A 4-day festival of world-renowned musical acts, talented dancers/performers, world-class yoga instructors/classes, progressive workshops/speakers, a market of sustainable fashion/organic food vendors, amazing art and installations. Permaculture, Spirituality, Movement, Art, Music, Community, Health and Eco Building.
WHY
To learn, connect, dance, make new friends and impart lasting memories on ourselves and others.
WHEN
February 23 – February 26, 2017 (early entry passes for the 22nd available)
WHERE
Rancho La Merced in Uvita, Costa Rica. Uvita is on the Pacific coast, about 4 hrs by car from the capital, San Jose, and 10 km south of the popular surf town, Dominical.
HOW
Buy a ticket, read the FAQ, pack light, fly into San Jose, rent a car, take local buses or an Envision Shuttle to the festival!
Envision is not your typical music festival. It’s more like a cultural movement occurring in a beachside jungle; a location so exotic that you will have no trouble in fulfilling the festival’s slogan, “viva la experiencia” (live the experience). The festival grounds lead from jungle to ocean where you can enjoy the beach, shop from local artisans, swim, practice yoga in the sand, watch spontaneous dance performances, and witness the setting sun over the Pacific Ocean.
Envision Festival aims to create a communal, transformational, and sustainable environment for cultures to share, learn and combine their knowledge to help us all live better lives wherever we call home. People from all over the world gather here in the warmth of the jungle to share their passions, their energy, and their spirit in order to enhance our collective understanding of what really matters in life. Have children? Envision goes to great lengths to welcome and embrace the families and young ones with the Family Dream Oasis. It hosts a unique variety of entertainment, education and play-shops throughout the day designed to provide your child (and your inner-child) with the complete Envision experience.
When you arrive to rainforest nature preserve of Rancho La Merced, just outside of Uvita, and walk through The Entrance Portal (created by artist Carey Thompson) you will begin to see just what we mean when we say that Envision is arguably one of the world’s leaders in transformative experience. We encourage you to dive into immersive art projects, into the movement temples for some yoga, into the various sanctuaries like the Village Witches Healing Sanctuary, where you can receive a massage, partake in different healing modalities and undergo an on-the-spot herbal consultation. Learn about energy work, sound healing and spiritual channeling: long lived arts that can be just the piece we need to solve our own specific personal health puzzle.
In the Village you will find all things for your nourishment and consumption. We recommend you visit the Herbal Clinic, headed by one of the most renown clinical herbalists in the United States (7Song), and try out remedies that help with dehydration, detoxification, and more. The Herbal Elixir Bar offers non-alcoholic, organic, traditionally inspired herbal cocktails made from local Costa Rican and other ethically sourced organic ingredients from North America. If you are looking for a natural ‘buzz’, this is the place! The food on offer is organic and local: find everything from fresh juice, to smoothies, to Indian, to sushi, all in the heart of the Village! (bring your own dishes or rent them for the weekend, Envision is a Reusables Only event).
And for your style needs, the Global Mercado will have everything you desire from a variety of vendors and artisans offering their handmade or fair trade products, helping us redefine what ‘shopping’ means and allowing us to vote with our dollar. When it’s quality we buy, it lasts us longer, deepens our respect for how it got there, and makes a difference in the world. Meet the artists and designers you are buying from and learn their stories. Follow us on Facebook to view our Facebook Live videos as each day we go vendor to vendor to find out who they are, learn about their production and sourcing and why they do it that way.
This festival really wants us all to get away from the processed world that has become our reality and back to where we find our true happiness: in health, in nature, in positive meaning, and learning valuable knowledge to move our lives in the direction that makes the most sense.
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