EXPLORE • EXPRESS • EXPAND near Austin, Texas
Are you ready to transform?
EXPLORE your community, nature, and curated experiences.
EXPRESS your true self through dancing, flowing, playing, learning, creating, and meditating.
EXPAND beyond your limitations and deeply and meaningfully transform your soul.
What is Dragonfly Fest?
Dragonfly Fest is a 5-day transformational festival with a dance and movement soul in the heart of Texas. Heal, camp, and connect with friends while dancing, playing, flowing, learning, creating, and meditating in our unique 75-minute workshop offerings and celebrate each evening with 5 hours of ecstatic dance music by some of the best artists around.
The Experiences
Workshops
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. Six well-balanced categories will be sure to spark joy throughout each day. Click the links below for more details.
- Danceshops – Express yourself with a new style of dance or movement
- Flowshops – Move with a prop as an extension of your body
- Playshops – Simplify life and express joyfully with acro yoga, slacklining, tantra, and more
- Thinkshops – Expand your consciousness with mindful content
- Createshops – Embrace your ultimate form of expression and bring something new into existence
- Zenshops – Relax, breathe, meditate, and unwind
Ecstatic Dance
Express your TRUE self on the dance floor for hours of ecstatic dance. 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 only multi-day ecstatic dance festival in the US exclusively featuring ecstatic dance sets and a majority divine feminine lineup.
- 2025 Ecstatic Dance artist lineup coming in October!
Soulsets
Every evening at 8 PM, with a full belly and a happy heart, we will gather in the Transformation Temple for an epic collective energy 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 – Dance of the Elementals – Align your body and spirit with the five elements – Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether. This Soulset utilizes mantras and movement to balance the elements within your body and spirit, ultimately leading to a harmonious and aligned state of being. It draws power from the universal, loving, and unique consciousness of nature, fire, water, air, and Shantiji’s favorite, the pure magic substance aether.
- Saturday – Four Elements Cacao Ceremony – Join our exclusive team of cacao leaders in our community from all over Texas coming together for this unique ceremony honoring the four elements of earth, fire, wind, and water.
Morning Yoga
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.
Artist Alley
We are honored to have an amazing tapestry of artists this year. 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.
Vendor Village
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.
Nature
Reconnect with earth, wind, fire, and water. Enjoy the trees and fresh air. Camp near friends or find a more secluded spot. Add your hammock to the Hammock Haven. Sit in meditation, prayer, or contemplation under the Grandfather and Grandmother Tree. Drum, dance, and sing or catch a late-night acoustic set by the Rhythmic Flame.