LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Ecstatic Chants ~ Mantra Music Experience

A high-energy, participatory mantra music experience weaving original songs, Sanskrit and English chants, and kirtan-style call and response into a journey of grounding, heart opening, and collective upliftment.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Beyond Limits Conscious Dance: Closing Gathering

An embodied closing journey through movement, music, voice, and authentic expression—bringing us together one final time to move, release, celebrate, and integrate our weekend in the forest.

LOCATION: Yurt

Linda A. WarrenShapeshifting with Mother Nature: The Shaman’s Way

An Experiential Journey into Connection, Consciousness & Wholeness

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

SARAH WOOLSONEarthsong: An Embodied Sound Bath

A practice of deep listening that explores the living relationship between sound, our bodies, and the Earth.

LOCATION: Yurt

Active Mindfulness: Meditation for People Who Can't

Meditation for people who have tried sitting still, closing their eyes, and quieting their minds - and decided meditation simply wasn’t for them.

LOCATION: Fire Circle

Source Essence

Our vision, mission, and purpose in life can be distilled into two things: give love and receive love.

For Dennis, the forest is a magical portal for connection—a place where nature, healing, community, and love meet.

His experiences at Just Love Forest and his practice of Shinrin-yoku, or forest therapy, have deepened his appreciation for being immersed in nature’s healing embrace and inspired this Forest Fest conversation.

Source Essence is less a lecture than a participatory conversation in the forest.

LOCATION: Meadow

Movement Class

Nick's movement class is a sharing of his experience practicing chiropractic and studying movement with his teacher, Ido Portal. The movements and tasks act as containers, which give us an opportunity to discover ourself as the contents. You can expect to work with partners, individually, and in stillness.

LOCATION: Yurt

Resonate Yoga

A 90-minute accessible journey through yoga movement, breathwork, and live sound designed to help us let go, reset, and return to ourselves.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

CALAGNASaturday Night Ecstatic Dance

Three hours of organic house, deep tribal rhythm, world-influenced grooves, and global bass woven into a movement-driven journey through the forest night.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Community Dancing: Fiddle, Feet, Forest

Community dancing to joyful traditional fiddle tunes with a caller guiding the way. No experience and no partner needed.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

From Breath to Bliss

A journey through the limbs of yoga designed to quiet the mind, reset the nervous system, and open into states of joy, peace, expansion, and bliss.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

MURMURR

Move. Understand. Relate. Moving United in Rhythm We Rise.

Inspired by the extraordinary way starlings move together in murmuration, MURMURR is a collective, playful moving prayer exploring what happens when individuals begin listening and responding as part of something larger.

We’ll move through grounding, embodied play, relating, following, flowing in small groups, rhythm, voice, sound, and shared harmony.

LOCATION: Dining Canopy

Love Ferments

A hands-on exploration of microbial alchemy, the science of fermentation, and our relationship with the tiny living organisms that transform and preserve our food.

LOCATION: Yurt

SARAH WOOLSONEarthsong: An Embodied Sound Bath

A practice of deep listening that explores the living relationship between sound, our bodies, and the Earth.

LOCATION: Pergola

Embodied Chiropractic Attunements

One-on-one chiropractic attunements in the forest designed to help you feel more at home in your body, move with greater ease, and deepen your awareness of yourself.

Tati co-founded Be One Collective, where the work centers around chiropractic care and creating spaces for people to reconnect with their bodies, their innate wisdom, and one another.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Come hear Just Love Forest's own Sophia Castro sing sweet devotional songs and enjoy the ambiance of the devotional bhav.

Sofia (she/her) is a person who enjoys music, nature, and community. She dedicates her service towards stewardship of fun and sustainability. A curious learner and a loving soul!

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

A somatic healing and alchemy practice dedicated to the heart’s return to openness, coherence, expression, and connection.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Kirtan: An Hour of Sacred Chant

An hour of devotional music, mantra, and collective singing. It’s an invitation to open the heart, raise our voices, and experience the joy of chanting together.

LOCATION: Yurt

Poetry Flags: A Community Collaboration & Offering

Slow down, listen deeply, and add your voice to a collaborative poem that will become an offering to the forest and to one another.

LOCATION: Yurt

Inner Current Journey

A powerful breathwork and sound healing journey designed to expand awareness, deepen presence, and reconnect us with the inner current.

LOCATION: Meadow Fire Circle

Meet the Hawthorns: Befriending and Protecting Endangered Trees

Learn about the remarkable diversity of plants, mushrooms, and animals living on Bhakti Mountain while journeying into the forest to meet some of its rarest inhabitants.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

An opening conversation about remembering who we are, caring for the Earth and one another, and meeting this moment with clarity, purpose, and love.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

The Altar of Your Body

The Altar of Your Body Somatic Workshop is for people of any gender orientation who spend a lot of time caring for others, performing for approval, or overriding their own needs. If you find it hard to ask for what you want, if you feel more comfortable giving than receiving, or if your relationship with your body has been shaped by shame or control, this workshop may be supportive to you.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Live Medicine Music

The evening will culminate in a participatory journey through sacred sound, collective expression, embodiment, and rest.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Acoustic Music Duo

Uplifting acoustic music rooted in harmony, connection, and the simple joy of making music together.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

ROOTS, BLUES & STORYTELLINGwith Reverend Sly David

Gather for a soulful, old-time Tent Revival with Reverend Sly David, a wandering folk and blues musician whose music draws from the deep wells of Americana, roots, and acoustic blues.

LOCATION: Meadow Stage

Drawing on the ensemble-building practices of theatre, this experiential workshop explores how play, presence, and intuition can open pathways to deeper human connection. Inspired by theatrical pioneers including Augusto Boal and Sanford Meisner, participants will engage in accessible exercises designed not for performance, but for cultivating trust, empathic awareness, and authentic connection.