The Line Up
Your dance floor is in very good hands
Meet the DJs, musicians, facilitators and bodyworkers co-creating this year’s festival. More artists confirmed soon.
CONFIRMED ARTISTS
Bringing the
music & magic
Our growing lineup of ecstatic DJs, live musicians, workshop facilitators and healing practitioners. Watch this space!
CO-FOUNDER · ECSTATIC DJ · EMBODIMENT FACILITATOR
Seth Newman
Seth Newman doesn’t just play music; he holds space. As co-founder of the festival and a practitioner of breathwork, trance dance and embodiment, Seth brings a rare quality to everything he touches: the sense that you are completely safe to let go. His DJ sets are ceremonies in their own right, moving bodies and opening hearts in equal measure.
LIVE MUSIC ECSTATIC DANCE · SOUND JOURNEY
Engelbert - Mystical Mystery
Engelbert has been a musician since childhood, playing Persian santur, handpan, percussion, guitar, flutes and voice. With a rare gift for reading group energy, he weaves live music into ecstatic dance and singing circles that feel both ancient and alive. His project Mystical Mystery has touched lives across cultures and continents.
ECSTATIC DJ · OUTDOOR DANCE
James Buchanan
James is the man behind the sound. His custom outdoor speaker setup delivers a listening experience unlike anything you’ll encounter at a festival: rich, powerful and perfectly tuned. Add drum and bass-infused ecstatic dance to that equation and you have something truly special.
LIVE MUSIC · PERCUSSIONIST
Romario Batera
Romario brings fire to the URUBU Dance Tribe with Brazilian drumming that is equal parts precision and pure feeling. A festival favourite whose rhythms have moved dance floors across London, Romario’s playing is the kind that gets into your bones and doesn’t let go.
CO-FOUNDER · SOUND JOURNEYS · SINGING · SAUNA SESSIONS · CACAO
Diana Upite-Davis
Diana is co-founder of the festival and the soul behind making it all happen! She will be offering sound journeys, singing, cacao and sauna venik rituals to invite you to slow down, soften, and remember what it feels like to be deeply at ease in your own body.
ECSTATIC DJ
DJ Amaya Garcia
A London-based sound weaver, Amaya guides dancers on journeys where body, heart and soul move as one. Her sets shift between soft and meditative to wild and ecstatic — blending earthy rhythms, tribal sounds and shimmering electronics with flamenco, house and psytrance. Music as ceremony. Every set an awakening.
LIVE MUSIC · PERCUSSIONIST
Alua Nascimento
Alua is a festival staple and Brazilian drumming extraordinaire. A core member of the URUBU Dance Tribe, his percussion is the heartbeat of the festival’s daily live music, raw, joyful and utterly irresistible. When Alua plays, bodies move.
LIVE MUSIC· URUBU DANCE TRIBE
URUBU Collective
The festival’s resident live music collective bring high-energy Afro-Brazilian rhythms to the dance floor. Percussion, sax and voice combine to create an irresistible, body-moving force. Every performance is different; always alive
ECSTATIC DJ
DJ RedPeppa
Red Peppa is a DJ who knows exactly what a dance floor needs. Serving all flavours of house, she fuses the disco and funk-driven warmth of the 70s and 80s with the high-energy pulse of 90s rave culture, creating sets that feel both nostalgic and completely alive. Expect groove, sweat, joy and the irresistible urge to move.
LIVE MUSIC · PERCUSSIONIST
Jansen Santana
Jansen is an unforgettable force of the URUBU Dance Tribe and one of the festival’s most beloved presences. His Brazilian drumming carries a deep ancestral energy — powerful, precise and completely alive. When Jansen hits the drum, the whole room feels it.
LIVE MUSIC · SHIVASANA CHILL & CONCERT
Nayar Collective
Nayar Collective make music borne out of deep friendship and a shared belief in its power to provide solace and connection in a fractured world. Together, they craft heart-wrenching, part-improvised arrangements, with tender yet soaring vocals reflecting on themes of hope, belonging, and spiritual longing. Nayar is a new musical collective initiated by Vedantha Kumar (vocals/guitar) and at the festival he will be joined by Inês Delgado (violin) and maybe a few other musicians.
4BEAT YOGA · MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS
Sara Kiyo Popowa
Sara Kiyo teaches 4Beat Yoga, a rhythmic movement practice where breath, body, and beat align. Her sessions are the perfect complement to a day of ecstatic dance: energising when you need lifting, grounding when you need stillness.
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR ·
Ruth Veda
Ruth Veda is a trauma-informed Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, working alongside co-facilitator Pauline Stiles. Together they hold gentle, somatic workshops — Walking on Broken Glass and Why Do I Say YES When I Mean NO? — helping you meet fear with presence and trade automatic compliance for a true, sovereign “no.”
GONG BATH ·
Darpan
Darpan will be sharing the profound effects of Gong Baths. This powerful session envelops you in deep sound waves, bathing every cell of your body, promoting healing on all levels. Attendees often leave feeling deeply rejuvenated, refreshed, and restored, making it essential for those seeking rest, reconnection to self, and inner peace. Join Darpan and let the magic of sound healing transform your festival experience. Darpan has over 25 years of experience in sound healing and is a certified member of the College of Sound Healing.
CHAIR MASSAGE · BODYWORKER
Jana Rosenbergova
Jana has cultivated a specialized therapeutic practice over the past 16 years that blend Holistic and Shamanic healing with targeted Fascia release. Fascialization – A developed technique focused on working with body holding patterns and breathwork to realise stored stress and emotions within the fascia. Holistic Therapy: The practice treats the whole person – mind, body and spirit, rather than just addressing physical symptoms. Shamanic Healing: Energy work with breathwork and using sometimes Drums to bring up positive energy and vibration. Helps with anxiety, stress, depression. Her goal is to provide deep, integrative healing and her motto is ‘I’m peaceful with all of my emotions. I love and approve of my myself.’
SINGING CIRCLES · MENS CIRCLES
Alfie Jones
Alfie Jones facilitates singing circles and men’s circles with warmth, depth and a gift for making people feel genuinely welcome. His sessions are a reminder that the voice is one of the most direct routes to the heart, and that community is built one honest moment at a time.
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR· WOMEN'S CIRCLES
Anja Woszczyna
Anja Woszczyna is an alchemist of tantra, yoga, NLP and coaching, helping people turn pain and disconnection into joy and confidence. Her workshop, Rest in Love – The Art of Receiving, is a gentle, consent-based space for authentic connection: speaking from the heart, being witnessed, and receiving simple, grounded acknowledgement. Anja will be supported by her assistant to co-create a safe container, and they both will also hold space during the daily women’s circles.
INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE· BODYWORKER
Georgina Parren
A lot gets stored in the head, neck, and shoulders. Georgina knows exactly how to let it go. Drawing on the ancient tradition of Indian head massage, her sessions bring deep release and a stillness that carries you through the rest of the festival.
DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE · BODYWORKER
Bridget
Bridget has been working as a full time massage therapist since 2014. At her clinic she mainly offers Deep tissue massage. Her style is influenced by the Hawaiian Lomi Lomi. She is honoured to be one of the core members of the London based StayInTouchEarth multiple handed Lomi lomi massage team which was founded with the intention of keeping the beautiful ancient rite of passage alive and making it accessible all around the world. Bridget has joined our festival to give you her presence and hold you in a loving space where your mind, body and soul can reconnect, let go and feel deeply nourished through touch.
MORNING YOGA
Isabell Jacobson
Isabell’s yoga sessions have become one of the most loved fixtures of the festival. Expect a Vinyasa Flow class that meets you exactly where you are, whether you need to open, strengthen, soften or simply breathe.
SOUND JOURNEY
Michael Wheatley
Michael leads immersive sound journeys using crystal singing bowls and live voice, drawing listeners into deep states of stillness and inner listening. Equal parts healing and hypnotic.
YOGA - BODYWORKER
David Hirtenstein
A heart-led practitioner with roots in Thai Yoga Massage, Hatha Yoga, Buddhist meditation, and somatic therapy, David’s work honours the body’s natural intelligence and its capacity to heal. Deeply intuitive. Genuinely transformative.
DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE · BODYWORKER
Monika Mudra
Tension has a way of accumulating. Monika has a way of undoing it. Working with skilled, intuitive deep tissue massage, she helps the body release, reset, and breathe again, so you can move through the festival feeling fully alive.
BIODYNAMIC MASSAGE ·BODYWORKER
Maryam Abdollahzadeh
Maryam Abdollahzadeh offers Biodynamic Massage, a deeply attuned form of touch that meets each part of the body, clearing stress, blocked emotions, and even pre-verbal or ancestral trauma. It’s a powerful complement to ecstatic dance, helping process and release energy already activated through movement for lasting change.
Coming soon
More artists & facilitators
coming soon
We’re putting the final touches to the programme. Follow us on Instagram for announcements
Applications Open
Co-Create With Us
Applications are now open to co-create this year’s programme.
We’re inviting ecstatic dance DJs, musicians, facilitators, performers, yoga and sound practitioners, and bodyworkers / massage therapists to bring their work into the heart of the festival.
Apply by 1 April 2026
Last Minute
£460
✓ Full 5-day programme
✓ 12 vegetarian/vegan meals
✓ Camping spot included
✓ All sauna sessions (~7 across festival)
✓ Ecstatic dance journeys & DJ sets
✓ Workshops, yoga & breathwork
✓ Cacao ceremonies
✓ Live music – URUBU Dance Tribe
Under 25's
£300
✓ Full 5-day programme
✓ 12 vegetarian/vegan meals
✓ Camping spot included
✓ All sauna sessions (~7 across festival)
✓ Ecstatic dance journeys & DJ sets
✓ Workshops, yoga & breathwork
✓ Cacao ceremonies
✓ Live music – URUBU Dance Tribe
Weekend Access
£240
✓ Weekend programme
✓ 6 vegetarian/vegan meals
✓ Camping spot included
✓ Sauna sessions
✓ Ecstatic dance & DJ sets
✕ Wed/Thu programme not included
✕ Fewer workshop sessions