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Red Temple Workshops

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    Ancestral Lineage Clearing: Healing the Mother Wound

    Olana Barros

    Healing the mother wound is a vital part of walking in wholeness. Ancestral lineage clearing is a journey in to the past three generations of the mother and grandmothers of our lineage. With Hawaiian native, Olana, we will explore how we can touch the wounds of our grandmothers and clear it in our field, we heal our collective wounds. Led by a Hawaiian, this facilitation is powerful and supportive. You will leave feeling a deep sense of gratitude, release an appreciation of what your ancestors have lived through.

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    The Living Oracle

    Kelsey Shanaia Rai

    This workshop explores the wisdom of our living oracle; the womb, and our embodied connection to her changing cycles. through our attunement to the inner and outer transformations of life, death and rebirth we gain incredible awarenesss and insight that paves the way to integrating stronger integrity with our soul. Through this exploration, women will gain inspiration, and a deeper ocnnection to the rites of passage our womb awakens within our lives, oepnig us to the quiet revelations that guide our becoming.


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    Communing with the Dark Goddess

    Jill Walton

    Join us for an experience of deep releasing and powerful renewal in the arms of Divine Mother. When we feel powerless, grief, or overwhelm, we can give these feelings of pain back to the dark mother in all her glory- she is able to recieve and transmute this energy into a healing. Explore the compassion and power of the Dark Mother with multi decade psychic channel and ceremonialist, Jill Walton for this potent offering.

  • Diane Doyle Lynch

    Sacred Rites of Women Ceremony

    Diane Doyle Lynch

    A ceremony to celebrate all the phases of womanhood, no matter where you are on your journey. You hold a portal between worlds in your womb. and you phase with the moon. You are ever changing, evolving, and embracing the wisdom of the universe. A living breathing example of the ebb and flow. Join us wild souls for a beautiful ceremony, initiation, and celebration of all the different version and phases of you through all the phases on your journey through womanhood.

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    Hawaiian Moon Phases & Our Cyclic Nature

    Together, we will explre the moon phases from a Hawaiian perspective. Thier importance and imact on us as women. We resonate with the moon in a sacred cycle throughout the month, this workshop will emopwer us to awaken to the power of where we are iwithn the cycle and how to nourish ourselves thorughout the changes.

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    Sacred Birth Path

    Hope Medford

    After having attended over 500 births, Hope loves to share the rpaiion and journey of fertility and birth ~ tapping into the natural rhythm and spiral of life.

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    Yoni Love & Womb Wisdom

    Priya Ananda

    With many years of experience and trained by tami Kent, Priya is a Pelvic floor physical therapist and yoni whisperer. This workshop will inspire feminine healing and renewal.

  • Alia teaching Sexual Empoerment at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

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    Connected Sex

    Tantric, Somatic, and relational approaches to creating connected, attuned and delicious intimacy. If you are yearning to move from surface level connections to heart-opening and sexually expansive relationships, come explore how to become available for this through practices and conversations that change the way you approach your sexual and relational landscape. With Love, Sex, and Authentic Relating Coach ALIA

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    Return to Roots

    Wendaya

    Return to Roots is a journey of reconnecting with your body, soul, and source of creation. Through breath, sound, movement, and co-regulation, we create a safe space to release trauma, awaken life force, and come home to ourselves. Together we root into our deepest truth, remembering that we are our own healers and creators of life

  • Andrea Gonzales teaching girls rites of Passage at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    CHRYSALIS GIRLS

    Andrea Gonzales

    Offered for our young girls at ManaFest
    Ages 7-10- Caterpillar girls Workshop: Embark on a magical journey through the Spiral of a Woman. Learn about the beauty of body changes and the wonder of being a vessel of life. Create nature-inspired crafts to honor each stage!

    Ages 11-15 Chrysalis girls Workshop: Dive into an exciting interactive fertility awareness game that brings learning to life! Explore the importance of understanding fertility, embracing its beauty, and responsibilities . Join us for a fun, empowering session that celebrates growth and knowledge!

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    Akashic Records & the Divine Feminine

    Christine VanCoughnett

    he Akashic Records hold the keys to each soul’s history, and I will open them for all participants with a focus on expanding energetics of the Divine Feminine. These energetics include compassion, nurturing, intuition, empathy, creativity, collaboration, wisdom and flow. The guided practice typically includes accessing past lives where each individual will have experienced both disempowerment and empowerment as the feminine.

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    Queer Women's Council: A Gathering in Community

    Join us for a sacred one-hour council space designed for self-identifying women in intimate relationships with other women, or those interested in exploring queer women relationships. In this healing container, we'll gather as equals, allowing what needs to emerge from our collective field to guide our time together. Through facilitated group process, we'll explore questions close to our hearts: What makes women loving women unique? What we need? How to honor the queer experience in its complexity? Drawing on the wisdom that many indigenous cultures recognized more than two genders, and celebrated queer relationships, we gather to normalize our experiences while honoring all journeys as sacred and whole.

Community Workshops

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    Medicine Drumming

    Sewa

    Join Sewa and her sisters, who wield powerful Native American voices, and carry the medicine drum. Sewa is the founder of the Sisters of the One Drum, They willl be performing, sharing their voices and mana with us throughout the weekend.

  • Nicole Oshia Pemberton teaching Calling your ancestors at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    The Ancestors are Calling

    Nicole ‘Oshia’ Pemberton

    This ceremony will reconnect participants to their lineage, ancestral traditions, and Goddesses. Through a powerful core shamanic movement ritual participants will get to the root of any pattern and start to clear it. Through this powerful journey participants will create space for creativity for overflow and amplify through themselves

  • Kumu Leialoha a native Hawaiian teaching Hawaiian cultural dance and mele (singing) at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Kumu LeiAloha

    Hawaiian Cultural Workshop

  • Sara Tone teaching Earth Rhythms at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Eco Rhythms of the Earth

    Sara Tone

    A dynamic, heart-centered workshop weaving rhythm, song, and earth connection. Guided by percussionist, singer-songwriter, and earth activist Sara Tone, participants will explore how music and movement can awaken the song lines of the Earth and honor the living watersheds that sustain us. Through collective rhythm and voice, we’ll reconnect to nature’s pulse and remember our role as co-creators in the symphony of life.

  • Swan Sedona teaching ritual temple dance at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    THE LIGHT CODES OF BELLYDANCE

    Swan Sedonna

    Dance the language of creation ~ the spirals, circles, serpents, and infinity loops that weave life itself. These primordial shapes are encoded with wisdom, guiding energy to move through the body in harmony. Through this sacred embodiment practice, we’ll move through the chakra gateways, attuning our bodies to the innate elemental and archetypal connection of these powerful movements. We will dance the geometries and symbols that form the foundational roots of what we call “bellydance.” through the oracle of our own wombs and hearts, communing with their wisdom, igniting our vibrancy and strengthening the currents of our ecstatic aliveness. 

  • Noelani Love a native Hawaiian teaching making lei at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Make your own Lei Po'o

    Join native Hawaiian, Noelani Love, for a fun, relaxing workshop and make your own beautiful Lei for your crown. Taught by Hawaiian practioner, Noelani, this will be a favorite ~ afterwards, you can enjoy wearing your Lei po’o around ManaFest!

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    Soma Nectar Dance

    Aradia Sunseri

    Awaken the temple within through the art of Somatic Fusion Bellydance in this 90-minute ritual dance immersion. Move with devotion, sensuality, and wild grace as you are guided through luscious, grounded movement and sacred embodiment practices.

    Together, we’ll dance through prayer, pleasure, and presence reclaiming the body as sacred and the dance as medicine.

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    Moon Phases for the Keiki

    Angela Pastores

    Moon Phases for the Keiki, is a workshop where we will be learning the mele called Kamaliʻi ʻIke ʻOle. Participants will be using their hands and voice as they follow along with movements and voice. This mele teaches keiki, the importance of the cycle of the moon and all of its phases.

  • Ixchel Prisma leading a cacao ceremony at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Cacao Ceremony

    Ixchel Prisma

    Ixchel will be offering this gentle plant medicine in a sacred community ceremony, where the cacao will be lovingly prepared by hand and shared with all. This rich, heart-opening elixir invites presence, connection, and a deep sense of joy. It is a beautiful moment for the Manafest community to come together —grounded in gratitude, and shared intention.

  • Sunny Savage teaching Wild foods at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Wild Foods

    Sunny Savage

    Sunny is well known for her lifelong passion of exploring and experimenting with wild foods in healthy, delicious, and innovative ways! Join Sunny for this delicious plant journey cultivating the benefits of wild biome.

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    Sacred Earth Connection

    Julia Lamport

    Come cocreate a community ceremony honoring the 4 elements and 7 directions. Reconnect with these ancient Holy beings that influence all life. Find your way back to balance and orientation based on the natural world and celebrate all the blessings.
    Julia will also be tending the sacred fire for ManaFest each evening for nites of sacred connection, warmth, and beauty.

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    Buddhi Mana Movement

    Hailey Sanura

    A movement class yoga dance twerk fusion. Get your groove on and start your day with this fun class- led by Hailey, a very talented & experienced teacher, dancer and yogini!

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    Hawaiian Cultural Workshops

    Maliaonani Silva & Hoku

    Sharing aspects of the rich Hawaiian culture to more deeply understand the perspective of local Hawaiian history and perspective..

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    Contact Improv

    Jessica Pretty
    Have you ever watched the seamless flow of contact improv and wondered how you could access that level of surrender and agility? This is a foundational class geared toward teaching you how to drop into touch through embodying presence as the basis for all contact improv, no matter what level of skill or technicality. Absolute beginners and experts are welcome, as we let go of what we think we should look like, and fully embody the movement, momentum, and flow that organically unfolds as we come into connection through presence and listening.

  • Rabbi Rachel teaching Kaballah at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Shekinah- Kabbalah to the Divine

    Rabbi Rachel

    Dive deeper into understanding the esoteric mystical sacred indigenous wisdom that has been reserved for far too long- kabbalah. As we experience the rise of Shekinah (the divine feminine) and the consciousness shift on the planet the Kabbalah calling to be shared to empower and help the divine feminine rise. By specifically embodying the divine feminine we heal ourselves and our world. Rabbi Rachal was ordained the youngest female rabbi in the world.

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    Bee Magic and Mystery

    Jen Rasmussen Lair & Alison Yahna

    Join us in a sacred circle where we honor our ancestors, honeybees, and the great women who came before us. Through drumming, meditation, storytelling, and the tasting of honey, nectar, mead, pollen, and propolis, we explore the mystical wisdom of the hive. This workshop invites you to deepen your connection with nature, awaken intuition, and experience the magic of bee medicine.

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    Aina Permaculture Gardening

    Analeah Lovere-Mulcahy

    Utilizing permaculture techniques and growing your own food can become one of your greatest teachers! This workshop will teach you basic concepts, using the wisdom of the Aina and materials in your own back yard to provide food and medicinal plants for yourself and your loved ones!

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    Sunny Binjola

    Men are welcome to this workshop for healing and practicing approaches to honoring the divine feminine

  • Johanna Beckman teaching lullaby yoga at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Lullaby Yoga

    Johanna Beekman

    In Lullaby Yoga, Johanna gently guides participants through a series of deeply relaxing poses while singing and playing soothing songs and chants. Her classes use principles from restorative, therapeutic, and gentle yoga, yoga nidra, and subtle body and breathwork. The music—facilitates the healing process by providing a luxurious, peaceful space for the mind to rest while the body relaxes, rebalances, and restores itself.

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    Open your Cosmic Chanel

    Cosmananda

    Sound healing, meditation & exploring inner realms

    This workshop empowers people to connect with their authentic voice as a bridge between the heart and the cosmos. Drawing on her sound and voice facilitator training and unique expression as a light language channel, she will guide participants to bypass self judgement, open their intuitive channel and awaken their own vocal medicine.

  • Destiny Love leading song at ManaFest, a transformational music, dance, arts, and culture festival in Hawaii

    Destiny Love

    Songs for the Heart

    An inspiring song circle experience in whihch we weave our voices together in a tapestry of song. Through original guided melodies an dspontaneous group cocreation, we awaken the joy of singing together as medicine for the heart. Destiny Love is a singer, songwriter and voice helaing faciliatator.

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    StarSeed Activation

    Jett Koda

    An opportunity to explore your connection to star beings in the 5th dimensional realities and beyond. You will journey to meet with a guide and activate your inner Starseed. You will be guided in clearing your emotional body, and activating your light body for connection, healing, and illumination.

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    Vibing Vinyasa Yoga

    Stoke your inner fire in a playful, dynamic yoga practice set to a decadent selection of hype tunes. Expect to move, breathe and be taken on an inner journey that will bring you closer to your radiance. The practice closes out with a long Savasana and guided relaxation. All bodies welcome, options provided. Jassy Blue – Yoga Teacher & Transformational Coach Jassy Blue brings a lighthearted, accessible approach to yoga while guiding participants on a deep inner journey. Expect a joyful, embodied experience designed to leave you feeling grounded, open, and empowered.