Sedona Dances Brings a New Spin to Wellness

0:00Hey everybody welcome back to signals news podcast. I'm Alicia and today I'm joined with Danielle and Brandon. They are from Sedona Dances. We've got a virtual podcast takes for super fancy. We can do it all. So I want to tell you guys you know before we jump into it I just left Sedona last weekend and I just to be able to live there or to you just you just enter Sedona and your whole mindset just changes. How lucky are you guys to live there and own a business there? Tell everybody a little bit about what you guys do. So we're Sedona Dances and we on 350 silent disco headsets which we kind of have developed into a whole silent sound immersive experiences through our company. So we offer that through retreats also we have a venue where we bring people to do dance classes to do our sound and vibration mats so we do kind of offer a lot of

1:05things for the community and a lot of experiences. We also share all the local dance events on our website so we try to promote any dancing. I'm like we'll never stop dancing is our big motto so we just love movement and anything with healing and sound and vibration is really evolved to include Sedona Dances and we're really excited to share everything we have with community. So what is silent disco? Silent disco it's an amazing experience where you put headphones on and you tap into three different transmitters where you can either have like three different DJs or three people with iPhones competing with each other to get the crowd to choose their station and everyone just keeps dancing and it's cool because you can switch the stations between one two or three you can turn the volume up or down and really have an incredible experience where people don't really stop dancing. It's like an hour and a half

2:08two hours and everyone's pooped afterwards because they just don't stop. It's amazing it's such a fun experience and we did it years ago together and we bought 350 headphones now we have many transmitters so we do multiple events on multiple days. We're just we're really excited and that's evolved into the basically sound vibration which you can plug the headphones into a device that would let you feel the bass. So one of the things that people don't like about sometimes the headphones is you can't really feel the bass the same way you can with all the big sound systems and they've really actually created a cool solution and that's helped evolve our business now too. So if I'm watching from the outside I don't have headphones in. Is the room just quiet except for the except for the random singing happens and what's really fun is we we usually play a light background music so there's an atmosphere because we do weddings we do bachelor parties reunions and so we usually have like background music

3:11playing so what's beautiful like say a wedding reception. You can have everybody dancing on the dance floor but you can have family members sitting at the table talking because it's not loud. What we find is most people are entertained when you're watching people dance without the sound of the music it's really entertaining and most of the time we have headsets for even the people sitting down even if they're not they usually end up listening. Yeah because they see somebody dancing and they go what are they and so it actually is very interactive. We get way more people on the dance floor at a lot of the weddings that we cook. We usually come in like at 10 o'clock when the noise ordinances start and so don't end so they'll have it live DJ playing and then they'll bring us in. We find that more people get on the dance floor once we start and then that's why we also have never stopped dancing because we feel like now they can just keep going and they don't have to stop at 10 o'clock. Oh you know it's funny as well we were there my husband's like oh you know it do you want to go out for a little bit you know we'd already you know been out all

4:13day and I was like yeah let's go we'll go get a cocktail or something and everything kind of shuts down at you know dark time so it's like we're done. Yeah most places are nine here. Yeah I was shot even on a Friday or Saturday night we're like that's crazy so but it is what it is. Talk to me about because you know I talked about when when I got to Sedona it's just the red rock everything it's just you're transformed into another like almost dimension you know you're just automatically just calm and you know peaceful how are you guys you know also utilizing that with what you do. Well I've been hosting a free static dance on the rocks for the past oh wow I guess it's eight years eight years now so it's been eight years this month and I've been out there every Tuesday out on the rocks right now it's sunset for the seven-ish and when it gets hot and move it a little later and the winter it moves to noon but

5:14we'll get 20 to 150 people out there every single Tuesday and it's just an amazing community experience that's grounding you really get to experience the views we do it up at Yavapite Point which is between Sedona and the village. It's kind of our outreach to the community we you know one of the things Brandon had taught me when we started being together is he's really about that every business should get back to community in some way even you know just like if every business gave three hours every person gave three hours of their time a week how much could be accomplished right so we feel like that's our way of giving back and then we also provide all the local dance events in the community we post anyone who is having a dance dance will post it for them but one of the other things that we do to connect outside is we'll if there's a retreat group will they'll hire us to bring us in to do a static dance and we'll do an immersive ecstatic dance which is where everybody wears the heads

6:15sets and we can take them out onto the land and then they can just be fully immersed and they can I usually guide them we have a microphone that feeds into all the headsets we have groups that use them from meditation for yoga on the rocks I mean there's a lot of things that can do to get out on the rocks and have it be silent everybody around so it's very respectful to the people around that's awesome so who do you recommend those types of experiences for? Bachelorette reunion groups I mean any group that's a yoga retreat we do a few of those as well I think we do a lot of them I'm like I'm like we we actually do a lot with a lot of the healing retreats too because they're doing so much healing it's like you can only do so much in a day you need to move that energy get it out and honestly I think dance is one of the best meditation movement exercises out there it's been one of my big healing factors that's why I have found I well I found ecstatic dance and then founded the Tuesday one just

7:19because I needed it I needed to dance I needed to move and then I started the Friday dance which is now the Thursday dance which brought us together and that was through the dance that I found my dance teacher and she's been teaching dance here for many years now and really has grown the dance business we do a lot of dance I think it's I think it's a good point you know you're you know you're going one with nature and then you need to just get it out right you just need to let it out so I think that's great how do people contact you if they're just visiting Sedona they just want an hour or two of time in front of you know just where to go what to do how how's the best way to get a hold of you they can go to our website it's SedonaDances.com that's the best way and we're also on Instagram so it's Facebook as well so they can just clip Sedona dances is it pretty it's pretty easy to remember it pops up you

8:22know pretty quickly and I was gonna say one of the other things that we offer like when you're talking about like at a retreat we bring in the wellness mats or our vibration mats and we find that people they're feeling the music you know they put the headphones on they lay on these mats and they have different programs like cortisol release, serotonin boost and they find that they can just really tap in like meditation but having a full body experience through the music that's playing through your whole body yeah it's incredible I really is I'm like highly recommended I would say just how smart you guys are I mean you you're in the perfect place for what you guys are offering and I think everybody that most people when you enter Sedona you're in that mindset already and to just be able to to have a place to you take a one step further I we went to Sedona just kind of blind we didn't research anything we just went we had a good time walking the shops and stuff but I feel we missed out on you know what

9:24could have been a really cool experience as well you know you can into what you guys are doing so I'm glad you guys are on the show I'm gonna have to go back to Sedona now you know twist my arm I will and but thank you guys so much for coming on it's again your website mention it to everybody SedonaDance is calm and you can find us on Instagram Facebook and telegram telegram tele friend tell everybody thank you guys so much for coming well poppin in so and we will see everybody next time thank you have a blessed day you're welcome thank you

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