Transcend Fest VT 2026

Join NIH-funded researcher Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian to discover the biological "why" behind your breath. This session bridges ancient Siddha tradition with modern clinical science, showing you how simple breathing techniques can influence gene expression and stress biomarkers. You will learn practical, evidence-based exercises to regulate your nervous system, boost cognitive clarity, and improve overall well-being. Perfect for all levels, this workshop transforms the way you understand the power of every inhale and exhale.

A Collective Art Experience invites you to slip into a world where movement becomes paint, breath becomes rhythm, and your body becomes the brush. With body-safe pigments on hands and feet, we'll step onto a collective canvas and be guided through a slow, fluid yoga flow that awakens the senses and softens you into your own skin. Each gesture leaves its trace on the shared canvas. Let your body speak in a swirl of color, a press of presence, and a moment of deeply embodied emotion translated into form.

As the class unfolds, the space becomes alive with collective expression: footsteps of grounding, handprints of release, spirals of playful joy and somatic surrender. Together, we create a living tapestry of embodied experience: a visual imprint of community, connection, and the sensual intelligence of the moving body. By the end, the canvas becomes a piece of collective art, holding the story of every breath, every touch, every felt moment we shared.

Breathing in Color is about giving the inner experience a visual language.

In this workshop, color is explored as energy rather than aesthetic, and breath becomes the translator. Through guided somatic breathwork and visualization, participants are invited to sense how energy moves within the body, between one another, and through the land and air around them.
Every brushstroke, color palette, and mark an artist makes carries subtle choices that shape their artistic style. Over time, these choices become a visual vocabulary… a way of speaking without words.
As participants explore their inner canvas with curiosity and insight, they begin to sense their own intuitive language forming. With each sensation that whispers, each emotion, memory, or subtle shift that stirs, color becomes a living vocabulary for experiencing energy and offering form to what is felt before it needs to be named.
Near the close of the session, participants are invited to offer a single mark, color, or gesture to a communal artwork, contributing as it feels resonant. This shared creation reflects the collective frequency shaped through breath, presence, and shared attention in that moment. The completed piece will be shared digitally with all who attended as a keepsake of the experience.
Breathing in Color introduces somatic breathwork and creative expression as ritual and offers a way of experiencing art as something felt through the body and held in space. It's an energetic language that continues to speak long after the moment has passed.
No prior art or breathwork experience is needed. Only curiosity and a willingness to listen inward.

We will go over the basics of Acro yoga, including partner flows and stretches as well as clear communication and body awareness. This will be an opportunity to attune to another person while practicing movement and embodiment techniques. No experience or partner required. Come as you are.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to work with the moon’s phases to support your personal growth and daily practices. 
Whether you’re new to lunar wisdom or looking to deepen your connection, you’ll leave with practical tips on how to align your life with lunar cycles — no matter where the moon is in its journey.

As the weekend draws to a close, we gather one final time — not to end the experience, but to anchor it into the bones.
This closing ceremony is a sacred integration space. A moment to honor the transformations that occurred, the connections formed, the truths remembered. Through reflection, breath, sound, and collective energy, we seal the work that was done here and consciously carry it back into our lives.
You did not come here to escape your life.
You came here to reclaim yourself within it.
May you leave this mountain with clearer vision, softer hearts, stronger boundaries, and deeper devotion to your own becoming.
The ceremony ends.
The embodiment begins.