Festival Retreat
11.-14.06.26
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Join us in a life-changing summer experience that leads you into deep connection with yourself, other people and nature and the world as a whole...

Free of alcohol and other drugs.

We realign our inner compass, unleash our creative potential and learn to live meaningful relationships - to consciously and proactively create a regenerative and just future together. With music, art, dance, ceremonies and holistic learning we celebrate pure life in all its facets!

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Celebrate sober

Pura Vida is a drug-free space. This also means: no alcohol. We come together to consciously connect with ourselves and eachother - to experience emotions, music, nature and encounters as they truly are. Without drugs clouding our consciousness, we can fully immerse in workshops as well as musical and artistic performance. And we can pause to savor the moment - honestly, unfiltered, and deeply.

Nourish yourself at our Vegan Restaurant

... and make new friends while having breakfast, lunch or dinner! Our food and drink corner is situated on the main road at the most central spot on our grounds and serves as a buzzing meeting point. Our kitchen team will serve you a great menu every day and ensures to nourish everyone perfectly well with amazing delicious meals and affordable prices.

Everything is vegan, organic and made with a lot of love of course.

Explore the Market Space

We are excited to invite a variety of artisans and crafts makers for our buzzing market space!

Stop by for an organically produced coffee, refresh yourself with a lemonade or try some deliciously nutritious snacks and sweet treats throughout the day, while you have a look through the jewelry, clothes, incense products and much more handcrafted valuables...

Maybe you'll find a special little talisman to always remind you of your unique Pura Vida experience?

Kids welcome...
Come as a Family!

While many of the workshops and festival activities are family-friendly, we also provide childcare during workshop times, so adults can also attend the experiences without their kids and fully dive into the sessions.

At our kids space, children of the ages from 3 to 12 have their own creative playground to engage in various projects. Will they design their own upcycled crazy hat, create a magic dreamcatcher or come up with a completely new game to play together?

Feel safe with our Empathy & Awareness Team

There might be times at the festival when you experience intense or challenging emotions. We are here for you.

Find somebody with a Walkie-Talkie or come to us: Our empathy tent is the safe space to ground and relax your nervous system. Our team has different specialties in embodiment, breathing and meditation practices as well as guidance through emotions and trauma. The space is free for you to come anytime, to take a breath, cuddle, rest or to just be held and seen.

And let's please always keep in mind: We are all co-creators of everyone's experience. Please engage with consent, respect boundaries - and communicate your own clearly. Let's care for a harmonious space where everyone feel safe, supported, valued and heard.

Read our Culture of Care Guidelines

Find your hive

One aspect that will make your time here truly unique are our Pura Vida hives. The intention of the hives is to offer you a home base to hold you through the festival journey - and to help you integrate your experiences.

You will be part of a small group of people, led into deep sharing and open-heart connection by one of our hive guides. The hives meet three times throughout the festival retreat – but you’ll soon start greeting the members of your hive whenever you see them on the festival grounds. It’s the feeling of home.

Relax in the Sauna at our Soul Spa

You wish to take a break from the buzzing festival grounds for a while to treat yourself? Our Wellness Space got a big upgrade this year and merges with our Healing Space to one big Soul Spa oasis!

The brand-new community-built sauna of Wir bauen Zukunft awaits you to sweat it out, let go, and let the changing infusions and aromas carry you into a state of deep relaxation. Full on detox within the flavours provided by our wellness angels. Also the pool is ready for you to get fresh and wet afterwards!

Have your 1:1 Session at our Soul Spa Healing

The Soul Spa Healing Space is a hidden oasis of calm on the festival grounds. Connect with practitioners offering 1:1 massages, bodywork, coachings, energy work and a variety of other individual sessions for mind, body and soul. Our team’s mission is to empower you and awaken your innate self-healing abilities.

You can pre-book your session already via the ticket shop and secure a discount!

Pre-book your Session

Glamping Tents

Elevate your experience and make yourself a cozy home and safe haven to rest, relax and recharge during the festival journey! Our Glamping area will be provided by Domo Camp. Check out their amazing offer and treat yourself with an extra bit of comfort immersed in nature. The stylish tents offer space for up to four people and are equipped with beds, sheets and pillows, a carpet, a fatboy lamp and electricity connection.

Healing Space Offerings

With the following practitioners you can book your 1:1 Session in the Healing Space.

Claire

Holistic Bodywork with Botanical Facial Ritual

Claire

Holistic Bodywork with Botanical Facial Ritual

Clare is a practitioner offering Naturopathic-focused services including Bodywork, Reiki, Sound Healing and Holistic Guidance. In her session at Pura Vida, you can work with her holistically through the physical and energetic body to release tension, improve circulation and mobility, realign the energy centres, and restore the nervous system.

Sessions may include a combination of deep tissue work, Osteothai techniques, myofascial release, reiki, tuning fork therapy, somatic release, and aromatherapy with natural essential oils. Every session closes with a rejuvenating acupressure head and facial massage, using natural botanical extracts from Kakadu Plum or Fingerlime, which work to reduce inflammation, repair skin cells, boost hydration and improve radiance in the skin.

Please feel free to ask her any questions! Sessions can also be tailored to individual requirements or needs.

Clare is based in Berlin and has a practice called Clarity Healing Space.

She offers 60 or 90mins English-speaking sessions.

Clarity Healing Space

Lucas Nagel

Massage

Lucas Nagel

Massage

Enjoy a mindful, intuitive massage for relaxation with flowing movements, including many elements of the Lomilomi massage, but also inspired by many years of experience in dance, contact improvisation and Fluentbody as a source. Lucas is open to whatever feels good for your body at this moment. He massages with or without oil, depending on your preference and ranging from very gentle to fiery and powerful.

You will discuss your wishes in detail beforehand and Lucas is happy to also respond spontaneously to any further impulses you may have during the session. You can let go and enjoy, find your inner peace and draw new inspiration.


As an enthusiastic bodyworker and dancer, as well as a nature educator and nature coach, Lucas enjoys supporting people in their individual processes in various seminars and projects and in my practice in Berlin.

Lucas' Website

Timur Özdogan

Hangar Inversion Experience

Timur Özdogan

Hangar Inversion Experience

When our world turns upside down, we open up to miracles and healing – an ancient and powerful medicine.

HANGAB uses a pulley system to gently and carefully guide you into the inversion pose, also known as FLYING SHAVASANA.

You will be supported in your process of letting go –  precise, mindful and easy. The technique works gently and holistically on all sensory systems, starts with aromatherapy,  inversion bodywork concluding  deep shavasana for integration back on mother earth.

The ones who truly let go, experience a profound and transformative process that might bring bliss, deep reset of your energy system and often shows new insights for next steps in life.

Can be booked for 60 or 90 mins.

Joanna Tohtz

Holistic Ayurvedic Massage & Health Guidance

Joanna Tohtz

Holistic Ayurvedic Massage & Health Guidance

Joanna offers: 

- Ayurvedic Bodywork: Warm herbal-infused oils meet gentle osteopathic touch, intuitively following where your body wants to go. A journey to sink, be nourished and regenerate on deeper levels.

- Ayurvedic Health Consultation: Together we explore your constitution (Prakriti) and current imbalances (Vrikriti) together, looking at lifestyle, nourishment, sleep and emotional wellbeing, so you can take your health into your own hands, following simple Ayurvedic wisdom.

All the wisdom we seek outside is already held in the intelligence of our bodies. Joannas own long journey of returning to that trust, and fully coming home to her body again, is what brought her to this work. Joanna draws from Ayurveda, Osteopathy and Somatic Release to guide you back inward.

Joannas Sessions are 60 or 90mins.

Joannas Website

Anja Klönhammer

Holistic Coaching

Anja Klönhammer

Holistic Coaching

Anjas Coaching ist das Richtige für dich, wenn du:
- Dir nachhaltige Veränderung wünschst
- Immer mehr in deine Kraft kommen willst
- Deine Bedürfnisse besser wahrnehmen möchtest
- Dir selbst etwas Gutes tun willst

Das Besondere an Anjas ganzheitlichem Coaching ist, dass neben der mentalen und der Gefühls-Ebene auch die körperliche und energetische Ebene mit einbezogen wird. Ihr spürt gemeinsam was bewegt werden will und wie es sich für dich transformieren kann. Deine Körperwahrnehmungen sind hier wichtige Wegweiser, es entsteht ein neuer Raum der Selbstwahrnehmung.

Anja begleitet seit 10 Jahren als Heilpraktikerin Menschen dabei, ihre Selbstheilungskräfte zu aktivieren. Sie öffnet den Raum für tiefe Transformationsprozesse. Seit 3 Jahren unterrichtet Anja Yoga und seit 2 Jahren ist sie zudem als Holistic Coach für Yoga und Transformation tätig. In ihren 1:1 Coachings, Cacao-Zeremonien und Retreats begleitet sie dich dabei, mit Leichtigkeit in der Tiefe etwas zu bewegen, um in deinen Flow zu kommen.

Anjas Website

Cat Schwartz

Romiromi (Māori Körperarbeit)

Cat Schwartz

Romiromi (Māori Körperarbeit)

Cat ist Heilpraktikerin aus Aotearoa, Neuseeland und Romiromi ist eine traditionelle und tiefgreifende Form der Körperarbeit. Sie ist ein Taonga (Schatz) der Māori, der Ureinwohner Neuseelands.

Romiromi wirkt auf Druckpunkte im Körper und beeinflusst Muskeln, Knochen, das Lymphsystem und tiefer liegendes Gewebe. Es hat auch einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf unser Hormonsystem.

Ro bedeutet „inner“ und Mi bedeutet „anregen“. Diese Mahi (Arbeit) erdet, lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit vom Kopf auf den Körper und öffnet und erhellt das Herz. Wild und fein löst Romiromi gespeicherte (und auch alte und unbewusste) Spannungen, Stress sowie körperliche und emotionale Blockaden.

Cat ist es eine Ehre, diese lange Zeit durch den Kolonialismus unterdrückte Mahi (Arbeit) aufs Pura Vida Festival Retreat bringen zu dürfen. Sie hat selbst bei den Tohunga (Heilerinnen) Wikitoria Oman und Atarangi Muru gelernt.

Die Behandlung findet in bequemer, flexibler Kleidung statt. Die Sessions können für 60 oder 90 Minuten gebucht werden.

Website Cat Schwartz

Christoph Wischnewski

Thai Yoga Massage

Christoph Wischnewski

Thai Yoga Massage

Christoph is a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner and teacher based in Berlin. He has a background in bodywork, movement, and ongoing osteopathy studies, blending traditional Thai techniques with a sensitive, therapeutic approach. His work combines dynamic flow and stillness — supporting deep relaxation, release, and reconnection with the body.

At Pura Vida Festival Retreat, Christoph offers Thai Yoga Massage sessions to help you unwind, recharge, and come back into balance. Each session is intuitive and adapted to your needs — whether you seek grounding, softness, or a deeper energetic reset.

Sessions are 60 or 90mins.

Christophs Website

Leo Fey

Massage & Bodywork

Leo Fey

Massage & Bodywork

For Leo Fey, massage is more than technique, it is presence in motion. With over 10 years of world-class training and multiple championship awards (World Massage Championship Bronze, German Champion 2× Gold, Swiss Champion Gold), each session combines precision, intuition, and deep care.

His signature Element Massage is a somatic journey through the five elements, designed to restore balance in body and soul.

Earth grounds through deep pressure and structure. Water restores flow and mobility in the fascia. Fire releases muscular tension. Air calms the nervous system. Ether invites profound stillness through craniosacral touch.

A unique treatment that goes beyond relaxation, creating real transformation, inner balance, and a lasting sense of connection within yourself.

His Sessions are 60 or 90 mins.

Leos Instagram

Nora Brandt

Individual Scent Creation Rituals

Nora Brandt

Individual Scent Creation Rituals

Nora creates and holds tantric spaces for deep self-exploration and connection, drawing on energy medicine, aromatherapy, conscious tantric touch, tantric rituals, and somatic coaching. Her work supports others in embodying their highest potential and stepping into free, conscious expression of themselves, their intimacy, and sensuality.

Nora loves working with essential oils, which act on our emotional center and open gateways to memories, visions, and inner processes. I create ritual fragrances that help embody what you wish to integrate and manifest in your life.

At the Healing Space Nora offers Individual Scent Creation Rituals. Together, you open a sacred space where you invite all the qualities you wish to embody. You read your energetic field and explore your intentions, and then the magic begins. From a collection of 250 high-quality essential oils, you select those that best support you and your intentions, creating your personal fragrance companion. This scent helps you embody the qualities you wish to express and serves as a perfect gift to carry into your everyday life.

60mins Sessions only.

Noras Website

Sebastiaan Lefuce

Kundalini Activation | Guided Energy Attunement

Sebastiaan Lefuce

Kundalini Activation | Guided Energy Attunement

Sebastiaan Lefuce is a Berlin-based facilitator working with energy, movement, and embodied awareness.

• Offers Kundalini Activation and Guided Energy Attunement
• Creates spaces for deep release, clarity, and reconnection
• Works intuitively with music, touch, and energetic presence
• Sessions invite the body to open, move, and express naturally
• Background in yoga, breathwork, ecstatic dance, and conscious events
• Known for grounded, safe, and deeply felt experiences

At Pura Vida, he offers 1:1 sessions, supporting you to reconnect with their inner energy, release stored tension, and access a deeper sense of clarity and authentic expression.

Sessions can be 60 or 90 mins.

Sebastiaans Website

Steph Diana Koessler

Shiatsu

Steph Diana Koessler

Shiatsu

Shiatsu is a Japanese bodywork therapy rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It works along the body’s energy pathways (meridians), using mindful touch, pressure, and gentle stretches to support the natural flow of Qi (vital energy). This practice combines physical treatment with a meditative, intuitive approach—encouraging deep relaxation, awareness, and inner balance.


Stephs holistic Shiatsu sessions are tailored to your individual needs, integrating pressure techniques, stretches, and conscious breathing. She offers a treatment that helps release muscular tension, regulate the nervous system, and support the body’s detoxification processes. She ensures a calm, supportive space where the body can unwind, energy can flow freely, and deep regeneration can take place.

Steph offers 60 and 90 mins.

Stephs Website
Book your Session here!

Embracing narratives and tools from ancient wisdom traditions and latest scientific insights, our stages are designed to inspire contemplation, self-inquiry, togetherness, exchange and transformation.

Mind

Our inner worlds hold many secrets and great power. What happens when we become aware of these - and learn tools and methods to change and shape the fabric of our perception and wellbeing? We meditate, dive into the mystery of consciousness, discuss and explore philosophies of selfhood, identity and mental health. By training our minds we cultivate an accepting, kind, and compassionate relationship towards ourself and others.

Heart

Our heart - center of love, compassion and forgiveness - holds deep and profound truths. What will unfold when we dare to open it, listen to its whispering melodies, tap into its power - and express its geatest desires? With heart-opening breath work-sessions, practices of authentic relating, compassion and kindness, we aim to support the cultivation of an ethic of love through which we can walk through life and act more benevolently and generously.

Body

We are marvelous sentient beings! How can we truly find a home in ourselves? How do we build trust in our emotions and in the wisdom and resilience we intuitively hold as breathing moving bodies? Grounding our experiences in movement and body awareness, we embrace a philosophy of embodied learning.

Play

To play is an essential form of our true nature. Play worships the present moment, it allows a space to try, fail and learn without judgment. Unleash your imagination to envision the new worlds of tomorrow!The Play stage is also our big main stage: During the days, laughter, curiosity, and joy reign supreme while at night we celebrate the liberation of the human spirit with big ceremonies and blissful DJ-Sets.

World

This earth is more than our environment. When experiencing ourselves as one with nature and this universe, how do we look on global challenges and processes of destruction and transformation? How can we become guardians and caretakers of a flourishing planet? We reflect on our role in creating new visions and values to build new tomorrows in deep and meaningful relation with everything around us.

More than a Location


Where are we, actually? Building a relationship to the grounds that we celebrate, learn and grow on is an important part of our philosophy. The vibrant home and partner project to our festival retreat is called “Wir bauen Zukunft” - "We build future".

Here, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, our friends of "WbZ" are building a space that tests and exemplifies change - not only sowing the seeds for a sustainable future, but also laying the foundation for a life full of meaning and joy.

Expect lush idyllic nature with wide open green fields, majestic trees, lots of magical hidden spots and an enchanted forest to be explored. In a flourishing environment and absolute tranquility underneath the sparkling starry skies, we can experience ourselves as beings that belong on this planet.

More Info on "Wir bauen Zukunft"

FAQ

Location and accomodation

How do I get to the Festival Retreat?

Travel by train:

The nearest train station is Schwanheide. It takes less than two hours by EC/ICE from Berlin (prices from 30 euros), and from Hamburg it just takes 40 minutes (prices from 17 euros or free with a Deutschlandticket). From Schwanheide, you can either use our shuttle bus for a small fee or take bike ride (see Elbe cycle path: ww.elberadweg.com/reiseideen/hamburg-berlin).

Our shuttle bus will take you directly from the station to the festival on Thursday and from there back to the station on Sunday. Please buy a ticket for the shuttle bus in our ticket shop.

Shuttle Bus Time Table
Thursday, June 11th - Shuttles from Schwanheide to WBZ:
12:25, 14:25, 16:25, 18:25, 20:25, 22:25

Sunday, June 14th - Shuttles from WBZ to Schwanheide:
11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00

Arriving by train on Friday or Saturday:
If you are arriving on Friday or Saturday, you can book an on-demand bus (Rufbus) via this website: https://www.vlp-lup.de/rufbus/rufbus-bestellen/ You must order it at least 2 days in advance. The on-demand bus costs around 4€ and also runs from Schwanheide to WBZ.

Cab as last option:
If you want to order a cab as a last option, you can contact this number via WhatsApp: 0151 51051009. The ride costs about 40-60€.

Travel by car:
We all know it: Sharing is caring. If you want to come by car, please ry to coordinate and take other festival visitors with you!! (Rumor has it that one or the other has already found love on the way to Pura Vida...) If you are looking for a ride or have a ride to offer, you can use our Carpooling table (link in your guest email!). Remember to buy the appropriate parking ticket for your Car or Campervan.

By the way: If you come by car, you can leave your luggage directly at the festival site and then park a little further away. The subsequent walk back to the site takes about 15 minutes. The parking lot is located here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xkMdK4PXdbmf7ZuQ7

Where will I sleep?

The easiest way to stay overnight on the premises is if you bring your own tent. There will be enough camping areas for the tents.

I saw that there will be Glamping Tents?

Yes! If you prefer a little more comfort, then you might find our glamping tents to be the perfect blend of luxury and nature. Our glamping tents are meticulously designed to provide a harmonious retreat, where you can immerse yourself in the beauty of the outdoors without compromising on modern comforts. These thoughtfully crafted shelters not only offer a comfortable escape but also contribute to the regenerative culture we aim to foster. Visit our Ticketing page to book your Glamping Tent.

There is also a lake on the pictures - Can I swim there?

We have a natural swimming pool onsite - still, it's a very delicate ecosystem and sacred home to non-human beings. If you wish to swim, please only do so after properly showering off any deodorants or sunscreen. Please be aware that we might need to close the pool in case of harmful or potential overuse.

Facilities and catering

Are there Showers and Toilets?

There are showers and toilets in various places on the site. Please note that we are guests in a fragile protected ecosystem though - and we wish to treat it with love and respect. Please make sure to only use organic toiletries and please refrain from peeing in the wild, as nature would not like that.

Do I have to bring food and drinks?

You can - there will be space to prepare your own meals. Still, we have a restaurant and our kitchen team will serve you a great menu every day and ensures to nourish everyone perfectly well with amazing delicious meals. Everything is vegan, organic and made with a lot of love of course. Opening hours are 8:00 to 22:00. and the meals will cost 7 - 13 € per portion. Drinking water is available at various locations on the premises. You can also buy cacao, coffee, tea and many other non-alcoholic treats at our bar.

Please note: There will be a self-cooking space where you can use your own camping cooker. Open fire is strictly forbidden everywhere else. Please also be mindful in case you see or smell smoke and help us to avoid fires in any case!! There will be fire extinguishers on multiple points.  

Is this event really free of Alcohol & Co?

Yes! We made a conscious decision to create an alternative to the classical music festivals to show that you don’t need substances to have fun. The experiences we make consciously with each other are not only more sustainable for interpersonal relationships, but also for personal health and nature. Therefore, there will be no alcohol to buy at the festival and we would like to ask you to simply leave alcohol and other substances (including "plant medicine") at home.

Program

When does the Festival Retreat start and end? Can I come inbetween?

We will open the doors on Thursday, June 12th, at 11:30 am. The first workshops will take place at 3 pm before the joint opening ceremony begins at 5 pm. The Festival Retreat ends on Sunday, June 15th, at 5 pm. It is a whole carefully curated journey! We really recommend taking the whole trip and, if possible, taking a day off on Monday. You can also stay one more night on the site until Monday.

What is the language of the Workshops?

We wish to be inclusive to Only-German-Speakers as well as to Internationals visiting us. That is why our festival is bilingual and will be held in German and English. The languages are indicated in the timetable. We tried to have it 50/50, so there are a lot of options available for both speakers.

Caring for the lands

This is a protected ecosystem, isn't it?

Yes! Please always be aware: We are guests in a fragile natural ecosystem that we want to treat with respect and care. Please help us to build a loving relationship with our new home! Please mind the following: 

Eco-hygiene and care products: Please bring and use only organic shampoo, shower gels, bug spray, sunscreen, etc. ! Eco-soap will be available from our partner Dr. Bronner.

Waste avoidance: We want to avoid as much waste as possible. Help us by bringing only the essentials and avoiding plastic and disposable packaging in particular. We have set up three waste stations on the festival site. Please separate your waste and dispose of it at the appropriate stations.

No plastic glitter: Please avoid plastic glitter and similar products that can introduce microplastics into the environment.

Smoking: If you want to smoke, please bring a pocket ashtray to properly dispose of cigarette butts.

No glass: Please do not bring any glass bottles or other glass objects that you do not want to take home with you.

Your own drinking bottle: Please bring your own drinking bottle. You can fill it up with drinking water at numerous points on the site. bring and use only organic shampoo, shower gels, bug spray, sunscreen, etc. Eco-soap will be available from our partner Dr. Bronner.

Please always use the designated toilets and urinals and please refrain from peeing in the wild, as nature would not tolerate that.

Are there animals as wel?

Indeed..! The fireflies dance with us! Please do not irritate the beetles in their lovemaking with bright artificial light at night, but move carefully and respectfully. The same applies to the forest and the creatures that live there. Let us kiss the ground with our feet and be aware with every step that we are affecting a sensitive ecosystem of plants and animals.

Good to know

What should I bring?

We recomen to bring a yoga mat with you in any case - on the one hand for the yoga lessons, but also as a surface to sit or lie on for other workshops! A blanket or meditation pillow can also be suitable for this purpose. A water bottle is also recommended, but there will also be drinks to buy on site. Disinfectant for the hands is also useful. If you are camping, think of the necessary equipment such as a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, flashlight, etc. Otherwise, please think of comfortable and warm clothing, as it can get chilly in the evenings. Don’t forget (organic!) mosquito / tick repellent and sunscreen. If you’d like, please bring your own music instrument as well as your favorite celebration outfit for our Saturday Evening Celebration :)

What should I not bring with me?

Please do not bring any animals onto the site, weapons of any kind, drugs, glitter, fireworks. Igniting open flames is prohibited on the entire site as there is a risk of fire. Please also bring only organic toiletries: Natural soaps, sprays, deodorants, make-up, shampoos etc. Please also note that we ask you to leave any professional camera equipment, especially drones, at home.

Will there be Photos or Videos taken?

Yes - you can leave your phones in your pocket! There will be photographers on site to capture moments of our experience. They are briefed to be mindful when moving through the space, and will treat you with respect at all times!

Please note: By participating in the festival retreat you agree to our photo policy and the commercial use of the pictures on our instagram and website.

If you do not want to be photographed at a certain moment, please speak directly to the photographer. If in the aftermath, you discover a picture of yourself that does not feel appropriate or good, please write to us and we will not publish it. Please leave your own professional camera equipment (drones etc.) at home.

As a little gift, we will share a festival photo album with all of you, and we will also use the imagery for our website and social media!

How do you maintain a safe space?

We invite you to come with an open heart and an open mind, to take ownership and see yourself as an active co-creator to make Pura Vida 2025 a beautiful experience for all. You can find our full awareness guidelines on site and our culture of care at the Infopoint or here: Awareness Guidelines (English)
Please check it out!

Please also note: Pura Vida has a zero-tolerance policy towards discrimination, racism, illegal activities, violence or deliberate harm to others. Any behavior or action that violates our principles will be punished with appropriate consequences - including expulsion from the festival and possible legal action.

If you need emotional support during the festival, come to the Empathy & Awareness Space, where a trained team will be available at all times.

What if the festival retreat can’t take place?

If the festival cannot take place for any reason, e.g. Covid-19 restrictions or the like, then you have the choice whether you want to have your ticket rewritten for the next festival or whether you want to like to have the ticket refunded, or would like to donate the ticket amount to the Pura Vida Initiative. In the event of a refund, we will refund 80% of the ticket price and 100% of the accommodation upgrade options. The 20% help us to finance costs already incurred in the event before the cancelation. Otherwise the tickets are non-refundable, but you always have the opportunity to transfer your ticket to another person.

Mental and Physical Emergencies

What if somebody gets injured?

For the case you or someone around you gets injured we have paramedics and an emergency doctor on site. Please inform a team member and they will call them via radio. Otherwise you will always find help and medical materials in our back office next to the world stage.

What if I feel overwhelmed during my experience?

There might be times at the festival when you experience intense or challenging emotions. We are here for you. Find somebody with a Walkie-Talkie or come to us: Our empathy and awareness tent is the safe space to ground and relax your nervous system by reconnecting with yourself as well as with others. Our team has different specialties in embodiment, breathing and meditation practices as well as guidance through emotions and trauma. They support you whenever you need it! The space is free for anyone to come anytime, to take a breath, cuddle, rest or to be held and seen.

Also, always keep in mind: We are all co-creators of everyone's exerience. Please engage with consent, respect boundaries - and communicate your own clearly. Let's care for a harmonious space where everyone feel safe, supported, valued and heard. Please have a look at our Awareness Guidelines:

Awareness Guidelines (English)

Can I join as a volunteer?

Yes, absolutely, we’d love you to! You can join volunteering during the main festival days (12th - 15th of June) for a reduced price or join for our Creators Week (8th - 16th June).

Festival Volunteer (11th - 14th of June): The volunteering ticket is a good balance between being able to participate in most activities and supporting the festival with around 2 shifts of 6 hours. To participate as a volunteer simply buy a volunteer ticket and after the festival we reimburse you half the price. For each shift you work you also receive 1 food voucher. Camping is in your own tent like for all guests. 

Creators Week Volunteer (6th - 11th and 15th - 17th of June) (registration closed): Co-create the festival's magic and spending 1 full week with us in nature on the beautiful lands of “Wir Bauen Zukunft”! You will be working mainly to build-up the festival from Monday until Thursday and take it all down again from Monday to Tuesday. In return you get a free festival ticket and free food on each day that you work. You will sleep in your own tent.

You will receive all necessary information after you filled-in the google form. Both volunteering during the main festival days as well as in Creators Week are great ways to be part of the festival. You'll have a look behind the scenes, connect with the whole team on a different level and be right in the middle of the action. Being a volunteer at Pura Vida Festival Retreat means you're a big part of making it all happen. Come join us and have an amazing time!