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Performers:
Poranguí is a world-renowned musician, composer, and therapeutic bodyworker who blends ancestral sounds and indigenous rhythms from around the globe to foster our individual and collective well-being. Through his live performances, which he creates from scratch using looping technology, he takes his audiences on a sonic journey that ranges from meditative to exhilarating, moving the body and elevating the spirit.
RHYE first surfaced setting the Internet abuzz with ambiguous imagery, sophisticatedly sensual music videos, and the distinctive voice of Michael Milosh. The critically acclaimed debut album Woman was released in 2013 and lauded by critics from Pitchfork to The Guardian to New York Times. Gifted songwriting, breathtaking vocals and deft instrumental arrangements combine to create an intoxicating blend of R&B influenced, deeply emotive music making the album a staple for provoking intimate moments. Since the release of Woman, RHYE has relentlessly toured to establish a devoted global fanbase. Transforming what was once a studio project, the music has been elevated by a cast of accomplished multi-instrumentalists enrapturing crowds worldwide.
RHYE's second album Blood was released in February 2018 and was hailed as "reserved, understated, and brilliant" by NPR Music, "soul pop that hits all the high notes" by Wall Street Journal, and "a triumph" by NME. A new piano focused project titled Spirit arrived in May 2019 celebrating the subtle magic of gentle moments and featuring collaborations with Ólafur Arnalds, and Dan Wilson.
In 2021 RHYE has entered a new era with the release of Home. The record, focused on the idea of home as the nexus for creativity and buoyed by stand out tracks “Black Rain,” “Come in Closer,” and “Beautiful,” received wide critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, GQ, among others.
2023 found RHYE releasing the most personal music of his career. Passing is an achingly beautiful meditation on loss and the power of music as a coping mechanism. Intimate, still, and heart-breakingly direct, it addresses head on the experience of losing a parent over the course of four haunting songs.
“Reserved, understated and brilliant soul” NPR
"Busy but not cluttered, sexy but not serious.” Pitchfork
“RHYE boasts a sound that lingers long in the memory” Mojo
“Airy dream pop... sensuous R&B and singer-song- writer candor.” Rolling Stone
Dan Dyer hailing from the east Texas town of Gun Barrel city, has been writing and performing music for 30 years. Starting in San Marcos then on to Austin, nyc then St. Louis and back to Austin. In 2011 getting tired of concrete city life and needing a break from the music business he moved to a more rurual area outside of austin. At this time he began welding and building. Although touring lessoned his writing continued, having found inspiration in day to day work and in the people around him. He traveled to places like west Texas for welding and song writing.
Brent Pella is a stand-up comedian and digital content creator best known for his sharp takes on American culture, politics, spirituality, and the health/wellness space. Brent's comedy videos online have combined for more than 500M+ views across social media, making him a go-to source for biting satire of trending topics within the global zeitgeist and for his viral video parodies of celebrities and political figures including Gavin Newsom, Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman and more. Also a longtime cast member on MTV's Wild 'N Out, Brent's debut comedy special CONSCIOUS BRO premieres March 14 on YouTube. See more on Instagram: @BrentPella
Facilitators:
Tim Storey is an acclaimed culture influencing thought-leader, life strategist, author, speaker and counselor. Known for his insight and coaching among high-profile individuals who find themselves in a place of personal recovery and discovery, he has been labeled as the Original Comeback Coach.
Shiva Rose is an entrepreneur, activist, and leader in the world of all-natural beauty. She began growing her own organic herbs and flowers; mixing creams, lotions, and tonics; and following Ayurvedic practices and creating mindful rituals as a way to heal. Shiva is creator of the Local Rose, a lifestyle website and blog born of a desire to discover and celebrate a more holistic way to natural health and beauty. She is also the founder of Shiva Rose Beauty & Skin, a line of chemical-free products that brings beauty and luminosity to women in a nourishing and nurturing way. She is author of Whole Beauty: Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness.
Luke Storey is a motivational speaker, writer, and teacher of metaphysics and devotional non-duality. He's also the creator and host of the top-rated Life Stylist Podcast, which has gained over 13 million downloads since its inception.
He is widely regarded as an innovative personal development pioneer. His passion, purpose, and gift are to articulate transformative principles of spirituality, addiction recovery, and mental, emotional, and physical wellness.
Luke has been featured in Podcast Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Men's Fitness and has appeared on numerous TV networks, including VH1, Style Network, and MTV.
Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker, teacher and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture.
Ryland Engelhart is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground, and is the producer of Kiss The Ground the Movie on Netflix. He has spent the last 15 years as an entrepreneur and love-activist, working in hospitality and building a “triple bottom line” business of organic plant-based restaurants called Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre in Southern CA. He is also a co-creator of the award-winning, inspirational documentary film called, “May I Be Frank.” Ryland has an infectious passion for life and is a cultural catalyst creating transformation through his own organizations and in the world at large. He publicly speaks on the topics of sacred commerce, gratitude, veganism, building community, regeneration and the connection between soil health, human health and planetary health. He is the host of Kiss the Ground’s Podcast. Ryland is also a husband and father and lives on a 17-acre regenerative organic farm in Fillmore, CA where he learns to practice what he preaches.
Vylana Passionate about leveraging various modalities and mediums within the healing arts to support the expansion of both individual and universal consciousness; Vylana is a visionary sound alchemist who has dedicated her life to healing the collective as both an artist and a medicine woman.
The key to Vylana’s mastery does not come from her voice alone, it rests in her embodiment. Embodiment of the full expression of the heart, the body, the mind, and the spirit–leaving no shadow behind. Vylana credits her journey to embrace her shadow as the tantamount ingredients to her realization as a full-spectrum artist. In recognizing that there is no part of herself, no part of any man or any woman that is not worthy of love, she is able to transmute the frequency of unconditionality of Love into her music, movement, and medicine.
Del Bigtree is the communications director for the Kennedy campaign and one of the preeminent voices of the Health Freedom Movement in a virtual one on one meeting. He is the founder and CEO of the non-profit, Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), and host of the internet talk show TheHighWire.com, boasting over 200 million views world-wide.
His multi-pronged approach incorporates legal, legislative, and media actions to expose the fraud, lies, and conflicts of interest that have allowed US regulatory agencies to collude with industry power brokers to evade standardized safety testing on products including vaccines, drugs, food, drinking water, and 5G. On behalf of American citizens, Del’s non-profit, ICAN, has submitted over 1000 Freedom Of Information Requests (FOIA) and has won multiple lawsuits against government agencies including HHS, NIH, FDA and the CDC.
Aaron Alexander is a manual therapist, movement coach, and author, as well as the host of the top ranking podcast, Align Podcast. Aaron has helped the world's top athletes and celebrities, and everyone in between, relieve their physical and mental pain.
Kyle Kingsbury A former professional athlete in the UFC, and former Director of Human Optimization at Onnit, Kyle is the host of the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast where he has interviewed and learned from the best athletes, doctors, and entrepreneurs in the world for the last 7 years. As a professional fighter Kyle didn’t have the best skill set amongst his peers and his only option to compete at the highest level in sport was to learn and apply everything related to recovery and optimizing performance.
As Kyle shifted into retirement and became a father, healing the brain and body became his focus. Kyle has been learning everything related to longevity, optimizing the brain after traumatic injuries, and building basic habits that get results quickly and efficiently.
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is an accomplished board-certified family physician and a distinguished New York Times Bestselling author, lauded for her latest work, FOREVER STRONG: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well. Her book’s exceptional success has also earned her the esteemed titles of Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author.
At the forefront of modern medicine, Dr. Lyon is leading a revolutionary movement, focusing on the body’s largest organ—skeletal muscle. Her mission is to promote longevity and combat the pervasive threats of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes by optimizing muscle health.
Dr. Lyon’s rich background encompasses a dual research and clinical fellowship in geriatrics and nutritional sciences at Washington University, complemented by her undergraduate training in nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois. As an authority in the practical application of protein types and levels for health, performance, aging, and disease prevention, she is highly sought after as an educator.
Dr. Daniel L. Stickler is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of The Apeiron Center for Human Potential and Chief Science Officer for Apeiron Academy. He is the visionary pioneer behind systems-based precision lifestyle medicine, a new paradigm that re-defines medicine from the old symptoms based disease model to one of limitless peak performance in all aspects of life. A physician to high-performing executives and entrepreneurs who want to upgrade their current state, he’s also an author, speaker, blogger and podcaster. He is the Medical Director for the Neurohacker Collective, a Google consultant for wearable technology, epigenetics, and AI in healthcare and a guest lecturer at Stanford University on Epigenetics in Clinical Practice.
He discovered that lifestyle was the key to creating an optimized life and his journey to find the ideal approach to optimizing human potential took him on a path through functional medicine, alternative care, holistic, naturopathic, and age-management medicine. Each modality fell short of the outcome of creating a truly optimized human mainly because they focused on the disease model of treating symptoms as opposed to a model that focuses on human systems, homeostatic balance and optimization. In 2008, a new world opened through the lens of genetics and epigenetics and his near obsession like fascination of the potentials for personalized human systems design led to the realization that we truly have the ability within us to take charge of our destiny and become the architects of our evolution.
Zen Honeycutt is the Founding Executive Director of the non-profit, Moms Across America, a National Coalition of Unstoppable Moms with the motto "Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids." She is also an international speaker and the author of UNSTOPPABLE Transforming Sickness and Struggle into Triumph, Empowerment, and a Celebration of Community.
Moms Across America’s leaders created over 1,000 community events in all 50 states to raise awareness about GMOs, toxins in the food supply, and other environmental issues that pose risk to the health of our families. The organization’s mission is to educate and empower mothers and others with actions and solutions to create healthy communities. Zen Honeycutt and Moms Across America initiated the first glyphosate testing in America and successfully petitioned Costco to remove Roundup from their shelves. She is also the director of a short film called “Communities Rising” and the co founder of the recently launched program called “The Neighborhood Food Network” whose mission is to create a parallel food system, one street at a time.
Zen has been featured in over a dozen documentaries such as BOUGHT, Secret Ingredients, Modified, and Common Ground, in hundreds of podcasts, and other media outlets. She speaks to us today about the topic of the toxicity of the food supply and what we can do to protect our families.
Hosts:
Aubrey Marcus is the founder of Onnit, a globally disruptive brand based on a holistic health philosophy he calls Total Human Optimization. Onnit remains an industry leader with products optimizing millions of lives, including many top professional athletes around the world.
Aubrey currently hosts the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, a motivational destination for conversations with the brightest minds in athletics, business, mindset, and spirituality with over 100 million listens. He is the author of the NYT Bestselling book Own The Day, Own Your Life and has been featured on the cover of Men’s Health and other publications. He has also produced several documentaries including Awake In The Darkness, Dragon of the Jungle, Ayahuasca, and Huachuma.
He is currently the visionary behind the donation based coaching platform Fit For Service which recently hosted the transformational music festival, Arkadia. If you ask Aubrey what he is most passionate about, it is raising awareness for psychedelic medicine, including dedicated philanthropic support to MAPS.org and Heffter Institute.
Brent Bolthouse is an American entrepreneur, event producer, and photographer. As the founder of The Bungalow Hospitality Group, a collective with a deep history in Southern California, his portfolio currently includes The Bungalow flagship location in Santa Monica and its sister properties in Huntington Beach and Long Beach; as well as The Bungalow Kitchen by Michael Mina in Tiburon, CA.
Bolthouse also serves as creator of Neon Carnival, the annual invite-only outdoor dance fete that continues to be recognized as one of the most coveted parties in the world. In addition to his current work, he supports several charitable initiatives, including the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s An Evening with Women, the Anti Recidivism Coalition, Baby2Baby, and more.
Nitsa Citrine is an artist, alchemist, food advocate and host of the podcast SOUNDFOOD. As an interdisciplinary creative, Nitsa thrills in uniting the worlds of plants, healing arts, education, media, design, environmental awareness and regeneration and is honored to support Kennedy for office 2024.
Photos courtesy of Kimberly Mufferi photography and reflect past events held at the venue
