A mindfulness session to help you start your festival experience from a centered place of openness, connection & joy. Please join Niki (She/Her) for a guided meditation & intention setting practice. She will share tools to stay open and grounded throughout the weekend. Let’s shake off the travel cobwebs, open our hearts and bring in a little magic for the weekend ahead.

Niki has been attending festivals most of her life and worked as a therapist for over twenty years. She teaches meditation, has led circles and rituals for over 30 years and loves to bring people together.

Embodying a Culture of Care and Accountability: This interactive session explores how personal healing and relational work is essential to living our liberatory values in progressive communities. We’ll examine the roots and impacts of reactivity in conflict, and discuss avenues for de-escalation and repair. Grounded in practical frameworks and relational skill-building, this space invites you to bring your own wisdom into a shared exploration of conflict as a site of transformation.

Lux Gypsum (all pronouns) is a queer, non-binary Somatic Coach, Conflict Mediator, and Community Consultant with nine years of experience guiding potent, trauma-informed spaces for learning and healing. Lux supports individuals, couples, and communities to build and sustain meaningful relationships through embodied trauma healing, conflict transformation, and relational education.

Offering a respite to connect to Mother Earth, the Four Directions with others in Sobriety. Sharing your experienced strength. Open to all people to sing, express intentions, support and connect to our community.

My government name is Peter Shorts, LCSW. My Dakota name is Chansasa (Dakota) which translates to Red Willow, Red Willow medicine. I am a pipe carrier and ceremonial person from the Thunder Cloud Clan. My people are indigenous to Virginia (Manahoac) and Mexico (Chichimecas). We are part of a circle who support the return to old ways and cultural teachings. Locally, our circle includes the mountain and desert Cahuilla, Luiseno, and members from the Morongo tribes.

Why Boundaries Don’t Work. And What Does: If you’ve ever tried to set a boundary and immediately followed it with an apology, a long explanation, and a little panic, this workshop is for you. People-pleasing isn’t just a habit—it’s often relational anxiety, where your nervous system treats tension in connection like a five-alarm fire. That’s why “just set a boundary” advice rarely works. In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore what’s actually happening underneath people-pleasing, what a boundary really is (and isn’t), and how nervous system regulation makes self-leadership in relationships possible.

Kori Strobl (She/Her) is a self-leadership coach who has spent over a decade helping people stop managing everyone else and start leading themselves.

Somatic & Communication Tools to Cook Up Magic With Your Lover(s): In this offering we will cover nervous system co-regulation, somatic tools that build intimacy in and out of the bedroom, the steps of Non-Violent Communication process and we will put it all together with fun small group play!

Blaize Hall (They/Them) is a Somatic Sex and Communication Coach and 988 crisis counselor who supports queer, polyamorous and kinky folks, and high impact professionals to heal generational trauma and live in whole body harmony. They draw on tools from yoga, Hakomi, IFS, Non-Violent Communication, Authentic Relating, Neuro-Somatics, and sacred eros healing. They write the Substack newsletter Artist of Everything, and live to express, and help others do the same!

Offering a respite to connect to Mother Earth, the Four Directions with others in Sobriety. Sharing your experienced strength. Open to all people to sing, express intentions, support and connect to our community.

My government name is Peter Shorts, LCSW. My Dakota name is Chansasa (Dakota) which translates to Red Willow, Red Willow medicine. I am a pipe carrier and ceremonial person from the Thunder Cloud Clan. My people are indigenous to Virginia (Manahoac) and Mexico (Chichimecas). We are part of a circle who support the return to old ways and cultural teachings. Locally, our circle includes the mountain and desert Cahuilla, Luiseno, and members from the Morongo tribes.

In this unique interactive practice participants vocalize together to weave continuous, resonant sound which activates the body’s energy centers and sparks profound inner shifts. No singing ability or experience is needed—just a willingness to express and connect. Viktoria is delighted to bring the magic of the Harmonic Choir to the Joshua Tree Music Festival and invites you to step into a shared exploration of sound, transformation, and awakening through the power of your voice.

Viktoria (She/Her) is a creative and adventurous soul whose passion for vocal expression developed in her teens. Discovering the Harmonic Choir in an acting class was a revelation, which led her to facilitate this powerful sound healing experience for others.