Michael went out yesterday afternoon and picked up more supplies for our trip out to Artemas, PA this weekend for the Gaian Mind Festival. I have only mentioned this on my journal in passing but it’s something I’m pretty excited about.
From the website:
Join us for four days and three nights of Transcendental Dance in the open air – truly, a magical event which has quickly become an annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes!
Currently in its fifth year, the annual Gaian Mind Summer Festival has hosted world-class international talent from Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, plus the finest regional talent in the USA, becoming a destination for hundreds of dancers from all over the world.
The gathering includes a full weekend of spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, lectures and workshops, yoga, sweat lodge, swimming, feasting, relaxation, and much more in a sacred, sylvan sanctuary that only Four Quarters can provide.
Dancing! Drumming! Sweat lodges! Swimming! Feasting! Relaxation! These are my most favorite things!
It actually starts today, but we couldn’t take time off from work to get there. We’re taking a half day tomorrow and we’ll be leaving home around noon, planning on getting out there in time to set up our campsite and head for dinner at 5PM. It’s being held at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, which has a website that I wish was more navigable, but Michael spent a bunch of time combing the site to make sure we have all the information we need about our visit there. I haven’t been camping in years and Michael and I have never camped together, so it should be an interesting experience.
I was delighted to learn that a camp like this exists. It’s Camp Policies include fantastic rules like not allowing cars to be parked at your campsite (you drive the car in, drop off your stuff, and drive the car back to the community parking lot) and their clothing policy – “We do not have one. You may be as dressed or undressed as you prefer. In the summer very loose wraps and sandals are the norm and most people skinny-dip when in the river.” Cool. I’m still bringing my bathing suit though ;) It’s a very green camp (in both senses of the word) and I was like “lol hippy camp!” but that’s precisely the kind of camp I want to be at.