Festival Vision & Concept

Our Intentions

To create a sanctuary, a bubble in time, where people can:

• Rest, resource, and connect with themselves and each other. Slow down, listen, and soften.

• Experience love through gentleness, preciousness and beauty that leads to playfulness, sensuality, joy and liberation. Open their hearts to deeper self-love and human connection.

• Belonging - coming home to ourselves, to each other, and to the larger scale of life.

• We aim to create a romantic, tender space - to offer ‘flowers and chocolate for the soul’.

• In a world aching with conflict, we hold a clear prayer: To overcome the war within.

At the heart of this gathering is Aphrodite:

She is the archetype of love, beauty, sensuality, and devotion. In mythology, Aphrodite was born from the foam of the sea, emerging fully formed in her beauty, a reminder that love and life are born from the wild, untamed waters of existence.

Aphrodite is the spirit presiding over our gathering.

She invites us to celebrate beauty - in our bodies, our emotions, our connections, and our pleasures, ceremonies and reminds us that love is both sacred and playful, tender and wild.

Aphrodite inspires us to:

• Sensual sovereignty - the right to feel, to want, to say yes, and to say no.

• The celebration of beauty - in people, in nature, in ritual, in touch, in vulnerability.

• Romantic tenderness - not only towards others, but first and foremost, towards oneself.

• The alchemy of love - where love becomes a healing, liberating, unifying force.

• Playful irreverence - where we dare to laugh at ourselves, at love’s mysteries, and at the wildness of our longing.

Through invoking Aphrodite, we invite each participant to become a lover - of life, of their own essence, of the wild beauty of being human.

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Our Vision

To weave a temporary bubble of togetherness and growth.

Held in beauty, sunlight, and water -

A living, breathing field where hearts soften, bodies open, and souls remember.

A space of prayer for personal and collective healing.

A sanctuary to soften and be held - by the land and the tribe.

From the temporary emerges the lasting:

The power of each heart generating love to share during the festival -

and then carrying it home, into their lives, and into the world.

A Wedding of Our Inner Parts

A sacred union within - the promise to inner union is carried as a statement by each and everyone in the festival, in a global but also individual ceremonies.

A marriage of all that we are: the dependent and the independent,

the personal and the transpersonal,

the material and the spiritual,

the light and the shadow.

A vision of inner marriage -

with all its ceremonial beauty, depth, and commitment.

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Concept: Love At The Center

Day 1 - Landing & Belonging

Arrival, resting, and downregulation.

Creating a sense of belonging, of being welcomed.

Gentle / beginners workshops, playful interactions, cuddle puddles, quiet acoustic music.

Day 2 - Self Love & Self Expression

Theme: Love inside-in

Setting the tone and establishing the community’s shared values and agreements for our days together. Creating community.

Exploration around loving ourselves, accepting our different parts, being authentic and true, bringing our voices.

Day 3 - Deepening Connection

Theme: Love inside-out

Love is possible to give and experience inside-out.

What stands between me and opening to love? What are the good long lasting connections that exist in one’s life? Exploring what blocks us from feeling, giving and receiving love. Meeting our fears, shadows, and longings.

Day 4 - Universal Love & Grand Celebration

Theme: Becoming love

Rituals, ceremonies, celebrations, togetherness. Melting Together. Dancing, singing, in love with nature and all that surrounds. Wedding chapels for marrying oneself or anything else one wants to marry. The grand celebration!

Day 5 - Integration

Theme: Harvesting the gold

Landing, resourcing, integrating. Packing up our shared journey.

Honouring what we’ve learned and carrying it into life.