Why Dragonfly Fest?

You are welcome to bring camp meals or leave your food worries at home. The fantastic team at Leo Moon will provide nourishing meals this year. They will provide a la carte meals and our popular 11-meal plan, covering all festival meals from Wednesday dinner to Sunday brunch. Meal plans will include a drink, but dessert is extra.

Their final menu will be similar to the following proposed menu:

• Breakfast example
  • Egg, frittata wrap, pickles, greens, choice of sauce (bacon and cheese extra)
  • Fresh fruit bowl
  • Spiced granola (optional nuts and yogurt)
• Lunch and dinner examples
  • Choose from a salad, green bowl, or wrap
  • Choose your filling (varies daily)
    • Veggies with avocado and grilled tempeh
    • Grilled jerk chicken
    • Chicken salad
    • Pork al pastor
    • Red curry beef
    • Blackened tilapia
    • Coconut shrimp
  • Choose your sauce
    • Mango–miso
    • Cucumber-yogurt-herb
    • Caribbean vinaigrette
• Drink examples
  • Seasonal agua fresca
  • Cold brew coffee with spiced horchata cream
  • Sun tea with lemon and honey (herbal additions available)
• Dessert examples
  • Vegan banana bread
  • Giant watermelon slice
  • Fresh fruit bowl

At the heart of Dragonfly Fest is the highly curated workshop experience. Move your body in new and interesting ways in a unique blend of 75-minute offerings, with plenty of time in between for conversation, integration, and relaxation. Choose from two movement workshops and one relaxing workshop during each time slot.

Moveshops are where you dance, flow, or play to celebrate your fullest expression of humanity.

• Amira – Belly Dance Basics: Isolation and Motion and The Art of Veil Dance
• Amaya Shiva – Tantric Two-Step
• CleoCATra – Conscious Contact and Feline Flow
• Duke Hunter – Rhythmwork and Movement: Wellness Through Play and Percussion
• Janaki and James – The Elemental Dance of Remembrance: A Quantum Movement Experience
• Javid and Jessica – Sensual Bachata
• Kat Huizar  – Harmony Embodied: Dance Activation and Primal Pulse: A Journey Within
• Lady AnnaBelle – Lyrical Dragonfly Feels and Broadway Jazz Pizzaz
• Lyric – Magic Hula Hoops
• Mykia Beal – Heart-Centered Movement: Activating Strength and Connection
• Naughty Monkey – Tantra: The Art of Intimacy with Self, Others, and the Universe
• Poppy Tart – Taste of Burlesque
• Rainbow Fire Phoenix – A-BUN -dance: A Whole Ass Class
• Ren – Slacklining
• Ryan McLaren – Sumo and Judo
• Sasha Dovzak – Gypsy Dancing for the Soul
• ScottieO McClure – Manifesting Miracles with Tantra and How To Be A Legendary Lover
• Sonia Azad – Morning Yoga Program
• Ybub Levi – Butoh and Somatic Ritual

At the heart of Dragonfly Fest is the highly curated workshop experience. Move your body in new and interesting ways in a unique blend of 75-minute offerings, with plenty of time in between for conversation, integration, and relaxation. Choose from two movement workshops and one relaxing workshop during each time slot.

Zenshops are where you learn, create, or meditate to connect with your highest purpose.

• Aaron French – From Roots to Sky: Spiritual Awakening Through the Plant World
• Aiylah Valkyrie and Takata Ra – Egyptian Mystery School Teachings
• Amaya Shiva – Intimacy Codes of the Attachment Styles
• Blossom Legend – Soul Garden
• Dan Hawkins – Life Drawing and Painting
• Danqin Fang – Master Your Money Consciousness
• Maggie Shanks – Herbal Enlightenment: How Plants Can Help Us Heal
• Rasika – Something From Nothing: Improv Games
• The Street Angel – Clear All Your Chakras!
• Your Medicine Man ForRest – Intuitive Rebirth Ceremony
• Yvonne Roman – The Power of Kambo

Express your TRUE self on the dance floor for 18 hours of ecstatic dance over 4 nights. Ecstatic dance is the freest expression of movement in the safest container possible. Join our amazing lineup of local and international artists, bringing you the latest conscious frequencies. Dragonfly Fest is the US’s only multi-day ecstatic dance festival, exclusively featuring ecstatic dance sets.

Our dream of a fully divine feminine lineup this year has been achieved!  Led by the incomparable Ruby Chase, these musical artists will inspire and fuel your danceformation.

• Ruby Chase
• Naughty Princess
• Delady
• Anabadi
• Katiedid
• Baelien
• Kairotic

Every evening at 8 PM, with a full belly and a happy heart, we will gather in the Transformation Temple for an epic experience called a Soulset.  This is peak collective energy for Dragonfly Fest.

• Thursday – Ecstatic Nap – Join Dragonfly Fest Founder, Al Jameson, as he guides you in the most profound permissive and immersive touch and relax experience with the entire community.
• Friday – Five Element Dance Activation – This space will be a multi-sensorial experience, intertwining the five elements with herbs, breathwork, music, and dance.
  • Earth Element – A chaga mushroom chocolate bite will be given as a slow, intentional breath with humming will be demonstrated. You will be invited to move your bodies to Earth-inspired music in a way that connects them to the Earth.
  • Fire Element – An herbal smudge of frankincense will be gently wafted while following the “breath of fire” technique to get energized and warmed up and then invited to rub your hands together to create heat and dance or move your body inspired by heated music and all things fiery.
  • Water Element – A refreshing watermelon-tomato-basil-chai seed drink will be offered. You will be invited to connect to your inner waters with gentle flowing breath and move your bodies to water-inspired music.
  • Air Element – Dried herbs and citrus peels will be offered with instructions to rub them between your hands and enjoy the aromas as you’re are guided to get in touch with your breath with a very slow and intentional rhythm and allowed to move your body to music inspired by the wind and air.
  • Ether Element – Take a moment of silence and drop into the stillness of the void to connect with the infinite potentiality that resides in the spaces between everything in our universe.
  • We will reconnect to all the elements for a finale, bringing them together in a celebratory dance.
• Saturday – EmpowerUP Pregame

Start each morning at Dragonfly Fest with some morning yoga asana with the amazing Sonia Azad.  Feel refreshed and energized for the rest of the day.

Dragonfly Fest believed creativity has no bounds. We are honored to have a fantastic tapestry of artists.  From our official backdrop to our community art project, our artists have graciously provided us with one of their pieces to be displayed this year and in the future as a huge 70×90-inch tapestry.  The artists will also have tables and more of their work to share.

• Check out our previous resident artists

Explore the hand-picked vendors in the Vendor Village.  We have left you plenty of time between workshops to browse, shop, eat, and connect.  We’re proud to serve as home for the week for all our vendors.  Check out our vendors as we add them here.

Reconnect with earth, wind, fire, and water.  Enjoy the trees and fresh air at the incomparable River Forest Haven.  Nestled in nearly 40 acres of woods on a horseshoe bend on the Colorado River, River Forest Haven provides the best combination of nature and convenience.

Camp near friends or find a more secluded spot.  Add your hammock to the Hammock Haven.  Sit in meditation, prayer, or contemplation under the Grandmother Tree.  Drum, dance, sing, or catch a late-night acoustic set by the Rhythmic Flame.