Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:30am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

Lisa Bodey has been a prominent member of the Crestone Community and the Director of the Energy Fair for the last 7 years. She has dedicated countless hours to supporting non-traditional, homeowner-built, and affordable housing for our community, as well as finding ways to utilize our resources more responsibly and equitably. Her passion is in community organizing and networking and more recently she has been integrating restorative practices and social permaculture into our nonprofit.  She strives to be a bridge between our youth, peers, and elders so that we can all live an abundant and healthy life together.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:30am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

Kizzen Laki is a long-time Crestone resident, having moved here with her then young family in 1983. She started and owned The Crestone Eagle newspaper for 34 years. She has spend many years living “off-grid” and is very familiar with “chop wood, haul water”. She has been active in many community organizations and has served on the Crestone Town Council for over 25 years. She has been the main organizer for the planting of over 80 park and street trees in town. She has been involved with planning for appropriate growth in Crestone, encouraging sustainability and supporting small homes and owner-builders. Her home is a log cabin moved from an old local ranch that they took apart log by log and rebuilt. Recycle, re purpose, reuse. She is a beekeeper and with her partner Janet Woodman has a large organic garden and orchard.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:30am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

Peter Anderson’s books include Riding the Wheel, a collection of prose poems and haiku that celebrates the natural world on the edge of the Sangre de Cristos, Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide which won a 2024 Colorado Book Award, and Heading Home: Field Notes, a collection of flash prose and prose poems exploring rural life and the modern day eccentricities of the American West. He lives on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristos where he and his wife Grace raised two beautiful daughters. He also published and edited Pilgrimage Magazine, taught at Adams State University, wrote a column called “Dispatch from the Edge” which appeared in the Crestone Eagle and Colorado Central Magazine, and launched the Crestone Poetry Festival (poemfest.com), an annual gathering of southwestern poets. He has also served on the boards of the Northern Saguache County Library District and Crestone Eagle Community Media.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:30am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

Adam Kinney has lived in Crestone since 2001. He is a father, a husband, a local business owner, and an active and engaged participant in local government. Through his many years of community service, Adam has developed a unique and authentic perspective on the underlying political dynamics that shape our organizational culture here in the San Luis Valley. His dedication to listening and gaining a deeper understanding of his community provides an honest interpretation of what propels us forward, and what ultimately stands in the way of us reaching our highest potential.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:15am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

LeRoy is the director of the Baca Grande Property Owners Association. He found his home in Crestone and the San Luis Valley ,inspired by the spirit of its people and the majesty of its mountains. In our rapidly evolving world, he believes Crestone and the SLV stand as beacons of resilience, sustainability, and self-sufficiency. He is dedicated to fostering unity and collaborating to achieve sustainable living and harmony with one another and with nature - not just for today, but for generations to come.

Main Stage: Saturday, 10:15am - 11:15am

Crestone Energy Fair Director Lisa Bodey will be hosting a community conversation based on our 2024 theme - Rooting Forward. The conversation will explore the evolution of governance, politics and volunteerism in a frontier community, while working to preserve and protect its environmental and cultural ethos.

Anya Kaats is a writer, dancer, archetypal astrologer, and former podcast host. In 2017, she had a vision of communal, avant-garde world-building during the total solar eclipse. In 2018, she visited the San Luis Valley and knew this was the place.

Main Stage: Saturday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Tylor Berreth is the co-founder of Alpine Valley Mushrooms.

Tylor’s talk will be called “Nurturing Our Mycobiomes,” which will be all about the importance of nurturing our myco-biomes, the fungal extension of our microbiomes, for both human and planetary health. 

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Booth Activation: Saurday & Sunday, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Diamond and Leah are the founders of Oppenheimer Ranch, and have 10 years of permaculture design and implementation + passive solar greenhouse design and construction.

Visit the Oppenheimer Ranch booth for a hands-on immersive seed saving demo with various different types of local crops, keep what you save. There will also be an open permaculture discussion Q&A

Seed sovereignty is the right of farmers, seed keepers, and other food producers to save, grow, sell, and share their seeds. It's important for the global food system because it allows farmers to choose their seeds, what to grow, and how to farm. This can lead to increased crop diversity, which can make the food system more resilient to climate, conflict, and disease.

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Booth Activation: Saturday, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Join Peter May and E3 Ecologic Staff for a special Biodiversity Booth Activation. Visit the E3 Ecologic Booth to learn more about the local Biodiversity Initiative that endeavors to find species that have existed in the area for decades. If these species are not found, an investigation may be conducted to determine why these species are no longer in the area. Actions may then be taken to restore these species. This presentation will be an update of the progress of this program.

E3 KFM has been in existence in some form since 2003, and in that time has conducted fire management activities, regenerated forests, and restored streams and arroyos. It is now sponsoring the Biodiversity Initiative.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mark Jacobi, retired Facilities Manager at Orient Land Trust/ValleyView Hot Springs will be hosting an Alternative Energy Panel reviewing current policies and emerging alternative energy issues affecting the San Luis Valley.

Mark, long-time Crestone resident, in tandem with Orient Land Trust staff, was responsible for maintaining the hot springs facility which operates entirely off-grid and is profoundly affected by precipitation and visitor usage. Mark provided guided Hydro tours, active research, and educational campaigns that have inspired sustainable living practices for generations forming a wide-spread community of tourists, locals, and environmental enthusiasts.

Main Stage: Saturday, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mark Jacobi, retired Facilities Manager at Orient Land Trust/ValleyView Hot Springs will be hosting an Alternative Energy Panel reviewing current policies and emerging alternative energy issues affecting the San Luis Valley.

Christine Canaly is the Director of the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council (SLVEC). SLVEC actively participated in the 2004 Colorado Renewable Energy Standard Ballot Initiative that jump started development of solar/renewable energy in Colorado. SLVEC has participated in solar/public meetings ever since, on the local and state levels. SLVEC has actively opposed many of these solar projects, especially concentrated solar projects in Saguache County, that were inappropriate for the area.

Main Stage: Saturday, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mark Jacobi, retired Facilities Manager at Orient Land Trust/ValleyView Hot Springs will be hosting an Alternative Energy Panel reviewing current policies and emerging alternative energy issues affecting the San Luis Valley.

Jan Rose was trained in climate science and communications by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in 2017 and has been working on climate and energy legislation at the state level ever since. She is the Legislative Analyst and Spokesperson for the Colorado Coalition for a Livable Climate, a 51-member coalition of environmental, community and faith groups that band together to speak with one voice at the state legislature. She has authored five bills, three of which have become law. In addition to Climate Reality and the CCLC, she is also a member of Sierra Club Colorado and 350Colorado.  Jan has a 8600kw solar array, organic garden, double composter, and a public EV charging station, and sends just one bag of trash/month to the landfill.  Sadly, it’s full of plastic packaging.

Main Stage: Saturday, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Mark Jacobi, retired Facilities Manager at Orient Land Trust/ValleyView Hot Springs will be hosting an Alternative Energy Panel reviewing current policies and emerging alternative energy issues affecting the San Luis Valley.

Tom McCracken is a Saguache County Commissioner (2020-Present) who has devoted time learning about the San Luis Valley Energy grid, which is getting a lot of attention right now from around the state. Solar companies are looking to the San Luis Valley (SLV) as an optimal place to develop solar; so the Saguache Commissioners recently put a moratorium on new Solar Energy development, to develop consistency in regulatory decision making; and make sure that solar development benefits Saguache County. Tom is also owner of Green Earth Farms, a 37-year old organic farm devoted to producing high quality fruits and vegetables in the SLV. Before taking on the farm, Tom and his beloved, departed wife Lillian had a tree planting company, where they planted millions of trees throughout the southwest.

Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Brett has over 25 years experience in residential construction, and is passionate about alternative building modalities.

Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Lloyd has 60 years of experience building and studying hand-made, owner-built housing, and was named “The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings” by The NY Times.

Lloyd has also published a series of books on these subjects, including Domebook 2, Shelter, Home Work, Builders of The Pacific Coast, Tiny Homes, Rolling Homes, and The Barefoot Architect, which all feature architecture and building from a home builder’s point of view.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Tim White has over three decades of expertise revitalizing natural building practices and has earned distinction as the president of Texas Healthy Homes. Most recently, Tim and his team won the US Hemp Building Association’s 2022-23 Best Hemp Building award for completing a 2400-square foot house utilizing hempcrete.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Adam Fries have been building custom homes in Crestone for 9 years and the Durango area for 17 years. He got his start in alternative construction; particularly strawbale.  Recently he created an ICF two story hobbit home with living roofs in Crestone.  

 Twelve years ago he began building more modern houses. The homes he creates are tightly constructed and beautifully designed.  His collection of custom homes can be found in Crestone's Baca Grande subdivision, downtown Durango, Mancos, Cortez, Bayfield, and Ignacio, Colorado. 

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Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Eric Ficinus a multi-media artist based in New York. His project “Earthship Model Kit” was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2016. When he doesn’t have his hands in clay at home, you may find him wandering the woods beat-boxing to himself, practicing his fluent Swedish, or playing Dungeons and Dragons. Nowadays he is working in ceramics to produce artisan smoking pipes.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be hosting this year's Natural Building Panel, featuring a discussion about how traditional builders can transition into Natural Building and to start using natural elements in their building processes.

Aircrete Harry is a Colorado-based builder who specializes in Aircrete Domes and has a large YouTube presence where he provides education and demonstrations about Aircrete building.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Lloyd has 60 years of experience building and studying hand-made, owner-built housing, and was named “The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings” by The NY Times.

Lloyd has also published a series of books on these subjects, including Domebook 2, Shelter, Home Work, Builders of The Pacific Coast, Tiny Homes, Rolling Homes, and The Barefoot Architect, which all feature architecture and building from a home builder’s point of view.

Lloyd’s presentation will cover what he’s learned over the years, and will also include his experience editing the shelter section of the Whole Earth Catalog, interviewing and documenting builders, as well as the effect of the ’60s countercultural revolution on his life and work.

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Main Stage: Saturday, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Join local music legends Kosmos for an eclectic set of World Gypsy Music, headlining the Main Stage on Saturday.

Main Stage Park: Sunday, 9:00am - 10:00am

N.A.A.M. stands for Neuro Activating Advanced Meditation where we will experience divine power manifested through SOUND current to change the brainwaves and create a neuro network that causes the mind, the brain, and the body to align.

Polina has been immersed in the studies of Ancient Egyptian, Hermetic wisdom, Universal Kabbalah, and Naam Yoga for the past 17 years. This inspired her to become a certified Naam Yoga teacher in 2009 and a Harmonyum I & II practitioner in 2016.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 10:15am - 11:30am

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

Dr. Kim Engard ND, LAc has been practicing Natural Medicine for over 30 years. She is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor, Acupuncturist, Medical Herbalist and Qi Gong Instructor that is committed to healing with natural medicine.

 Dr. Kim provides a full range of Naturopathic and TCM services for her patients, which include: an integrative approach with exams and diagnosis, treatment plans, and nutritional support and education.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

Signa Cheney has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 30 years, specializing in Iyengar, Kundalini Yoga, therapeutic gong, mantra meditations, Pranayama and breathwork. She also works authentic and somatic movement arts, Sound Healing, vocal awakening and activation, and Classical and Neo-Tantra practices for healthy relationships. She has experienced yoga and breathwork as powerful and effective tools for greater personal health and wellness.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

Sharron Rose has been working in the Traditional Dance field for 4 decades and has vast experience nationally and abroad with dancing and teaching wellness thru dance. As a Fulbright Scholar, she had many experiences learning and dancing with experts around the world in many cultures and countries. She also has worked in recent years with Qi Gong masters with her Production company Sacred Mysteries and has strong connections to these disciplines.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

John P Milton has been a icon in the world of Movement and sacred practices for over 50 years. Thru his work with Way of Nature in Crestone and abroad, he combines energy and movement along with meditative practice to transform health and wellness for individual and groups. John has been practicing Tai Chi, Qi Gong and other movement disciplines for decades for himself and with others seeking sacred connections.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

Elza Kosmicki is a martial arts master practicing in the lineage of Enshin Karate. She brings over 20 years of teaching, integrative medicine practice and the study of functional movement into her school in Crestone to create an environment for transformation and growth.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Dr. Kim Engard will be hosting this year's Wellness Panel, with a focus on movement of energy for Wellness. The panel will cover insights on energy movement practices from experts; including Qi Gong/Tai Chi, Traditional/Ecstatic Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga.

Bill Smith is a leading internal movement and body energy expert. For over 35 years, Bill guides people to embody relaxation, creativity and strength by bringing a modern approach to the ancient wisdom teachings of Tai Chi & Qigong.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Matt and Pete are neighbors and friends that produce a youtube channel called "Owner Builders Unite" based here in Crestone, CO. The channel focuses on alternative building and off grid lifestyles.

Matt & Pete cover everything from Earthships, passive solar, rain water harvesting, alternative power, food storage, natural building modalities, and community, just to name a few.

In this Q&A Matt and Pete will go over the process of living and building off the grid in our unique community, and giving others the tools and knowledge to do it too! 

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Main Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Tim White has over three decades of expertise revitalizing natural building practices and has earned distinction as the president of Texas Healthy Homes. Most recently, Tim and his team won the US Hemp Building Association’s 2022-23 Best Hemp Building award for completing a 2400-square foot house utilizing hempcrete.

Tim will be speaking about how Natural Building systems create a healthy medium for people and the environment. Tim will help us explore how and why Natural Building can move humanity in a more sustainable direction, rooting us forward to a sustainable future for the body, mind, and spirit.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 4:00pm - 4:45pm

George Whitten is a third-generation San Luis Valley regenerative rancher, and Owner of Blue Range Ranch - George Whitten.

George's talk presentation will describe and explore with the audience how learning to understand the relationship between soil, plants and animals has become the guiding principle of his path in life as an agrarian and as a citizen.

The San Luis Valley has a history of pastoralism that is still alive. The relationship between large ungulates and soil has real potential to regenerate agriculture and perhaps, the planet. As he gets older, he seeks more and more whole solutions to whole problems.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

“Taiko” is the Japanese word for drum. Since ancient times, Taiko has been used in the battlefield, Shinto and Buddhist religious ceremonies, festivals, royal courts, and theatrical arts performances. Taiko were used to ward away evil spirits and pests, mimic thunder during drought periods, and express thanks for bountiful harvests. Taiko for Shumei is used to express that moment of exchange between prayers that people offer to God and the Light that God grants as a response to their prayers.

HI, is the sun which represents heaven. KA, is the harmonizing force that unites heaven and earth. RI, is Crestone which represents the earth.

HIKARI Taiko will be playing prior to our Closing Ceremony in the Main Stage Park.

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Main Stage: Sunday, 5:45pm - 7:00pm

Join Anima, consisting of Marcus Daniels, Xerephine, Lydia Sprouts, Tai Chi Bill and Robin from from River Arkansas for an original high-energy eclectic set, headlining the Main Stage on Sunday.

Demonstration Shed: Saturday, 11:00am

Shawn King, builder and educator, will be leading a Cobb demonstration. Cobb is one of the most ancient modes of building used worldwide.

The word “Cob” in natural building refers to a mix of sand, clay-rich sub-soil and straw built as one piece (monolithically) instead of as mud bricks and mortar like adobe. Buildings called "earthen” are often some form of cob.

Cob buildings typically have very thick walls that are built from the ground up. They usually have roofs with broad eaves that protect the walls from the elements. Some of the oldest buildings in the world and even here in the San Luis Valley were built with this clay-rich soil, sand and straw mixture.

Demonstration Shed: Saturday, 12:45pm

Suzanne Rouge, hemp educator since 1976, will be leading a hempcrete demonstration.

Hempcrete has been gaining ground as a popular alternative building material since the 1980’s. It was recently added to the International Building Code.

Hemp has been used in many ways for centuries and now builders have figured out how to mix the hemp-hurd with lime to make a very strong and insulative material for walls. Hemp is mixed and gently packed into forms that are removed once it has dried. This can be done 30 minutes after packing and is set 24 hours later. The lime in the mixture will continue to petrify and stabilize over the next few years and eventually becomes a monolithic limestone. Homes built with hempcrete will sequester carbon for decades after they are built.

Demonstration Shed: Saturday, 3:00pm

Donovan Spitzman will be leading a lightweight material made with paper pulp and cement.

Usually papercrete is formed into blocks which are then used like any building brick. It is possible to make these bricks or they can be ordered by a few companies that mass-produce them.

Papercrete is fire resistant and has insulative properties as well with an R value of 2-3 per inch.

Demonstration Shed: Saturday, 4:15pm

Donovan, Shawn, and Suzanne will join forces to lead a Bottle Brick demonstration.

Using bottles to build with has become very popular in alternative and sustainable buildings. Not only can you create beautiful designs with them, but the bottles are given a second life as a building material and stay out of the land fill.

Any type of bottle can be used including glass, plastic and metal. When building with bottle bricks, they can be set into adobe, hempcrete, aircrete and cement.

Demonstration Shed: Sunday, 10:00am

Brett Buchanan of Crescent Moon Construction will be leading a demonstration on Rammed Earth alongside Michael Elijah Wenham.

Rammed Earth is a modality of building that has been used for centuries. Michael Elijah Wenham is an architect, musician, visual, and movement artist. His architectural practice began 24 year ago in Denver, initially specializing in “pop-tops”, extreme remodel / additions to existing masonry homes. His fascination with masonry began upon visiting Arco-Santi, Paulo Solari’s bold vision of fusing architecture and the landscape has driven Elijah to begin investigating rammed earth construction. He hopes to bring interest in this ancient, updated version, of stabilized rammed earth construction to the Colorado.

Rammed earth walls use forms to hold damp earth as it is compacted, layer by layer. When the forms are removed, the finished wall is a beautiful display of the many layers of earth. Most people chose to leave the interior walls exposed to display the bands of dirt. Rammed earth walls are thick and provide plenty of thermal mass. The earth can be sourced locally and the forms can be used  repeatedly. Rammed earth walls can be structural if a small percent of cement is added to the mixture of dirt.

Demonstration Shed: Sunday, 11:00am

Peter Van Horn from Owner Builders Unite will be showing us how top use tires in building porjects. This energy intensive building modality can be the reason most people don't end up building Earthships, but tires serve a great purpose in building. Not only are they very easy to come by, once packed with earth, they are a massive thermal brick that helps to maintain temperatures. Tire walls don't need a footer/foundation and are extremely stable if done correctly. One concern people have about tires is the off-gassing that comes with rubber. This is a non-issue in a finished home because once the tires are covered with an earthen or stucco wall, they are no longer exposed to air, heat or sunlight which is what causes off-gassing.

Demonstration Shed: Sunday, 12:00pm

Suzanne, Shawn, and Tim White, president of Texas Healthy Homes, will be teaming up to lead a demonstration on Earthen Clay Plasters.

Earthen Plasters can be used in almost all applications where a cementitious plaster would be used. These plasters are a mix of sand and clay (with straw usually used in base coats) and can be applied onto strawbale, tires, hempcrete, papercrete and rammed earth. For finish coats, it's possible to add pigments to get almost any desired color. This material is breathable and will add thermal mass to a building.

Wellness Village: Saturday, 10:30am - 11:30am

Julie is a 200 hr certified Yoga Instructor, and a sound and energy healer.

Hatha yoga is a traditional style of yoga focusing on pranayama, movements of the spine, and balancing poses. We run through nourishing poses to open up and reset our system. We connect with breath to cultivate a deep presence.

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Wellness Village: Saturday, 11:45am - 12:45pm

Makaan is a ong-time student of John Milton and has completed 14 vision quests. He has also completed two teacher trainings spanning 2.5 years with Tai Chi master David Dorian Ross. He is a friend and leader with Hadiakhandi Universal Ashram.

Join Makaan for his second annual, easy-to-follow Tai Chi experience to music including short 9 Form set, push hands, guided improvisation and movement principles. The experience of Tai Chi flow can be joyful, exhilarating and surprisingly up-lifting. This is a good class for beginners or elders or any level of interest.

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Wellness Village: Saturday, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Suzanne Luck of High Mountain Medicinals will be guiding us in a Return to Remembrance. Suzanne has a B.S.Holistic Nutritionist Biodynamic farmer, and is a herbalist beekeeper LMT. She has been farming for over 45 years

Return To Remembrance will start and end with breath work and meditation as well as crystal bowls. Grounding to the mother and moving forward using positive daily rhythms and habits to hold you during all the energetic changes happening in the world. Great medicines that can be made from native plants will also be demonstrated and discussed. Tying it all together with the struggles and needs of the pollinators and what you can do to help them survive. If we don’t have the pollinators we won’t have food! The bees always have 1 wing in the spiritual world and we should too.

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Wellness Village: Saturday, 2:15pm - 3:15pm

Dr. Dean Lloyd L.Ac., HHP, NP, PD/MWA will be leading a presentation on the topic of "Rational Fasting" and discussing the historical reasons we do this for our physical and spiritual health. He will be giving his experience with doing a variety of different fasts and sharing what worked best for him and his patients.

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Wellness Village: Saturday, 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Gina has studied and practiced qigong for 15 yrs. She is an international author, workshop facilitator and teacher trainer in the healing arts, specifically in sacred sexuality and trauma-informed yoga. Her sacred sexuality retreats and trainings include qigong & Taoist practices. She has 40 years of experience leading workshops.

This workshop will lead attendees in embodying simple qigong movements and practices that will help you to be more rooted while living in the Crestone energy vortex. Helpful for all during this technological age, where daily life can be so ungrounding. Access internal energy for your wellbeing and feel grounded and connected to what’s important.

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Wellness Village: Saturday, 4:45pm - 6:00pm

Peter has 26 years of forest stewardship, forest alchemist, and is a Grammy Award winner. He's hosted over 9500 participants in these types of events.

Participants are invited to feed a tree or a grove of trees and then experience the effects of the healing forest that was just created. This process entails feeding one or more trees with Mother Tree Food and then activating the energy and field of the tree with a specific frequency, acoustic 528 hertz. During this time, the tree may sing through a Damanhur Music of the Plants machine, and participants may join with their instruments and voices. In many instances, participants have experienced healings on different levels, including body, energy, and mind.

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Wellness Village: Sunday, 10:30am - 11:30am

Kara is a CYT-500 hr and has been practicing yoga for over 25 years and teaching since 2011. She is classically trained in the Indian Hatha Yoga tradition - particularly the Sivananda and Iyengar lineages. Kara has also been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 2009 and was initiated into the Vajrayana lineage of Chogyam Thrungpa Rinpoche in 2012. Kara is a Certified Personal Trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

This class combines the Hatha and Vinyasa styles of Classical Indian Yoga to provide a well-rounded practice that focuses on re-establishing our connection with the Earth, our physical bodies, and our spiritual center in order to cultivate an inner sense of wholeness, peace, balance, strength, stability and resiliency.

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Wellness Village: Sunday, 11:45am - 12:45pm

Natalie McCrae is a certified Reiki and Womb Healing Practitioner. She is a published author, creating the Divine Feminine Awakening Oracle Set, which is a tool to awaken the divine feminine within.

Natalie's presentation will be focused on learning how to awaken different aspects of the divine feminine within yourself. This helps us acknowledge and heal anything we need to let go of energetically so we can make room and allow new possibilities in. Through meditation focusing on the sacral chakra, this provides a tool to take with you on your journey to becoming the best you!

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Wellness Village: Sunday, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Nadia has studied the dance form Contact Improv in different countries and with amazing teachers. It is her most instrumental tool for understanding myself, life and other humans. Nadia also completed a year-long somatic psychology program.

Contact Improvisation is a movement practice that offers us an opportunity to experience a connection with each other that goes beyond our verbal expressions. Through simple exercises we will attune to our own bodies and to our environment, practice listening to ourselves and each other on deeper levels, and explore our relationship with gravity and weight.

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Wellness Village: Sunday, 2:15pm - 2:45pm

Leeza has successfully grown Cordyceps Militaris for the last 5 years. She has also taken William Padilla-Brown's cordyceps cultivation courses (he was the first to cultivate this mushroom in the US).

Leeza's presentation will be on lessons she's learned from growing the Cordyceps Militaris medicinal mushroom. The presentation will cover what growing this mushroom has taught her about medicinal sources of energy, symbiotic relationships in nature, and community building.

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Wellness Village: Sunday, 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Donna and Diana have completed QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy) training with Dolores Cannon in 2014. Completed BQH (Beyond Quantum Healing) training with Candace Craw-Goldman in 2018 and QC (Quantum Connect) training in 2023.

They will be offering a guided, group consciousness exploration to visit a different lifetime that is significant and healing to your life now, meet a Guide for a message, and/or visit a future lifetime to gain wisdom. Consciousness expansion, connecting to realms and Beings beyond this physical world, is at an all-time high. Learn how to use this inherent ability to up-level your life.

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Busking Stage: Saturday, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Benny Roman will be performing with his bandmates from The Audience. He is an experimental, independent songwriter.

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Busking Stage: Saturday, 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Clara is a singer-songwriter based out of North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii. Her songs speak of truth and depth, all messages that have come from the heart. She delivers her songs through acoustic guitar with a loop station, which allows for a more expansive sound, while keeping it organic and grounded.

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Busking Stage: Saturday, 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Frankie J Meyer plays folkie, bluesie, roots and will even share a few topical, humorous songs about natural building! He has a unique voice, solid guitar work, and great original songs.

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Busking Stage: Saturday, 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Ras Moses is an international reggae recording artist based out of Boulder, CO. Originally from New York City, Ras Moses is now an integral part of Colorado’s ever-growing rasta movement and reggae music scene.  Ras Marcus is a well travelled healing practicioner and nyabhingi chanter, as well as an author and public speaker. He is the current President of the Colorado House of Rastafari and the Uganda House of Rastafari chapters. 

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Busking Stage: Sunday, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Bruce will be playing original compositions reflecting traditional songs played on native american style flutes. These songs are meant to express the steps of the ceremonial experience.

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Busking Stage: Sunday, 12:15pm - 1:15pm

“Nicholas Penn is captivatingly modest. His music marries quietly masterful guitar playing with wistful narratives that question the state of our interior and exterior worlds — all the while remaining wryly hopeful. His music is disarming… and that’s not an accident. He’d like to see less fighting and more love in the world. His confident music inspires a shred of hope that things could turn out that way.” - 88.1 FM WRFL

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Busking Stage: Sunday, 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Shades of Blue 1969 is a unique father and son team on guitar, vocals and keyboards, blending 70s and 80s baby boomer favorites with Gen X pop and other great music. Partial set list includes Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkel, Traci Chapman, Mamas and the Papas, Alicia Keys, Ray LaMontagne, Etta James, Beatles, Stones, and more.

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Busking Stage: Sunday, 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Marché is a Songer/Singwriter, although he's never longed to be a troubadour and would desperately like to out run the singer/songwriter tag. However, he writes songs and sings them.

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Pop-Up Freebox: Sunday, 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Parade starts at the Pop-Up Freebox, and ends in our Main Stage park.

Food Truck Area: Sunday, 9:00am - 12:00pm

All proceeds support ScSEED & The Crestone Energy Fair

T-Road Brewing Company: Saturday, 7:30pm

Featuring Blue Rooster. $10 cover at the door.

Main Stage Park: Saturday & Sunday all day

Art Installation by Chris Manfield and Allison Wonderland