Enhance your experience during the conference with special events woven into the program, including live performances, exhibitions, and immersive artistic experiences. These moments offer a different way to engage with the themes of dreaming, creativity, and expression alongside the talks and workshops.
Lunatic Production: Ode to an Odd Species (Friday, Jul 31st)
What happens when we look beyond the familiar twelve zodiac signs and reconnect with the forgotten rhythms of the moon? Through film, movement, mythology, and astrology, this performance explores a thirteen-sign zodiac, inviting participants into a collective dreamscape where cosmic patterns, healing, and the language of dreams come together.
Beginning with a short film, audiences are introduced to dancers embodying different aspects of the current astrological map. Each performer represents the qualities of a planet and its associated deity, with planetary symbols embroidered onto their costumes. Through movement, rope, and chalk, the performers continuously draw and redraw the zodiac, first as twelve houses and then expanding it to include a thirteenth constellation: Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, long associated with healing and Asclepius.
As the choreography unfolds, participants witness living representations of astrological relationships such as conjunctions, trines, squares, and oppositions. These celestial dynamics become metaphors for the tensions, harmonies, and transformations that shape our personal and collective lives.
By acknowledging the moon's thirteen cycles, alongside the sun, the work invites reflection on natural rhythms, rest, and more cyclical ways of living. The inclusion of Ophiuchus opens a conversation about healing, renewal, and alternative visions of the future.
Blending mythology, symbolic movement, and visual storytelling, the performance creates a shared dreamscape where the patterns of the heavens mirror the symbolic language of dreams and the inner world.
Beginning with a short film, audiences are introduced to dancers embodying different aspects of the current astrological map. Each performer represents the qualities of a planet and its associated deity, with planetary symbols embroidered onto their costumes. Through movement, rope, and chalk, the performers continuously draw and redraw the zodiac, first as twelve houses and then expanding it to include a thirteenth constellation: Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, long associated with healing and Asclepius.
As the choreography unfolds, participants witness living representations of astrological relationships such as conjunctions, trines, squares, and oppositions. These celestial dynamics become metaphors for the tensions, harmonies, and transformations that shape our personal and collective lives.
By acknowledging the moon's thirteen cycles, alongside the sun, the work invites reflection on natural rhythms, rest, and more cyclical ways of living. The inclusion of Ophiuchus opens a conversation about healing, renewal, and alternative visions of the future.
Blending mythology, symbolic movement, and visual storytelling, the performance creates a shared dreamscape where the patterns of the heavens mirror the symbolic language of dreams and the inner world.
Nocturnal Dream Incubation with SOMA Breathwork (Friday July 31st)
This 20–25 minute SOMA Breathwork journey is an intimate invitation to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the quiet intelligence of the heart.
Guided by Petra, the session begins with a few minutes of gentle meditation. You will be invited to settle into a comfortable position, close your eyes, and allow the body to release what it no longer needs to carry. With calm and intuitive guidance, Petra will lead you through a gradual relaxation of the face, shoulders, chest, belly, and nervous system, creating a sense of safety, presence, and deep inner grounding.
From this peaceful space, Petra will guide your awareness toward the heart. With one hand resting on the chest, you will be invited to listen inwardly, breathe into the heart space, and set a personal intention for your practice. This may be a desire to release, to receive clarity, to open to love, or simply to return to yourself.
The journey then flows into rhythmic SOMA breathing, supported by carefully chosen music. The breath becomes a gateway: each inhale inviting vitality, expansion, and renewed energy; each exhale allowing tension, heaviness, and emotional noise to dissolve.
Petra will guide you with softness and precision, encouraging you to stay connected to your own rhythm and to honor the wisdom of your body. Short breath-retention moments may be introduced, opening a refined space of stillness where the mind quiets and the heart becomes more available.
The session closes with a gentle integration, returning to natural breath, body awareness, and inner silence. You will be guided back slowly, feeling calmer, clearer, lighter, and more deeply connected to yourself.
A sacred pause.
A reset for the nervous system.
A return to the heart.
The second phase, led by Bhaskar Banerji, will consist of a guided dream incubation visualization based on his PhD research on this subject to prepare dreamers for a restful night of sleep and optimize their prophetic dreaming skills.
Guided by Petra, the session begins with a few minutes of gentle meditation. You will be invited to settle into a comfortable position, close your eyes, and allow the body to release what it no longer needs to carry. With calm and intuitive guidance, Petra will lead you through a gradual relaxation of the face, shoulders, chest, belly, and nervous system, creating a sense of safety, presence, and deep inner grounding.
From this peaceful space, Petra will guide your awareness toward the heart. With one hand resting on the chest, you will be invited to listen inwardly, breathe into the heart space, and set a personal intention for your practice. This may be a desire to release, to receive clarity, to open to love, or simply to return to yourself.
The journey then flows into rhythmic SOMA breathing, supported by carefully chosen music. The breath becomes a gateway: each inhale inviting vitality, expansion, and renewed energy; each exhale allowing tension, heaviness, and emotional noise to dissolve.
Petra will guide you with softness and precision, encouraging you to stay connected to your own rhythm and to honor the wisdom of your body. Short breath-retention moments may be introduced, opening a refined space of stillness where the mind quiets and the heart becomes more available.
The session closes with a gentle integration, returning to natural breath, body awareness, and inner silence. You will be guided back slowly, feeling calmer, clearer, lighter, and more deeply connected to yourself.
A sacred pause.
A reset for the nervous system.
A return to the heart.
The second phase, led by Bhaskar Banerji, will consist of a guided dream incubation visualization based on his PhD research on this subject to prepare dreamers for a restful night of sleep and optimize their prophetic dreaming skills.
Dream Oracle Performance
by Atrapos Dance Culture Group (Saturday, Aug 1st)
In the performance Dream Oracle, dream becomes stage, prophecy, and mystery.
The first part unfolds through dreams drawn from ancient Greek tragedy.
Atossa, mother and queen, listens for the sign that rises from sleep — a vision bearing both downfall and revelation.
Clytemnestra envisions the serpent of guilt.
Penelope searches for meaning in the symbols of the night.
Through these figures, a poetic thread is woven between memory, desire, and fate.
At the threshold of sleep, two gates rise:
one of horn, transparent, breathing the truth of visions;
and one of ivory, pale and cold, giving shape to illusion.
The dream passes at times through one, at times through the other --
and man awakens, never knowing from which one he came.
The second part transforms into a ritual, immersive experience:
a healing dance performance inspired by the ancient practice of sacred incubation in the temples of Asclepius.
Bodies move within a ceremonial space, echoing the archaic rite of enkoimesis, where sleep becomes a passage to healing and inner revelation.
Through dance, music, and texts in ancient and modern Greek, the spectator does not simply watch a performance — they enter and experience it. The experience is deep: enriched with soundscapes, subtle crystal healing frequencies, and an English voice-over that gently guides and completes the meaning for an international audience.
Every shadow, every whisper, every vibration reflects an inner vision.
In the end, all dreams dissolve and merge; time fades, and only breath remains.
What lingers is a question — a mirror of the night:
What is a dream? What is reality?
Perhaps they meet within the same circle.
The first part unfolds through dreams drawn from ancient Greek tragedy.
Atossa, mother and queen, listens for the sign that rises from sleep — a vision bearing both downfall and revelation.
Clytemnestra envisions the serpent of guilt.
Penelope searches for meaning in the symbols of the night.
Through these figures, a poetic thread is woven between memory, desire, and fate.
At the threshold of sleep, two gates rise:
one of horn, transparent, breathing the truth of visions;
and one of ivory, pale and cold, giving shape to illusion.
The dream passes at times through one, at times through the other --
and man awakens, never knowing from which one he came.
The second part transforms into a ritual, immersive experience:
a healing dance performance inspired by the ancient practice of sacred incubation in the temples of Asclepius.
Bodies move within a ceremonial space, echoing the archaic rite of enkoimesis, where sleep becomes a passage to healing and inner revelation.
Through dance, music, and texts in ancient and modern Greek, the spectator does not simply watch a performance — they enter and experience it. The experience is deep: enriched with soundscapes, subtle crystal healing frequencies, and an English voice-over that gently guides and completes the meaning for an international audience.
Every shadow, every whisper, every vibration reflects an inner vision.
In the end, all dreams dissolve and merge; time fades, and only breath remains.
What lingers is a question — a mirror of the night:
What is a dream? What is reality?
Perhaps they meet within the same circle.
LIVE VISIONARY PAINTING
with Melissa Artemis Shemanna of the Honeybee temple & IeriPnoi-Sacred Breath (Saturday, Aug 1st)
A living dialogue with Visionary Art.
Watch paintings emerge in real time through meditation, contemplation, archetypal imagery, and the silent language of the soul. This is not a demonstration—it is an invitation to witness the creative process as a sacred act of listening.
Running alongside "Terra Sacra" the solo exhibition by IeriPnoi-Sacred Breath, this experience opens a window into the unseen space from which the images are born.
On Saturday, 5:30–6:30pm IeriPnoi-Sacred Breath will be present in the gallery to meet you and experience together the living portraits of Gaia .
Slow down, stay awhile, and experience art as presence, prayer, and remembrance.
Come listen with your eyes.
Watch paintings emerge in real time through meditation, contemplation, archetypal imagery, and the silent language of the soul. This is not a demonstration—it is an invitation to witness the creative process as a sacred act of listening.
Running alongside "Terra Sacra" the solo exhibition by IeriPnoi-Sacred Breath, this experience opens a window into the unseen space from which the images are born.
On Saturday, 5:30–6:30pm IeriPnoi-Sacred Breath will be present in the gallery to meet you and experience together the living portraits of Gaia .
Slow down, stay awhile, and experience art as presence, prayer, and remembrance.
Come listen with your eyes.
Terra Sacra Exhibition
by Dimitra Natskouli
This exhibition is inspired by a year-and-a-half pilgrimage to few sacred sites of the Earth. Beginning and ending in Delphi, the journey unfolded without a fixed plan—guided by intuition, trust, and a deep listening to the voice of earth within.
Rooted in the ancient call of know thyself, the work expands that question outward: if I am part of the Earth, then to know myself is also to meet the soul of earth. Each artwork is a sacred breath of the living portraits of Gaia within me—inviting you into a direct connection with something both intimate and archetypal.
If you were a microcosmic manifestation of the soul of the world how would you interact with Her?
If your life was an act of Her and you the creator what would you chose to manifest?
Rooted in the ancient call of know thyself, the work expands that question outward: if I am part of the Earth, then to know myself is also to meet the soul of earth. Each artwork is a sacred breath of the living portraits of Gaia within me—inviting you into a direct connection with something both intimate and archetypal.
If you were a microcosmic manifestation of the soul of the world how would you interact with Her?
If your life was an act of Her and you the creator what would you chose to manifest?
Dimitra Natskouli is a visionary artist and founder of Ariadne’s Garden of Spiritual Arts ( https://ariadnesgarden.gr/), known for creating immersive experiences at the intersection of archetypes, movement, ritual, and embodied transformation. Her work moves between the sacred and the untamed, exploring the anima mundi through shadow work, somatic expression, and mythic symbolism.