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Guest speakers & workshops
Set in The Clubhouse – The Village Talks invite you into conversations that spark curiosity and reflection – from the practical to the philosophical, and everything in between.
The Psychedelic Experience as Seeds of Change:
Join permaculture designer and former Boom Festival sustainability director Andre Soares for a thought-provoking talk on how psychedelic and festival experiences can spark real-world change. Blending lived experience with systems thinking, he explores how moments of expansion become action, leadership, and regenerative impact beyond the dancefloor.
Dean Benson — Energetics of Festivals, Ceremony, Substance Use & Men’s Work
Dean Benson, initiate of the White Dragon Lineage with a decade of training, shares insights from his journey through festivals, ceremony, sobriety, and men’s work. Ten years sober, Dean explores the unseen energetics of dance floors, DJs, psychedelics, and sacred spaces, inviting greater awareness, responsibility, and soul freedom within modern festival culture.
Let’s Talk Worms and Other Ways to Change the World!
In this fun, hands-on session, Lucy shares how worms, compost can help build healthier soil, stronger communities and more connected homes. With practical tips and plenty of heart, she shows how something as simple as feeding worms and making compost can become a gateway into regenerative living.
Music as a Biological Function in Humans – Exploring the Innate Nature of Music
This presentation explores the innate presence of music from an evolutionary perspective, discussing its ancient, pivotal role in human life. Journey through biological reasons that tension and release in music affect you so deeply, and come to realise you have always been a fluent musician – because you improvise with speech every day!
Gardening & Your Microbiome
with Laila Helena
The intention is to help people understand how they can team up with microbes to reach their health goals. Using things that are easily accessible in people’s kitchen and garden. Laila has given several talks in multiple festivals across Australia and Portugal. She has also be involved in the making of the previous Rainbow gardens.
mind & body
Amongst the Evolve Gallery backdrop, Sound Healing creates a space where sound carries you into stillness, inviting softness, release and reconnection.
AB Didj – Soundscape Experience
A sonic voyage through time, space, and vibration. Join Sean Candy (AB Didj) for an immersive journey blending the ancient pulse of the didgeridoo with deep rhythms, ambient layers, and live effects. A pioneer of electronic soundscapes with didgeridoo, Sean creates performances that are part ceremony, part exploration – grounding yet expansive.
Bestin Sound Bowl Meditation
A guided sound bowl journey and meditation to help participants reconnect with their bodies and prepare for the rest of the doof experience. Bestin a meditation teacher dietitian and doofer brings mindful connection to festivals.
Dengelman Ambient Musical Storytelling
After falling in love with the Australian doof scene dengelman made Rainbow Serpent Festival his annual pilgrimage for more than a decade. He is known for heartfelt DJ sets across multiple genres and moods. As a veteran doofer and meditation teacher dengel values the balance of noise and quiet offering ambient musical storytelling with live instrumentation and field recordings to ease you into your morning.
Elkemist – Sacred Sonic Alchemy
Elkemist is a versatile multi instrumentalist hybrid live DJ facilitator and ceremonialist curating sets to take audiences on a sacred journey of sonic alchemy supported by live looping with yidaki didjeridoo vocals flute and percussion. Expect a voyage across space and time inspired by sounds from around the world.
Melt – Breathwork and Yin Yoga
My name’s Sophie I am a breathwork and yin yoga facilitator devoted to guiding individuals back home to themselves. My vision is to create spaces for authentic self expression where people can tap into their own peace and power within. My work moves through retreats workshops and festivals such as BTW Esoteric and Wild Horses.
Soul Sisters – Sacred Sound and Healing
Sally is a Sound Healing Practitioner Reiki Master and Yoga Teacher. Cat is a Sound Healer Musician and Reiki Practitioner. Together we are united as Soul Sisters creating sacred spaces to guide journeys of connection and healing. We have shared what we love at music festivals such as Esoteric and Dragon Dreaming and women’s festivals such as Seven Sisters and Bohemian Summer Festival.
Sandra Sundelin – Sound Healing Journeys
Sandra Sundelin is a Melbourne based sound healer meditation guide and intuitive practitioner. With a background in DJing and a lifelong passion for music Sandra works with crystal bowls tuning forks chimes drum gong and intuitive voice to create calming transformative sound journeys. She guides women and community into emotional healing soul connection and authentic self expression.
Simon Slieker – Somatic Education and Movement
Simon Slieker is a widely known and highly regarded dj whose work has moved increasingly into somatic education. He is a Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®. For the last 10 years Simon has honed this craft in the creation of workshops and experiences that blend music, movement and ecology.
A gentle morning offering of movement and breath, Yoga on the Dancefloor creates space to wake the body, ground the nervous system and begin the day with intention.
Eva Michelle – Yoga Voice and Sound
Eva Michelle is a yoga teacher vocal toning facilitator and sound practitioner who weaves movement breath sound and voice into grounding restorative experiences. Her work blends asana pranayama subtle energy awareness and live looped vocal sound to create spaces people can integrate into daily life.
Cadia Belante & Sundari – Shakti Rhythm & Flow
This collaborative workshop fuses Cadia’s expressive Vinyasa flow with Sundari’s intuitive soundscapes to create a transformative journey of movement and music. Cadia guides fluid sequencing and rhythmic expression while Sundari builds tribal bass rich sonic alchemy with sound healing and movement creating a living ceremony of connection and awakening.
Kids space
Our Kids Space returns to The Village for Rainbow Spirit: Gathering Light – filled with colour, creativity, movement and joyful play across the weekend.
Please remember, that kids must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Exuberant crafting Upcycled mask making (Allysha Coghlan)
My name is Allysha and I love making craft out of trash. Exuberant crafting is an open workshop for children to create upcycled mask & wearable items out of recycled/upcycled materials. Children will be supported to make a mask, jewellery, binoculars or another creation of their own imagining.
DJ Shayzee
Dolly Pop Bubbles (Shellie King) hosts a joyful bubble play date filled with floating bubbles, giggles, soapy hands and interactive fun. A magical experience where kids can explore, play, and make happy memories together
Donna Sparx’s Bubble and Circus Play
Giant Bubbles: Keep an eye out for the playful Donna Sparx and her giant, wobbling bubbles of wonder! Drift into bubbletastic games, learn how to make a bubble in a bubble ,and, if you’re lucky, step into the magic of making some truly ginormous bubbles!
Circus Zone: Run away with the circus! Immerse yourself in the funnest of funs and all kinds of circus shenanigans with Hoop Sparx. Think hula hoops, spinning plates, flowersticks, poi, juggling and more!
Fairy Freckles is a mischievous fun fairy who has been flying to children’s events all over Melbourne for 15 years. She is so very excited to be returning to the magical land of Rainbow Spirit, to paint some fabulous faces with her buddies, Lucy Lou and Susie Sparkles. Let us paint the creations of our imaginations with all of the colours of the rainbow!
Stick Pony Studio & Unicorn Races
Gallop into a world of creativity, costume and joyful silliness! In this playful, hands-on workshop, kids (and their grown-ups) will make their own stick pony or hobby horse, then saddle up for a fun, friendly agility course and runway-style race.
Expect prizes ! Extra points are always awarded for flair, costume, imagination and joyful nonsense.
Led by artist and creative facilitator Isy Star, this inclusive, laughter-filled session celebrates play, self-expression and the magic of not taking things too seriously.
Rhythm Arkadia brings joyful, high-energy African drumming workshops designed especially for kids. Through fun rhythm games, call-and-response drumming and playful movement, children are encouraged to express themselves, build confidence and connect with others in a supportive, inclusive space. Using African drums, this interactive session promotes teamwork, listening skills and creativity while introducing kids to the magic of rhythm and world music. Expect lots of laughter, big beats and happy hearts as we explore the power of drumming together!
Wild Clay (Alex Gellman) Get down to earth (literally!) with our Wild Clay Creatures workshop. In this space we are offering kids a play date with nature. You will find an abundance of squishy wild foraged clay to form into a creation of your child’s choosing, with gumnuts, seed pods, sticks, stones and leaves as your support materials. Wild animals, strange faces and bizarre creatures of all sorts will come to life via your little artists’ imagination. All ages and abilities welcome. Come prepared for a little mess and a lot of fun!