A New Kind of Happy Hour at Mindfulness Life Center

A Mindfulness Life Center, in Scottsdale, in enabling a new kind of Friday Happy Hour by providing community-centric classes. Candlelit Sound Healing and Yoga Nidra will be conducted from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. with Julie Lemerond and the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls, followed by a blissful yoga nidra meditation. The class ends with the sound of an ocean drum. Tea is served before and after class.

Ecstatic Dance takes place from 8 to 10 p.m. with A.J. Germano in a drug- and alcohol-free space. It is a form of an active meditation where music, movement and breath are used to shift brainwave patterns, create new neural pathways and enter into a more meditative and insightful state.

Ecstatic Dance is $10 cash only. Natural Awakenings readers receive three classes for $20. Location: 10309 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale. For more information, call 480-207-6016 or visit AMindfulnessLifeCenter.com.