LIVELY, JOYFUL, HEALING, SELF-INQUIRY FESTIVAL HAPPENING DURING FOUR DAYS OF SUMMER SOLSTICE

KASH /Stage / ECSTATIC YOGA

Yoga is Ecstasy, its a unique style of Yoga that been mixed with Ecstatic Dance. It is a modern version of Hatha-Raja Yoga, fused with the vinyasa flow and Kundalini breathing techniques performed with high quality live sounds by using hypnosis frequencies to take you in a deeper meditative state and strong physical practice to keep your mind connected to your body in the present moment during the event.

Morning Guided Meditation / Elina Vas

In the guided meditation, we will open ourselves peacefully for the day. Through inner practice, we will connect with our spirit and open our hearts. We will illuminate the subconscious and let our inner sun rise.

Breakfast, Sign up for sauna, individual sessions

Time to stop, listen to each other and share. Teachers will talk about their classes and rituals.

Kaifi / Skatuve / THE RYTHM OF PRESENCE

In this inward journey of Remembrance you will experience the bringing to light of self-imposed filters representing limitations of human personality. The filters that stop the natural movement of love and awareness from flowing. As you move into this journey, all your self-imposed boundaries start dissolving, thus opening your expansion into your authentic limitless being.

Ilona Ansone / Mežmala / PULSATION ECSTATIC JOURNEY

Pulsation Ecstatic Journey - combines breathing, spontaneous dance and music, in which experiences can open the inner door to all the ranges of emotions and clarity, release old tension, let in celebration and joy.

Maris Zunda / Rija / WIM HOF BREATH

Robin & Yang / BODY ZEN

During the practice your thoughts become less and less. And one day you will find a gap in your thoughts. In the silence, in the gap, you have a chance to recognize who you really are.

RISHI, DHWANI AND FRANCESCO  / Skatuve

Just have to be there ❤️

Pete Bengry / Skatuve / SACRED BREATH SACRED SOUND

By letting go - surrendering to our breath - we allow our body wisdom to open and guide what we need at present. Pete uses his expertise of music refining tans supporting his intention of your evolving soul within the rhythms of life.

Kristine Aboltina / Rija / Ritual – Recover hidden ancestor resources for your life

The solstice is the perfect time to reach out to your family – look into family heritage, perform family energy healing, help restore harmony and receive family gratitude – a huge dose of resources, love and support.

Zarey / Daugmale / MEETING WITH YOUR HIGHER SELF

Meet a modern mystic, Sufi or simply a man of Wisdom who has encountered the Higher in his life.

Your Friend Ricci / Mežmala / ECSTATIC DANCE

A friend of Nature and a messenger of it’s Love and Playfulness. Music is one of his favorite tools for communicating visions of a beautiful, joyful World. His wish, with each gathering, ritual and play that he co-creates, is to channel a unifying experience where we can meet in a synchronous vibration and feel that state of being where we all are unique expressions of the same Love.

Henna, Taro, Children workshops, massage, Sauna!

Biruta Ozoliņa / Skatuve / FOLK SONGS

Biruta Ozoliņa has gained much acclaim among the music experts and audiences in Latvia as well as abroad – at Kaunas, Vilnius, Tallinn and Kraków folk music festivals.

Marc Jb / Skatuve / SHAMANIC FIRE DANCE

Join us for this transformative journey, leave all that is holding you back from expressing your highest passion, purpose, joy, health and creativity. Release it to the spirit of fire. Become fully embodied, grounding your dreams into life, dancing with the energies of Mother Earth and the infinite possibilities of spirit to become the integrated, highest expression of humanity. This is the path of becoming your ultimate self. Music is medicine as we ride the waves of ecstatic, shamanic dance from ceremony guide Marc JB.

Pepe Danza / Skatuve / CONCERT-CEREMONY

Pepe is well known as a virtuoso percussionist that has shared the stage with top names in the music world. This performance has him playing an extended hand percussion Drum Set. Using Rhythms and Chants from diverse Sacred Drumming Traditions (Brazil, Cuba, India, Uruguay, Africa), Pepe leads the audience into a Rhythmical Ceremony that can last up to two hours non stop.

In the Scond part of the evening of Midsummer, all the musicians and performers of the festival will come together in the unifying concert of the festival - Rishi, Dwani, Pepe Danza, Francesco Marani, Charlie Vas, Vjacheslav Lukjanov.

Midsummer Fire Ritual, Fire Sculpture, Dancing and Singing around the fire till morning

KASH /Stage / ECSTATIC YOGA

Yoga is Ecstasy, its a unique style of Yoga that been mixed with Ecstatic Dance. It is a modern version of Hatha-Raja Yoga, fused with the vinyasa flow and Kundalini breathing techniques performed with high quality live sounds by using hypnosis frequencies to take you in a deeper meditative state and strong physical practice to keep your mind connected to your body in the present moment during the event.

Morning Guided Meditation / Elina Vas

In the guided meditation, we will open ourselves peacefully for the day. Through inner practice, we will connect with our spirit and open our hearts. We will illuminate the subconscious and let our inner sun rise.

Breakfast, Sign up for sauna, individual sessions

Premal Madina / Skatuve / DEVI DANCE FOR WOMEN

Healing, transformative and meditative journey for women.

Juris Bharganath Grave / Rija / INTEGRATED MANHOOD

Healing, transformative and meditative journey for men.

Ecstatic Dance Riga / Mežmala / ECSTATIC DANCE

Sergej Bremer is one of the founders, organizer and resident DJ of Ecstatic Dance Riga /Latvia. Founder of cultural & community space Lampa (more than 10 years), the place for various practices of conscious dance, yoga, painting, acting, singing, music and other forms of art & self-development. Irina Livija – ceremony leader and organizer of Ecstatic dance. With beautiful feminine energy she turn a dances to real deep embodiment practice.

Tao Center / Daugmale / HEALING METHOD TAO

The Tao method includes express diagnostics of a person’s spine and general health condition using a combination of ancient techniques and modern methods. The Tao centre team in cooperation with unique masters of the Tao method will happily perform a practical demonstration on how this method can be learned there and then as they have done during previous festivals.

Creativity Workshops / Puduri

Charie Vas, Francesco Marani,  / Skatuve

Kaifi / Skatuve / FSTU JOURNEY

From a healing space of trust, presence and stillness, we move within the atmosphere of qualities, reconnecting with our potential and allowing the unbound flow of Love and truth that is always available in us.

Girts Laube / Rija / BREATH OF BLISS

There are countless breath variation techniques for different purposes and tasks, but in the end they all come back to the primal and original experience of Being, when the Breath becomes the Living Source of Energy and allows us to experience our natural Divinity in this Time and Place!

Aigars Stirna / Mežmala / ELEMENT DANCE

The element dances are self-awareness of the five basic elements of nature (energy, elements) – Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Ether/Space, an individual growth process, meditation in dance, free movement, surrendering to feelings, listening to the body, being true to oneself and reaching the deepest in the understanding of one’s ESSENCE.

Zarey / Daugmale / MEETING WITH YOUR HIGHER SELF

Meet a modern mystic, Sufi or simply a man of Wisdom who has encountered the Higher in his life.

Creativity Workshops / PUDURI

Henna, Taro, Children workshops, massage, Sauna!

Dana Indane-Surkiene / Skatuve / SONGS OF MOTHER AND FIELD
Within it’s concert programme, festival “Būtība” welcomes voice improvisation artist Dana Indāne – Surkienė, presenting authentic voice improvisations, poetry from the time of pregnancy together with nature sounds from the field recordings made by Maksims Šenteļevs as in their latest music album - “Songs of Mother and Field” (“Gaidību dziesmas”, 2021). “Songs of Mother and Field” uncover the fragile enchantment of an expectant mother addressing her child in a gentle, subtle sequence of songs that are sung in a universal tongue of primordial love. A mother’s voice is strengthened by the sound of natural wilderness, uncovering a feeling of omnipresence deep within.  With a devout documentary approach, nine “field sound tales” reveal meditative vocal improvisations recorded during pregnancy. The album combines the voice of Latvian born, Lithuania based free improvisation artist Dana Indane-Surkiene and field recordings of sound artist Maksims Shentelevs. In this solo programme Dana Indāne – Surkienė will guide audience towards soul space where inner child is met by a loving and present parent. This will be a time for relaxing, resting and integrating experiences, gained during festival’s workshops and rituals.

Henna, Taro, Children workshops, Sauna!

Rishi, Dhwani, Kristaps Krolls, Francesco / Skatuve

Dance ritual with Live music. TranceDance is one of the oldest ways of reconnecting with our inner forces - empowering, uplifting, energizing, motivating. A great way to step out of old habits and to look at your life in a different way.

Vigo Racevskis / Stage / Gong Meditation

KASH /Stage / ECSTATIC YOGA

Yoga is Ecstasy, its a unique style of Yoga that been mixed with Ecstatic Dance. It is a modern version of Hatha-Raja Yoga, fused with the vinyasa flow and Kundalini breathing techniques performed with high quality live sounds by using hypnosis frequencies to take you in a deeper meditative state and strong physical practice to keep your mind connected to your body in the present moment during the event.

Morning Guided Meditation / Elina Vas

In the guided meditation, we will open ourselves peacefully for the day. Through inner practice, we will connect with our spirit and open our hearts. We will illuminate the subconscious and let our inner sun rise.

Breakfast, Sign up for sauna, individual sessions

Būtība team / Stage

Biodanza with Kristiana Kalnina / Skatuve / BIODANZA

BIODANZA® is a unique method of personal development, physical, mental and social health improvement, the theoretical model of which is based on the idea of the possibility of regeneration and self-regulation of all living systems. The aim of the method is to improve people's quality of life, reduce daily stress, get to physical and emotional well-being and restore a sense of basic trust in the world.

Zarey / Rija / MEETING WITH YOUR HIGHER SELF

Meet a modern mystic, Sufi or simply a man of Wisdom who has encountered the Higher in his life.

Alina Causs / Mežmala / AFRICAN DANCE

African dance is physically demanding and offers a profound emotional release. This is a space, free of stereotype, free of imposed rules, where we can reach for our original state of being. African dance allows us to be who we are, fearlessly, sometimes silly – always, authentically to ourselves. It’s just you and the rhythm – the rhythm of the Tam Tam and the rhythm of your Heart.

17:00 - 18:30 Rishi / Daugmale / DRUM CIRCLE

Take your drum, percussions, anything that you can keep the beat with!

Creativity Workshops / PUDURI

Henna, Taro, Children workshops, Massage, Sauna!

Pepe Danza / Skatuve / CLOSING CONCERT and RITUAL