FOREST OF DEAN

NEW YEAR'S EVE EARTH CELEBRATION

Ceremony, Devotional Music and Ecstatic Dance

with Sivani Mata Francis, Madava and Jewels Wingfield

Candlelight and the sacred forest temple awaits...
A beautiful candlelit evening of sacred ceremony, prayer, celebration, devotional music and ecstatic dance. For those who delight in these things and value a space of deep meditation for passing this threshold.

We are delighted and honoured to welcome various guests including Madava and Sivani Mata to the beautiful Forest temple at EarthHeart for a co created way to pass through this threshold along with Jewels offering a DJ set to see us through to midnight.

This event is a potent heart opening candlelit evening, with alters, beautiful space and with kindred spirit. It is going to be very special and ticket are limited. We advise buying them soon as this event will sell out.

Passing through the veil
We will open with a ceremony of gratitude and prayers led by Jewels, followed by a deep heart immersion into music as medicine: heart songs, kirtan and prayers with Madava and Sivani Mata. We will complete the evening with a second ceremony as a way to light our pathway for 2026.


Sivani Mata Francis – Music as Medicine
Sivani Mata is an artist moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life through practice that evokes the liminal experience of trance-like states of consciousness, and the centring of the awareness in heart. She believes in this process of deep inner work as a way to cultivate a harmonic relationship with the Earth. She is grateful for this journey she finds herself on and the practices that support her path www.sivanimata.co.uk

Madava – Devotional Chanting as Prayer
Madava has been chanting and singing Kirtan with deep lineage since he was a child. Having grown up with this his entire life and has been his main offering to life for the past 50 years, he has as a profound connection to the roots of what it means to sing devotionally as prayer – The field of heart resonance when he sings is powerful for breaking open even the most armoured of hearts.

Jewels Wingfield – Ecstatic Funky Beats
Jewels was one of the originators of the ecstatic dance movements in the early 90’s carving the way for drug and alcohol free dance spaces where people could really let go and be free. She will be offering a DJ set of come classic funk and dance beats to see us through to the midnight hour, be prepared to dance your socks off and lift the spirit in your heart. She is well known for her eclectic mix of tunes from old school funk, gospel house and global beats. www.jewelswingfield.com

Photo at Medicine Festival 2022