Eden Festivals

11/06/2025

🌿 A Note About 2026 🌿

As many of you know, Eden was announced as taking a rest year in 2025. What wasn’t known to most is that I had stepped in after Victor and Manu laid it down. I took up the thread because I felt the depth and beauty of what Eden is, what is could become and I care deeply for the continuation of this special festival and tribe.

Over this past season, I’ve been listening. To the land. To the field. To my own body. And I’ve also been waiting- waiting to see if a team would reveal itself. A team to carry this festival with me. Not just helpers, but co-weavers. People with the capacity and devotion to tend something this big, this sacred, together.

But that team hasn’t appeared to me. And as I’ve kept listening, I’ve come to realise my capacity to hold Eden has changed. My journey has taken me off the land, as I have moved away from living at Highden.

Eden will not be returning in 2026 with me as the organiser.

That said, I don’t believe this magical festival is complete. I feel the spirit of it still humming - fertile, mysterious, alive in all of us who’ve touched it. I feel it is transforming and reshaping into it's new expression.

If someone (or a group) feels the call to pick up the thread and shape a new chapter, I’m open to that conversation. I’d be happy to share what I’ve held and support a gentle handover if the next guardians appear.

I want to thank everyone who has danced, loved, cried, and prayed in this field.
The work we do together as a community to dance in the threshold of this freedom matters.

With love,
Amelia xo

23/09/2024

IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION

- EDEN FESTIVAL IS TAKING A ONE YEAR BREAK:
No Eden Festival in 2025.
- NEW GOVERNANCE:
Victor and Manu are stepping out of the organisation.

Dear Eden Tribe,

We have always honoured the cycles and the nature of change. Things seed, they come around and things end. We want to communicate how much of a deep blessing it has been for us to have held the last few Eden Festivals. And that Manu and Victor, are now stepping out of the organisation from now forward.

We had an intention in our hearts to create a brave and nourishing place for people to explore the depths of who they are, and experience authentic connection with the magic within them, the natural world around, and the meeting place between others. We put a lot of time, energy, and care into creating a unique transformative festival that is held with integrity and honours growth and learning as much as care and integration. We truly hope it made a difference in some way. We wish to extend a HUGE thank you to every single person who came to be a part of it, whether as a participant, volunteer, facilitator/ performer, artist, healer, emotional support, kitchen, organiser support, ect– please know that all the love, energy, and feedback you brought is so deeply valued. ♥️♥️♥️

There will be a new governance taking over Eden. It will have the same name but it will be held and organised by different people, so it will have different flavours, intentions, and will be done differently– as it will be representing the new team who undergoes the new creation.

There will be no Eden Festival in 2025, the new governance will be working for a 2026 festival.

We release what we have created with gratitude in our hearts for the magic we built together.
♥️

With Love,
Victor and Manu

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05/05/2024

AUCKLAND Beloveds,
Some of you already know, I'm back in Auckland and I'm settling in! 🏠🙏❤️

I'm focusing at my Sexual Healing Body Work (for all bodies), I'm also offering 101 Mentorship for people identified as Men (online and in person).

Reach me if you are interested or please refer me to anyone who might benefit of my work. 🙏

Ps: check out my website in comments!

Lots of love,❤️⚡

Victor Santos