DreamTemple — a sacred chill space designed for grounding, presence, and connection at festivals and gatherings.

DreamTemple is a passion project Ashwin has been refining for 7+ years. It is a sacred chill space — a place for people to feel comfortable at festivals and gatherings where there's a lot going on. Being in the space helps one feel grounded and calm. It is welcome to all, for meditation, music, stretching, napping, massage, cuddling, and other grounding activities. With beautiful decor and lights, soft squish to lay on, heated floors with blankets underneath fluffy rugs, and ambient surround music, the temple offers a deep exhale away from the intensity of the gathering.

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Ashwin Chandra is a visionary space-holder and experience designer devoted to creating environments where art, embodiment, and connection converge. Through DreamTemple, he curates immersive gatherings that blend music, mysticism, and intentional community, inviting people to step out of performance and into presence. Ashwin approaches space-making as sacred architecture: every detail, from aesthetic to energy, is deliberate, designed to help people feel seen, expanded, and reconnected to something greater than themselves.

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I create immersive environments that invite people to slow down, connect, and rediscover a sense of wonder. Using light, sculpture, and interactive elements, my work transforms spaces into playful and meaningful experiences that bring people together.

My work explores how light, art, and playful interaction can transform an environment and shift the way people experience a space together. I create immersive installations using sculptural forms, lighting, and interactive technology that invite curiosity, wonder, and connection. Many of my pieces glow, shimmer, or respond to their surroundings, encouraging people to slow down, explore, and engage with the environment and with each other. My background blends performance, electronics, and visual art. For over a decade I've been designing light-based artworks, interactive costumes, and large-scale installations for festivals, museums, aquariums, and public spaces. I'm especially interested in art that brings people together — pieces that create gathering points, quiet moments of reflection, or playful encounters between strangers.

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Erin St Blaine is a light artist, performer, and immersive environment designer based in Northern California. Her work combines sculpture, lighting, and interactive electronics to transform spaces into playful and magical environments. Erin has created installations and performances for festivals, museums, aquariums, and events across the U.S., and brings over a decade of experience in both producing art and supporting artists. At FireLight, she helps shape the visual atmosphere of the gathering and coordinates artists to create a beautiful, immersive experience for the community.

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Chill Lights — a fluid, colorful display of lights and shapes presented through a 5-meter-wide LED mesh surrounded by vertical LED panels, designed to evoke an atmosphere ranging from contemplative to vibrant.

Chill Lights forms an immersive auditory and visual landscape. Centrally located is a grand, 5-meter-wide mesh screen woven with programmable LED lights, creating a shimmering tapestry of light. This central mesh is flanked on either side by two tall, vertical panels of LEDs. The entire structure responds dynamically to music or ambient sound played within the space. Lighting code developed by the artist generates fluid, abstract visualizations that move and shift across the LED panels and the central mesh. A cacophony of deep blues, fiery oranges, pulsing greens, and soft pastels dance across the installation, mirroring the rhythm, tempo, and frequency of the audio. The vertical side panels act as echoes and enhancements to the central mesh. Chill Lights transcends a mere light display — it invites viewers to explore the interplay between sight and sound.

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Visual artist, musician, DJ, engineer. Intrepid has brought his art and music to Burning Man, the Decompression, Unscruz, and other events. His background in software engineering and electronics is a driving force in his creative process.

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Ishka Lha's art explores and celebrates the natural radiance inherent in all dimensions of life through neo-traditional iconography and mythology, especially interested in what universal archetypes, symbols, and forms can most effectively guide humankind's passage through time into greater avenues of wellness, love, and freedom.

Ishka's work is at the forefront of a growing visionary art movement dedicated to the exploration and evolution of consciousness, and she approaches her creative process as a spiritual practice. Her art explores and celebrates the natural radiance inherent in all dimensions of life through neo-traditional iconography and mythology. She is especially interested in what universal archetypes, symbols, and forms can most effectively guide humankind's passage through time into greater avenues of wellness, love, and freedom. Her work is primarily featured in private collections, galleries, healing centers, and transformational art and music festivals across the globe.

Ishka Lha (pronounced ee-shka lha) was born in 1982 and grew up on a ranch atop the rolling hills of Northern California, where the challenges of farm life and the quiet natural beauty of her surroundings both required and inspired endless creativity. She earned a Professional B.A. for Architecture with an emphasis on natural building and eco-village design at California Polytechnic State University, but she promptly set her course for the exploration and creation of healing art upon graduation.

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James Caran was the first kid on the block to own a four-track. Before he could read, he could cut a blues album playing all the instruments himself. Today—hand him an obscure and oblong-shaped artifact, tell him it's a musical instrument, and within an hour he'll be playing it proficiently. Next week he'll be recording it to analog tape.

But James doesn't just make great music. He fosters it. He creates the circumstances wherein music happens. And he does so not simply with his own virtuosic skill, but by bringing great musicians together and letting their uniqueness enrich the groundwork he's laid—producing mixes and engineering sound in multiple different formats and environments for and with countless acts the world over. He has collaborated with some fine folks, establishments, and organizations such as The Roots, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Coldplay, Naturally Seven, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Taj Mahal, the Budokan, Arseneo Hall, Jay Leno, Madison Square Garden, New Orleans Jazz Festival, and The White House. And when he’s not throwin’ down for giant arenas, he’s gettin’ down in the dust on such projects and phenomena as Feed The Artists, Living Pulse, Sacred Spaces, Wagonistas, Jimmy Dies of Dysentery, ManiFest Destiny, Monticello, the DoDo, Red Lightning, and The Soundcave.

As a man of many talents—singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, director, sound engineer, technician, teacher, and creator of countless recording studios, stages, and performance venues across every continent on the globe except Antarctica and the North Pole—all these wildly creative hats he wears are possibly boiled down to just three words: Sound Escape Artist

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Lex Rose creates an immersive Spider Den woven from rope, yarn, and string, inviting participants into a space of vulnerability, introspection, and connection. Guests are encouraged to explore the emotions, memories, and stories they've kept hidden deep within themselves, while being gently held in community and presence. The experience also includes rope offerings and an open shibari jam, creating opportunities for trust, embodiment, artistic expression, and meaningful human connection.

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Lex is a community web weaver and lover of all things sensual. They love combining their interests in movement, presence, and kink in novel ways to explore how art and sexuality intersect.

Paget Norton is a Bay Area portrait photographer specializing in transformational imagery. Drawing on her experience as a rock climber, university professor, and woman navigating aging in a culture of invisibility, she creates collaborative sessions that capture strength, story, and soul through technical precision and genuine connection.

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The group soul painting portal experience generates feelings of interconnectedness, magic, and Love — encouraging others to feel into their unique splendor.

Sit and be the muse. A group soul portrait is a mini mural that incorporates the energetics of various community members into a single painting. By using abstract shapes, each individual is represented as their unique soul expression — singular and simultaneously connected to the whole.

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Phoenix Glass is an artist and spiritual guide offering soul portraits to help connect others with their inherent magic and uniqueness.

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A ceremonial return to human figures, body, and earth — where vulnerability, sensory presence, and collective co-creation converge into figurative art, witnessing the human spirit in nature to discover the oneness beneath every duality.

Priyatam's figurative work begins in surrender. Inspired by human figures in relationship to nature — their light, shadow, stillness, and movement — he approaches each composition without assumption, allowing the moment to be born rather than constructed. Rooted in a practice of poetry, self-inquiry, and permaculture on a creekside mountain in California, his process is one of witnessing: being here now, discovering meaning afterward. The ceremonial quality of his practice extends beyond the studio into participatory work, where vulnerability, collective co-creation, and sensory presence become the medium itself — human figures and earth converging into art. His work evolves across photography, printmaking, drawing, encaustic painting, and mixed media — moving between paper, cotton, metal, and large-scale 4K projection. Materials are sourced from beeswax, handmade paper and cotton rags, leaves and insects gathered from his forest — grounding the work in place and presence. Each series is not a collection of individual images but a continuous inner journey, recomposed across mediums and surfaces to reveal the oneness beneath every duality.

Priyatam is an alchemist whose creative spirit bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary art. He lives and works in San Francisco, and tends both art and earth from his studio on Cobb Mountain, pursuing the sacred heart of non-dual tantra. His poems and short stories have found home in independent journals, while his figurative art has graced galleries from Northern California to Santa Fe. Currently weaving together poetry collections and multiple art shows in San Francisco, Priyatam also advises startups and large tech companies in artificial intelligence.

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Café Dévoiler — a hidden woodland café designed for connection, curiosity, and intimate conversation.

Step into a hidden woodland café designed for connection, curiosity, and intimate conversation. Nestled beneath the trees, Café Dévoiler invites guests to slow down and share a moment across a candlelit bistro table surrounded by romantic décor and soft ambiance. At the heart of the experience is a thoughtfully curated “menu” of connection questions — playful, deep, and unexpected prompts designed to spark authentic conversation between friends, lovers, and strangers alike. Café Dévoiler is the 5th iteration of a festival installation built around structured vulnerability and fast-tracked intimacy — a lineage stretching from a keychain game at Further Future (2016), through an NSF-funded collaboration at Oregon Eclipse (2017), and beyond. The work draws directly on Arthur Aron's Fast Friends protocol, translating laboratory conditions for intimacy into an immersive physical environment: hidden, candlelit, and quietly magical.

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Dr. Sena Koleva is a psychologist, researcher, coach, and facilitator whose work explores the conditions that allow genuine human connection and transformation. Her academic research on human emotion, morality, and attachment has been cited over 13,000 times, and she spent nearly a decade in the Bay Area designing human-centered products in tech. She currently works as a relationship coach and facilitator and a product researcher for several personal growth organizations. She lives and works in the Bay Area at the intersection of science, soul, and play.

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