About Remembrance Festival

Why We Gather

Remembrance was born from a desire to create the kind of gathering we were longing for ourselves. A place to step out of the busyness of life and remember the deeper intelligence that lives, breathes and moves through us..

In a world that continually pulls our attention outward, it can be easy to lose connection with ourselves, one another, the Earth and the deeper intelligence within us.

Remembrance is an invitation to remember.

Because remembrance is deeply personal, there is no single path into that remembering.

Music, movement, healing arts, education, creativity, stillness, and meaningful connection each offer a different doorway. Some experiences turn us inward. Others bring us into deeper relationship with one another. Some awaken us through the body, through sound, through breath, through learning, or through our connection with the living world.

Beneath our differences is a shared aliveness, a recognition that we are not separate from one another or from the Earth, but expressions of the same living intelligence.

This is more than a festival of workshops and performances. It is a space to become present, curious and receptive to what may be waiting beneath the noise.

To remember the wisdom of the body.
To remember our connection to the Earth.
To remember our capacity for healing and aliveness.
To remember our belonging.
To remember what has always been within us.

Gather. Connect. Awaken. Remember.

Our Vision

We envision a world in which people live with greater awareness of who they are, their connection to one another and the Earth, and the innate wisdom that lives within.

A world where embodiment, healing, creativity and meaningful connection are not separate from everyday life, but part of how we live.

Created by Living Ritual

Remembrance Festival is an offering of Living Ritual, founded by Aubree Saia and Amy Pearce-Hayden.

Living Ritual exists to bring the sacred into everyday life.

We create conscious experiences and gatherings that inspire connection, cultivate community and celebrate the fullness of being alive. Through ritual, embodiment, creativity and meaningful connection, we invite people to live with greater presence, intention and awareness, anchoring spirit into form and remembering the sacred within themselves, one another and the living world.

We believe ritual is a pathway for transforming intention into lived experience, allowing what we value, honor and hold sacred to become part of how we actually live.