FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The Anahata festival provides a vast array of opportunities to nourish your mind, body, and spirit. You can engage in transformative workshops, immerse yourself in soul-stirring live music performances, experience the pure joy of dancing, rejuvenate yourself in the tranquil nature, and purify your body in the sauna. Embrace the abundant offerings of the festival and allow yourself to connect deeply with your inner self and the divine.
Workshops
The workshop program and schedule for 2026 is in the making - please check back for updates
Yoga
With Igal
Join Igal for an hour-long, all-levels mindful slow-paced yoga class that's perfect for everyone. We'll work on building a strong foundation, energizing our bodies, and using our breath to explore different poses. Igal will guide you through each movement, helping you find balance and support while you engage and recharge. Whether you're new to yoga or have been practicing for years, this class offers a great mix of challenge and chill vibes. Come ready to connect with your body and mind, and leave feeling refreshed and centered.
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Igal is a multi-faceted practitioner dedicated to bringing greater health and happiness to clients for over a decade.
He's a practicing Registered Massage Therapist, Medical Acupuncture Practitioner, Yoga student & Teacher and Sound Therapy Facilitator.
Avid lover of life, music, healing practices and healing arts, mysticism and everything in between.
Kundalini Yoga
With Elena Klymenko
Anahata Kundalini Yoga with crystal Bowls sound bath – practice that focuses on opening the heart center and aligning with your true path. We will start with realigning chakra warm up, followed by Hatha flow to get your entire body and mind rejuvenated and balanced, followed by special Kundalini yoga kriya for the open heart shining with love and kindness.
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Kundalini Yoga is called the Yoga of Awareness. It is a dynamic, powerful tool that is designed to be an experience for both body and soul.
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In Kundalini Yoga we harness the mental, physical, and nervous energies of the body and put them under the domain of the will, which is the instrument of the soul. This technology precisely and consciously combines breath, mudra, eye-focus, mantra, body locks, and postures to balance the glandular system, strengthen the nervous system, expand lung capacity, and purify the blood. It brings balance to the body, mind, and soul.
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Your experience will be enhanced with the meditative sound of seven crystal bowls corresponding to each chakra which helps with their alignment and balance.
Shamanic Sound Circle
With Masha Andreeva
A large sound circle has become a staple of Anahata. Together, we activate our innate shamanic wisdom through the simple and powerful act of offering improvised sound to one another. With curiosity and care, we set off on a journey into our hearts and dreams.
In this circle, you are invited to explore your voice, practice deep listening, and engage in mindful sounding that opens the heart and invites harmony. Let your heart guide you. Hear your inner voice. Notice the subtle signs and messages waiting to be discovered.
As a group, we will co-create a healing soundscape for a receiver. Participants will take turns journeying within the collective field of sound, held and supported by the circle. No previous musical experience is necessary. User-friendly instruments will be provided, and you are welcome to bring a favorite instrument if you have one.
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Masha Andreeva is a Registered Psychotherapist and Art Therapist who gently weaves together sound, creativity, mindfulness, and nature-based practice. Her work is rooted in deep listening — to the body, to the voice, and to the subtle wisdom that emerges in shared spaces. Drawing from expressive arts, somatic awareness, and contemplative traditions, Masha holds inclusive circles where people can explore their authentic voice without pressure or performance. She believes that sound can be a simple, human pathway back to connection — with ourselves, with each other, and with the living world around us.
Kambó Beyond the Myth: From Intensity to Intelligence
With Annelene Sillet
This presentation explores Kambó through a grounded, respectful, and educational lens, moving beyond narratives centered on intensity and reframing it as a body based, intelligent medicine rooted in physiology and indigenous wisdom.
I come from a background in physiotherapy and trauma-informed practice, I bridge therapeutic science with ancestral knowledge, offering clarity around bioactive peptides, nervous system regulation, and homeostasis. The talk emphasizes responsibility, respect for indigenous lineage, and the importance of informed integration.
Rather than focusing on spectacle, this conversation invites participants to understand Kambó as a tool for alignment, regulation, and embodied intelligence.
Bio:
Anne Sillet is a Venezuelan-born physiotherapist and Canada-based sacred medicine educator who serves as a cultural bridge between ancestral wisdom and modern science. Their work integrates therapeutic knowledge, indigenous traditions, and trauma-informed approaches to promote expansion of the physical, emotional, and spiritual body.
Founder of Jungle Cultura and co-founder of Cannabis Education Canada and Natural Budz, Anne has dedicated their life to teaching the responsible and respectful use of sacred medicines such as Kambó, Rapéh, Sananga, Cannabis, and Tobacco. Through collaboration with the Matsés Nation of the Peruvian Amazon, Anne supports the preservation and transmission of traditional practices while creating training programs rooted in reciprocity and indigenous sovereignty.
Anne has spoken at international platforms including Boom Festival and the United Nations, contributing to conversations around education, responsible medicine work, and cross-cultural dialogue. Their commitment to education has been recognized by organizations and communities across wellness, public service, and alternative medicine sectors.
Through Jungle Cultura and global training programs, Anne continues to guide individuals and practitioners in expanding consciousness, fostering community, and cultivating harmony between body, mind, and Spirit.
Website: www.junglecultura.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@junglecultura
Instagram: www.instagram.com/junglecultura
Personal Instagram: www.instagram.com/annelenesillet
Unleash Your Inner Power: Sacred Theatre
With Dan Fox
​Join Pro Actor Dan Fox for a transformative 1.5 hour Sacred Theatre Activation. This isn't acting - it's deep self-discovery using powerful techniques like Meisner-inspired connection, spontaneous improv, liberating vocal exercises and archetypal and animal work.
​You’ll move through:
​Ritual & Intention: Opening circle, community altar, and clarity around your intention.
​Embodied Play: Theatre games, archetypal movement, and playful improv to wake up your body, imagination, and voice.
​Deep Connection: Meisner-inspired partner work to practice vulnerability, trust, and genuine emotional presence.
​Scene Improv: Collaborative scenes built around real human stakes, integrating your intention into creative play.
​Authentic Declaration: A short, heartfelt monologue where you speak with clarity and authenticity about who you’re becoming.
​Perfect for:
​Entrepreneurs & leaders craving more authentic presence and emotional freedom.
​Wellness practitioners & facilitators who want to build deeper, embodied confidence.
​Seekers & creatives ready to turn self-doubt into courageous expression.
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​About Dan Fox:
​Dan believes in leading with the heart, guided by warrior-like precision. His journey has been a deep dive into spirituality, physical discipline, and artistic expression. He believes that true strength comes from vulnerability and that creativity is a powerful force for healing. He is passionate about training individuals in acting and MMA to unleash their self-expression and build their confidence. This is a heart-centered approach to personal growth, grounded in both artistic vision and unwavering resolve. Dan has taught at professional conferences and acting studios as well as at arts and health and wellness festivals for over a decade.
​Visit www.danfoxcoaching.com to learn more
​Instagram: www.instagram.com/danfoxcoaching
Beyond the Physical: The Art of Energetic Healing
With Atavia Guide
This presentation explores the role of subtle energy in emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. Through Reiki, Kundalini activation, intuitive channeling, and ceremonial practice, Atavia shares how energetic alignment supports nervous system regulation, emotional release, and expanded awareness.
Participants will gain insight into how subtle body practices can complement somatic and spiritual work, and how safe, intentional containers allow deeper transformation to unfold organically.
Bio:
Atavia is an intuitive energy healer, artist, and ceremonial facilitator weaving together Reiki, Kundalini activation, Kambo medicine, and intuitive channeling to support deep, holistic transformation. As a Reiki Master Teacher, she blends formal training with natural intuitive abilities, receiving guidance from a client’s higher self and subtle energetic layers ready to be expressed.
Her work bridges creativity, spirituality, and embodied healing, guiding the nervous system, emotional body, and spirit through one cohesive journey. With integrity and reverence for ancient lineages, Atavia holds safe, sacred containers that invite cleansing, clarity, awakening, and reconnection to inner truth.
Website: www.ataviaguide.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ataviaguide
Connect and Reset
With Zeena Dotiwalla
Relax and unwind – and learn how to help someone relax and unwind too! This
workshop invites you to collaborate with a partner to both give, and receive the
healing benefits of therapeutic touch. This class is welcome to all, whether it is your first time offering manual therapy, or you want to enhance and hone your palpation skills. Zeena will offer her knowledge and experience from her extensive education and training in osteopathy, professional dance, yoga and personal training. The class will be divided in two parts; you and your partner will each take turns offering, and, oh yes – receiving (!) therapeutic touch. Zeena will guide you through every step of the process, from head to toe, while leaving room for your own intuitive inner healer to take the lead. This is an opportunity to connect, not just with another person, but also to your own inner self. In this interoceptive journey, you will leave feeling a little more connected to your body, the earth, your partner and the world around you.
* It is recommended (but not necessary) to bring: a partner, a (yoga)mat, pillow(s), blanket, water, journal, and any other therapeutic additions you may enjoy.
** Verbal consent will be necessary for touch therapy
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Facilitator Bio:
Zeena is an active member of the OAO (Ontario Association of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners). She received her D.O.M.P. (Diploma in Osteopathy Manual Practice) and D.Sc.O. (Diploma in the Science of Osteopathy) from the Canadian College of Osteopathy (2020). Her treatments consist of layering various techniques, such as cranio-sacral therapy, osteo-articular mobilizations, myofascial release, as well as addressing visceral, fluidic and energetic work.
Zeena has also earned a diploma in contemporary dance from L’école de danse
contemporainne de Montréal (formerly known as LADMMI, 2011), a BFA Hons in
dance from York University (2008), certified in Reiki Level Two (2016), completed
her 200-hour yoga teacher training with the Yoga Alliance (2021), CanFitPro
Personal Trainer certified (2012), First aid and CPR certified, and bilingual in
English and French.
Vocal Alchemy, Embracing Joy and Connection
With Francesca Ranalli of Sacred Earth Sounds (M.Mus, B.Mus, Vocal Alchemy)
Joyful freedom of expression and song is every Soul’s birthright, yet many of us
are inhibited vocally, silenced in physical and psychological ways.
In this workshop we’ll explore the voice as a reflection of the soul and how we
show up in the world and embrace liberating the power of the voice through
collective song.
By deepening into the art of transforming feelings, thoughts and experiences with the voice, the powerful effect of intentional vibration within the body and the joy of collective singing we will honour Self and the immense capacity for well-being we each possess, offering permission and surrendering to trust.
All of this will be grounded in an understanding of vocal pedagogy affording ease and authenticity.
Francesca’s journey with the voice spans many years and expressions. She holds
space with sound, teaches voice to actors, and performs as a classical, jazz, and
indie vocalist. She brings this collective experience and knowledge into any work she does to facilitate well-being. She views working with sound and voice as the facilitation of the vibrations, sounds and energetics for the healing capacity that exists within each of us. It is in the conscious nurturing of this capacity within ourselves that we assert ownership and growth of well-being and whole living.
Decode & Clear Your Chakras:
A Deep Dive with the Eden Method
With Katya Revenko
Chakra energy can be a powerful healing force—but only when it is flowing freely. When your chakras are blocked, stagnant, or out of balance, your body can’t function at its best. Your energy gets depleted. Your connection to deeper wisdom weakens. You may even feel cut off from yourself.
In this experiential workshop, you will discover:
🌿 How each chakra stores emotionally significant events—your wins, your wounds, your life story
🌿 Why unprocessed memories in your chakras can silently affect your health and limit your potential
🌿 How to clear, balance, and energize your chakras using hands-on Eden Method techniques
🌿 Why working with chakras is so transformative, and when it’s most beneficial to do so
✨ You will also learn:
🌿 3 core functions of chakras
🌿 What chakras really look like and how their seven layers carry different types of information
🌿 Unique insights about the Root and Crown chakras
🌿 Why the Throat Chakra—also called the “Holy Grail”—is unlike any other
🌿 How to prepare your energy system for chakra work and deep chakra clearing
This workshop is perfect for beginners and experienced energy explorers alike. You will leave with tools you can use immediately to start clearing stuck energy, reconnect to your inner guidance, and begin a deeper healing process.
Your body remembers more than your mind ever could—let’s clear what no
longer serves you.​
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Facilitator Bio:​
Katya is a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner and Teacher who helps people activate their body’s natural ability to heal through the gentle yet powerful tools of energy medicine.
A lifelong seeker, Katya wears many hats: she’s a daughter, wife, and proud mother of two amazing children. With a background as a seasoned fashion artist and dancer, she brings creativity, curiosity, and a deep belief in the magic of inner healing to everything she does.
Her journey into energy healing began with a personal quest to restore her own well-being. Along the way, she discovered the life-changing power of Eden Energy Medicine—and never looked back.
Katya is passionate about helping others reconnect with their body’s wisdom, release stuck energy, and feel more vibrant, grounded, and alive. If you see her at the festival, don’t hesitate to say hello—she welcomes meaningful connections, whether you’re simply curious or seeking guidance on your healing path.
Find her online at www.eemhealingarts.com or on Instagram @eemhealingarts.
Voice Jam
With Will Klein
Welcome to Voice Jam! A fun and interactive event where we practice our authentic voices through improvised singing.
We sing in a circle where we play various vocal improv games. Our voices are used as a musical instrument to make sounds, tones, and percussive noises. It's a fun practice, playing together in a supportive container.
Will leads us through harmonizing, toning, rhythm games, and call and response. When we are warmed up, we have a Voice Jam, where we create music together. It is a practice in active listening, authentic expression, and collaboration.
All musical skill levels are welcome! Beginners, music hobbyists, shower singer, sound healers, or more experienced musicians who wants to dive into the world of vocal improv.
Many of us may be shy to sing in front of others. This is very common. By witnessing each other express in a supportive container, we regain our confidence in using our voices in an authentic way.
Some of the benefits may include:
🌿 Fuller singing voice
🌿 Developing our musicianship skills
🌿 Feeling more connected with others
🌿 Releasing creative blocks
🌿 Sense of ease and playfulness
“The opposite of depression is expression”
The North Star Practice: from Origin to Alignment
With Saēna
So often, we judge our reactions without ever asking what they mean. But many of our behaviors began for a reason. They were once strategies for safety, belonging, protection, or survival. The problem is that those patterns can keep running long after their original purpose is gone.
The North Star Practice: From Origin to Alignment is a reflective method and tool developed for understanding the deeper meaning beneath our emotional triggers, reactive behaviors, repeating patterns, and inherited ways of being. It begins with the recognition that many of our responses once had a purpose: to protect, adapt, belong, survive, or make sense of the world. But patterns often outlive the conditions that created them.
This technique is meant to create a buffer for us to pause in moments of activation in order to recalibrate through tracing a response back to its original function, allowing us to reassess whether it still serves who we are becoming today, and realign us with our deeper truth, values, and the direction we desire and consciously choose to follow; Realigning us with our North Star.
Rather than judging ourselves at the surface, we learn to meet our behavior with curiosity, remember its meaning, and choose again from a more conscious place.
This is a tool that participants take with them beyond the workshop, a practice they can return to in any moment of emotional activation, inner conflict, or pattern repetition.
**About the Facilitator**
Saēna is an integrative somatic therapy practitioner, expressive art therapy practitioner, and holistic health and emotional wellness facilitator. With a foundation in psychology and years immersed in performance arts, movement, and embodied creative expression, her work lives at the intersection of the analytical and the intuitive, the clinical and the soulful.
She works with individuals navigating repeating patterns, emotional activation, life transitions, or the quiet ache of knowing something deeper is asking to be met, offering a space where insight becomes felt experience and understanding lands in the body, not just the mind.
Through her practice, Simurgh by Saēna, she offers 1:1 integrative somatic therapy and holistic health sessions, immersive group workshops (Archetype Workshop Series, Awaken Your Inner Child, Meet Your Dragon, Connection Through Play & Movement), Clay Play Sessions (Biweekly somatic clay and embodiment sessions) , and custom Corporate Workshops/Facilitation (for team connection, embodied play, and group bonding).
To learn more, visit www.simurghbysaena.com
Embodying the Echo
Integration workshop with Andjela Uzelac
​As the final workshop of Anahata, Andjela will guide you through a gentle, grounding journey to integrate the magic, insights, and transformations of the weekend. Through a nourishing blend of yoga stretches, somatic practices, and guided visualization, you’ll be invited to land deeply within yourself and attune to your natural rhythm. The space will include moments of stillness, pockets of silence, and journaling prompts to support personal reflection. We will close with a heartfelt sharing circle—honoring our experiences, witnessing one another, and gently weaving the threads of connection into embodied memory.
Bring your journal
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Andjela is an intuitive healing practitioner trained in Spiritual Psychotherapy, Spiritual Direction, Reiki Levels 1 & 2, and Vinyasa Yoga. Her passion lies in awakening others to their potential and empowering them to recognize themselves as divine beings within this Earth School. Her personal journey has revealed the profound capacity we each hold to transform and heal. Having been initiated into this deep knowing, she now feels called to share it—activating the power and light within others. She is devoted to continuing her work by offering group spaces and communal gatherings as we collectively shift into a new age and energetic frequency.
To learn more about Andjela, you can visit her website: www.healing-glow.ca
Your Vibe Revival
With Thu Nguyen and Chenny Xia
Ready to reset your system and reconnect to your natural rhythm? Your Vibe Revival is a dynamic, body-led journey to help you activate neurogenic tremoring and your own healing tones as a way to activate your innate vibrations from the inside out.
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We’ll begin with gentle Qi Gong to awaken the body and breath, followed by a guided practice in Neurogenic Tremoring (TRE)—a powerful technique that activates your body’s natural release mechanism through subtle, therapeutic shaking from the inside out. Then, we’ll co-create a soundscape through collective toning and vocal play to harmonize our nervous systems and voices as one. You'll have a chance to get up after your neurogenic tremors are activated to let your body dance you, a new way to experience ecstatic dancing.
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This is a space of curiosity, rest, and gentle reconnection to your true vibes. Come as you are. Leave with a renewed sense of aliveness and vibration in your body. Bring your mat, pillows and blankets for extra comfort.
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Facilitator Bios:
Thu Nguyen is a former tech entrepreneur who spent 20 years in start-ups before her body said no—through cancer, diabetes and more chronic illnesses. Now, as founder of Nusqool, a new school for old souls - Thu guides others in reconnecting to their bodies, nervous systems, and soul path through TRE, Medical Qi Gong, Access Bars, Embodiment, Movement, HeartMath, and coaching relational trauma.
Chenny Xia is an entrepreneur and multi-disciplinary facilitator who creates spaces where people feel cared for, be witnessed and transformed. She is the CEO of GotCare, one of Canada's fastest growing companies. Chenny weaves courage, play, and care into everything she does.
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The ancient path of Goddess Yoga
With Xenia Ananda Shakti
​The Goddess is Radical Radiant Evolution !
Dance
Sing
Activate
Meditate
Elevate
Articulate
Radiate
Vibrate Life Force
Divinize our Body Temples
Move the Sacred Sounds through our bodies
Energize and Rejuvenation
Come OMMMMMMM to the Goddess inside and out!
You Are the Love, the Light that you Seek.
You are a conduit for all sacred wisdoms and love.
It is an expression of the Divine Feminine Impulse to set yourself free into
the Radiance of Love and Life and Shine it out there the benefit of ALL
Awaken the Communion with your subtle realms, for insight & and
invite the sacred Communion that is uniquely yours to guide you forward
in life and in love.
Sri Vidya is the Ancient Path of the Embodying the Goddess !
It literally means "To See Everything as the Goddess’
It rose from the ‘Shakti’ path of worshiping the Goddess
Popular Yoga was historically create for men, for a man’s body and lifestyle.
Sri Vidya is the secret path that manifested for woman practitioners.
In our time together we will explore the powerful experience of the
realization of the Goddess inside and out and learn practices to continue
with this very healing, rejuvenating , loving journey with life and yoga.
Journey in Alignment with
The Divine Feminine Impulse The principle of life that lovingly guides us
Ommm ‘Home'
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Ananda Xenia Shakti
Goddess lover, Yogini, Temple Dancer, New Earth musician, and Angelic Conduit, I walk the path of the Divine Feminine as a living prayer—devoted to the unfolding mystery of Love.
For over 47 years, I have journeyed into the heart of Yoga, including 14 years immersed in the sacred classical Temple Dance in India.
My life is a tapestry of devotion, where the fine arts and the spiritual arts dissolve into One Living Current. Each step has been guided by an unseen grace, weaving the ordinary into the sacred. From my early days as a punk singer in an all-girl band in New York City, to awakening into communion with angelic realms and studying with some of great masters in India, the
journey has been one of remembrance of again and again my sublime nature and the Infinite within.
As a guide and teacher, I share the more esoteric streams of Yoga, sharing the deeper states of awareness and embodiment. As a conduit for angelic frequencies, I offer Quantum Awakening transmissions, supporting the gentle dissolution of limitations of karma into the boundless field of Love.
My path is one of embodying Bliss as a living presence. Rooted in devotion & alignment with Sacred Feminine Impulse and Divinity in all its radiant forms and to know in the great truth of existence that Only Love Is Real.
It is my joy to share this with others who feel the call—to awaken, to remember, to embody Love.
I look forward to sharing my Light with Yours.
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Creative Codes art playshop
With Derek Stevens
Ready to play, in a visual way? Channel your creativity and let your imagination
soar through an intriguing exploration of colour harmony, the golden ratio and sacred geometry of life.
This class will weave constellations in your imagination connecting music to math to colour and nature, right down to our very finger tips.
How is it that the same principle that makes us all unique is also what connects us? Why do certain patterns appear across the Earth and various eras of time?
What connections can be made between the Milky Way galaxy, our planet, the human body, and an irrational number that goes on infinitely without repeating itself?
And how can this help inspire us to make really cool, fun, awesome art?
Combining optical illusions, the meditative art of sacred geometry, and mandalas, this course will leave you with a souvenir and a visual reminder of the magic and memories over the weekend.
From parabolas, to the golden triangle, and the seed of life, Derek will guide and share in what he has learned about how to construct combine and apply these shapes in your own personal mandala.
Starting with canvas and a compass to establish a blueprint of your vision, we will apply colour patterns and several simple principles to allow the seed idea to organically unfold.
Derek is an artist, musician and plant enthusiast with a strong interest in metaphysics and sacred geometry.
As an ambassador of the principle of 'mistake-proOf' art and the freedom that follows exercising our imagination regularly, Derek enjoys blending a balance between organic and geometric, monochrome and maximum colour,
taking inspiration from nature and always seeking the magical things in life things that make us go "Wow..!", he delights in diving through the dimensions of art and the unknown in search of the paradoxical, wild and wonderful.
There will also be a collective collaborative piece set out in the open with the invitation to come and be creative and have fun as a community. Throw your UV paint, patterns and glitterbomb feelings into a geometric portal over the weekend, and be sure to watch for the reveal on the outro when the hidden masked pieces are peeled and the true shape is unveiled ~
Inner Attune For Connected Flow: A Guided
Journey Into Embodied Movement
With Michelle Karunarante
Come home to yourself, open to another, and co-create a shared field of presence through movement and music.
This workshop offers a pathway out of the thinking mind and into the felt sense—where movement becomes a language of trust, attunement, and aliveness. By cultivating sensitivity to your own rhythms and the subtle energy of another body, you’ll learn to move in relationship with another while still staying in touch with yourself. From this place, dancing becomes a co-creation—a fluid, heart-led dialogue between self, other, and sound.
Through breath, grounded movement, and relational awareness practices inspired by partner dancing, we will explore how to feel more fully, listen more deeply, and move with intuitive freedom.
We hope to create a space to feel grounded and confident in our bodies to be more relaxed in connection and present to the joy of shared experience.
No dance experience is needed. All bodies, backgrounds, and levels of comfort are welcome.
Michelle Karunaratne is a yoga and breathwork facilitator, Brazilian Zouk dancer, and lifelong student of embodied presence. She has pursued a variety of disciplines and learned that connecting movement to breath can bring us back into our bodies and connect us deeper into our emotional and energetic landscapes. Over time, this can help clear space for self-listening and inner guidance to allow the emergence of inner freedom, joy, peace and more ease in savouring all shades of our lives.
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Anger Aloud! - Anger Release for Women
With Amy Chu and Alexandra Jordan
Do you feel numb and spacey when triggering events occur?
Or, do you have occasional outbursts and are concerned how it affects others?
Are you ready to connect and move anger to find power, relief, and grounding?
Anger is often suppressed in women due to cultural influences of past and present. The skill of navigating through anger often wasn't taught to us, and instead, we stifle this protective energy in hopes of feeling safe. We are taught to be "good girls" and to disconnect from anger, which also holds the key to our inner power.
However, anger that isn't expressed externally turns inwards, and understanding how to manage this misunderstood emotion is crucial for maintaining our emotional, physical, and mental well-being. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, anger is related to the liver, and learning to move this emotion can lead to the overall balance of body and mind.
What to expect
Psychoeducation on Anger
Understand the psychology, physiology, and sociology of anger to build a healthier relationship with it.
Express Yourself Safely
In a trauma-informed and safe environment, learn safe ways - like through vocal chakra tuning, anger-releasing breathwork, Somatic Tantrum Movements, Kali Breaths and more - to release anger without causing harm to others.
Transform Anger into Power
Your solar plexus is the seat of your power and also where anger is stored. Learn to allow this energy to protect you and propel you instead of hold you back.
Connect with like-minded Women
Join a supportive circle to share experiences and witness each other's power.
Are you disconnected from your anger? Here are common signs:
- Belief you have no anger
- Passive-aggressive comments
- Avoiding conflict
- Tightness in jaw, neck & shoulders
- Skin and gastrointestinal issues
- Difficulty setting boundaries
- Self-blame
- Resentment towards others
- Over-apologizing, excessive politeness
Join the Workshop and Reclaim Your Power
Take a step toward a happier, healthier, and empowered you. Let's transform anger into strength, resilience, and a deeper self-connection.
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Amy Chu is a trauma-informed anger release coach and sound healer. She has been doing anger release coaching for over a year, under Blaze to Blossom, and she found her own healing through somatic therapy and vocalization. Born in China and raised in the West, she overcame acute chronic pain by understanding the intricate relationship between her heritage and emotional repression, and moving this emotion.
Alexandra Jordan is a certified Emotion Code, Body Code and Belief Code Certified Practitioner and breathwork facilitator. Using Emotion Code, she helps clients release emotional baggage and energetic imbalances that often manifest as symptoms in the body, as well as psychic manipulations by others. She also has a background in holistic nutrition and somatic trauma-informed training and incorporate multiple modalities in her healing practice.
Anahata Sounds
Friday evening will treat us to live music performances and electronic music will start Saturday afternoon with the sounds of ambient and downtempo and will slowly morph into upbeat dance party by the evening. Sunday we continue to relax with the ambient music in the daytime and will have a second dance night. Saturday and Sunday evening will be sprinkled with some live music – see below for sound bath and live performance details as well as DJ lineup.​
DJ LINEUP
Organic percussive world-fusion ecstatic mix
house / d&b / downtempo chill
Soulful Organic House / Afro House
Melodic Progressive House/Trance
Shamanic-organic-dynamic house
Ecstatic dance + Daytime Ambient
Amapiano
Hypnotic Modular techno
Melodic tech house / d&b
Deep driving house and techno / Melodic tech house
Basstech drum n step polymorphic dub
VJ: WKSBYKS
Click the DJ name for more details
Live Performances
Sound Bath
With Masha Andreeva and friends
Only at Anahata, you are invited into a one-hour immersive, multi-dimensional journey through sound — a living tapestry woven by Masha Andreeva and a circle of gifted sound practitioners.
Surrounded by musical instruments and held within the embrace of nature, you will be bathed in layers of vibration: crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, chimes, drums, strings, flutes, Rav Vast, and other acoustic textures that ripple through the body and beyond. The space itself becomes an instrument — a resonant field where breath, earth, and tone meet.
This is not a performance, but a shared ceremonial listening. Sound moves through you, softening edges, untangling tension, inviting the nervous system into regulation and the heart into openness. Some experience deep rest; others receive insight, imagery, or emotional release. Each journey is unique.
Masha Andreeva is a Registered Psychotherapist whose work is rooted in a longstanding dedication to music as medicine. Her path has been shaped by years of immersion in traditional healing modalities of South and North America and Eurasia, informing her core values that nature is sacred and that we are all interconnected within the web of life on Mother Earth.
Bridging traditional apprenticeship with formal Western education in psychology and psychotherapy, Masha integrates sound, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and expressive arts into her offerings. Her clinical training allows her to create trauma-informed, grounded, and ethically held spaces where individuals and groups can journey safely through immersive soundscapes.
Through carefully woven layers of vibration and intentional presence, Masha invites participants into deep listening — supporting nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and reconnection to self, community, and the living world.
HeartSong
Heartsong: A Musical Gathering is a heart-centered community singing experience where voices unite in devotion, play, and authentic expression. Blending original medicine songs, Kirtan, multi-part circle songs, and covers of artists like Sam Garrett, Beautiful Chorus, Alexa Sunshine Rose and Deva Premal & Miten, HeartSong is a safe and loving container for opening the voice in community.
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Hosted by Justin Grant, spoken word poet and song weaver devoted to bringing love and light into the spaces where we gather; Will Kleinwood, singer-songwriter themed around nature connection and community; and Amanda Attwood, community song leader, expressive arts therapist, and outdoor school teacher — Heartsong invites all experience levels to sing, and co-create magic in the moment. Come sing, connect, and share in sacred song.
Kirtan with Prema Vani and Anjali Om
Prema Vani, known as “the voice of love,” is a devoted yogi and Kirtan artist whose music flows from the heart, inspiring deep spiritual connection and inner peace.
She travels annually to India and has spent many years in ashrams under the guidance of Gurumatha Amma and Dr. Yogrishi Vishvketu.
Prema Vani is a dedicated student of classical Indian music, studying under Ustad Mushfiq Hashimi in Ottawa.
Rooted in the traditions of Indian classical music and global devotional sound, she weaves ancient mantras with soulful melodies to awaken love and unity in every listener.
Her name reflects her purpose—to share divine love through sacred song and preserve the integrity of ancient yogic practices.
Through each offering, Prema Vani creates a sacred space that guides audiences on a journey of the soul, invoking the power of collective chanting and the timeless vibration of Bhakti.
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Justine (Anjali Om) is a devoted yoga practitioner and a teacher of Dharma Yoga since 2005. She was introduced to the path of Bhakti Yoga through her lineage, which continues to inspire and guide her spiritual journey.
For over a decade, she has been leading and playing at Kirtans in her local community, as well as across the USA and Europe. She is the founder of The OMBuds, a Kirtan band that offers soulful music at private gatherings, yoga studio events, and festivals throughout the year.
As a student of Ustad Mushfiq Hashimi, Justine finds great joy in composing music and writing devotional songs. She feels deeply blessed to collaborate with fellow musicians in creating uplifting Kirtans and satsangs that open the heart.
She is honored to accompany her beloved friend, Prema Vani, with whom she shares a profound connection through Bhakti and the sacred power of music.
Fire Show
Ignite your imagination with the breathtaking fire performances on Friday night, accompanying the live music, and additional shows on Saturday and Sunday.
Carsten Hunger - double staff & poi
Teeba Alkhudairi - fire hoop
Masha Andreeva - fire poi & fans
Vendors
Anahata expanded in 2023 and was delighted to host these talented crafters this year, who offered us locally and lovingly hand-made jewelry, clothing, delicious food and drinks!
Contact us, if you would like to join as a vendor in 2026.
Merkaba Acres-grown foods
Get to Know Merkaba Acres!
We're thrilled to have Merkaba Acres as a key part of the Anahata experience! More than just a location, Merkaba Acres is a vibrant farm committed to sustainable practices and fostering a deep connection with the land and community.
Our Mission at Merkaba Acres
At its heart, Merkaba Acres is about nurturing the earth and providing wholesome, ethically produced food. We believe in knowing where our food comes from, which is why we proudly raise our own grass-fed beef and cultivate a thriving market garden. Our commitment extends to creating delicious, handcrafted condiments right here on the farm, using the bounty of our land. We're passionate about building a reciprocal relationship with our community, inviting you to connect with the source of your food and experience the joy of farm life.
Delicious Offerings from Merkaba Acres
You're in for a treat with the incredible food Merkaba Acres will be serving up at the festival!
* Saturday Fuel-Up: Get ready for delicious burgers featuring Merkaba's own grass-fed beef! Topped with homegrown condiments from our market garden, these are a true taste of the farm.
* Sunday Delights: On Sunday, explore a range of gourmet preserved items, including flavorful kimchi and vibrant pesto, all crafted from our incredible market garden produce.
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On your way back home, stop by the farm store and stock up on farm-fresh organic eggs, frozen meats and fresh greens!​
Zsolt Sauce
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Red Thai Chili Peppers, and time. No Sugar, Oil or Preserves. Vegan, Keto and Paleo Friendly plus Gluten-Free with a no-refrigeration required shelf life of five years. Leave it out with your salt and pepper instead of losing it in your fridge.
It's the sauce everyone can enjoy, as it's not about the heat but the flavour. His youngest taster was 6 months old (recorded on Instagram) at the Tillsonburg Fair in Ontario and she loved it!
Zsolt always has his sauce by his side and will take you on a magical Guided Flavour Journey that will blow your mind. It's a kid-friendly trip that anyone can partake in!
Sauna
Wood-fired barrel sauna has become a staple at Anahata. Sweat, refresh and chill by the fire in a cozy and welcoming atmosphere. The sauna experience is included in the price of the ticket and will be available on Saturday and Sunday.
