Ecstatic Dance with DJ Gar Den Boi
Discover an enchanting urban oasis at Detroit Abloom, where vibrant flowers dance in the golden glow of the setting sun. The serene beauty of Abloom's wellness garden creates the perfect space for an evening of peace, play, and dancing in community.
Wake Your Waters invites you to join us in a celebration of movement through a soulful Ecstatic Dance experience—a freeform dance meditation that encourages you to feel fully and express freely. Surrender to the rhythm of the music, allowing authentic movement guided by your body, emotions, and instincts. This practice connects you with yourself, fosters creative expression and intuition, and cultivates a deep sense of community and connection with the universe. It’s a chance to release, let go, and open yourself to new possibilities and fresh energy—aspiring to inspire and create momentum in your life.
To prepare for this somatic experience, a gentle beginner’s yoga class will be offered to help you stretch, open up, and set the tone for your deeply somatic experience. This portion is donation-based, so feel free to arrive early, enjoy the garden space, and gently ground yourself for a beautiful night of dancing.
As the sun begins to dip, we will gather for an opening circle and dance lab at 7:00 pm, where we’ll welcome each other, share the evening’s intentions, review general guidelines for the space, and set the stage for our collective journey. This is more than just a dance—it’s a shared experience of moving with life, creating a collective heartbeat with Mother Earth.
We are honored to have the incredible Gar Den Boi holding space in the garden, leading us through the Ecstatic Dance Sound Journey. Prepare to be transported on a soulful journey where the music guides your body and spirit toward profound connection and liberation. Scroll down to meet your DJ.
Please note that this is a sober, no-phone dance, empowering us to be fully present with ourselves and each other.
All you need to bring is yourself, along with anything that supports your comfort and flow—flow props, a yoga mat, blankets, snacks, water, and a water bottle (we will have water available).
Meet Your DJ:
Gar Den Boi
holding space in the garden
The Gar Den Boi sound is inspired by years of yoga and meditation while working in an electronic music landscape. A project steered by Tyler Manning, who fuses a love for all instruments & electronic music production to meld organic play with the healing power of low end frequencies. He uses DJ sets as a vehicle for introspective growth, and can often be found holding space in his “Instrument Garden” Studio workshops & installations.
Since 2015, Tyler has spent his career dedicated to empowering others to create music through his ventures such as The Instrument Garden, MorFlo Records, Boredomfighters, Forward Momentum, & Big Cloud. Having curated and DJ’d 250+ interactive events from festivals to club nights to retreats worldwide, he’s picked up a wide range of influences ranging through downtempo bass, neo-soul beats, latin grooves, and soulful house. The Gar Den Boi music project was officially launched in Detroit in May of 2023 with “The Sound of a Tree Growing: Root Tape” and has seen those roots spread wide since getting planted for the forthcoming “Fruit Tape” as well as an ambient bass meditation album in collaboration with The Sound Medicine Collective called Frequency Medicine.
He now resides in Detroit frequently playing music at yoga studios and festivals. He has been featured as the Official DJ for the reggae queen Sister Nancy and 4x for the Mendo Dope Boys.
His tours include a sold-out run in Spain, Michigan, and New York as part of The Organic Cup series in 2023, as well as a sold-out tour through Colorado's Front Range in early 2024.
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Meet Your Host:
Wake Your Waters
Make Your Waves
Wake Your Waters is a conscious collective devoted to evolving the way we connect by offering transformative experiences that activate through creativity, pleasure, play, and ecstatic self-expression.
We believe in intentional gatherings that uplift and empower the soul, creating sacred spaces for ceremonial celebration.
Our mission is to raise the collective frequency through intimate gatherings that welcome all of you to be fully as you are—your whole self.
These spaces invite you to release what no longer serves you, including blockages and limiting beliefs, so you can become lighter and more open to new beginnings and possibilities.
Like a wave, our gatherings flow between heightened and low energetics, movement and stillness, connection and introspection, offering a harmonious dance of self-exploration and surrender.
Through live ecstatic dance experiences, soulful soundscapes, open mics, somatic embodiment practices, and more—guided by conscious artists, teachers, and leaders—we guide each other in deepening our connection with our bodies and voices, while fostering stronger community bonds.
Together, we dance with life, moving in rhythm with the heartbeat of Mother Earth, awakening the waters of creativity within us all.
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