Black Cat Productions and Ekstasis Dance present LUMINANCE, a multimedia Winter Solstice celebration that includes film, dance performance, a Winter Solstice dance ritual, original electronic music producers, DJs, an art gallery with live visionary art, original visuals, and much more. Now in it’s fifth year, Luminance brings the most diverse Winter Solstice gathering once again to Vancouver’s premiere dance space, the Scotiabank Dance Centre, and it continues to unite dance communities from across the Lower Mainland in the ages-old celebration of light, greeting the return of the sun
As such, the spiritual is traditionally contrasted with the material, the temporal and the worldly. A perceived sense of connection forms a central defining characteristic of spirituality — connection to a metaphysical reality greater than oneself, which may include an emotional experience of religious awe and reverence, or such states as satori or nirvana. Equally importantly, spirituality relates to matters of sanitypsychological health. Spirituality is the personal, subjective dimension of religion, particularly that which pertains to liberation or salvation (see also mysticism and esoterism) .
Ivan Rados’ body (in his own words) was born in Former Yugoslavia. He is an established and internationally recognized artist, an energy healer and a contemporary spiritual guide and teacher; the author of the acclaimed book Create Yourself Secrets of Self Discovery & Healing with Sacred Geometry, published in Canada 2006, and The Transparent Man – the Last Anti-manifesto about Transcendental Art, published in UK in 1994.
Bulding on her own integration of decades of personal development, Isabelle St- Jean helps others to live fully, to embrace their authentic vocation and to negotiate life transitions. With a degree and experience in social work and psychology, and family counselling, Isabelle became in midlife, a Certified NLP Practioner, Professional Life Coach, Certified Retirement Coach, author, speaker, seminar leader and an artist.
