Interfusion Festival X (IFX)

Join us for a transformative workshop led by Reiki and sound healer Emma Olmedo. In this immersive session, Emma will guide you through teachings on balancing and harmonizing your chakras from the crown down to the root, helping you identify and address any disharmonies and activations that may need more support. By understanding and activating each chakra, you will learn to manifest your desires from a place of deep alignment.

Following the teachings, Emma will lead you through a healing sound journey using sacred instruments such as the gong, ocean drum, (7- chakra) crystal singing bowls, chimes, and merkaba crystal singing pyramids. This powerful soundscape is designed to cleanse, activate, and harmonize your entire chakra system, leaving you balanced, rejuvenated, and aligned with your highest potential to kick start your Interfusion Festival. Join us in this sacred space to elevate your consciousness and manifest your true desires through the power of the 7 chakras.


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position

Our world is currently on the journey of our lifetime – from head to heart, and each of us have been invited to join & find own way to integrate these two epicenters of our humanity. Whether this is a path you know well or one that feels foreign, and even scary, this practice is for you – because yes, we need all of us to reunite with our true nature, love, in order for us to thrive.
Join in community to witness, heal, and share your heart in new and familiar ways. Expect to go on a 90-minute journey, both with yourself and in community, including yin, kundalini & vinyasa yoga, energetic practices, and heart centering guidance. Leave feeling more connected, nourished, and full of remembering.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

A powerful restoration practice is a transformative tool for maintaining trust and connection within our communities and relationships, and  can even give us the confidence to take more risks together. The Gold Standard Apology is a six-step process informed by the best minds in restorative and transformative justice; coaching, and conscious communication. Activities include dyad story shares, practice sessions and discussion of the most common pitfalls of harmful apologies. Participants emerge with an elevated and even transcendent understanding of what real accountability actually looks like, and a concrete practice for conducting restoration in their own lives.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Step into the sacred space of movement and connection with master teacher Ann Kite, as she guides you through an immersive 5Rhythms workshop. This transformative experience invites you to explore the dynamic interplay of the 5Rhythms—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness—each serving as a gateway to discovering your unique path to harmony within.
Ann Kite will create a supportive and inspiring environment where participants can delve deep into the essence of each rhythm, uncovering their own authentic movement and expression. Through curated music, guided exercises, free-form dance, and reflective practices, you will learn to harmonize the various facets of your being, cultivating a greater sense of balance, peace, and joy.
Workshop Highlights:

• Flowing: Embrace the fluidity of life, connecting with your body's natural grace and intuition. Learn to move with ease and receptivity, finding harmony in your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
• Staccato: Tap into the power of clear, decisive movement. Discover how to articulate your desires and boundaries with precision, fostering harmonious interactions in your personal and professional life.
• Chaos: Release the need for control and surrender to the wild, unpredictable nature of existence. Experience the cathartic freedom of letting go, allowing chaos to guide you to deeper levels of authenticity and transformation.
• Lyrical: Celebrate the lightness and joy of being. Explore playful, spontaneous movement that connects you with your inner child, enhancing your ability to find harmony in moments of pure presence and creativity.
• Stillness: Enter the realm of quiet introspection and deep listening. Cultivate a sense of inner peace and alignment, discovering the profound harmony that arises from stillness and mindfulness.

Ann Kite's expertise and compassionate guidance will support you in navigating the 5Rhythms practice, helping you to integrate these powerful teachings into your daily life. Whether you are new to 5Rhythms or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to deepen your practice and find harmony in the dance of life.
Let the rhythms guide you to a place of profound harmony and connection, where the dance becomes a living meditation and a celebration of the soul.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Sit back and relax or sing along to live musical performances.

Starting with an opening circle and group activation each night will take its unique course as a group improvisational space to the closing circle. The group activation may touch on technique, partner work, consent or creative improvisation practice. There is opportunity to build on the energy of the previous nights and days.

During the jam there may be periods of silence and periods of live improvised musical accompaniment from invited musicians.  In these moments we invite you to also treat music as a dance partner that touches everyone in conversation.  Participants with musical instruments and interest may have an opportunity to join the conversation with permission of the invited musicians. Kindly you may bring your instruments.

While the primary focus of the space is contact improvisation, solo and partnered improvisational movement of other forms is welcome when it fits in the ground rules.

Ground Rules:

• Practice Nonverbal & Verbal Consent
• Activate Deep Listening: Practice attunement to self, partner(s), and others in the space
• Observation is Welcome
• Solo Movement is Welcome
• Keep conversations and other interpersonal interactions to the peripheries
• Please be mindful of sound especially after 11:30pm as the sound here travels through the entire hotel.

“Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” - Nancy Stark Smith