AdriánYoZéF Dragón

Ceremonial DJ · Embodiment Facilitator · Movement Artist

Turning shame into expression, repression into freedom, and fire into medicine. 14 years guiding transformational spaces through dance, ritual, and sound across Europe and Latin America.

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Dragon Dance

Envision Festival 2023

Dragon Dance at Envision Festival 2023
Adrián YoZéF Dragón portrait

14 Years Moving
Between Worlds

Adrián YoZéF Dragón is a Costa Rican embodiment facilitator, ceremonial DJ, and movement artist with over 14 years of experience guiding transformational spaces through dance, ritual, and sound.

Rooted in the traditions of Yoga, Ecstatic Dance, somatic inquiry, and conscious movement, his work invites people to reconnect with the intelligence of the body — awakening creative life force, and moving from a place of authenticity, presence, and embodied freedom.

His practice draws from Hatha, Raja, Ashtanga, and Kundalini Yoga, as well as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Contact Dance, Contemporary Dance, and Dance Therapy. This multidisciplinary background gives his facilitation a rare depth, weaving energetic awareness, emotional presence, physical expression, and ceremonial sensitivity into one cohesive experience.

Adrián discovered Ecstatic Dance in 2016 during a journey through North America and Europe — Nevada City, Barcelona — and upon returning to Costa Rica, became part of the founding team of Danza Ecstática, the first monthly Ecstatic Dance gathering in San José. He is also the founder of Beyond Dance, one of Costa Rica's most recognized Ecstatic Dance projects, now a sanctuary for embodied self-expression, sensual awakening, emotional liberation, and spiritual connection.

His DJ sets are not performances — they are ceremonial sound journeys designed to awaken archetypes, activate the imagination, and guide dancers through emotional landscapes where the separation between body, mind, and spirit dissolves.

Experience & Collaborations

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Two European Tours
Performed as Ecstatic Dance DJ and movement facilitator across Paris, Rome, Zagreb, Barcelona, Naples, Nantes, Bordeaux, and Prague.
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Envision Festival · 7 Years
Seven consecutive years at one of Costa Rica's premier transformational festivals — as DJ, movement workshop facilitator, performer, and HR collaborator.
Colombia Tour
Toured Medellín, Santa Marta, and Bogotá as DJ and Ecstatic Dance facilitator, collaborating with Mayra, founder of Ecstatic Dance Colombia.
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Dance the Medicine · Girona
Received formal Ecstatic Dance DJ training with Dance the Medicine in Girona, Spain — one of the world's leading programs in ceremonial sound work.
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Beyond Dance · Founder
Founded Costa Rica's most recognized Ecstatic Dance project. Since 2020 an ongoing sanctuary for embodied expression, sensual awakening, and community ritual.
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International Collaborations
Co-produced events with J.Pool, Yemanjo, and Temple Step. Co-founded Danza Ecstática, the first monthly Ecstatic Dance gathering in San José, Costa Rica.

What I Offer

People who move through my work leave with a deeper sense of confidence and freedom of self-expression, a more comfortable and loving relationship with their own body, and a healed connection to their emotional world — not as something to manage, but as a source of aliveness, creativity, and authentic power. No prior dance or meditation experience needed.

DJ Set
Ecstatic Dance
Ceremonial DJ Set
Duration: up to 2 hrs

Sound journeys designed as living stories for Ecstatic Dance floors, closing ceremonies, and festival dancefloors. Each set follows an intentional arc — from arrival and grounding, through peak, to integration — weaving organic, world, and electronic music into a ceremonial container. The music does not accompany the dance: it is the ritual.

Sense and Surrender
Workshop
Sense & Surrender
Duration: 2 – 3 hrs

A blindfold movement meditation that invites participants to explore the depths of their inner world by releasing the dominance of sight. When vision steps aside, the remaining senses awaken — and so does a subtler, more intimate awareness of body and presence.

I guide participants through somatic movement focused on opening the eye of the heart — releasing self-defense mechanisms, fears, and judgments around human connection. People leave with renewed trust, a quieter mind, and a more honest connection to their own body.

In this dance of surrender, I invite people to let go of control and remember the innocence and purity of their own heart.

The Elemental Self
Workshop
The Elemental Self
Duration: 2 – 3 hrs

An embodied exploration of creativity through symbolic movement, guided by the wisdom of the four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. A facilitated somatic container with a clear arc, specific prompts, and intentional progression — not a free-dance session, but a structured inner journey.

I invite participants into a somatic storytelling journey where the body becomes the home for four distinct characters — four aspects of the self essential to creative awakening. People leave with a richer vocabulary of self-expression and greater confidence in their creative impulse.

Earth, Water, Fire, Air — each explored through specific movement qualities, revealing the full spectrum of what it means to be alive and expressive in a human body.

Move from The Heart
Workshop · Ceremony
Move from The Heart
Duration: 2 – 3 hrs
Includes Cacao Ceremony

Openness, vulnerability, and surrender are the pillars of this cacao journey — a ceremonial experience designed to bring people back to the joyful freedom that arises when the heart is genuinely open.

Through meditation, breathwork, authentic relating, music, and dance, I create a warm and held container where people can meet the expansion that lives on the other side of shame, fear, and self-judgment. Participants consistently leave feeling more emotionally free, more comfortable in their own skin, and more willing to be seen.

The ceremonial cacao serves as a gentle heart-opener — a plant ally that softens the inner guard and invites a more receptive, generous relationship with oneself and the community in the room.

Full Experience
Combined
Full Experience
Workshop + DJ Set

I can hold the complete arc of an event — opening facilitation, somatic warm-up, movement workshop, and a closing ceremonial DJ set. This format creates a deeply coherent experience for festival audiences, from first breath to last beat.

Vision, Movement & Live Work

Dance as Path of Remembrance
Movement + Teaching
Dance as a Path of Remembrance
Sense and Surrender Workshop
Workshop
Sense & Surrender · Blindfold Dance Journey
My YouTube Channel

Sound as Ceremony

YoZéF Dragón

Each set is designed as a living arc — from arrival to catharsis to integration. Listen to recent ceremonial sets below.

Dragon Rebirthing
Dance Church Awake · Uvita
High Season 2026 Kick-Off · Ecstatic Dance DJ Set
Pre-Envision Dance Church
My SoundCloud Profile
YoZéF Dragon

Why the Dragon?

"The Dragon is the part of me that learned to turn shame into expression, repression into freedom, and fire into medicine."

The Dragon first appeared in my life as a conscious decision.

I chose the Dragon as a personal avatar to express a part of me that my everyday self could not always hold.

The Dragon became a doorway into more wildness, sensuality, courage, theatricality, fire, passion, and visibility. A way to reclaim the raw, sacred, erotic life force that had been hidden beneath shame, repression, and the fear of being "too much."

To me, the Dragon is the evolution of the Serpent.

The Serpent represents the primal force that lives in the body: instinct, desire, shadow, the fertility kept inside of chaos, and transformation. Like desire itself, it can create or destroy. It can keep us trapped in the unconscious, or it can guide us through the underworld of our own becoming.

When the Serpent is no longer repressed, the venom becomes medicine. The shadow becomes wisdom. The body rewilds into its true nature. The heart grows wings and the voice begins to speak the fire of truth.

This is the Dragon.

An elemental creature that is faced in the shadows to rise into the beauty of our souls. A creature of play, mystery, passion, and creative liberation.

YoZéF Dragon is the journey of my own transformation:

From fear to power.

From shame to expression.

From repression to embodied freedom.

From self-doubt to confidence.

And when I facilitate, perform, or create from this place, the Dragon is not here only to be seen. It is here to give permission to others.

Permission to feel more. To express more. To play more. To let the hidden, wild, sensual, sacred parts of ourselves come back into the body.

The Dragon is the path of descending into the depths, transforming what was once feared, and rising again with fire, wings, and truth.

Follow the Tail of the Dragon

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Book & Connect

Available for festivals, retreats, residencies, and ceremonial events across Europe and internationally.

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Adrián YoZéF Dragón