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Green Spirit Festival  

July 31 - August 2, 2026
at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve
near Barneveld WI

Abundance

Coordinated by Rev. Sharon and Aradryn

Step into the golden glow of the first harvest and honor the turning of the seasons with a Lammas gathering rooted in gratitude, joy, and creation. This is a time to celebrate the fruits of your labor—both in the fields and in your life—and to plant seeds of intention for what is yet to come.

Our Lammas event will weave together the ancient spirit of abundance with the empowering energy of manifestation. Through shared feasts, workshops, symbolic rituals, and mindful reflection, we will honor the gifts already in our hands while calling forth the dreams still ripening in our hearts.

Together, we’ll embrace the warmth of community, the richness of the earth’s bounty, and the magic of aligning our intentions with the cycles of nature so that what we envision now may flourish in the seasons ahead.


REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

To register for the on-site event:   https://circlesanctuary.org/event-6746466 

Tier I Early Bird pricing ends 7/23/26. 

Tier II pricing begins 7/24/26 - 07/29/26 when registration closes.

To register for only Rev. Selena's virtual workshop:  https://circlesanctuary.org/event-6746526

Guest Presenter

Healing Arts Practitioner Amy Carmichael

Sanatana Hindu Dharma Practitioner

Living Temple Architect * Consciousness Space Designer 

Tatvamasi - I AM THAT. Amy is a conduit for the awakened consciousness field flowing from this living source to your daily life. 

Amy's specialization is transforming ordinary spaces into living temple through sacred geometry (yantras) and Agamic altar creation - making 10,000- year-old temple sciences practical for modern homes.



Presenter Reverend Selena Fox

Senior Minister at Circle Sanctuary


Rev. Selena Fox is senior minister and high priestess of Circle Sanctuary, a Nature Spirituality church, Pagan resource center, and nature preserve with a worldwide Ecospirituality ministry that includes networking, publishing, education, environmental preservation, counseling, events sponsoring, and other work.

For more than thirty years, Rev. Fox has served as one of the elders, religious freedom activists, and public media spokespersons for the Wiccan religion and related forms of contemporary Paganism and Nature religion, nationwide and internationally.

In addition to her work as a minister, Rev. Selena Fox is a certified clinical psychotherapist.




Guest Presenter

Hypnotherapist Joshua Peters


Joshua Peters is a hypnotherapist and magician based in the Twin Cities. An eclectic practitioner of thirty years, he draws ritual and magic from a wide variety of styles and ideas and has attended the Sacred Fire Circle at Circle Sanctuary since 2012. By trade he runs Minnesota Hypnotherapy, where he helps people clear the old patterns that keep them stuck and step into who they are becoming.




SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, July 31st

1:00pm              Gate opens for vendor arrivals and set-up

2:00pm              Gate opens for participant arrival

3:00pm              Merchanting opens on The Green

3:30pm              Effigy Building for Lammas & Abundance

Lammas, or Lughnasadh, marks the first harvest — a time to honor the earth’s generosity, the fruits of our labor, and the cycles of giving and receiving.  Together, we will build an effigy for this festival to be burned at main ritual as a powerful symbolic act, blending creativity, gratitude, and abundance.

5:00pm              Dinner served behind the farmhouse

7:00pm              Festival Announcements

                            Opening Ritual:  Honoring Abundance of Spirit & Land with Rev. Sharon & Aradryn at the Maypole

8-10pm              A Two-Hour Immersion into Sacred Abundance with Healing Arts Practitioner Amy Carmichael

At harvest time, every ancient tradition asks the same question: What are you harvesting in your own life? This immersion bridges the timeless wisdom of Sanatana Hindu dharma with the abundance energy of the season. We begin with Ayurveda-Tantra Yoga, a gentle embodied practice where breath, movement and intention merge to awaken your body's own intelligence as a vessel of abundance. No experience needed. Your body already knows the language.

From there, we enter Kalpitaru Rewrite - a powerful conscious writing practice name after the wish-fulfilling tree of the ancient Hindhu heavens. You will identify the unconscious stories that have been running your life and literally rewrite them into the reality you choose to harvest. This is not affirmation. This is alchemy.

We culminate in a Living Lakshmi Puja - an interactive sacred ritual honoring Lakshmi the Diving Mother of abundance, beauty and nourishment. You will not simply "watch" a ceremony. You will become the ceremony - we will charge water with your own living energy, receiving the Ashta Lakshmi (8 forms of abundance) frequencies, and walking away not just understanding abundance but embodying it as a walking temple.

Bring a yoga mat, blanket or rug, or you may be seated in a chair.

Come as you are, leave as you will.

10pm                  Community Fire  

Bring your energy to the community fire for great talks, spontaneous drumming and chanting, and meeting new friends!

11pm                  Gate closes


Saturday, August 1st

8am                     Gate opens

8-9am                 Continental breakfast served in the summer kitchen.

9am                     Raffle/Silent Auction and Merchanting opens on the Green

9am                     Newcomers Meet and Greet with Robbi

Meet at the picnic tables beside the barn to meet new friends, learn about Circle Sanctuary and get your questions answered!  Old-timers are welcome as well! 

9:30am              Clearing the Ground to Abundance Workshop with Hypnotherapist Joshua Peters in the Temple Room

Lammas is the grain harvest, where we separate the grain from the husk. Most of us are carrying money stories we never chose, inherited scripts about what we're allowed to have and who gets to have it. This workshop is about finding that husk and setting it down. We'll move through teaching and a guided trance to locate the old programming at its root, and you'll leave with something in your hands: a representation of what you're releasing, and a seed for the ground you've cleared.

9:30am              Family Programming with Rev. Florence & Others

Open play and games!

10-11am           Family Programming with Rev. Florence & Others

Family workshop on the festival theme.      

11:30am           Lunch served behind the farmhouse

1pm                   Lughnasadh Prosperity Charms with Selena Fox in the Temple Room

Learn some ways to work with herbs, stones, symbols, and words of power to create charms at Lughnasadh/Lammastide to enhance personal and household prosperity.

This workshop will also be live-streamed. Register here:   https://circlesanctuary.org/event-6746526

1pm                     Family Programming with Rev. Florence & Others

Workshop with a magical focus.

2:30pm              Tailteann Games of Abundance with Adam in Meadowvale

Games and competitions to honor the abundance of skill, strength, and our community itself!  Come join in the games or cheer for your favorite contestant!  All ages welcome.

4pm                     Family Programming with Rev. Florence & Others

Family Lughnasadh ritual.   

4:30pm              Raffle/Silent Auction Ends on the Green Marketplace area

You must be present to win or have a proxy there to claim your prizes!

5:30pm              Dinner served behind the farmhouse

7:30pm              The Great Abundance Ritual – Rev. Sharon & others at the Labyrinth

In this ritual, we will utilize the labyrinth to invite more abundance into our lives through offerings, blessings, and intentions so you may open the door for further prosperity.  Ritual will culminate at the Ritual Circle in the Meadow for the lighting and burning of our community created effigy.

After Ritual     Drumming, dancing, chanting around the bonfire!

11:00pm           Gate closes


Sunday, August 2nd

8am                     Gate opens

8-9am                 Continental Breakfast served in summer kitchen.

9am                     Mindful Abundance Walk with Dennis Carpenter

Join Dennis near the main entrance to the barn for a leisurely meditative walk to a sacred site at Circle Sanctuary, and nature meditation at that site.  We will connect with Nature’s bounty at this Lughnasadah  time of summer.  Be prepared for walking in any weather/temperature conditions, including sturdy walking shoes and drinking water. 

11am                  Activating the Beams Workshop with Hypnotherapist Joshua Peters

Abundance rarely arrives where you're looking for it. It comes through the side door; from the branch of your life, you'd half forgotten. The beams are the many channels through which opportunity reaches you, and most people have let some go dark. In this workshop you'll map the beams across the major areas of your life, then activate them together in a group ritual. You never know which beam abundance will travel down. 

12:30pm           Left over palooza served behind the farmhouse

2pm                    Closing Ritual with Rev. Sharon &  Aradryn at the Maypole

3pm                    Final Departures


Want to vend at a Circle Festival?

Please read our vending information and contact us if you have any questions.  Be sure to register and indicate you would like to vend and we will be in touch with you for further information!  Thank you.

Circle Sanctuary - Vending at Circle Events

Circle Sanctuary - 3-Day Event Vending Guidelines

Cancellation Policy:  Written cancellations with refund requests received five days before the event will be issued after the event, less 15% fee for processing.  No refunds will be granted for cancellations made less than 5 days before the start of the event. 

Community Service:  We ask that all attendees sign up for a 2-hour service shift when they arrive at the gate to check in.   Even if you are commuting, only there for one day, we ask this service of you as it takes all of us to make this event happen.  

TO BRING:

  • An item or two to donate for the Raffle/Silent Auction.
  • Harvest decorations/flowers to add to our effigy to be burned at main ritual.
  • A yoga mat, rug or blanket for the Friday night immersion. 
  • Ritual garb appropriate for the time of the year.
  • Your own bottle/cup for water, and/or a mug for coffee & tea.
  • Drum, rattle, or other musical instruments.
  • A pen and notebook to take notes during workshops.
  • Camp chair.
  • Camping gear: tent, sleeping bag, pillow, air mattress, flashlight, personal toiletries, biodegradable soap/shampoo, clothing and footwear for all kinds of weather, insect and tick repellant.

DO NOT BRING:

  • Any peanut products or peanuts due to severe airborne allergy of several attendees!
  • Unregistered people - no at gate registration
  • Pets
  • Firearms or fireworks
  • Illegal drugs


 Look at our Events Archive for information on prior years' festivals! 

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