Festival Workshops

Tara Caldwell
Dancing with Plants
We will explore the rich history of incorporating plants into dancing ceremonies while discovering the benefits dancing has on our minds and bodies. We will meet plants that have been dancing with us throughout the ages and include them in our own dancing ceremony.
Community Garden and Perpetual Plant Swap
Join us for a delightful plant swap where you can diversify your garden with new and exciting plants! Bring your own plants, cuttings, or seeds to exchange with fellow gardening enthusiasts. In this workshop , I’ll also share some of my favorite plants that are perfect for creating a perpetual garden, offering beauty and sustainability year-round. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this is a great opportunity to expand your plant collection, learn new gardening tips, and connect with other plant lovers.

Candace Evans – New River Yoga
Join Candace (also an avid live music lover) for this fun all levels Vinyasa class. This class is an all bodies are welcome, heart centered, breath driven, foundation rooted, alignment detailed practice that will leave your mind in check, strengthen and lengthen the muscles in the body, as well as, align your whole complete self with the universal around you. This will be a slower, deliberate, compassionate, several breath in each pose kinda practice. Leave your ego aside and join us to move your body. This practice will leave you “yoga stoned” and ready for more dancing and fun at Mountain Music Fest! Excited to see you on the Mountain.

Anytime Fitness
Get ready to move, laugh, and work together in this exciting, high-energy workshop! Join Anytime Fitness for a fun-filled session using a giant rainbow parachute to build teamwork, coordination, and gross motor skills. Together, we’ll lift, shake, and create waves with the parachute, playing classic games that encourage cooperation and movement. Whether you’re guiding the parachute up high or diving underneath for an exciting switch-up, this activity is perfect for all ages. Come ready to have a blast and get active with the power of play!

LoneSkull
The Pigment Sanctuary Swap Shop
This is your opportunity to show off your awesome stuff and transform something old into something new through the power of swap! Bring your cool and interesting items to trade with other festival goers at the first Pigment Sanctuary swap meet. At the Swap Shop we will help facilitate successful swaps of equivalent exchange so you can bring something you no longer need or want and leave with something you’ll love! You could swap that weird accessory that isn’t quite your style for a sparkly crystal, or that fun hat that doesn’t really fit for a hand crafted doodad. The possibilities are endless! The only rule, No haunted items!

Jonah
Laughter Class (aka Laughter Yoga)
Laughter Class is inspired by Laughter Yoga. Laughter Yoga, developed by Dr. Madan Kataria, is an exercise where one practices laughter for laughter’s sake.
The class utilizes movement and sound in order to go from simulated laughter to genuine laughter. Beginning with simple exercises and ending in a 5-10 minute continuous laughter meditation.
Please note, those under the age of 18 generally do struggle in this for a variety of reasons depending on the age. If you wish to bring a child to the class please talk to me.

Zack Weaver
Turtle Power -Surfing the Sewers Within
A lecture/discussion regarding the archetypes represented in the Ninja Turtles and how awareness of these dynamics can be applied to our everyday lives.

Nugget
How to Rise: Turning Chaos into Creative Power
This is a participatory workshop centered around emotional alchemy, creative transformation, and pattern recognition through the lens of relational archetypes.
The experience is based on my upcoming book How to Rise to Meet a Woman Like This, which blends storytelling, satire, and visual art to explore the dynamics we find ourselves repeating in relationships and personal growth.
During the workshop, I’ll guide participants through a series of illustrated archetypes (with visuals created in collaboration with gallery artist Lacey Villandry) to help them identify patterns they’ve lived through, roles they’ve played, and the types of energy they tend to attract.
From there, we shift into transformation—reframing those experiences not as mistakes, but as material. The goal is to show how awareness of these patterns can be used as fuel for creative expression, self-trust, and more intentional connection moving forward.
The structure will include:
- Guided discussion and storytelling
- Visual archetype exploration
- Personal reflection prompts
- Group insight and pattern recognition
- Reframing past experiences into creative power
*Participants don’t need any prior experience—just curiosity and a willingness to reflect.

Liza Shaw
Let’s Get “High” On Our Own Supply! Transformational Breathwork Session
A 60 Minute Journey Into Healing, Release, and Renewal
Step into a powerful breathwork experience designed to help you reset, reconnect, and rediscover your inner clarity. This immersive 60 minute workshop introduces you to a profoundly healing style of conscious, connected breathing that supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deep personal insight.
You’ll be guided through intention setting, a dynamic breathwork journey and a restorative integration period — all supported by curated music and a safe, nurturing environment. As the breath opens the body and quiets the mind, many participants experience breakthroughs, energetic shifts, and a renewed sense of lightness, reinvigorated sense of aliveness, and present to new possibilities for their lives.
Whether you’re seeking stress relief, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to yourself, this session offers a powerful reset for your entire being. Leave feeling grounded, clear, and more aligned with who you truly are.
*Encouraged to Bring Yoga mat

Marissa Ansaroff
Slackline Jam
Join me for a fun and engaging slackline workshop! Slacklining works your body and mind and will give you a new way to be active and train your balance! Learning slacklining can be meditative and relaxing, it can also be intense and competitive, it is whatever you want it to be! This workshop teaches the basics in a calm and encouraging environment. Come with an open mind and be ready to learn and have fun!

Tiff Greene
The Cosmic Connector & HamJammers Community Networking Pow-Wow!
The Cosmic Connector of the HamJammers Community Networking Workshop and MeetUp is designed as a 60-minute “high-frequency activation” to transform a group of individuals into a living, creative web. While as individuals we have the power to create, it is within a Trinity or Triad that we truly unlock each other’s superpowers and establish enduring bonds. These pillar contacts form a long-lasting triforce of creativity and energy that resonates far beyond this space.

Megan Leah
Whispers of the Unseenn
Join Psychic Medium, Megan Leah, for an enlightening group experience where Spirit leads the way. In this live, intuitively guided workshop, Megan Leah will open the channel to deliver messages from the other side; tapping into the wisdom, healing, and insight most needed for the collective in that moment.
As the energy unfolds, she will facilitate a powerful clearing of energetic blocks, helping participants release what no longer serves them and reconnect with their own inner clarity. This is a co-created field of presence, attunement, and transformation.
Whether you come seeking guidance, healing, or simply to feel the pulse of Spirit moving through the space, you are welcome here. Come with an open heart and leave with a lighter soul.

KANDiLiON
Big Consent Energy: Bystander Intervention for Festies
Rave culture is known for it’s mantra of PLUR (Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect), but 92% of females who attend music festivals have reported experiencing sexual harassment. We love music festivals because we’re free to be ourselves amongst a sea of love and radical acceptance, but this isn’t possible without creating safe spaces where explicit informed consent is a central moral within our live music loving family. Come learn how volunteers with KANDi Coven use bystander intervention to maintain safety within the vibrant EDM and rave community and how you can keep your festies besties safe and secure at your favorite music festivals.

Dragoonis Flame
Daily Fire Safety Meeting
If you would like to participate in the open fire circle you MUST attend this daily safety meeting. It will take place both Friday and Saturday at 1PM at the fire circle.

Get the Full Schedule
Check out the full schedule for these free workshops happening Friday & Saturday during Mountain Music Festival.
