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The Earthdance Global Synchronized Prayer for Peace

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The Earthdance Global Festival for Peace
Earthdance International – Earthdance.org:
Saturday September 22, 2018
Held in 150 cities in 50 countries simultaneously
photo above – Earthdance Hungary

YOU ARE INVITED to participate in the Earthdance Worldwide Synchronized Peace Prayer – a four minute dance for peace held simultaneously at events around the globe and also live broadcast on YouTube so that folks at home can participate alone or in small groups, dinner parties and small gatherings wherever YOU are.

The Prayer for Peace is an incredible experience of global unity – to be in a prayer for peace, with an entire attendance at a festival and at the same time word for word in unison with festivals around the globe is nothing short of extraordinary and I urge you to join in. The feeling if connection is indescribable.

LIVE BROADCAST LINK HERE, but will not be live until the time of the prayer.
BOOKMARK IT NOW 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZD24w6eGo

DOWNLOAD THE RECORDING HERE:
http://www.earthdance.org/linkup/

US Coastal times are – 8pm ET, 5pm PST – see Earthdance International for other time zones.
CLOCK HERE – https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

If you want to Attend An Event near  you, you can begin on the global map here, though many smaller peace organizations in your area will have local events as well:
http://www.earthdance.org/events/category/ed2018/

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Transforming Expectations: How Festivals Are Teaching Us About Life and Living

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photo by Aaron Benjamin Glassman, Symbiosis 2016
photo by Aaron Benjamin Glassman, Symbiosis 2016

By Christian Cortes

Gazing at the colorful streams of people flowing into the festival grounds from the outside world, I can already see it beginning. I feel it in my feet as I push through the heat; it takes form as a bead of sweat rolling down my temples; it reveals itself in the bent wheel of my wagon as I push gear, food and water down the grooved and pitted road toward the campsites. My body is already [Read more…]

The Co-Founder of Costa Rica’s Envision Explains Why Transformational Festivals Matter

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January 28, 2016 David Garber

In the last weekend of February, Feb 25-28, Envision Festival will blossom to life for its fifth straight year. The four-day event is set in Uvita, Costa Rica—specifically at Rancho La Merced, a sand-speckled stretch of beach nestled between the leafy jungle and crystalline waters of Playa Hermosa. Musically, Envision is sandwiched between The Dead and The Burn, with music from live psychedelic outfits like Shpongle, Beats Antique and Random Rab coexisting next to DJ sets from Burner favorites like M.A.N.D.Y and Atish. Along with the musical options, the festival’s Village stage is a multi-purpose hub for non musical events like speaker-led workshops, a “witches healing sanctuary,” a chillout zone for kids and families, and yoga workshops from a variety of acclaimed downward doggers.

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Sign Up for Lucidity Fest’s Courseweek

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photo by Winter Creative Co.The need for healing is important. It’s becoming increasingly urgent too because the cultural fault lines in the world that separate us seem to writhe as conditions worsen. It’s almost as if it’s all coming to a head. When we consider all the ways the world needs fixing in its current state just choosing an area to focus one’s efforts can lead to a paralyzing set of options. That’s why we selected five of the most wholesome, healing crafts we could find and hand picked some of the most seasoned experts in each field to teach each program for our 3-day intensives. It’s not just a way to learn more, it’s a way to help the community realize more of it’s potential as a catalyst for change…..

Sign Up for Lucidity Festivals week of courses before the fest – READ all about it HERE.
photo by Winter Creative Co.

Welcome to the Crossroads: The Steps Ahead We Take Together

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illustration of futuristic people looking at a giant orb

We’re united by our love of great music, our passion for healthy options and a love of each other and the earth. But we want more. We see the struggles that weigh on us all and know that a better world is possible. So today, we’ve come together to dance, to dream and to connect as we often do – but this time we’re also coming together to prepare for the journey ahead. Some course-correction may be needed, but we’re ready. Today, our mission is to learn and grow so that we can become the manifestors of the change we dream about. Together, we stand at the Crossroads.

Join Us at Lucidity Festivals – be a part of the Epic Story, the greatest ever told!

Friends, the time has come to make a choice.

As moments pass and time marches forward, each of us, at one point or another, arrives at the same place in the road of life. It’s here that we will need to make a simple, but perplexing decision: Do I continue on the path before me or do I head in a different direction?

And when we really look at it, we realize that in every moment where we must make a choice, we open up an infinite number of possible futures. With all these fractalized timelines and potential parallel universes, how do we decide which way to go?

http://blog.lucidityfestival.com/grahamberry/welcome-to-the-crossroads-the-steps-ahead-we-take-together/

More Than Just a Party, These Events Can Help Heal Your Life

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This awesome article is packed with great insights from a writer who is new to Festival Fire, but whose work you’ll be seeing a lot more of. ~ Saphir   (photo by Kris Kish)

by Dr. Kelly Neff

It’s my favorite time of year again… Transformational festival season! I got a pretty early start this year at Envision in Costa Rica, but my first stateside festival is Firefly Gathering in Flagstaff AZ June 12-15, followed closely by Sonic Bloom in Rye Colorado from June 18-21. I will be covering both events for my website and radio show The Lucid Planet, as well as offering sexuality workshops on the topic of love, polyamory and open relationships.

Last week, I interviewed Sonic Bloom director Jamie Janover on my show, as well as festival photographer Matthew Cremer. (You can listen to the full podcast of Lucid Planet Radio here).

What I really took away from these interviews was how transformational festivals connect us to ourselves and to each other on a much deeper level, and much more rapidly, than other events that happen in our daily waking life. In many ways, these events are the physical and energetic manifestations of the revolution of consciousness currently taking place on our planet.

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GUARDIANSHIP

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Guradianship-2Day-MArch2015There has been a wave running through our discussions as event producers over the last few years – a shift in the wind. As we move out of the Warrior mode into the new paradigm of caring for one another, we look to the archetype of GUARDIAN. We’re not “fighting against” anymore, we are Standing Up For, in new ways for us to live together. In expression of this modality, Lucidity will be offering Guardianship Training onsite as well as beforehand in Ojai at the Lovers Nest Village Fundraiser.

During Lucidity, on site, to be a Guardian is to be available to tend to the needs of those around you, to know where resources are, who are the leaders to call on, who has radios, and helping to resolve situations where help is needed. Taking one of these trainings gets you into the network for a position of Guardian during the gathering.

https://www.facebook.com/events/965959093422762/968611466490858/