This study was to explore the lived experience of individuals who have found it meaningful to participate in a group practice of ecstatic dance. Ecstatic Dance Communities have emerged during a time when the range of socially acceptable movement in Western Culture has become restrictive and harmful to human bodies and psyches (Ehrenreich 2006; Goodman, 1988; Hanna, 1970; Kenney, 2007; Whitehouse, 1958/1995). Depth psychology is rooted in the body, through its founding assumptions that unconscious material expresses itself through bodily sensations (Freud, 1930/2010, p. 45). Thus, a depth psychological approach to the experience of Ecstatic Dance allowed for the development of meaningful themes to support further discussion of, and inquiry into, the psychological benefits of this practice. Focusing on the human lived experience (Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009), Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) with its foundation of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and idiography, supported this exploration as its qualitative research method. Three superordinate themes with subordinate themes developed out of the data: Connection with the subordinate themes of Community, Transcendence, and Music; Physical Body with a subordinate theme of Embodiment; and Freedom with its subordinate themes of Movement Suppression and Boundaries. The data described increased awareness of the sensations of the body with experiences of following the body0́9s impulses to move and express in a group setting of felt acceptance. Heightened awareness of sensations in the body appeared to be a launching point of all other deep experiences such as emotional release, transcendence, non-normal consciousness, joy, and connection.