Deeply planted, our branches reach for the sky

Dance is a powerful tool for healing, social change and transformation. Through dance, we connect ourselves to the moment, to our creativity, to our bodies, to our raw essence, to our tribal nature and thus: to mother earth. Dancing takes us home - from the inside out and the outside in.

Skin to earth. Breath of life. Roots of joy. 

 

Caroline’s journey into this work began long before she stepped onto the dance floor in Oakland in 2011. Rooted in a deep love for music and movement from a young age, she carried a longing to create spaces where people could feel both free and connected. Where dance could become a form of truth-telling.

 

Caroline S’Jegers, Europe’s first female Ecstatic Dance DJ, has been shaping Ecstatic Dance ceremonies for more than fifteen years. With roots in anthropology, motherhood, and a devotion to music and poetry, her journey led from Oakland’s dance floors to co-founding Ecstatic Dance Belgium, part of the team during the legendary beginnings of Club Lite in Amsterdam, and co-leading Europe’s first Ecstatic Dance leadership training. She has guided thousands of dancers across the world into moments of truth, depth, and connection.

 

For over a decade, she toured extensively across Europe and the US - also playing in Mexico and many other countries - often guiding dance floors three times a week. Her journey has brought her to stages as intimate as a forest stages and as global as Mindvalley’s A-Fest, and to countless communities who gather to remember the wisdom of the body. 

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Caroline’s style is unique: she dares to be intimate in her choices of music, weaving poetry through her sets as a thread of truth. Her album Birthing a Forest reflects this passion - carrying listeners through spoken word, soundscapes, and the raw edges of emotion. On the dance floor, she invites everything in: joy and grief, tenderness and play, wildness and silence. All is welcome. Again and again, dancers share how deeply they appreciate the way she holds space for emotions to be lived through music, for stories to be remembered through rhythm.

 

Over the years, Caroline has witnessed the scene shift - sometimes toward speed, intensity, and entertainment. And again and again, she feels the call to let the feminine rise: to bring balance, to root in listening, to remember that softness and strength belong together. Many who dance with her have named her in their own ways - as a temple priestess, a weaver of ceremonies, a guardian of thresholds, a keeper of remembrance. She receives those words with gratitude, as reflections of what is carried through her when she steps onto the dance floor.

 

For thousands of years, people have danced: to give thanks, to honor change, to feel their place in the whole. Caroline’s sets are inspired by the principles of nature and by the traditions woven through our cultures. They move with the people in the room, with the breath of the moment, with all that surrounds us.

 

Over time, her work has taken many forms - from Playful Body to Heartbeat, from Roots to Poetry in Motion, from Echoes of Silence to Pulse Movement - each one a chapter that grew her into the work she carries today. For her, intention is the root, because why we come together shapes how the dance unfolds. Here, voice and silence move side by side, weaving stories into a larger whole. Dancing is about remembering that what we touch, touches us in return.

 

Wherever she plays - under open skies, in crowded halls, or in small circles - the pulse of her offering is the same: to move with what is real, to root deeply, and to remember that we belong right here, right now.