Join Jessyca Jordan for a morning yoga experience is designed to soften your edges and deepen your connection to the living art of your body. Through slow, intentional movement and breath, you'll be invited to tune into the language of your body and allow nature's rhythm to guide you back into presence.

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This is a practice of coming home—where mind, body, and soul meet in stillness, breath, and sensation. This practice is an invitation to move from the inside out—no experience needed, just a willingness to arrive exactly as you are.

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Join Rob Douglas and Rock Ward for an extraordinary experience that weaves together the mindful practices of tea with the profound mystery of cave exploration. This intimate gathering invites you to explore the interplay between our inner landscapes and the hidden worlds beneath our feet.

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This unique experience offers a rare opportunity to journey both inward through the meditative act of sharing tea and outward into the ancient geological formations that lie hidden beneath our everyday world. Come discover what emerges when we slow down, tune in, and explore the profound connections between inner awareness and the natural world around us.​

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We’ll begin with a gongfu-inspired tea session, sharing carefully selected Camellia sinensis leaves from China and Taiwan in a contemplative practice that awakens the senses. Beyond taste and aroma, this guided exploration invites you to attune to tea as a living presence.

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From there, we’ll descend into the cave—a slow, mindful walk through the subterranean world. As we move through shadow and stone, the cave becomes a space of reflection, silence, and sensory exploration. Together, we’ll honor darkness not as absence, but as a doorway to deeper presence.

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Space is limited to 12 people.

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Join Kathi Hendrick for an intimate, immersive workshop held inside the beautiful Garth Newel Music Center, inviting you to slow down, listen deeply, and return to the innate intelligence of the body. Through guided somatic awareness and intuitive, body-led movement, we’ll attune to the subtle language of sensation, impulse, and rhythm.  

 

This is not about performing or getting it “right”—it’s about coming into an honest relationship with your own body. From this grounded presence, movement becomes a living expression of the present moment—an authentic dance that arises from within.

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Drawing from the themes of PORTALS—the Friday evening performance exploring descent, transformation, and re-emergence—we’ll invite participants to step inside the experience themselves. Through movement, we’ll trace personal and collective thresholds, allowing what’s been hidden, held, or waiting to emerge to find shape through the body.

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Whether you are an artist, a former dancer, or simply curious, this space welcomes you into a creative process where the body leads and the mind softens. Together, we’ll explore solo and group practices that support embodied expression, emotional alchemy, and the emergence of spontaneous choreography.

 

Come as you are. No dance experience is needed—only a willingness to move and be moved.

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Space is limited to 12 people.

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Join poet and storyteller Mathias Svalina for a walking journey through the village of Warm Springs, where dreams take root in unexpected places and the ordinary transforms into the wonderfully absurd. This isn't your typical poetry reading or historical tour—it's an invitation to experience a place through the lens of dreams, where the mundane becomes magical and the logical gives way to the luminous. Come prepared to see Warm Springs with new eyes, to find wisdom in wonder & nonsense, and to discover what happens when poetry meets place in the most unexpected ways.

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This two-hour, 1.5-mile dream tour weaves together fragments of actual history with fabricated tales, in celebration of the wisdom of nonsense. As we meander through familiar streets and forgotten corners, Svalina will plant dreams in the landscape itself—inviting you to look around while he recounts surreal histories of the surroundings.

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Step into the newly unveiled BEAR Building—Bath County Arts Association’s inspiring new home in the heart of Hot Springs, VA. This light-filled space will be open throughout the weekend, welcoming you into a curated gallery of rotating works by both local and visiting artists.

 

Wander through the gallery at your own pace, take in the textures, colors, and stories woven into each piece, and discover the vibrant creative spirit that lives in this region. From painting and photography to printed media, this community art showcase is a celebration of place, process, and possibility.

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Some works will be available for purchase, offering an opportunity to support the artists and take a piece of the gathering home with you. Whether you're an art collector, a curious visitor, or a neighbor discovering something new, the BEAR Building invites you in.

Community Company Workshop (a part of The Fellowship Project) welcomes dancers of all ages, abilities, and experience levels to move from inspiration to performance—all in a single session. Rooted in Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance’s collaborative methodology, these workshops create an inclusive, supportive space where participants explore movement, connect with others, and experience the joy of creative expression. Whether you're an experienced dancer or stepping into a dance space for the first time, you'll find a place in this collective process.

 

Each workshop begins with accessible, gesture-based choreography led by SH/CD Choreographer Shannon Hummel, that allows everyone to move at their own pace. From there, participants may explore improvisation, develop short movement phrases, and build community through shared creation. The workshop culminates in a performance of a new, collaboratively choreographed work—crafted and performed by the participants themselves alongside professional company members from Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance. This format invites newcomers to experience the full arc of dancemaking while giving seasoned dancers a rare chance to create alongside artists of diverse backgrounds, generations, and physical abilities.

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Join Rob Douglas and Rock Ward for an extraordinary experience that weaves together the mindful practices of tea with the profound mystery of cave exploration. This intimate gathering invites you to explore the interplay between our inner landscapes and the hidden worlds beneath our feet.

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This unique experience offers a rare opportunity to journey both inward through the meditative act of sharing tea and outward into the ancient geological formations that lie hidden beneath our everyday world. Come discover what emerges when we slow down, tune in, and explore the profound connections between inner awareness and the natural world around us.​

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We’ll begin with a gongfu-inspired tea session, sharing carefully selected Camellia sinensis leaves from China and Taiwan in a contemplative practice that awakens the senses. Beyond taste and aroma, this guided exploration invites you to attune to tea as a living presence.

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From there, we’ll descend into the cave—a slow, mindful walk through the subterranean world. As we move through shadow and stone, the cave becomes a space of reflection, silence, and sensory exploration. Together, we’ll honor darkness not as absence, but as a doorway to deeper presence.

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Space is limited to 6 people.

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Join Liz Bowden for an immersive journey that weaves together the ancient wisdom of breathwork and herbalism. This workshop invites you to explore the sacred connection between your soul and the soil. 

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In this experience, we’ll journey from soul to soil, discovering how earth’s botanical allies and their rich minerals can support your healing and awakening. Liz will introduce three local plant teachers before guiding a two-part breathwork journey to quiet the mind, activate the body’s wisdom, and unearth subconscious holds in a deep meditative state. Within this journey, you’ll explore how your plant ally’s spirit and mineral gifts might guide your inner landscapes with unique wisdom. Emerging slowly, you will reawaken each sense, meeting the world anew with deeper connection and presence.

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This practice guides you to experience nature beyond labels and preconceptions, meeting plants as teachers and kin. We’ll explore how our soul is deeply connected to the soil – how minerals nourish both the earth and our bodies, reminding us that our vitality and spirit are reflections of the land’s health and wisdom. As you re-enter the world from this journey, you will feel more rooted, safe, and alive in your environment, carrying this embodied way of seeing and relating into the gathering and into your life beyond.

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Space is limited to 20 people.

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Join us for a vibrant evening celebrating the creative spirit of the Living Arts Gathering. This artist showcase brings together an eclectic mix of local and visiting artists—poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, and filmmakers—for a rich tapestry of live performance and shared expression.

From intimate readings to evocative soundscapes and cinematic moments, the evening invites you to witness the many forms that art and presence can take. The evening will feature performances from storyteller and poet Mathias Svalina, the Cora Dance company, filmmaker Djeneba Aduayom, vocalist and musician Natalia Beneitez, film director and screenwriter Rick Alverson, pianist Angelo Rapan, musician and filmmaker Benjamin Henretig, offering a glimpse into the depth and diversity of creative voices within our community.

Come be moved, inspired, and connected through the voices and visions of our creative community. Delicious food and drinks will be available throughout the night. All are welcome—bring your curiosity, your friends, and your open heart.

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