Gone Gone Beyond is the synergy of David Block, Danny Musengo, Kat Factor, and Mel Semé, delivering a potent message of hope and the desire to return to humanity. The band captures the story of beautiful uncertainty in an ever changing world. Their music pays homage to the traditions of folk-americana songwriting while bringing together a myriad of influences from electronica, jazz, soul and world music. Gone Gone Beyond is painting a new kind of sonic landscape, and it sits between the roots of the California redwoods and the vastness of the Pleiades constellation.
Multi-Instrumentalist & Producer Masaru Higasa from Okinawa, Japan and Vocalist Pepper Proud from Seattle, WA. Yaima has often been described as timeless and unmistakable, offering a balanced synergy of both the masculine and feminine expression.Their intention is to create a bridge between Nature and Humankind, an expansive experience that encourages growth and graceful passage for the hearts and minds of their listeners.
Peia Luzzi is an American born song collector, writer and multi-instrumentalist based in the mountains of Appalachia. Like water from a deep well, she draws inspiration from her ancestral roots of Irish and Old World European folk music. She has traveled & studied extensively over the past 12 years to reconnect with her own ancestral song tradition. Uncovering melodies wrinkled & wise with time, while taking care to honor their language and stories, Peia brings a piece of herself to each song she carries. With three studio albums to date and international touring since 2014, Peia has acquired a dedicated and diverse following around the globe.
Alexa Sunshine Rose is a singer-songwriter, mother, artist and mystic who has dedicated herself and her life's work to being a clear channel for peace on earth. Her songs are prayers, which bridge worlds; the inner and outer, the mind and heart, chaos and calm. She has been touring and teaching across the West Coast and Hawaii since 2009.Listeners worldwide utilize her music during pregnancy and birth, hospice, yoga and massage, community song circles, and inner-transformational journeys.
Bloomurian is the electronic music & DJ project of Robin Liepman (Bloom), originally from California, and currently Colorado based. Bloomurian’s style ranges from Ecstatic Dance, World Bass, Trip-Hop, Trap, Glitch, Psy-Dub, and beyond, fusing face-melting, heart-opening, soul-awakening multidimensional frequencies. Bloomurian DJs ecstatic dances, concerts, festivals, and retreats worldwide, weaving original tracks, collaborations, remixes, and tasteful selections, into a rich tapestry of sonic alchemy, always tuning in to the ideal vibe for each particular event and audience. He often plays electric guitar, melodica, flute and his shovel slide-guitar during his sets, and has live instrumentalists and vocalists join him on stage. Bloomurian reads the energy of the moment and steers the spaceship in the direction most conducive to ecstatic states of awakening and embodied movement medicine.
Aimée Ringle is a multi instrumentalist singer, songwriter, songleader, storyteller and community enthusiator. She writes, plays, and sings with moments of sacred communion in mind and does all that she can as a musician and as a leader to make such moments more likely. You can find her solo albums at her website.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Merav is a DJ and a dancer. She nourishes her insatiable love for creating Ecstatic Dance journeys and has been flourishing in the dance world playing many sacred and iconic spaces. DJ Merav picks you up and sets you in the groove captivated with delicious selections of styles over flavorful depths of layered dance genres. She lives for the moment providing a musical journey while we gather to celebrate life itself, to dance passionately, to become mesmerized by music pulling dancers deeper into the wonder of these moments.
Kinde is a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide and Integral Coach. Since 2014, she has held Community Grief Tending Rituals twice a year at the Great Salt Lake. Kinde was introduced to Community Grief Tending in South Africa at an International Wilderness Guides Gathering, and felt a call to offer this important and powerful ritual in her own Salt Lake City community. Kinde has experienced the transformational energy of Grief when it is allowed in and to move through an open-hearted and willing group of individuals. She believes our capacity to grieve well together is critical in these wildly changing times.
Saige creates her food medicine from the heart. She creates health-conscious meals with only quality ingredients. Each meal she creates is crafted with intention and love, considering each step of the process, from source to serving. She's been sharing her food and magic in Utah and Costa Rica: cooking and space-holding for ecstatic dance, retreats, ceremonies, and other intentional gatherings. She cooks because it brings her joy to feed people & share.
Nikko Miyatake, owner of Cacao Breath, will be selling cacao. He is a holistic wellness practitioner with over a decade of experience guiding transformative cacao ceremonies and yoga/pranayama classes. As a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Nikko draws from ancient healing traditions to promote balance and harmony in people's lives. His deep immersion in the world of cacao includes six months of intensive training with a shaman in Guatemala, amplifying his understanding of cacao's spiritual and healing properties. Cacao Breath offers premium cacao infused with rainforest superfoods, empowering individuals to grow and radiate both physically and spiritually. Nikko's mission is to inspire others to embrace their full potential, fostering personal growth and inner radiance.
An Exploration of Flowing Skeletal Support in Contact Improvisation
Alicia has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 35 years. She teaches CI classes in Boulder, CO, and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Authentic movement, yoga, pilates, somatic psychotherapy and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is also an embodiment coach/therapist and works with individuals and groups. She is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are!
Lexi is the owner and maker of Buzz In The Hills, where she offers hand-crafted herbal wellness products and beeswax candles from the Texas hill country. She considers her work to be in collaboration with the plants and honeybee, and is honored to be a bridge for them, linking their medicine to her community of human~beings~. Her life path has led her to the common thread of seeking to connect herself and others with the natural world around them, and coming home to the root of what it means to be human upon this earth. She is honored and looking forward to crafting and serving nourishing tea blends for the village during our time together.
Davis Limbach, of Orcas Island, Washington, takes great pleasure in having care. Sacred circle and ritual, as well as communal living, have been his calling since he stepped onto it in 2012 during a great pilgrimage of community around the edges on the U.S. He has stepped into the role of tending the fire in grief ritual with Laurence Cole and for solstice long dance on Lopez Island. He is drawn to the center of the community, where there is always tending to do. Whether it’s doing dishes, making food, feeding the fire, or composting our shit, Davis takes joy in meeting others there and doing it together with a song on our lips! At this gathering he, and others, will be holding the sacred fire with reverence and meticulous care as an offering to anchor our unified spirit of loving connection, that all may be healed and peace may spread out from that center.
Introducing pods: small group circles for authentic relating games and time to share! Pods are like the glue that helps create our village. Many people on our team will be a pod facilitator (roughly 12 people per pod). They will create a safe container for their group to listen with an open heart and practice taking ownership of their story. The people you meet in your pod will be a great anchor point during Celest Fest. Pods will meet 3 times during the festival, and each person will have a chance to speak, to be heard, and to listen. Many thanks to Maizy Anderson for helping to create the structure of these pods and Cynthia Dumas for spearheading the pods for Gathering.
Cynthia Dumas believes in the power of unconditional love. When a person feels connected to community, seen, heard, and experiences unconditional love, it creates room for transformation. During Celest Fest, people are really present with themselves and one another. The present moment is all we have, and when we can stay present, magic occurs.
Jennifer is a yoga, meditation, and ballet teacher, a lifelong student of yoga & life, and former professional ballet dancer. Her devotion to her personal growth and wellbeing led her to explore the depths of yoga and complete trainings in Vinyasa, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, and Kirtan, and master trainings in India under the guidance of Kia Miller and Anand Mehrotra that combine aspects of Hatha, Kundalini, Kriya, Pranayama, Meditation, Mantra, Bhakti, and Tantric practices. She likes to combine these various techniques within each class to challenge the mind and body and create a balanced, healing, and transformational experience within.
Start your morning off with a holistic practice that combines meditation, pranayama, kriya, & vinyasa flow to bring your mind, body, and soul into a balanced state. These practices are designed to awaken your physical & subtle body, uplift & elevate your spirit, and challenge your mind & body in finding stillness & in dynamic movement.
Allison is the founder of Rewild Austin- a business designed to help people connect with nature, learn Natural Movement, and find ease in their lives through deliberate play. Those that know Allison will tell you she is a child of the Earth. Her love of nature has inspired her to share this meaningful connection with her community. As a certified Nature Therapy Guide, Allison facilitates immersive experiences that allow individuals to dive deeply into their natural surroundings through an intentional state of embodiment. Witnessing nature as it witnesses you, the veil of separation is lifted to reveal a sense of profound oneness. Returning to the wild, the human becomes whole again.
Ashley, a Texas native, has been sharing sound therapy spaces for a decade from private homes, public classes, retreats and festivals all over the world. “Sound changes our consciousness, creates space, and mulches the used. Sound is love.” Experiencing sound is a gift and Ashley is often taking her field recorder into all types of spaces to capture the most beautiful sounds all around. She is an artist, published author and mother of 2.
.jpg)
KJ is a mama, entrepreneur and connection builder from San Luis Obispo, CA. She’s been in the entrepreneurship space for 20 years and has guided yoga for 7 years. Her intention is for every person who takes her class to feel seen, cared for and supported. “Cosmic Connection Flow” will empower you to hold space for yourself diving deeper into self love, self care and self discovery as we explore movement, stillness and breath. As we take care of mind, body, soul and spirit we are able to show up in truth for others and serve from a space of abundance, not burnout. All are welcome, no yoga experience needed.
Jane is passionate about facilitating others to (re)discover their own inner guide, wisdom & healer. Her grounded, trauma informed and embodied approach to spiritual practices allows you to dive deep into self-discovery and transformation. Jane is a Shamanic Breathwork Master Practitioner, a Shamanic Astrologer, Trauma Therapist, Master Level Reiki Practitioner, Theta Healer and an avid explorer/adventurer. Her background in psychology, education, counseling, teaching and behaviour analysis all inform her approach today; alchemized in new ways to offer you a uniquely grounded space to safely dive deep into self-discovery and transformation. Shamanic Breathwork combines a conscious connected breathing technique with a drum journey, body and energy work and powerful chakra attuned music to guide you into states of deep transformation. This is an invitation to tap into the deepest layers of yourself and to feel, move and express all that arises in a held safe space where all of you is welcome.
Sena is a multi-faceted healer, using a variety of traditional and modern modalities to assist spiritual, physical & emotional wellbeing. She has a BA in Psychology, and worked in mental health research before completing a BSN in Nursing. As a former ER nurse, she loves helping people and is versed in medical knowledge, especially as it pertains to plant medicine healing. She is a certified 200 hr Registered Yoga Teacher, and firmly believes in the healing power of yoga for everyBODY! Sena also employs crystal healing with her business Omalalove, making meditation necklaces (malas) and bracelets. She uses her intuition and knowledge of crystals to guide which stones to use during ceremony, and with integration.
Cameron will be holding space for creative expression through visual art along with supporting the grief ritual. All are welcome to come paint on our communal canvas! Cameron will also be expressing herself through live art during Celest Fest, and you are welcome to do that too. Cameron has a gift and a passion for supporting others in discovering their true nature. With curiosity and compassion she supports an exploration of each individuals world creating a container of transformation into an authentically aligned life. Her extensive ongoing practice of holistic systems has gifted her the tools and experience to connect deeper and hold an immense amount of presence, compassion, and expansive space while providing for others.
Angi and Riley live on acreage in Norman, Oklahoma and tend to a growing food forest. They started the organization Soul Weavers to help people weave their Souls back into Wholeness and Balance. Angi and Riley's offerings include breathwork, different types of ceremonies, and cold immersion, among others. They believe that Cold is Medicine and it has much to teach us.
Karly Loveling is whole-hearted lover of life who weaves song into being and brings harmonies to life. She is a thriving member of the Ubuntu Choir Network, leading Singing Heart Harmonies in Chanchifin (Eugene, Or), online, and at Community Singing gatherings, as well as tending the spectrum of human emotion with courage and care in community connections, classes, and events. Karly’s songs are close companions for singers and songleaders from Appalachia to Ireland.
Our bodies are designed to sing with a full range of story, pitch, emotion and tone. Freestyle singing engages your instrument on all these levels. Participants will learn various techniques for entering into freestyle singing flow states and practice them with instrumental accompaniment. With over a decade of experience freestyling as a performer and teacher, James creates a robustly safe container, compassionately supported for self-exploration. This work can be as fun as it is deep, tears and laughter are commonplace. So, come ready to relax and approach your edges with curiosity and love. No experience needed, all levels are welcome!
In ‘The Power of Intentional Sound’ workshop, Alexa guides participants to cultivate a deeper connection with their authentic voice, while exploring the powerful potential of intentional sound as a tool for transformation— personally, communally and multi-dimensionally. Since 2011, Alexa has taught this workshop in-person at singing gatherings and festivals, as well as online, as a workshop series.
Alexa Sunshine Rose is a singer-songwriter, mother, artist and mystic who has dedicated herself and her life's work to being a clear channel for peace on earth. Her songs are prayers, which bridge worlds; the inner and outer, the mind and heart, chaos and calm. Listeners worldwide utilize her music during pregnancy and birth, hospice, yoga and massage, community song circles, and inner-transformational journeys.
Aimée Ringle is a multi instrumentalist singer, songwriter, songleader, storyteller and community enthusiator. She writes, plays, and sings with moments of sacred communion in mind and does all that she can as a musician and as a leader to make such moments more likely. You can find her solo albums on bandcamp at..
Josh Fox is a seasoned facilitator, song-carrier, educator, and plant-enthusiast. For over a decade he has held emergent, community grief rituals throughout the Southeast while tending to his clients' grief, traumas, and shadows in his private practice. He weaves herbs, songs, somatic awareness, and Chinese medicine into all of his healing work; and writes music that uplifts the heart, honors his plant allies, and tickles the human spirit. He will be facilitating potent group-healing experiences, and we will get to experience and learn powerful spell-casting songs in his circle, "Medicine of the Moment".
Sarah S. Bentley, founder of Heart Body Song, is a song catcher, song carrier, and community song leader, based in Austin, Texas. She gracefully weaves the art of embodied singing, mindful movement, ritual, and communal prayer into her circles. Sarah started singing as a child and has performed as a singer/songwriter. Sarah incorporates qigong and meditation, as well as practices to build community resilience to provide a rich and healing experience. She has a beautiful way of creating a space where everyone feels safe expressing their voices.
