Love Shine Play Festival 2026

Maitrī: Loving Kindness Meditation is a powerful way to increase the frequency of positive emotions and feelings of connection, improve immune function, increase gray matter in key areas of the brain, and increase gamma waves for learning, memory, attention, and complex cognitive processing. There are many ways that one can learn to practice and become competent at this technique: somatic, cognitive, verbal, non-verbal, with or without visualization, etc. In this session, I will guide you through three rounds of gentle postures to prepare for sitting or lying down in stillness for 15 minutes per round.

Nestled into the private sanctuary behind Skinny Beats music shop, relax on extra thick yoga mats, blankets, bolsters and pillows and settle into a deeply restorative sound healing session with Billy Zanski to calm the nervous system and support energetic alignment.

Lie down, get comfortable, and let go!

Surrender your body and mind as you float into a state of healing and expansion. In this deeply restorative sound bath, Khaki will guide you through a meditation while channeling Reiki light to your energetic body and serenading you with a symphony of sounds.

The sound vibrations of overtone-rich crystal alchemy bowls and Khaki’s resonant voice will entrain with your brainwaves to promote self-healing and repair on a cellular level. Melt away stress and feel a profound sense of presence, well-being, and peace as you relax in a supportive and harmonious space.

You may see colors, experience heightened emotions, receive intuitive messages, have vivid dreams, or simply experience a much-needed rest.

Please bring a cloth or an eye mask to cover your eyes!

A guided meditation from the mountain top. Enjoy the incredible birds-eye view of town surrounded by nature while we step back into spaces of connection. Tending our inner relationship amidst the natural world is a powerful combination. Let go of tension and attend to the inner terrain of the body.

In the yogic tradition, the Divine Mother expresses herself through many forms, each revealing a different aspect of life's unfolding cycles. In this immersive workshop, we explore the sacred mantras of three beloved goddesses — Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Durga — whose archetypal energies illuminate a powerful rhythm of creation, nourishment, and transformation.  This mirrors the cycles present in nature, our bodies, and our spiritual lives.
Through mantra chanting, mudra, and guided meditation, we connect with Saraswati's clarity and creative wisdom, Lakshmi's flowing abundance, and Durga's fierce courage to release what no longer serves.
Open to all levels. Expect teaching, mantra chanting, somatic awareness, and meditation that leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and deeply supported by the sacred cycles of life.

The sound of your own voice is the most healing vibration, your own personalized frequency medicine. In this workshop, the room will be transformed into a sacred choir, and your voice is the instrument – every soul a member of the orchestra, and the collective voices and hearts creating a vortex of healing, community, and oneness.

Khaki will guide the room through a flow state journey – through vibrational sound, weaving melody meditations, toning vowels, and ancient mantras – before closing the portal with a meditative crystal alchemy sound bath.

Nestled into the private sanctuary behind Skinny Beats music shop, relax on extra thick yoga mats, blankets, bolsters and pillows and settle into a deeply restorative sound healing session with Billy Zanski to calm the nervous system and support energetic alignment.

An experience in whole-body expression and release! Recalibrate the nervous system, shake off stagnant energy, and breathe new life into your physical and spiritual bodies.  By combining physical movement and the energetics of voice activation, you’ll embark on an invigorating and grounding journey through the chakras.

This is an activating workshop that oscillates between gentle cardio to rhythmic music, stillness, somatic movements, and vocal toning. Khaki will close the portal with a meditative crystal alchemy sound bath, anchoring in an empowered sense of self and a keen awareness of your embodiment.

Begin your day by opening the heart.
This gentle sunrise practice draws from the ancient Pali tradition of metta — loving-kindness — a meditation that trains the heart to meet every being, including ourselves, with warmth and care. As the morning light gathers over the Blue Ridge Mountains, we'll move through the traditional phrases of metta: toward ourselves, toward loved ones, toward strangers, toward all beings everywhere.
No meditation experience needed. No perfect stillness required. Just a willingness to show up, breathe, and let love be the first thing you offer the day.
All levels welcome. Bring a blanket. Come with an open heart.

Release tension and connect with your intuition in this intimate breathwork ceremony.
After a short introduction on how to safely perform the breath, you’ll lie down, get comfortable, and be guided through active breathwork, set to carefully curated music to carry you through your journey inward. Afterwards, you’ll float away into bliss, clarity, and unconditional love in a deeply restorative meditation. We’ll close the ceremony with time for journaling to integrate the intuitive guidance received, and open the space up for supportive sharing and reflection.

This breathwork style is called ‘conscious connected breathing’, based on a circular and rhythmic three-part breath pattern. By activating new neural pathways in the brain, you will lift the veil to your subconscious mind. This allows the clarity of your intuition to come through with clarity, compassion, and multi-faceted awareness. There are no limits to what answers you may receive!

Please note that this can be a very intense style of breathwork that may cause some hyperventilation side effects. Not recommended for those with cardiovascular disease or heart/respiratory conditions (ex, high/low blood pressure, history of heart attacks or strokes, severe asthma), if you’re prone to fainting, or if you’re pregnant.

Please bring a cloth or an eye mask to cover your eyes!

Sanctuary of Sound is a one-hour sound bath with gong, mindfully curated to offer deep rest, nervous system regulation, and a return to inner stillness. After some gentle stretching and breathwork, participants are invited to lie down comfortably and be held in a cocoon of resonant sound as waves of vibration from the gong move through the body and the surrounding space.
This is not a practice of doing, it is the ultimate “undoing”, a practice of receiving. The vibrations of the gong offer healing, refuge, and a reset – clear of habitual thought patterns, clear of stress, tension, and fatigue. This is the sanctuary of sound, the sanctuary where we allow our body to fulfill its inherent capacity for restoration, healing, and insight.
No experience is necessary. Simply arrive, rest, and allow sound to hold you.

This is NOT a gentle practice. It is one of the most powerful active meditations in the world, and one of the most liberating.
Developed by Osho as a technique for modern bodies carrying modern stress, Dynamic Meditation moves through five stages over 60 minutes: chaotic breathwork, cathartic release (sound, free movement, letting the body express what it holds), a mantra jump, stillness, and celebration. The music guides each stage precisely.

Many people find this practice transformative on the first attempt. Others find it confronting. Both are welcome. What it asks is simple: show up, follow the stages, and let go of control. The meditation does the rest.

Appropriate for adults with no serious cardiac or respiratory conditions. Wear loose, comfortable clothing you can move and sweat in. Eyeshades strongly encouraged. Not recommended for those in acute emotional crisis or active trauma.

Nestled into the private sanctuary behind Skinny Beats music shop, relax on extra thick yoga mats, blankets, bolsters and pillows and settle into a deeply restorative sound healing session with Billy Zanski to calm the nervous system and support energetic alignment.