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Program & Artists
A Journey Through Art, Music and Wisdom
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Artists, Wisdom Keepers, Space Holders
ADRIAN FREEDMAN / RODRIGO GALLARDO / ANA POMAR / KIKE LUNA / INES RIPAMONTI / KWENDA LIMA / DEVI CHANDRA MA / LUA MARIA / LUIS PANIAGUA / ISA GUITANA / SATYA / MASHYAN / ANGELO SURINDER / TIK TEK / ANA TIPPI / MARIANA CORTESAO / SELVA / MIGUEL SEVILHANO / BEATA ALFOLDI / DON JUAN ORTIZ / MARLEN MARTHA MARIA / TERESA GABRIEL / ALEX GABRIEL / NOKE KOI / GRACE KELLY / NINA SOULIMANT / META / E ELA / LUIS TAMANI /
ABHAY OYUN / JANIS DELLARTE / VANIA ROVISCO / JOAQUIN DEL MOJO / UNI AYINI / ANITXA ROOT
AND MORE
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about each workshop
Jana Toepfer - Integration
Integrating Our Walk - The Value of Integration Work
An open talk about different ways of integration work and the importance of translating and grounding our experiences of the mystery into daily life.
Marakamé
Voices of the Wixárika: Navigating Indigenous Truth and Cultural Resilience
Jorge López Carrillo, Marakame, Traditional Healer, and violinist from Jalisco, Mexico, bring us an enlightening perspective on Wixarike rich cultural heritage. As one of the Traditional Captain of his village, he will share about the spiritual practices that guide his people, the importance of the sacred journey with the Blue Deer medicine in this culture, and their profound relationship with nature. This talk delves into the Wixárika’s age-old traditions, the sacred role of the Marakame, and the wisdom passed down through generations.
Fernanda Botelho
Honouring the Plants Around As
Botanical walk reconizing and discovering the medicine of plants. Honouring what our ancesters knew. Getting aquainted with the most popular plants used in Portugal for medicinal and edible puposes.
Luciano Stella
Plant Alchemy and Inner Processes
Dive into the transformative art of plant alchemy and discover its connection to personal and spiritual processes. We will explore ancient techniques of spagyrics, showing how plants can guide us in creating remedies while fostering a deeper connection with nature and ourselves.
Shamooniac Hands
An Exploration of the Ancient Wisdom of Tattoo as Magic and Medicine
An exploration of the ancient wisdom of Tattoo as magic and medicine. Take a deep dive with me into different cultures and practices using tattoos as powerful talismans and to initiate physical healing. From the mind to the body: We take the experience to the physical realm through a guided practice of connecting deeply with a henna drawn symbol that will accompany you through the festival.
Silvia Floresta
O Design do Agora - The Design of Now
In this talk, we will explore the fascinating world of permaculture, a sustainable path that invites us to redesign the way we live, cultivate, and care for the planet. Discover what permaculture is, beyond the agricultural method, a philosophy of life that balances nature and humanity. We will talk about how to apply the principles of permaculture in daily life, demystifying the process of getting started and showing how anyone, anywhere, can take the first steps toward creating regenerative ecosystems, productive gardens, and more resilient communities. Permaculture is an ethical design and the key to a regenerative future, an invitation to live in harmony with the planet. Together, we build a world where abundance is the rule, not the exception.
Tiago Rouxinol - Palestra Comunidades
Communities
Experiences in different communities around the world as Auroville in India, Kapievi in Peru, Campina in Brasil and also our experience has founders of Yemada in Portugal and how life in community is part of our ancestral identity has a specie on this Planet.
Rupi & Steven - Iboga Medicine
Iboga Plant Medicine Talk - The Master Teacher & Healer.
Overview sharing of the Master Plant Teacher Iboga: physical, mental and spiritual benefits, the deep spiritual healing and discovery the medicine offers, the sacred Bwiti tradition, Health and Safety, Q&A.
João Beles
Guardians of Medicinal Plants - The Awakening of the Healer
The gift of healing with medicinal plants is an innate gift that we have within us and that was passed on to us by our ancestral healing lineages, from the beginning of time, to our grandmothers and grandfathers. In some people, this gift is more activated than in others. Interest in medicinal plants and the desire to help people heal is a strong sign that this healer is wanting to awaken in you. In this workshop we will talk about this process that leads us to discover this inner healer and how we can become guardians of medicinal plants and this ancestral knowledge for future generations.
Bettina
The Medicine of Your Voice: A Journey of Healing and Personal Growth through Sound and Music
How sound and music helped heal my wounds & walking the path of personal growth as a way to participate in the transformation and evolution of consciousness within humanity.
Lindsey
Rapé Circle - The Breath of the Ancestors, Reconnecting with the Spirit of Sacred Tobacco
More than just a practice, Rapé is a bridge—a breath—linking us to the wisdom of the Earth, the spirits of our ancestors, and the essence of our own being. In this circle, we will honor the spirit of Tobacco, exploring its sacred roots, traditional use, and the deep medicine it carries. Through intention, presence, and respect, we will reconnect with this ancient offering and allow its wisdom to ground, cleanse, and realign us.
Dorrie Joy
Art is our Nature
A journey of spoken word & poetry through evolution & archeology, dreaming though beauty, humanness and creative possibility
Nómada Cerâmica
Cerâmica Sonora
Concierto didáctico con instrumentos de cerámica basados en tecnologías acústicas ancestrales de la América prehispánica. + Experiencia grupal de construcción de silbatos en arcilla.
Projeto Terra do Sol & Siã & Yaka Huni Kuin
International Decade of Indigenous Languages
Hatxa Kuin language (Introduction, Worldview, Survival, Transmission of intangible culture through orality, Current context);
Satya
Trauma and Psychedelics – A Path to Healing
Satya explores how psychedelics can help heal trauma by unlocking buried pain and opening a door to transformation. She shares her method, which integrates ancient wisdom and therapeutic practices to support deep integration. Guiding the audience through the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of healing, Satya reveals how these tools bridge ancestral knowledge with modern understanding, offering a holistic approach to trauma recovery.
Lina Lahlou
Awaken Heart: Voice Embodiment
This journey blends movement and vocal flow to free your voice, release tension and create space in your heart. An invitation to explore the body and voice as instruments to unlock your authentic self-expression. Closing with a singing circle, coming together in harmony. Start the day energized, grounded, and open.
Selva
The Voices of Our Body
This gathering for women invites us to reconnect with our own nature, awakening our innate ability to transform emotions through the expression and release of our body's voices, allowing the rebirth of our inner woman in her most free, intuitive, and wild state. When our emotions take shape in the body and caress the skin and the heart of the Earth, a deep energetic connection is woven, revealing the courage to manifest ourselves as the owners of our own power.
Grace Kelly
Rapé Circle & Activation Golden Codes
We will receive a special frequency during this summer solstice. As the sun bids farewell and the night extends its starry mantle, a portal of light opens. With this cosmic alignment, a sacred circle will be held with the medicine of Rapé. With respect and honor, this sacred medicine, together with the golden attunement, anchors different codes into the etheric body, reconfiguring the luminous structure and elevating the vibration to a new state of alignment. A divine moment to receive, honor, give thanks, and remember the power of origin.
Momo & friends
Sacred Cacao Ceremony
We will connect deeply with the medicine of cacao. Hearts softening and wide open, hands held, and voices woven to raise in love together. Join the Cacao Prayers with live medicine music. w./ Momo & friends
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Dorrie Joy
Offering: Arc of time: tending our belonging~ an offering of hope & ancestral honouring
A journey in ceremonial space through spoken word, drum songs & ancestral voices. Naming ourselves as kin and lifting our voices together in the power of our presence & to be the nectar of hope & harvest, making elemental offerings and blessings for all that has come before us and all that is being dreamed through us.
Kike Luna & Ana Pomar
Fire Ritual
A fire ritual of purification, prayer, and gratitude. Together, we unite around the altar of Grandfather Fire, offering our songs and prayers, and letting go of what we don’t need anymore. We raise our prayers to the Great Spirit, opening ourselves as vessels to receive blessings, for our lives and for all our relations. For that which has been, and for what is yet to come.
Nuno & Katarina
Kirtan – Devotion to Light
A journey into the heart of Bhakti through sacred chanting, invoking the name of the divine and surrendering to the grace that covers us. Through call-and-response mantra singing, we elevate our state, lighting up our presence and deepening our connection to the divine. Rooted in devotion, this offering is an invitation to dissolve into sound, to awaken the heart, and to bathe in the luminous grace of collective song.
Marie Alma
Breath & Sound Alchemy: A Journey of Remembrance on Wings of Breath and Sound
This ceremonial journey invites you to explore the inner mysteries through the profound synergy of Conscious Connected Breathwork and Sacred Sound. As breath, sound, and prayer merge, the veils of illusion dissolve, resistance softens, and the Heart opens to its pure essence—Love. In this space of deep remembrance, we reconnect with our true nature, awakening to the gift of authentic living and the infinite wisdom within.
Fabiana Almeida
Dança Afro-Brasileira
A dança Afro-brasileira é uma manifestação vibrante de cultura, resistência, histórias e espiritualidade. Nasceu da fusão entre as tradições africanas e as influências indígenas e europeias, com origem na raíz cultural africana trazida pelos escravos, que encontraram na dança uma maneira de se conectar com suas raízes, expressar sua identidade e celebrar a liberdade. A história de seus movimentos é rica de significados e vem nós inspirar sobre a importância da fé, da amorosidade, sabedoria, justiça ,evolução e união nos dias atuais. Mais do que movimento é uma expressão de transformação da dor em arte e superação, incentivando a liberdade e a reconexão com as próprias raízes e com o mundo ao nosso redor. Neste encontro iremos partilhar uma mostra desta riqueza repleta de símbolos, diversidade, sensibilidade, força, beleza e alegria!
Lua Maria
Temple of the Voice
This is a safe space for us to explore our singing voices. A space where we discover the body as our sacred instrument. Where we land into the body through movement, dance and energy activation. Lovingly giving space to the emotions that block us from freedom of expression, and through presence and awareness we allow layers to melt away revealing our authentic voice. Each of us has a unique voice, designed specifically for our own healing. In this time together we will meet our voice and give it permission to use it's wings!
Explore new sacred projects
for healing & connection
Tattoo Temple – A Sacred Space for Transformation
It's with great pleasure and enthusiams we welcome for the first time at Icaros Festival a space dedicated to the art of hand poke tattoo! With two very special guardians, Emily and Manuela, we invite you to step into this beautiful journey of tattoo!
Tattooing is an ancient ritual - a way to bring to the skin what already lives in the soul. At Tattoo Temple, we create a sacred space where this process unfolds with intention, presence, and deep connection.
Each tattoo ceremony is a unique journey, designed to anchor prayers, visions, and symbols into the body through a Tattoo Talisman / Skin Story. Using meditation, energy work, sound healing, and sacred plants, we open the space for tattooing to become a true act of embodiment and transformation.
Inside the Tattoo Temple, Manuela Ruas and Emily Sakhila each hold their own practice, offering individual sessions that honor the ancient art of tattooing in a spiritual and intentional way.
Manuela Ruas works with the ancestral handpoke technique, using quartz crystal to hold the needles and infuse the skin with a crystalline frequency. Her background in holistic therapies and ancestral healing arts is woven into every tattoo, creating talismans that carry deep meaning and energetic resonance.
Emily Sakhila also works with handpoke, bringing an intuitive approach to her designs. She translates energies and personal visions into symbolic tattoos that hold profound spiritual significance, guiding each person through a journey of self-expression and remembrance.
Though both tattoo separately, they come together to create the Tattoo Temple—a shared space where tattooing becomes a ceremony, a tool for transformation, and a bridge between body and spirit.
Tattooing is an ancient ritual - a way to bring to the skin what already lives in the soul. At Tattoo Temple, we create a sacred space where this process unfolds with intention, presence, and deep connection.
Each tattoo ceremony is a unique journey, designed to anchor prayers, visions, and symbols into the body through a Tattoo Talisman / Skin Story. Using meditation, energy work, sound healing, and sacred plants, we open the space for tattooing to become a true act of embodiment and transformation.
Inside the Tattoo Temple, Manuela Ruas and Emily Sakhila each hold their own practice, offering individual sessions that honor the ancient art of tattooing in a spiritual and intentional way.
Manuela Ruas works with the ancestral handpoke technique, using quartz crystal to hold the needles and infuse the skin with a crystalline frequency. Her background in holistic therapies and ancestral healing arts is woven into every tattoo, creating talismans that carry deep meaning and energetic resonance.
Emily Sakhila also works with handpoke, bringing an intuitive approach to her designs. She translates energies and personal visions into symbolic tattoos that hold profound spiritual significance, guiding each person through a journey of self-expression and remembrance.
Though both tattoo separately, they come together to create the Tattoo Temple—a shared space where tattooing becomes a ceremony, a tool for transformation, and a bridge between body and spirit.
Ancestral Crafts Corner & Workshop
This year at the Icaros, we offer an open space for ancient crafts, where we will be sharing different workshops.
The space will be open during day time, so people can tune in whenever they feel the call or need to integrate and ground themselves into this special meditative environment.
This is an opportunity to connect with our ancestors and honor their teachings and knowledge, reminding us to slow down and tunein to our divine power of creation.
Workshops:
1- Learn how to transform raw materials into meaningful creations.Spinning With Wool - Karmit and Raquel Cavaleiro.
The traditions behind the process of transforming raw wool into thread cleaning, carding, and spinning with the hand spindle. We will share the Mayan and Bedouin ways.
2 - Basket Weaving with Typha (ln Portuguese: Tabúas)
Francisco Cavaleiro [ypha, also known as "cattail," is a plant that grows in wetlands, typically nearlakes or rivers.
With it, we can weave beautiful baskets and placemats. Learn the process - water them before using, and explore different weaving techniques.
Everyone is very welcome to bring their own crafts, knowledge, and materials to share in the Corner. We want to create a space for co-creation where we all learn from each other.
The space will be open during day time, so people can tune in whenever they feel the call or need to integrate and ground themselves into this special meditative environment.
This is an opportunity to connect with our ancestors and honor their teachings and knowledge, reminding us to slow down and tunein to our divine power of creation.
Workshops:
1- Learn how to transform raw materials into meaningful creations.Spinning With Wool - Karmit and Raquel Cavaleiro.
The traditions behind the process of transforming raw wool into thread cleaning, carding, and spinning with the hand spindle. We will share the Mayan and Bedouin ways.
2 - Basket Weaving with Typha (ln Portuguese: Tabúas)
Francisco Cavaleiro [ypha, also known as "cattail," is a plant that grows in wetlands, typically nearlakes or rivers.
With it, we can weave beautiful baskets and placemats. Learn the process - water them before using, and explore different weaving techniques.
Everyone is very welcome to bring their own crafts, knowledge, and materials to share in the Corner. We want to create a space for co-creation where we all learn from each other.
Projeto Terra do Sol
We’re honoured to welcome Sara and Fred, bringing Projeto Terra do Sol to Icaros Festival 2025! In the midst of a collapsing planet, their mission is to contribute to the continuity of life.
They believe that by supporting Indigenous peoples, we are actively connecting with and embodying the many causes we stand for — such as:
Reconnection & Spirituality, Cultural Protection, Anti-colonialist Bioeconomy, Cultural Reparation, Activism, Sustainability, and Healing.
Over the past five years, Terra do Sol has hosted various native Indigenous representatives, supporting them in their journeys through the world.
Along the way, they’ve helped bring healing to some of the struggles humanity faces — by sharing ancestral traditions and returning home with resources, tools, and renewed hope for their families and villages.
They are a family — one that continues to grow with every soul who hears the call and joins the mission. Because when we heal individually, we are also healing collectively!
Join Projecto Terra do Sol spot at Icaros Festival and know more about this project!
They believe that by supporting Indigenous peoples, we are actively connecting with and embodying the many causes we stand for — such as:
Reconnection & Spirituality, Cultural Protection, Anti-colonialist Bioeconomy, Cultural Reparation, Activism, Sustainability, and Healing.
Over the past five years, Terra do Sol has hosted various native Indigenous representatives, supporting them in their journeys through the world.
Along the way, they’ve helped bring healing to some of the struggles humanity faces — by sharing ancestral traditions and returning home with resources, tools, and renewed hope for their families and villages.
They are a family — one that continues to grow with every soul who hears the call and joins the mission. Because when we heal individually, we are also healing collectively!
Join Projecto Terra do Sol spot at Icaros Festival and know more about this project!
