Conference

The Entheos conference will be structured on the trifold concept of body mind and spirit. The program will be bracketed by an Opening Ceremony & a Closing Ceremony which in turn give service to the overall functioning of the Festival and the awakening of the Entheos (Spirit Within). The 3 facets are the mental, the emotional and the physical which will be represented by the varied workshops taking place during the 3 days . It is encouraged that each festival goer attempt to experience a workshop that assists in stimulating each of these centers of intelligence to prepare themselves for the collective shamanism we can achieve during the dance experience. The Closing Ceremony's aim will be to hear from people how their experience at the festival affected their being to learn from one another and be inspired to take this further back into the world. The conference content will be spread out over the course of the weekend, offering a variety of experiential exploration aiming to enhance people's overall encounters at Entheos, and offer applicable skillsets for crafting a sustainable culture beyond the festival. Workshops on body wisdom, including ecstatic dance, yoga, healing and martial art will be offered at the mainstage with ample space for movement and stretching. All presenters will have demonstrated practices with high level teaching ability. These workshops will occur in the later afternoon and will generally have a musical component integrated with an intentional practice. Spirit oriented workshops on topics such as meditation, new physics, astrology, alternative time, and plennary talks will be spread between the midtempo stage, the downtempo stage and mainstage. All of this content will occur during the "sound off" hours of the daytime on saturday and sunday. A mind and technology symposium will occur during the day on saturday, where the main headliners of the festival will share workshops on dj'ing, music production, design, promotion and media ethics. This will occur at the midtempo stage and will be a media lab where participants are encourage to get involved, share, experiment and enhance their skillsets as media artists. This will also include a component on harmonic mixing, sound theory and musical selection. The workshops in this symposium will be solicited as volunteer donations from artist that the festival has hired to provide music. The intention of this is to have the energy of musical creation be enhanced in the audience and to help incubate talent for future Entheos festivals. The closing ceremony will be a mostly non technological "reunion" of participants at the end of the festival, gathering to share their experiences, to state intentions for the future incarnations of the festival and to maintain connections made beyond the festival itself.