Transcend Fest VT 2026

Kick off the weekend with an electrifying opening ceremony led by festival Creatrix - Aria Nyx. Set your intentions and tap into the collective energy of Transcend Fest.  This is your moment to arrive fully, connect with your people, and step into a weekend of expansion, expression, and transformation.

Restorative is held for several minutes, the goal is to experience relaxation and restoration. This means that there is very little effort of any kind during a practice. Accessing tranquility and peace through healing, nurturing postures. A passive, transformative style of yoga that asks participants to hold postures. Longer hold of poses is done to strengthen, lengthen, and provide therapeutic release to joints, muscles, ligaments, fascia, and other connective tissues. Cultivate stillness, meditation, and deep awareness, but they access these states in different but equally beneficial ways.

Embodied Brush Yoga: 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.

Meditations in eMotion are essentially meditations done through movement, set to music, and tied to various emotions. Some emotions can be so strong they’re almost paralyzing. This revolutionary tool will teach you how to *move* through those emotions - literally. Have you ever experienced such a strong emotion (deep grief for example) that you wondered if you’d ever be truly happy or feel “like yourself” again? Or felt stuck in an emotion that you just couldn’t shake (sadness/anger/stress/frustration), and wished you could somehow let it go and move forward? You actually can. Learn how to shift out of not-so-great feeling emotions, enhance your positive feelings, and improve emotional well-being overall. This practice is a total life game changer! And these short moving meditations can easily be incorporated into daily life.

Perceive the world before we put words to it.

In this workshop, participants are guided through a series of sensory experiences that invite listening beyond thought. Short pieces of music, simple tastes, and gentle movement become moments of attention that is felt first in the body, then allowed to take form through color, line, and shape.
Rather than trying to create an image, participants respond. Sound moves the hand. Taste becomes texture. Feeling becomes motion. The page becomes a place where experience is translated as it’s happening, not after it’s been explained or analyzed.
Breath supports the process throughout, helping participants stay present as energy shifts across the senses. Over time, patterns begin to emerge, showing each person how they naturally receive and interpret the world around them.
Sensing in Color is playful, surprising, and quietly revealing. It offers a direct experience of intuition at work and a glimpse into how identity is shaped by what we notice, trust, and allow to move through us.
No art experience is needed. Only curiosity and a willingness to listen with the senses.

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 movement- and discussion-based workshop, participants will explore Krav Maga self-defense not only as a set of physical skills but also as a practice of mindful empowerment and self-awareness. Empowered Presence focuses on cultivating confidence and resilience, equipping participants with the tools to establish boundaries, honor their inner strength, and feel safe within themselves and their surroundings. Through a blend of guided discussions, practical combatives and self protection tactics, this session will help to deepen their connection to their body and mind. They’ll discover how self-defense can be a holistic wellness practice that can help them feel rooted and empowered in everyday life.

Join us for an experience that integrates movement, awareness, and reflection, nurturing your ability to protect your peace, express your truth, and unlock your true potential

This event is for anyone seeking a deeper healing experience and growth within their own personal spiritual practice. All paths and traditions are welcome.

Join Khaluna Kam as she hosts a Traditional Kamlanie - ancestor fire. This will involve cleansing with Shaman Juniper, a lineage-based paleolithic ancestor fire, offerings (will be provided), drumming, singing, throat singing, and complete freedom of expression. Traditionally performed in regions like Tuva and among peoples such as the Sakha and Kazakhs in Siberia and Central Asia. Her lineage comes from Khakassia, Siberia. Her teacher is Morsuk Kam (Austria), and his teacher is Karagai Kam (Siberia/Kathmandu).

Following the Kamlanie, there will be a gathering called "Freedom of the Self". This will include discussing the basics of traditional Shamanism and some everyday techniques for self-healing.

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.