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| Enchanted Forest Gathering "Northern California’s most celebrated music, yoga, and premiere flow-arts and conscious movement festival, Enchanted Forest Gathering, will be back this July! Known for continuously breaking the future elite of the underground with some of the biggest international names in bass music, Enchanted Forest Gathering is best characterized by four principles -- uniting sacred, sexy, silly and saucy elements for an experience like none other! Previous lineup installments have boasted a standout musical roster featuring artists such as KOAN Sound, Random Rab, Liquid Stranger, Phutureprimitive, Ott, Papadosio, Desert Dwellers and Opiuo. This year’s lineup will be announced in March and will include over 50 artists across four stages. Building upon a reputation for eclectic tastes in electronic and live music, Enchanted Forest Gathering has evolved into a festival that fosters the growth of the conscious movement community. What began as a renegade series of impromptu instruction has now become an interactive component of the festival experience as Enchanted Forest Gathering places yoga, dance and flow arts front-and-center, including a mini-flow arts festival as main fixture of the festival. Past teachers have included the world-renowned KK Ledford (Fire & Nectar, Order & Chaos ~ Asana and Astrology), Rigzin, Holly Baade/The Joyful Warrior, Forest Schrodt, Jonathan Livingston Baxter, Kandice Korves-Kaus, Nova and many more. This year’s stellar yoga, movement, and flow teachers will be announced in March along with the music lineup. Additionally, Enchanted Forest Gathering plays host to a bold educational forum throughout the day including four types of workshop zones providing guests an opportunity to broaden their horizons in such subjects as Spirituality & Science, Nourishment & Nutrition, Sexuality & Relationships, and Permaculture & Ancestral Arts. With a mere 245 attendees in 2010 to 3,000 anticipated this year, the rapid growth of Enchanted Forest Gathering speaks volumes to the festival’s unique offerings of innovative micro-environments and peak experiences. Revelers may find their journey leads them to interactive spaces, which include The Nectar Temple - a next level healing area, the late night tea lounge that features live jazz trios, and the Crystal Dome - an amalgamation of healing and wondrous stones collected from around the world, a late night comedy stage or the visionary art studio." http://theconfluencegroup.com/EnchantedForest_2016/ |
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In addition to offering a world-class electronic + live music lineup and a movement festival within a festival, the Wisdom Shares topics are designed to invigorate and deepen connections between the few thousand participants in attendance with the help of internationally renowned speakers who will promote and share insights throughout four workshops zones: Nourishment & Nutrition, Health & Wellness, Relationships & Sexuality,and Spirituality & Science. Each Wisdom Shares workshop is designed to cater to a different aspect of consciousness and holistic living - encouraging the deeper exploration of an alternative festival experience. Attendees will find enlightenment and education in featured topics including The Art of Clearing Relationship Karma, Sacred Union of the Masculine and Feminine, The Science of the Magic of Sound and Vibration, Energy and Vitality Through Plant Food Living, Healing Hugs,and over 65 additional offerings.
Nourishment & Nutrition
Discover new ways to fuel your body throughout the festival and the rest of your life! Fully equipped with a hands-on kitchen area, there’s something for every type of eater to learn in the cooking school’s Nourishment & Nutrition workshops covering topics from Energy and Vitality Through Plant Food Living with James Sant, The Conscious Carnivore with Mischa Skolnik,to Soaking and Sprouting: How to Enliven Your Food with Ryell Carley. Each day will host a slew of sensational chefs and teachers that take you through the journey of feeding your body the right kind of goodness. By the end of the weekend, the Nourishment Lab crew will outfit participants with a list of recipes to continue forth and prosper in their own kitchen.
Health & Wellness
With Health & Wellness at the forefront of the festival’s values, the workshops in this category are plentiful and showcase a variety of enticing topics. These include Sexy Bitches Like It Raw: Amae Love & Friends Teach An Un-Cooking Class with Amae Love, a sacred Cacao Ceremony with Juan Pablo Barahona, Opening Your Heart in the Living Kitchen: James Sant, and Healing Hugs with Christopher Bonzani. The Health & Wellness workshops cover any and all topics from divine harmony, to how to make raw desserts or about the intersection of neurobiology, spirituality, and social change.
Relationships & Sexuality
Upon entering the Relationships & Sexuality area, guests will be offered a rare gift: a safe place to explore yourself, each other, and all your relations with full consent and pleasure. The workshops will teach how to relate to the people around you, how you can play with them, and get totally sexy while keeping your pants on. Through discussions such as The Art of Clearing Relationship Karma with Philippe Lewis, How To Make Love Like a Goddess and Be Worshipped Like One Too with Muse Magdalen, The Art of Sexual Spanking with Eva Lyons, and Aleksandra and The Sacred Sonic Apothecary with Aleksandra Dubov. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to explore their desires and curiosities in the safe space that Enchanted Forest Gathering has worked so hard to create.
Spirituality & Science
If science, spirituality, or the marriage of both interest you, head over to the Spirituality & Science Wisdom Shares where attendees can enjoy presentations like a Moon Ceremony with Kate Hockett, Collaborating With Your Soul Tribe, 5D Reality & Your Divine Mission with Debra Giusti, Balancing The Masculine and Feminine: A Tantric Dance Ceremony with Rose Beam, Music Composition and Jam with Dan Neville, and many more options to fulfill your curiosities of something “greater”.
Enchanted Forest Gathering’s 50+ Wisdom Shares workshop offerings will expand the minds of all attendees and further connect the community which the festival has helped to create and foster. Open your mind and heart by attending the beautiful Wisdom Shares offered by the festival. Full schedule coming soon!
Group Discount & Giveaway: To ensure you and your friends have the best Enchanted Forest Gathering experience possible, they’re offering a special Assemble Your Saucy Squad group discount. When you buy four tickets together, you get $120 off the order. Your squad will automatically be entered to win a FREE Boutique Camping upgrade, a $1700 value! Purchase by Friday at 11:59pm to be entered.
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Intimacy over Alcohol:
How Enchanted Forest Gathering Creates a Safe Environment for all Forms of Expression
Black Oak Ranch, CA - With just over a month to go before NorCal’s Enchanted Forest Gathering opens up its hallowed gates for bass music aficionados, yogis and families alike, the cultural dialogue on alcohol-free events continues to grow. With five years of wind at its back, EFG’s position on the subject has now become one of its key distinguishing features. Festival founder, Tulku explains, “By bringing together thousands of people and removing the vibration of alcohol, we have created a truly unique gathering. We consistently get the reflection from women that they feel safe here and more free to express themselves. Our Security team actually gives us a discount because there are never any fights that break out and our festival grounds are left much more pristine throughout the event. The level of connection found here is more coherent and authentic.”
While alcohol may not be present, EFG hosts no less of a party atmosphere with an emphasis on conscious movement and dance, as a return to our bodies and an alternative to alcohol. From embracing #FreeTheNipple, to a literal non-stop Saucy Spa shower party, the lack of alcohol and mutual coherent respect of one another, along with a manageable and capped attendance create an intimacy and inspiration for self-expression that isn’t found at any other festival in the US.
Even the world’s funkiest diplomat, The Polish Ambassador, shares these values as he stated “Enchanted Forest has become one of the West Coast's premier transformational festivals. I think it is totally rad that they have embraced a no-alcohol festival model. It encourages people to get high on life and try new things they otherwise may not!”
“Get Saucy, Not Sauced!”
Since its inception, Enchanted Forest Gathering’s mission has been to nourish and activate personal growth within its participants, inspire collective sharing and redefine conscious celebration. To that end, they have continued to build upon a safe and alcohol-free environment which serves as fertile ground for a new kind of festival experience and a container for an experimental way of life. This experiment inspires attendees to find deeper, more meaningful stimulation free of alcohol, setting a remarkably different tone for a gathering and encouraging new kinds of expression.
Scattered across the festival grounds are delicious herbal elixir bars, tea lounges, and cacao drinks for loving consumption, which allow attendees to create a lasting buzz complete with delightful bodily effects that can be remembered in the morning. Additional alternatives to “the sauce” are the four Revive Kombucha elixir bars throughout the site, the Nourishment Nook, which offers organic and healthy food vendor selections to nourish and recharge the body and mind, and the Saucy Spa, where a sound system and dance party is set up adjacent to a sauna that uses the heat to create healthy stimulation while lathering the crowd. The spa also plays host to daily shower parties and a delightfully bubbly foam tub.
Why Smaller is Desirable
Over the years, attendees of the festival have shared that keeping the festival under 5k in addition to the alcohol free environment enables them to feel more comfortable with their self-expression as other attendees remain more present, conscious, clear and connected. Without the concerns of overbearing crowds, long lines, and disconnect within the community, the smaller size of Enchanted Forest Gathering makes the festival a desirable option on the ever growing list of transformational festivals. Attendees are more likely to make heart to heart connections as they have opportunities to repeatedly engage with new and existing friends, which helps deepen the overall experience and community. As attendee and Marketing Operations Manager Megan Pru says, “Personally I feel the alcohol free status and the small, intimate vibe of the festival make me feel more safe than any other festival environment to truly go all the way with my costume choices and dress for the weather.”
FREE THE NIPPLE
By keeping a mindful eye on attendance numbers, creating an alcohol-free space, and maintaining close-knit vibes, Enchanted Forest Gathering allows participants to fully harness and illuminate their individuality, fully clothed -- or not! The festival has always stood behind the mottos that “Safe is sexy and consent is mandatory” and that being naked is not about being sexual, it’s about being free. The Gathering is proud to embrace and help promote the message of equality at the core of the #FreeTheNipple campaign. With attendee comfort and positivity being of the utmost importance to the festival, Enchanted Forest Gathering leads the way in allowing this form of expression at a festival.
Returning to the lush landscape of Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, CA July 22 - 24, 2016,Enchanted Forest Gathering celebrates its sixth year as NorCal’s premier boutique music, movement, and conscious living camping festival. The 2016 music lineup features over 70 internationally-acclaimed live and electronic musical acts, including headliners Shpongle, The Polish Ambassador,Ayla Nereo,Hamsa Lila,PANTyRAiD,Minnesota, Fana Fi Allah,Autograf,Lila Rose, andThriftworks. In additional to the stellar music, the festival offers a movement festival within a festival with over 50 movement classes for flow artists, yogis, and dancers such as the holistic Twerkshop, Yoga of Bass, Soul Moves and Intuitive Contact, coupled with over 60 educational workshops covering subjects around sexuality, science, spirituality, ancestral arts, wellness, nutrition and nourishment. With plentiful microenvironments including the Nectar Temple, Kidslandia, Crystal Dome and more, the event truly offers attendees the opportunity to grow and expand.
To maximize your body’s enjoyment at EFG, purchase the Endless Saucy Spa Shower & Sauna Passthat allows for guests to treat themselves to unlimited showers, all-night sauna access, access to the sunset bathhouse parties, and coconut oil and body mists to send you off silky smooth and smelling fresh.
Full Music lineup:
River Stage: Autograf, Andreilien, Reid Speed, Soohan, Drrtywulvz, Champagne Drip, Eurythmy, Saqi, Morillo, Psy Fi, Dragonfly, Irieyes, Brian Hartmann, Sharu, Manoj, Subducto, Quilici, Genji, Origin
The Hearth Stage (Live): Ayla Nereo, Hamsa Lila, Fanna Fi Allah (2 sets), Lila Rose, Youssoupha Sidibe, Suzanne Sterling, Matthew Human and Friends, eO & Kyrstn Pixton, Cello Joe, AmaeLOVESLife, Freedom, Whiskerman, Masha Campagne, Christopher Worth, The Abe Train, Randy Todd, Elijah Ray, Shawn Barry, Marya Stark, Mama Crow, Maesyn, Cheraki, Buddhabee, Sweet Medicine
Mighty Oak: Shpongle, The Polish Ambassador, PANTyRAiD, Minnesota, Thriftworks, Bluetech, Stélouse, CloZee, Love and Light, Nominus, KRNE, Atyya, Living Light, Shamanic Technology, Sixis, Devin Kroes, Haana, Neptune
Mighty Oak Silent Disco: Nasja, Acacia Beats, YoHm, Soules, Syrius, Taotempo, more TBA
Shower Party Stage: Artists TBA
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" headliners include England’s forefather of psychedelic electronica Shpongle,the festival circuit’s unofficial Funkiest Diplomat The Polish Ambassador, plus MartyParty and Ooah (of The Glitch Mob) who combine forces as the melodic bass duo PANTyRAiD making a highly-anticipated return after a three year hiatus. Rounding out the electronic list of headliners is West Coast bass movement champion Minnesota and soulful Chicago trio Autograf.
Included among the much-hyped live acts headlining in 2016 is a three-hour, otherworldly trance set from groovy world-hip-hop fusion group Hamsa Lila, a vivid harmonic storytelling experience by ethereal melody-weaver Ayla Nereo, and two passionately devotional music sets from Fanna Fi Allah - a leading representation of ancient Sufi Qawwali music. Grammy-nominated, drum and bass Reggae stylist Youssoupha Sidibe, indie-rock electronica band Lila Rose and ecstatic vocalist and innovative composer Suzanne Sterling will also deliver spirited live performances over the course of the weekend.
Joining the musical headliners for the three-day festival at the musically historical Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, Northern California are KRNE, Stélouse, Thirftworks, Bluetech, Morillo, Clozee, Love and Light, Matthew Human and Friends, Cello Joe plus many more! With over 50 acts playing across four alluring stages - the River Stage, the Hearth Stage, the Mighty Oak Stage and the Shower Party Stage - Enchanted Forest Gathering combines the close knit community vibes of a small festival with the upscale caliber of production and talent of a larger festival. The result is a unique, holistic, transformational experience that the festival’s founders have light-heartedly dubbed as 'Sacred, sexy, silly and saucy.'"
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