Temenos Dance Collective Podcast

Temenos Dance Collective

A podcast celebrating and exploring the wonderful world of conscious movement - including 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improvisation and many more. Come join host Felix as he discusses dance and movement with teachers, facilitators, DJs and the scene’s movers and shakers.

  1. 12/01/2025

    Osara (Ace Collectiv)

    Osara is a father, DJ and embodiment facilitator with Welsh, Scottish and Sámi roots. Raised on free parties in Wales, he began DJing as a teen, learning early what community, courage and dance music can do. He uniquely braids ancient and future technologies and sound: drum, shakers and yoik-inspired vocals with organic, underground and electronic dance music. Creating transformational dance journeys that are ever responding to the spirit of time, community and place. His palette spans 140, african rhythms, percussive heavy club music, jungle, techno, world bass, folktronica and all kinds of experimental edges. It is deep, driving and heart-opening, willing to meet shadow as well as celebrate light. He is one of the leading Ecstatic Dance DJs in the UK and the first and longest-serving resident at Ecstatic Dance UK in London. He started Ecstatic Dance Bristol almost seven years ago then founded Ace Collectiv a few years later. Ace Collecitv creates alcohol-free, high-production experiences that move with the seasons and weave dance, music, art,  ritual and community. Club-level sound and lighting design are an important part of the medicine. Osara has produced community events that have seen the first appearances in Bristol of the Huni Kuin and Yawanawá (indigenous people from the Amazon Rainforest), as well as the Umbanda group, Roça de Ogum, from São Paulo, Brazil. Beyond the decks he mentors artists, facilitators and community builders who want to lead with integrity and craft. Influences include nature, animism, mysticism, plant medicine teachings and the global cultures that shape sound system and club music, as well as his own Celtic and Sámi lines. With the intention of creating more spaces for authentic movement, expression, empowerment and connection. Ace Collectiv presents:NYD 2026 - Midwinter FestivalThu 1 Jan 2026 | 11am - 9:30pmThe Mount Without, Bristol🎟 Tickets & Info:https://dandelion.events/e/nyd-festival-2026 Osara instagram.com/osarasound soundcloud.com/osarasound linktr.ee/osarasound Ace Collectiv instagram.com/acecollectiv dandelion.events/o/acecollectiv

    1h 19m
  2. 06/20/2025

    Simonetta Alessandri

    Simonetta Alessandri is an Italian dance artist and a somatic educator based in London. She applies the Feldenkrais Method to dance and movement training and to performance-making. She teaches Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Choreography and Contemporary Technique at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London Contemporary Dance School, at Goldsmiths University and in other Universities in UK. She teaches internationally and has been a guest teacher in Germany, Colombia, UK, Norway, Israel, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Taiwan and India.  Her work is informed by more than 30 years of dancing, teaching and choreographing. As a choreographer, she has created pieces for dance companies, students, large scale opera, improvised performance and site-specific works.  She has also done movement direction for theatre. She taught for more than 20 years in Italy and kept Contact Improvisation alive in Roma for 10 years with her classes and jams. She was one of the few dance practitioners in Italy who began working with Contact Improvisation in the 90’s.  She obtained the Post Graduate Diploma at London Contemporary Dance School, she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method and she holds the Teacher Certificate of the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is one of the founders of CI@Goldsmiths, association of dance artists dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of Contact Improvisation in London and UK. Follow her on Instagram: alessandri_simo_ Follow her on Facebook: Simonetta Alessandri Check out the CI @ Goldsmiths website: https://www.cigoldsmiths.com/ Check out the London Contact Festival: https://www.cigoldsmiths.com/londoncontactfestival

    58 min
  3. 05/11/2025

    MITHFOTU with Christian de Sousa and Felix Oram. Part 3: Morning Medicine

    Part 3 of a 3 Part Series. Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe with Christian de Sousa & Felix Oram. Part 3: Morning Medicine Join Christian and Felix as they discuss and share a selection of beautiful and inspirational tracks that have deeply touched their souls. If you enjoyed the podcast and would like to listen to the tracks featured in full please check out the Spotify playlist. This podcast emerged from the creative springs of a project titled Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe, which is happening on Saturday 7th June 2025 at the beautiful Amadeus Centre in west London (Warwick Ave tube). To join Christian and Felix for a very special 5-hour dancing journey into sound where they will be weaving together diverse musical lineages: leaning into conscious dance maps, underground subcultures and the time-honoured human ritual of communing in rhythm, melody and togetherness, please use the link below. All bodies welcome. To book your tickets hit the link below: https://www.temenosdance.com/event-details/music-is-the-healing-force-of-the-universe Bio: Christian de Sousa is a DJ, dancer, facilitator and artist He holds dance spaces in Devon, London, Internationally and Online.  He also offers a membership called The Home Dancing Project and broadcasts a monthly deep radio show called Transmission. Find all his work at www.glimpsesoflight.art Follow at:  https://www.instagram.com/_glimpses.of.light_/ https://www.facebook.com/polartaoist/ DJ FX10K (aka Felix Oram) has been DJing since the 1990s in clubs, conscious dances & underground scenes.. He worked in the music industry for many years, running a record label and working in Matthew Bushwhacka’s recording studio. He is the founder of Temenos Dance Collective, an innovative conscious movement project offering safe, wholesome and inspirational movement experiences in London.  To keep up to date follow Temenos on Instagram or join the WhatsApp group.

    1h 7m
  4. 05/11/2025

    MITHFOTU with Christian de Sousa and Felix Oram. Part 2: Electronic Dance Revolution

    Part 2 of a 3 Part Series. Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe with Christian de Sousa & Felix Oram.  Part 2: Electronic Dance Revolution. Join Christian and Felix as they discuss the electronic dance revolution of the early 1990s and share some of the tracks that had the most impact for them at that time. If you enjoyed the podcast and would like to listen to the tracks featured in full please check out the Spotify playlist. This podcast emerged from the creative springs of a project titled Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe, which is happening on Saturday 7th June 2025 at the beautiful Amadeus Centre in west London (Warwick Ave tube). To join Christian and Felix for a very special 5-hour dancing journey into sound where they will be weaving together diverse musical lineages: leaning into conscious dance maps, underground subcultures and the time-honoured human ritual of communing in rhythm, melody and togetherness, please use the link below. All bodies welcome. For additional information on this event and to reserve your place head to the website via this link. Bio: Christian de Sousa is a DJ, dancer, facilitator and artist He holds dance spaces in Devon, London, Internationally and Online.  He also offers a membership called The Home Dancing Project and broadcasts a monthly deep radio show called Transmission. Find all his work at www.glimpsesoflight.art Follow at:  https://www.instagram.com/_glimpses.of.light_/ https://www.facebook.com/polartaoist/ DJ FX10K (aka Felix Oram) has been DJing since the 1990s in clubs, conscious dances & underground scenes.. He worked in the music industry for many years, running a record label and working in Matthew Bushwhacka’s recording studio. He is the founder of Temenos Dance Collective, an innovative conscious movement project offering safe, wholesome and inspirational movement experiences in London.  To keep up to date follow Temenos on Instagram or join the WhatsApp group. If you'd like to purchase the book mentioned in this episode: Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko here is a link.

    1h 34m

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A podcast celebrating and exploring the wonderful world of conscious movement - including 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improvisation and many more. Come join host Felix as he discusses dance and movement with teachers, facilitators, DJs and the scene’s movers and shakers.