Experiences
2024
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Step into a realm of connection and heart opening experiences at the Rising Moon Festival! Join us for an unforgettable blend of music, art, yoga, dance, immersive experiences, and fun for the whole family.
We invite you to be a part of the magic – connect deeply with yourself and others, play, dance, elevate your senses, and leave with cherished memories.
Rafe Pearlman
Music & Vocal Playshop
Rafe Pearlman started his singing career with the wolves, ravens and sled dogs of the Alaskan wilderness. The wild nature of his exploratory singing has led to performances spanning the globe. Rafe’s intention with his music is to inspire a vision of a world in harmony and unity, celebrating diversity, sustainability, and equality for all beings. Sometimes a simple song is all it takes to open a connection. Rafe will be offering a combination of performance and audience vocal participation at Rising Moon to create a community ceremony of sound.
Rebecca Elatiki
Music
Rebecca Elatiki is a Moroccan-American singer-songwriter who weaves together the influences of medicine, music, and ancestry. She combines emotion, insight, and artistic imagery to explore themes of identity, healing, belonging, love, and awe. Her music navigates landscapes of the soul with grace and resilience, and illuminates a shared humanity where all people know reverence and representation.
Sterling Rose
Breathwork
Experience deep release, heart-opening and clarity as you journey through altered-state breathwork and tea ceremony guided by Sterling Rose. Join in sacred circle to let go of stuck energies and emotions in the body to receive healing through the power of the breath, energy work and sound activations.
Kate Colibri
Cacao Ceremony
Experience the healing medicine of cacao in ceremony, honoring ancestral traditions. Kate has studied extensively with elders of the Nawak, Maya Quiché and Paqo Kuna traditions, and through their wisdom and the shamanic journey, she bridges the world of Spirit and our material plane to facilitate self-healing and spiritual expansion.
DJ Tru-ah
Ecstatic Dance
With a potent sense of grace and fluidity, DJ Tru-ah evokes a undulating vibe of undeniable pleasure with fresh tribal beats and vibrant global sounds.
Ruby Koa
Sound Bath
Just before the Capricorn full moon, let Ruby's Planetary Moon Gong and her grounding 1st Chakra gong and bowls help you release tension and bring you to balance. Just as a body massage works out tight and knotted muscles, the "sonic massage" of a sound bath works out emotional issues that we need to release in order to move forward in life. The listener only has to let go and let the sound of the instruments do the work.
Marren Hanna
Yoga
Marren’s journey with yoga has not been linear, yet it has always led her back ‘home’ – to a state where she once again feels connected to her mind, body, and spirit. She strives to bring the ancient teachings of yoga to others, so that they too can feel reconnected with themselves and come back to a familiar sense of peace, joy, and ease.
Alan Rafael Seid
Life Purpose & Vision Workshop
Join us for an empowering workshop led by Alan Rafael Seid, a seasoned Leadership and Breakthrough Coach. In this workshop, Alan will guide you through simple yet insightful questions to clarify your purpose and create a vision for manifesting your desired future. Don't miss out on this transformative experience!
Misty Flowers
Music
Misty Flowers is a singer-song writer who blends jazz, folk, and blues elements into her own unique style. Her smokey sweet voice and hypnotic guitar style reflects her ability to face life honestly and take only the best from all of her encounters.
Elohim Earthprayer
Contact Beyond Contact
Contact Beyond Contact is a relational dance healing experience that brings groups of participants into body, mind and heart alignment through explorations in contact improvisation, somatic and authentic movement and passing through. Within this container we get to explore concepts of Energetic Connection, Leading and Following, our Yes and our No, and our Integrity in ourselves as paradoxically separate and connected beings. No dance experience is necessary.
Lyndsay Brooke
Intuitive & Functional Health Workshop
In this workshop, Lyndsay will guide you through understanding the core supplements essential for optimal health. She will illuminate the vital link between emotional well-being and physical health and share invaluable insights on identifying and addressing the root causes of common health issues.
Cadie Selah
Circle of Women
We gather to deepen our relationship to ourselves through the portal of
community and to be held by the container of the Feminine Mysteries.
We will explore working with our creative life force energy, safe and
naturally induced altered states, writing and small group sharing so that
we may see and feel more clearly what questions and answers are in and
on our hearts.
Forrest King
Cord Cutting Ceremony
This Sacred Cord Cutting Ceremony is a potent method for taking your power back from an individual person who is draining your energy. This is powerful for past romantic relationships, but can also be done for people in your life you are continuing to maintain a relationship with... it can even be done for relationships to substances.
Minta Allred
Yoga
Minta guides you through a gentle, loving and sacred yoga practice. Her genuine kind-hearted nature, enthusiasm and cheerfulness allows for the most wonderful unfoldings to take place.
DJ We Forgot...
Ecstatic Dance
DJ We Forgot… is a multi-talented singer, DJ and wellness friend whose goal is to help facilitate inner healing, discovery, and personal expansion through music, sound, and ecstatic movement.
Emily Werner
Pipe Ceremony
Emily will guide us as we place our prayers and intentions into the sacred chanupa, and send them to Creator, Great Spirit through smoke. The chanupa is a sacred item that holds the entire universe and our community prayers.
Lucé
Music
Lucé layers and loops vocals, instruments and organic sounds bringing forth heartfull rhythms and melodies in her music. The world moves through her as she plays instruments from all around.
Bryan Day
Circle of Men
Men have been gathering in circle for millennia to work on deepening connection to themselves and their truth. Come sit in sacred circle with other men to connect, explore your inner gold and shadow on a guided visualization, and put pen to paper to bring clarity to your life mission. Come as you are. All of you is welcome.
Senna Zen
Meditation & Energy Clearing
Senna will lead us in a transformative meditation and energy clearing called Alchemy: Turning Pain into Power. She will be guiding us as we work with each of the elements to transform old beliefs, unconscious and stagnant energy, karmic imprints, and drop out outdated contracts and timelines to open up to your highest version of Self. Also catch Senna live painting throughout the weekend!
Kids Zone
Rising Moon Meadows
For the future generations we will have a kids zone with multiple art and craft projects, field games and fun activities to participate in. There will be different adults leading activities throughout the day. If you have something you would like to bring for the Kid Zone please add it to the fun.