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Esta Polyesta

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Ecstatic Dance

Esta Polyesta from Amsterdam is one of the most prominent DJs in Global Beats, World Music and Ecstatic Dance in Europe and beyond. She is a very active DJ, ceremony leader, teacher and facilitator and one of the most international Ecstatic Dance DJs and Ceremony Leaders. Ecstatic Dance has taken her to Thailand, Sweden, Romania, USA, Germany, India, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, UK and many other places. Most people know Esta because of her joyful and uplifting Ecstatic Dance sets. Those who wish to travel deeper, are invited to join a Trance Dance Ritual. This is a blindfolded dance practice with many shamanistic elements. Her music style is flowing and adventurous, with delicate and smooth transitions between different tracks. She plays many styles and rhythms. Ethnic, world and ancestral music laced with beats, are at the core of her choice. Acoustic or electronic, fast or slow, break beats or flowing, ancient or modern, Esta Polyesta weaves it together into one journey that allows you to invite your emotions and to connect deeply with the self or others or just celebrate. After an Ecstatic Dance tour in the USA in October/ November 2018, she went to Asia. Esta Polyesta is a resident at The Source in Arambol, Goa and she played at Goa Ecstatic Dance Festival in Goa and Ecstatica Festival at Koh Phangan in Thailand. In the Spring of 2019, Esta Polyesta started teaching and coaching aspiring DJs at the Ecstatic DJ Training in Portugal. This is a co-production with Bernice Raabis, one of the founders of Ecstatic Dance International. In 2020 Esta joined Dance The Medicine, a world wide teaching platform that has successfully hosted 2 DJ conferences and several Ecstatic Leadership, DJ and facilitator trainings online and in real life at retreat centres. In Amsterdam or while traveling, students who’d like to become ED DJs, know how to find her for private tutoring, coaching and small group lessons. From 2016 She worked at the Odessa ship project where she built up the Ecstatic Dance program and guided with her team the ceremony leaders, space holders and DJs for 3 years, until she was invited to join Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam, where she re-ignited the sparkle. During Covid-times she moved on to online dances and developed a way to do out-door headphone dances, while most activities were in lock-down. Early 2021 she moved to India again to facilitate dances there. Esta is since 2017 organizer of Ecstatic Dance Ruigoord in an old church on an old power spot in the artist village of Ruigoord near Amsterdam. Esta has been exploring different dance modalities and took several trainings in guiding conscious dance. In 2010 she completed a Trance Dance facilitator training and she offers Trance Dances, mostly on invitation. “Ecstatic Dance and rituals are my passion and my medicine, but a good dance at a festival or party can be healing or grounding too.” Festival and party invitations are happily accepted. Together with her music partner Mashti she made remixes for Kaya Project and for Womex Festival artists. One of those tracks: Oum- Lik (Mashti and Polyesta remix), was published on the prestigious George V label of Buddha Bar compilations and on Radio Monte Carlo’s Cosmopolis Release.

Ecstatic Dance has taken her to Thailand, Sweden, Romania, USA, Germany, India, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, UK and many other places.

Most people know Esta because of her joyful and uplifting Ecstatic Dance sets. Those who wish to travel deeper, are invited to join a Trance Dance Ritual. This is a blindfolded dance practice with many shamanistic elements.

Her music style is flowing and adventurous, with delicate and smooth transitions between different tracks. She plays many styles and rhythms. Ethnic, world and ancestral music laced with beats, are at the core of her choice. Acoustic or electronic, fast or slow, break beats or flowing, ancient or modern, Esta Polyesta weaves it together into one journey that allows you to invite your emotions and to connect deeply with the self or others or just celebrate.

After an Ecstatic Dance tour in the USA in October/ November 2018, she went to Asia. Esta Polyesta is a resident at The Source in Arambol, Goa and she played at Goa Ecstatic Dance Festival in Goa and Ecstatica Festival at Koh Phangan in Thailand.

In the Spring of 2019, Esta Polyesta started teaching and coaching aspiring DJs at the Ecstatic DJ Training in Portugal. This is a co-production with Bernice Raabis, one of the founders of Ecstatic Dance International.

In 2020 Esta joined Dance The Medicine, a world wide teaching platform that has successfully hosted 2 DJ conferences and several Ecstatic Leadership, DJ and facilitator trainings online and in real life at retreat centres.

In Amsterdam or while traveling, students who’d like to become ED DJs, know how to find her for private tutoring, coaching and small group lessons.

From 2016 She worked at the Odessa ship project where she built up the Ecstatic Dance program and guided with her team the ceremony leaders, space holders and DJs for 3 years, until she was invited to join Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam, where she re-ignited the sparkle.

During Covid-times she moved on to online dances and developed a way to do out-door headphone dances, while most activities were in lock-down.

Early 2021 she moved to India again to facilitate dances there.
Esta is since 2017 organizer of Ecstatic Dance Ruigoord in an old church on an old power spot in the artist village of Ruigoord near Amsterdam.

Esta has been exploring different dance modalities and took several trainings in guiding conscious dance. In 2010 she completed a Trance Dance facilitator training and she offers Trance Dances, mostly on invitation.

Ecstatic Dance and rituals are my passion and my medicine, but a good dance at a festival or party can be healing or grounding too.” Festival and party invitations are happily accepted.

Together with her music partner Mashti she made remixes for Kaya Project and for Womex Festival artists. One of those tracks: Oum- Lik (Mashti and Polyesta remix), was published on the prestigious George V label of Buddha Bar compilations and on Radio Monte Carlo’s Cosmopolis Release.