - @connie_amanita | facebook.com/connie.quayle

🌈 Sunday Afternoon: Closing Dance
Lila Sofiyah - @anandalila | facebook.com/lilalovebee
Syd Del - @syddelmusic | facebook.com/sydney.delyeti
And friends! 💕

Swipe to meet the humans co-holding each dance. ➡️

We cannot wait to move together. See you on the dance floor. 💫

August 7-9, 2026 | Providence Farm, Cowichan Valley

🎫 Tickets at dancetemplegathering.com

#DanceTempleGathering #DTG2026 #MainStage #CollaborativeDance #consciousdance taken in Providence Farm by @anandalila

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3 months ago

Meet Lila Spencer - co-founder, Programming Coordinator, and one of the beating hearts behind Dance Temple Gathering. 🌈💕

Lila has been facilitating dance since 2007 and helped birth Dance Temple Victoria in 2012, and in this interview she shares something we think you’ll feel in your bones - why moving together matters, what makes the Dance Temple container so distinctly different from other dance spaces, and why this gathering in particular is designed to leave you feeling genuinely nourished rather than depleted.

There’s a reason people leave DTG feeling more themselves than when they arrived. Lila speaks to that beautifully here. ✨

This conversation gave us all the feels 🥹 and fair warning - it might just make you want to drop everything and grab a ticket if you haven’t already 💕

August 7-9, 2026 | Providence Farm, Cowichan Valley
🎫 dancetemplegathering.com

@anandalila | facebook.com/lilalovebee

#DanceTempleGathering #DTG2026 #MeetTheHumansOfDTG2026 #ConsciousDance #EcstaticDance taken in Providence Farm by @anandalila

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3 months ago

Last night a small group of feral sisters and their children gathered down by the ocean to celebrate the feast of Mary Magdalene.
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These are a few images that I took to mark the evening and celebrate both the intent of our gathering and the beauty of this sacred land we call home here on Salt Spring island.
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We also celebrated each other on our pathways, and the criss,cross ways that we intersect, support and hold each other as women on this journey of life.
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This summer has been full of sacred evenings like this, dotted, between by days of scouring, carding and spinning wool from the land here as well..
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Thank you to @saeraburns and @anandalila for calling us together and creating such a lush evening..
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Thank you @__infinitebody__ for embodying the essence of Mary Magdalene.
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#feastofmarymagdalene by @anandalila

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It takes a village. Meet the humans at the heart of ours. 🌈

Meet the exec team - four humans who have poured their hearts, skills, and countless hours into co-creating Dance Temple Gathering. Swipe through to meet each of them. 💕

Naomi Jason, Co-Founder and Ritual Coordinator, has been a foundational voice in the Dance Temple movement since the very beginning, bringing 15 years of leadership, deep ceremonial wisdom, and a gift for weaving meaningful ritual into every corner of the gathering.
@njoynaomi | facebook.com/naomi.jason

Lila Spencer, Co-Founder and Programming Coordinator, has been guiding dance and building community for the past 20 years, bringing her gifts as a conscious dance facilitator, leader, and community weaver to the heart of DTG’s programming, artist relations, and the magic in the spaces in between.
@anandalila | facebook.com/lilalovebee

Mark Edwin Berge, Production Manager, brings both production expertise and deep love for the Comox Valley dance community, holding the logistical container that makes the whole weekend possible.
@playfulleventsco | facebook.com/thenatureboyberge | facebook.com/PlayFullEvents

Alex King-Harris (Rara Avis), Co-Founder and Executive Producer, brings 25 years of transformational event experience, holding the larger vision of what DTG can be and become.
@raraavisjourneys | facebook.com/raraavisjourneys

And the beautiful thing? You’ll find each of them not just behind the scenes, but also on the dance floor, behind the decks, and bringing their own individual magic to the offerings throughout the weekend. 💫

This gathering is built on love. We hope you feel that when you arrive.

August 7-9, 2026 | Providence Farm, Cowichan Valley

🎫 dancetemplegathering.com

#DanceTempleGathering #DTG2026 #MeetTheHumansOfDTG2026 #ConsciousDance #VancouverIslandFestival taken in Providence Farm by @anandalila

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3 months ago

July, in short: slow down first, then show up louder.

The month opens under Cancer season, with a New Moon on July 14 that’s less about manifesting and more about letting yourself ask for support. Then Leo season kicks in on July 22 inspiring creativity, visibility, and confidence - building to one of the year’s most expansive stretches by July 29.

We rounded up a few takes on the month ahead from astrologers we trust: @anandalila, @iamnataliemiles, @kirsty_gallagher_ , @spiritdaughter, and @chaninicholas.

Swipe through, and read Lila’s full forecast at the link in bio.

What’s standing out to you this month? Tell us below.

#headplusheart #julyastrology #astrologyforecast #newmoon #leoseason by @anandalila

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3 months ago

This is 50!
Feeling so loved up and grateful.

Thank you to all who sent messages and those who were here in person with me.

I had a vision of a playful and joyful birthday with an epic retro dance party and it truly came into being x’s 1000. It feels special to get to celebrate these big milestones with people we love.

Excited to see what this next chapter will hold.
Life truly is a magical, mysterious and ever changing adventure.
Full of endless growth, learning, integration and connection.

I am going into this next decade committed to following inspired joy, to being unapologetically my weird self, loving and spending quality time with the people in my life and savoring in the beauty of this life.

Thanks for seeing me and for all the love!
I love you 💖🌟🦄

And thanks to me dear friends Skye and Neo for this life size cardboard cutout of myself. Now that I am 50, I may send her in my place when I am too tired to go out 🤣 by @anandalila

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The power of being together in deep immersive containers is something I cherish deeply.

The opportunity to slow down and drop in, allowing the body and nervous system to soften while nourishing with good food, connection and spaciousness.

A reset, a rejuvenation and resourcing to refill our cup.

In just over 3 weeks we will gather on our beautiful land here on Salt Spring Island for the Alchemical Woman Retreat.

A 8 day retreat where we will dance, breathe, commune with nature, ourselves and each other and connect to our sensory bodies as we attune with the elements, our essence and the vitality of our ecstatic aliveness.

These retreats are truly magical and held in a way that flows wth what is needed and moving in the moment.

We start July 3rd and we have a few spaces left including a discounted scholarship spot if you are feeling called though could use support to make it happen!

We would love to share this journey with you. Reach out for more info 🌹🐝♥️

DETAILS ✨
July 3rd to 11th 2026
Salt Spring Island, BC by @anandalila

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The Alchemical Woman Retreat is here for you to D.O.S.E Yourself with ALIVENESS
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Each day you POWER UP & REPLENISH mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

Every day is designed to NOURISH YOU - your mind, body, heart, and spirit through practices that naturally support the body’s feel good chemistry.

You boost the beauty-way in your mood, your brain, your health, your happiness and your social connections. You let them land and integrate in every layer of self so you can replenish your reservoirs.

💖 Dopamine = Pleasure • Hope • Inspiration • Possibility • Motivation

✧ Setting intentions, inner visioning, desire activation

✧ Self-care, good food, good rest, expression through writing & creation

✧ Moving the body with authentic expression and dance

✧ Celebrating growth, transformation, aha moments

✧ Feeling inspired by possibility and purpose

💖 Oxytocin = Love • Trust • Connection • Belonging

✧ Sisterhood and authentic connection

✧ Sacred witnessing and heartfelt sharing

✧ Compassionate presence and support

✧ Laughter and joyful experiences

✧ Touch, hugs, kindness, and human connection

💖 Serotonin = Satisfaction • Confidence • Contentment • Inner Peace

✧ Time in nature and fresh air

✧ Sunshine and connection to the lands & elements

✧ Movement and embodied practices

✧ Spaciousness, meditation, the beauty-filled way

✧ Gratitude, reflection, and meaningful connection

💖 Endorphins = Joy • Pleasure • Vitality • Resilience

✧ Playfulness, laughter, and celebration

✧ Breath, movement, and energy healing practices

✧ Singing, sound, and vocal expression

✧ Cacao, chocolate, essential oils, sensory connection

✧ Deep emotional release and liberation

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The Alchemy with You?
You feel more alive!
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connected + open to the mystery of life

inspired + nourished

stable + courageous

resilient

MORE YOURSELF
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This women’s retreat is a space where your whole holy-human system is invited to remember what it feels like to THRIVE.

Join us to replenish the reservoirs of your body, heart, mind, and soul! by @anandalila

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