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MIDSUMMER NIGHT: RITUAL BONFIRE
Dates
23.06.25 / Monday, 21:19
wydarzenie archiwalne 2025
Dates
23.06.25 / Monday, 21:19
wydarzenie archiwalne 2025
Duration
7 h
Language
polish
Accessibility
- Support from an assistant and audio describer is available during the event – if you require this support, please email: natalia.dabrowska@malta-festival.pl
Venue accessibility -> Riverside Glade (next to the Chwaliszewo Water Tram Stop)
Tickets
free entrance
The event will take place as part of the Midsummer Night celebration—a traditional Slavic holiday of fire, water, and love, held during the summer solstice. For centuries, Midsummer Night has been a time for rituals rooted in nature, renewal, and communal celebration. The gathering will begin at sunset and last until dawn. A fire will burn throughout the night, serving as the focal point of the celebration and referencing ancient practices of purification and unity. The program includes wreath-weaving workshops—a traditional symbol of feminine energy and connection to nature—and Slavic gymnastics sessions that integrate movement with the spiritual experience of bonding with the natural world. The celebration will take place outdoors by the Warta River, further emphasizing its connection to the rhythms of nature. The aim of the event is to reconnect participants with ancestral traditions, foster community, and create a shared space to celebrate cultural heritage in harmony with the surrounding environment.
In our earthly reality, we live within a system of duality—masculine and feminine energy, man and woman, day and night, light and shadow, good and evil. To feel well and improve the quality of our lives and health, it is essential to live in harmony and balance. Extremes on either end can lead to energy loss, which in turn affects our physical well-being and other areas of life. We may not always maintain perfect balance 24/7, but we can strive each day toward a state of inner peace, harmony, and lightness of being.
This event offers women and men an opportunity to cleanse and heal their relationships with themselves and with their partners. A ritual fire will be lit at 21:19 (sunset) and kept burning until 04:31 (sunrise), holding this intention.
The fire ceremony will be preceded by Slavic gymnastics, intimate exercises, wreath-weaving, and a workshop on sexual energy and intimate relationships with oneself and in partnership, based on the principles of right-hand tantra and Tao of love.
During the celebration, we will light the ritual fire together, feeding it with herbs and grains—offering it to the fire element in service of ourselves, Mother Earth, and our personal intentions. The fire will support us in coming closer to our inner “zero point”—a place of groundedness, childlike joy, inner peace, and trust in life. Together, we will feast, sing, dance, embrace silence, and connect with our inner selves.
The space will be held by Instructors and Slavic Priestesses of Love from the School of Love Metamorphosis, who will also perform a ritual knife dance — a powerful act of cutting away what no longer serves us. This ceremonial dance cleanses our inner and outer spaces, bringing healing and harmony to the feminine and masculine energies within us, our relationships, and our lives. Together, we will greet the first bird at dawn, and at sunrise we will welcome the rising sun with the Slavic ritual known as the Greeting of Jarilo.
Co-financed from the budget of the City of Poznań. #poznanwspiera
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