Transcend Fest VT 2026

As demonstrated in the Autobiography of a Yogi, we can see that yoga is a spiritual practice that can be transformative and mastery of it can be magical. In this workshop, we will turn inwards through meditation and practice to explore techniques to tap into our dormant magical abilities and learn how to bring them to the surface to support and enhance our practice. We will explore the elements, create our personal energy orbs and work as a group to raise our power and direct our energy towards a common cause.

This experiential, education-forward workshop explores how cannabis can be used as intentional wellness tools to support common menopausal experiences such as sleep disruption, anxiety, pain, inflammation, changes in desire, and shifts in arousal. Grounded in sex-positive, stigma-informed education, participants will learn how the endocannabinoid system intersects with hormonal changes — and how mindful cannabis practices may help restore balance, comfort, and connection.

Together, we’ll explore:
What’s actually happening in the body during perimenopause and menopause
How cannabis and cannabinoids may support nervous system regulation, pleasure, and pain relief
Practical, harm-reduction approaches to products like CBD lubes, topicals, tinctures, and non-smokable options
Consent, boundaries, and self-trust when using plant medicine during intimate or vulnerable states
This workshop centers choice, autonomy, and accessibility. Consumption is never required. Participants are invited to engage in reflective practices, gentle discussion, and embodied awareness — solo, partnered, or simply inward.
Whether you’re curious, cautious, or already cannabis-affirming, this space is designed to reduce stigma, increase literacy, and empower people navigating midlife to feel informed, supported, and at home in their bodies.

This workshop is an invitation to reconnect with the quiet, steady knowing that already lives within you.

Certainty Within guides participants through gentle movement, breath, reflection, and grounded conversation to explore what it feels like to trust yourself—in your body, your choices, and your inner voice. Rather than looking outward for validation or permission, you’ll learn how to recognize signals of safety, clarity, and alignment from the inside out.
This experience is especially supportive for those who lead, create, care for others, or feel pulled in many directions. Together, we’ll explore how nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and presence create the foundation for clear boundaries, confident decisions, and authentic expression.
You’ll leave with practical tools, embodied insight, and a renewed sense of self-trust—able to move forward from a place of grounded certainty rather than urgency or doubt.
No fixing. No forcing. Just remembering how to lead from within.

There comes a moment when seeking outward answers no longer satisfies — when the soul whispers that the truth has always lived within. This one-hour sacred immersion is an invitation to gently enter the Akashic Records — the luminous field of consciousness where your soul’s story, gifts, lessons, and purpose are held in vibrational form. In a grounded yet mystical container, we will explore what the Records are, how they may be accessed with reverence and safety, and how they illuminate your unique path of service and creation. Through guided reflection, energetic preparation, and intuitive attunement, you will begin to recognize the patterns that shaped you, the wisdom that has followed you across lifetimes, and the deeper mission quietly unfolding beneath your everyday life. This is not about predicting the future — it is about remembering who you have always been.

In this workshop we will focus on healing each of the 7 primary energy centers, chakras, using energy healing, sound & intuition. Learn various practices and techniques to maintain balance within each chakra and clear/cleanse stagnation/blocks. It’s time we take our power back and remember our innate wisdom and healing abilities!

This workshop offers an embodied, exploratory approach to the Yamas and Niyamas, moving beyond theory and into lived experience. Through gentle movement, meditation, breath, reflection, discussion, and guided practices, we’ll explore how these principles show up in our relationships, boundaries, self-talk, energy, and daily choices.

What if a single sound could shift your inner world? Mantra meditation isn’t just a technique, it’s an ancient practice rooted in bhakti (devotion) that transforms your relationship with the mind and heart.

In this workshop, we’ll break down the essential components of mantra meditation, making it accessible whether you’re a curious beginner or a seasoned practitioner. You’ll gain practical insights into the structure of mantras, the power of sound and repetition, and how to align your meditation with your personal intentions.

Beyond theory, this is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the practice. Together, we’ll engage in a guided mantra meditation, helping you experience the calming and centering effects firsthand. You’ll leave with tools to create a sustainable mantra meditation practice, a deeper understanding of bhakti, and a renewed sense of connection with yourself and the world around you.

Together we dive into the connections between pelvic health, the nervous system and movement as medicine in this transformative experience. In this seminar, you will learn basci anatomy and function of the pelvic region including muscles, nerves, lymphatic system & more and the basics of the nervous system and its role in regulating bodily functions. Together we will dive into how stress, stress, emotions, and lifestyle affect the nervous system and, consequently, pelvic health. From there we approach movement as medicine and how you can use movement to promote pelvic health and nervous system health for an all encompassing approach to your body.

Are you ancestor-curious? Ancestor-bothered? Dreaming of dead relatives? Never thought about the ancestors before? Not even sure you know what an ancestor is?

Maybe you’re up to your neck in holistic teachings and modalities, but still drawn to understand the influence of the dead on our lives here. Maybe you’ve been on a path, and you’re encountering work that feels hollow or leaves you yearning for something more grounded. This super accessible, beginner-friendly workshop is for you!
Ancestral Healing Practitioner and writer Ashley Waverley will break down the basics of ancestral healing (the general concept) and Ancestral Lineage Healing (the method). The gathering will be very “why, how, what”—a true primer on the nature of the work, what you stand to gain if you venture in, what’s required of you, and how it’s different (or not) from what you think it is.
Learn more about what Ancestral Lineage Healing is, how to begin, and what it’ll look like once you’re engaged.
Leave with tangible skills to implement the basics of ritual safety and boundary-setting in your spiritual practice.
This offering is for you, if...
•You’re a smarty-pants skeptic who craves a richer spiritual life, but you have a hard time suspending disbelief.
• You’re metaphysically curious, but struggle to take certain practices seriously.
• You believe the challenges we face are not just our own—they may also be inherited.
• You believe personal healing may be incomplete without an accompanying ethic of cultural healing that works to transform racism, sexism, colonialism, etc.
• The “good vibes only” crowd aren’t your people; “light and love” alone leave you wondering…what about the rest of life’s complexities?
• You have a sense that you’re being impacted or influenced by generational patterns and you’re not sure what to do about it.

Join us for a powerful 1-hour guided meditation workshop to de-stress, come into stillness, and the present moment to manifest yourself. Learn how to generate the energy of manifestation through inner connection and self love, all guided by Kissey Asplund. The class will open with a 10 minute download/talk customized for this group, followed by 30 minutes of meditation. Bring pen and paper to write reflections and goals during the closing 15 minutes. You can participate sitting, standing or lying down. During your journey, you’ll experience music produce packed with tuned frequencies produce by Kissey.

This introductory session explores how unresolved generational trauma is stored in the body and how somatic practices, mindfulness, and energetic awareness can begin to release these inherited patterns. Participants will learn the foundations of ancestral trauma, how it affects the nervous system, and simple practices to restore clarity, regulation, and inner connection. Crystal blends yoga wisdom, metaphysical psychology, and trauma-informed techniques to offer a grounded, accessible entry point into deeply transformative work.

Natural Law is the living intelligence that underlies everything, the rhythms, patterns, and principles that keep the universe in harmony. When we understand and align with these laws, life begins to flow with more ease, clarity, and coherence.

In this workshop, we explore Natural Law through the body, breath, and lived experience. You’ll learn how energy moves through your field, how thoughts and stories shape your reality, and how to return to the pulse, the place where you operate in rhythm with Earth, truth, and your own inner knowing.
Together we uncover how:
• awareness shifts your whole field
• emotions influence your actions
• alignment organizes your reality
• you can live with more steadiness, clarity, and resonance
This is a practical, grounded introduction to Natural Law accessible to beginners and deeply validating for practitioners. You will leave with tools you can use immediately in your daily life. (Comes with a free pdf download of my natural law workbook)

Join Neuroscientist and Sleep Specialist, Becky Acabchuk, PhD, for an informative and interactive workshop offering practical tools, science-backed strategies, and insights into how sleep supports your health and wellbeing.

This workshop offers:
Practical Sleep Strategies: Tailored tools to address your unique sleep challenges.
Science-Based Techniques: Learn proven methods to improve rest and manage fatigue.
Understanding the Why: Discover the neuroscience behind sleep and how these techniques work, empowering you with a deeper understanding of your brain and body.
Hands-On Practice: Experience several techniques firsthand to help you sleep better starting tonight.
Discover new ways to reset your sleep habits and wake up feeling refreshed and restored.

There comes a moment when a woman no longer asks who she is becoming — only what sheis ready to reclaim. This one-hour ceremonial circle is a sacred pause... a remembering.Together we enter a held, intimate space where invisibility softens, over-giving dissolves, and the quiet voice of inner wisdom rises.

Within this circle, the living current of the Goddess awakens — the sovereign grace of Isis, the devotional fire of Mary Magdalene, the luminous wisdom of Sophia, and the threshold-guarding power of Hekate. These are not distant deities, but ancient names for forces already moving through your body, your story, your becoming.

Through guided reflection, gentle ritual, and embodied presence, you will honor the woman you have been and anchor the sovereign woman you are. This is not self-improvement. It is sacred return.

You will not leave with more to do — you will leave more fully yourself.

🌙 Will you meet her?

Join Vedaji, Keshavi Ma, and Danielle Newton for a workshop designed to leave you with practical tools to implement and sustain yoga as a way of life. Focusing on the elements of maintaining a personal spiritual practice (sadhana), offering self-less service to others (seva), and cultivating a loving spiritual community (sangha), this panel discussion will provide tips and tricks to raise your consciousness and cultivate your own personal spiritual practice through the timeless practices of yoga.

Consent is not just a verbal agreement — it’s a lived, embodied experience that shifts with context, sensation, and nervous system state. This workshop invites participants into a deeper understanding of consent as something felt, practiced, and continually renegotiated — especially when cannabis or other consciousness-altering practices are present.

Through education, reflection, and gentle somatic inquiry, participants will explore how cannabis can be used mindfully to slow down, increase body awareness, and clarify internal signals related to desire, comfort, and boundaries. Rather than focusing on performance or partnered outcomes, this space centers self-consent, presence, and choice.

Topics include:
How cannabis affects perception, sensation, and nervous system regulation
The difference between cognitive consent and somatic consent
Navigating “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” when altered states are involved
Harm-reduction strategies for intimacy, communication, and aftercare
Applying consent principles inward — to rest, pleasure, substances, and pacing

AI is simply a reflection of the human mind, but not just one mind, rather our collective, mass consciousness. The internet gave us a way to see how mind works on a global scale. AI is the next step back, an amplification of that same mind, accessible to all at any time.

There is nothing inherently good or bad about it. As the Yoga Sutras remind us, the mind can be a source of suffering or liberation depending on our relationship to it. So the question becomes: do we let it run the show, or do we remain established in the witness? Or do we become even more absorbed in mind, losing sight of what’s real? AI is the most powerful tool we’ve created since the internet which means our relationship to it matters.

In this workshop, we’ll explore where yoga and AI intersect in this space, how the same yogic techniques we use to understand, observe, and work skillfully with the mind can guide how we meet AI.

We’ll talk about awareness, discernment, and staying rooted in what’s real. There will be time for discussion, reflection, and simple practices you can take with you, so AI becomes something you can control consciously… instead of something that controls you.

Are you drawn to crystals, and perhaps started a small collection but not sure what to do with them? Join Rachel to learn how we can invite crystals into our lives and learn to connect with their energies for healing, support, love, protection and more. We will learn about how to select the right stones for you, care for them, assign them tasks, align with the chakras and work with crystal grids. Attendees will leave with information about safe vs. toxic crystals, rituals for daily use and find inspiration on how to tap into the latent magic of the stones.

This workshop is a resource for anyone with a curiosity of how to support themselves, a sister, a friend in their first 42 days following birth. This period of immense transformation is humbling for a lot of women and the common lack of focus on support in this period of newness can be detrimental to many women. The maiden is dying to become the mother. There is grieving, questioning, bliss, tears, fears, physical rekindling, ecstatic joy, and so much more. She deserves to be held in deep reverence and with tenderness.

In our time together we will discuss what the Sacred Window (Sutika Paricharya) is and why it is so important, why Vata Dosha is so prevalent in the 4th trimester, and how to nourish and balance Vata Dosha with nutrition, warmth, herbs, spices, and more. All of these methods will be practical and accessible for you and yours.
You will also get to take home with you my 108 Postpartum Affirmations that can be uttered at anytime you need, whether it is in the morning, after a good cry, on a Mala at your altar, while baby is nursing, before bed, or in the middle of the night.
I look forward to connecting with you. Many loving blessings to you

Pharmakeia is the practice of plant spirit magic. It can be a powerful tool to help us develop our spiritual practice by removing the illusion of separation between our worlds and help us recognize the duality within ourselves. In this workshop we will meet some of our plant allies through meditation, talk about how we can incorporate into our practice and perform the Khernips ritual to dedicate ourselves to the path.

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.