Blue Monkey Festival 2023
Blue Monkey Festival 2023
Leuenberg, 3.-7. August 2023
Scroll down for info about tickets and how to get there!
Blue Monkey Festival: Dance, Play and Magic!
What happens if a tribe of crazy dancers, dreamers and believers comes together for 5 days each summer to reunite and celebrate life as a prayer and a work of art?
Blue Monkey: A Place for Healing and Connection
We are a community of dancers, dreamers and healers that meet regularly to celebrate, grow and evolve together. Our most important event during the year is the Blue Monkey Festival in the beautiful countryside of Leuenberg ca. 1,5 hours drive from Berlin. It is located on an area of 4 hectars in a magical forest with a bathing lake in Leuenberg near Werneuchen (Brandenburg) is our playground for magic and transformation. Over years we have prayed and gathered here so the place is filled with good vibes and energy!
There will be Ecstatic Dance, DJ sets, sound journeys, concerts, morning yoga and transformative workshops from the fields of breath work, meditation, trauma healing, inner child work, shamanism and more. But it is not meant as mere entertainment or spiritual workshop hopping. We offer first of all a place for healing and connection. It’s a festival for people who love to dance to great club music and meet nice people but who also need some quiet and calm time to heal and restore.
Blue Monkey Festival: When we Gather Everything is Possible…
A mud puddle might open up somewhere transforming people into wild and playful mud monsters. A caterpillar might inspire you to do something you never did before. You might receive an unexpected task or realise a new talent that could change your whole life.
Nobody knows what the mighty monkey has in mind for us this time. It’s co-creative. It’s alive. Whatever will happen, we create it together as a group. And this is where its magic comes from! The only thing we can say for sure is that it is our true heartfelt intention to offer a safe and non judgemental space for US. A space in which we can experience heart connection and in which we feel free to play and explore.
Open ourselves. Open our hearts. Allow ourselves and each other to be. To shine. This is our intention and we will do this together as a tribe in the best possible way.
Blue Monkey: Why is it so important to Dance and Sing and Connect?
Dancing and singing together goes back to ancient tribe culture. We asked some people at a Blue Monkey Festival Retreat in Portugal last year about their experience. Here is what they answered:
Blue Monkey is Family Friendly!
Children are welcome at Blue Monkey! Our little ones are our future and it is so important to bring them up happy and teach them how to heal themselves through connection, embodiment and nature.
So please bring your offspring – they will love dancing and frolicking around in nature together! There will be many other kids of all ages they can play with on our 4 hectar terrain. We offer children’s activities during the workshop slots every day with experienced children caretakers. In the evening the kids are welcome to join the Ecstatic Dance with their parents.
By the way: Feel free to also bring your (open minded) parents – Let’s all celebrate and dance together as one tribe!
Festival Family: Morning Tribe Groups
Every morning we meet in small sharing groups of 5-6 people. These are your festival buddies with whom you can share whatever comes up for you during the five days we spend together! It’s an incredibly transformative practice called circling.
The groups are fully confidential and you have the possibility to honestly share your feelings – including all kinds of uncomfortable feelings. In our modern societies most of us never get heard fully.
Many of us have been conditioned to feel ashamed of our emotions so we learned to suppress and hide them in our daily lives. But this creates separation and loneliness. It’s incredibly healing to experience that we can share how we really feel inside – especially with uncomfortable feelings – and still be accepted and loved!
Healing Space: Sauna, Bodywork & Massages
The Healing Space will be held by an amazing group of healers and space holders that will take care of you if you need empathy during the gathering. Our healers are trained and experienced in shamanism, hypnotherapy and bodywork. We make sure that there will always be someone taking care of you free of charge if something is coming up for you and you need support.
If you want to go deeper in your healing process, our healers also offer paid massages and individual sessions.
Keep it Clean – Respect Nature and the People
We feel blessed to celebrate at this beautiful place in nature with the forest and the lake nearby. Please let’s all help to protect the eco system and keep the whole area clean: the festival premises, the land nearby, the forest, the lake and the village of Leuenberg. We are grateful that the people who live in the village trust us and sympathise with our little healing festival. Let’s all earn their trust and show them some respect!
Please don’t leave any garbage in the forest and at the lake and never use any toiletries when swimming at the lake. We provide showers and toilet facilities with ecological products at the festival premises. Thank you so much for your awareness and respect!
How to Get To The Festival
Location: Höhenland (ca. 1-1.5 hours North East of Berlin). You will receive a Location Pin in the Info Mail after purchasing your Ticket.
By train:
From Berlin Ostkreuz take the RB25 until Werneuchen (ca. 30min). There you can either take the bus 887 Bad Freienwalde über Falkenberg (5 stops) until Leuenberg Dorf. From there it’s a 5-minute-walk to the venue. Please follow the marked way as shown below.
Please check transport connection beforehand as busses don’t go too regularly.
By car:
Take the B158 (e.g. via B109), enter Leuenberg, turn right onto Gartenstraße and follow the map below.
Blue Monkey: Alcohol- & Substance Free Space // Vegan Health Food & Drinks
A delicious vegan breakfast buffet, as well as different vegetarian/ vegan lunch and dinner options, coffee, ceremonial cacao, smoothies, organic lemonades, ginger shots and other hot and cold beverages will be available at reasonable prices.
There will be gluten free options as well. Tab water will be available for free at all times close to the showers.
Please be aware that the festival is an alcohol and substance free space. Smoking is only permitted in the designated smoker’s area. Thank you for your respect!
Why is the Festival called Blue Monkey?
Blue Monkey Festival is inspired from the Mayan Dreamspell astrology, in which the Blue Monkey stands for the inner child and its innocence, curiosity and playfulness. These are the qualities in us that we celebrate.
Our values are to foster play and friendship in a non judgemental space in which we can be just as we are, in our perfect imperfection, nurturing and empowering each other.
In our experience this naturally brings about transformative processes and creates deep connections.
We aim to co-create a space which you can enter even alone and exit with the feeling that you made some new friends and heartfelt experiences.
Let’s all share the love, dance, play and connect!
We love Us!
Photo Credit: https://schweiger-fotografie.de