Transcend Fest VT 2026

Step into a sacred two-hour immersive experience designed to ground, connect, and awaken your inner landscape.  Guide by three facilitators, this offering weaves together ancient practices and intentional ritual to create a deeply nourishing container for community and transformation.

We will begin by honoring the space with a heartfelt land acknowledgement and blessing, followed by a collective meta (loving-kindness) prayer to open our hearts and set a shared intention.  From there, you'll be gently guided into grounding breathwork to center your body and calm the mind.

As the journey unfolds, you'll be led through a guided shamanic meditation, inviting insight, clarity, and connection to your inner wisdom.  The experience will deepen in a rhythmic drumming circle, activating energy, unity, and collective presence - leaving you feeling connected uplifted, and rooted in community.

We will drop into the space, into ourselves, and the transformative weekend ahead with intention.

This offering is an invitation to remember the power of intentional gathering.

Join us for a soulful, vibrant, devotional musical mantra experience!

This call and response Kirtan will fill your heart with joy and love as we call to the divine in community.

Having a good singing voice is not required. When we call to the divine, how we sound is not important, rather how we show up, in love and community is what truly matters.

No experience required; dancing encouraged!

A Shamanic Journey is an ancient practice dating back to the pre-religion times of animism. Shamanic Journeying uses traditional drumming to effortlessly induce deep meditative states of consciousness without the use of any substances. While in these deep meditative states we can experience healing, emotional release, pattern recognition, wisdom from guides/ancestors, enhanced overall wellbeing, and even mystical visions. In modern times we are so caught up in surviving day to day that we forget the more subtle realms and energies that are unseen around us all of the time. We begin each journey by honoring these unseen energies, our ancestors, and the elemental spirits of earth, water, fire, wind and ether (space). We will set an intention for our journey together after a brief introduction and explanation of the practice to receive the most benefits from our session. The beat of the drum shifts our consciousness toward the spiritual realms and allows us to expand beyond our normal awareness. The science behind these practices lies in the trance inducing beat of the drum, when we listen to repeated drumming our brains shift from our waking state into a deep meditative state. Shamanic Journeys can provide profound healing, new insights and awareness in our life that help us to see life from a renewed perspective which leads to new solutions and experiences.  All are welcome, no previous experience necessary!

This Kundalini ritual invites you into the deeper current of your life force—the ancient, sensual intelligence coiled at the base of the spine. Through breath, mantra, and rhythmic movement, we’ll awaken the serpent energy, clearing what has been dormant and activating embodied power from within.
This practice is grounding, provocative, and deeply intuitive. Designed to dissolve stagnation and awaken confidence, it calls you back into your body as a source of wisdom, desire, and truth. Expect to leave feeling clear, energized, and subtly ignited—rooted in the earth, yet alive with possibility.
A ritual of awakening.
A descent into power.

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.

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.

Join Natanya Ruth (E-RYT 500, Retreat Facilitator, Soul Led Transformational Coach) for a nourishing immersion full of all your faves: Sound + Energy Healing, All Levels Restorative Yoga, and Full Body YES tension release to support your resilience for this season and beyond.

Your So Much Yes Reset begins with a comforting cup of heart-opening ceremonial Cacao or herbal tea, an energetic clearing ritual, intention setting, a personalized oracle card reading, and then a full body immersion into the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, sacred chimes, and drum as you allow your mind, heart, and nervous system to align and open up to a place of peace, balance, compassion and unconditional love. A slow, reflective practice, featuring aromatherapy, a Reiki adjustment, and all levels poses that are held for 1-5 minutes, emphasizing an opening and stretching of the deep connective tissues. To close our container, you'll receive a guided affirmation from Natanya's bestselling book, Feel Free: Lessons of a Soul Led Life.

This class will leave you with a feeling of deep serenity.
This is truly your guided slumber party.

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.

Join Indigenous Medicine Woman Mountain Flower for a sacred connection ceremony that weaves an energetic bond between attendees, Earth Mother, the ancestors, and the cosmos.

Attendees experience a profound surge of love, light, and the presence of their spirit guides in their energy fields. This heightened state is then collectively used as a healing portal for humanity and our Earth Mother.

Join us for a soulful, vibrant, devotional musical mantra experience!

This call and response Kirtan will fill your heart with joy and love as we call to the divine in community.Having a good singing voice is not required. When we call to the divine, how we sound is not important, rather how we show up, in love and community is what truly matters.

No experience required; dancing encouraged!

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.

This Kundalini experience is an invitation to open the heart through the shadows—where desire, vulnerability, and magnetism live. Through heart-centered breathwork, mantra, and intentional movement, we’ll soften emotional armor and expand the energetic field, allowing connection to flow with depth and ease.
This is a practice of subtle seduction—tuning your frequency, refining presence, and leading from the heart without force. This class supports soulful connection, intuitive clarity, and the quiet power of being deeply felt.

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

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

Join Natanya Ruth, empowerment coach, wellness expert, soul led business mentor, ceremonialist, for a connected evening, where you’ll be invited to come home to yourself.

A Feel Free Ceremony is a 60 minute, all levels journey that promotes relaxation, deepens your self love, inspires greater clarity on your next steps in life, supports you to feel lit up and driven by your soul’s purpose, and releases conscious and unconscious patterns so you can feel free!

Featuring ecstatic dance, embodied movement, empowering vocal activations, divine ritual, a transformational breathwork journey set to an inspiring playlist, heart - centered connection, sound healing and a soothing savasana.
Plus you'll receive a reading from and a personalized signed copy of Natanya's new book, Feel Free: Lessons of a Soul Led Life

To Deepen Your Experience Natanya invites you to :
Bring a sleeping eye mask
Wear Clothes for Movement
Bring your journal and a writing implement