—Valeria Koudoumogiannaki is a psychologist, with a Master’s degree in positive psychology, working with expressive arts (drawing, dancing, poetry etc) and also holistic ways of healing. She was trained in reiki, and other forms of energy healing, which she practices along with meditation techniques, such as Shambala MD, theta healing, and Roizon. What fitted in well with her worldview, were shamanic healing practices which gave her excellent tools. Their origins are from the Amazon region and date back thousands of years. Her teachers are Chris Waters and her team in England and Romania and Joe Molloy, in England and Greece. In Glastonbury she has received the rites of the shaman, called the Munay Ki, among other initiations. Also, she has been taught the Right, Left, and Middle paths of shamanism from the Andean tradition, and the Tensegrity of Carlos Castaneda practice, among others.
She has worked with women’s circles and other ways of creating togetherness. She has a lot of experience as a healer, and a psychologist and leads ceremonies such as Despacho, Fire and the Wheel of the Year Ceremonies. One very important goal for her is the creation of a psychosocial framework for flourishing based on cooperativeness and solidarity, at the level of community and society. Her project is called Flourish. gr and she is a collaborator of The Beehive Community, their main common goal is the empowerment of the Culture of Care.

—Felix Metzger is an artist and activist from Germany, he gained a Master’s degree of Sociology at the University of Freiburg. Since 2017 he has lived in Athens and later on became co-founder of the cooperative and workshop collective The Beehive Community. For The Beehive Community he is organizing and facilitating workshops that try to combine activism or healing with arts, his latest discovery and passion is the dance healing practice Contact Beyond Contact. He is involved in various groups of Improvisation Theatre and Contact Improv Dance. His mentor is Julianna Bloodgood who is running seminars of voice and body release as well as for performative techniques.

—Junior X-Manos Chatzimanolis
He was born in Chios in 1970, and he is a recognized Sound Designer, DJ, Stage Manager, and cultural activist active for 35 years in the Greek music scene. Also, he has dedicated at least 15 years in Athens, as an activist, who supports and participates in many social and cinematic ventures, collectives, meditation centers, and groups with artistic ecological, and spiritual pursuits. Also, he has participated in hundreds of major festivals throughout Europe, Asia, America, and Africa and he has collaborated with great and well-known musicians around the world from different musical cultures.
Junior X has been coordinating Ecstatic Dances for 6 years as Facilitator, Resident DJ, and Ceremony Leader, at Ecstatic Dance Athens which was founded in Athens in 2018 by Daniel Bofill and Marianna Tsagarakis. Also in the 6 years of practicing and studying Ecstatic Dance, he has done more than 82 Ectatic Dance Sessions all over Greece and is the first Greek DJ and Sound Designer who together with the Ecstatic Dance Athens team organized the first Ectatic Dance In Greece and Athens, in 2017 he participated in one of the first Cacao Ceremony held in Greece and Athens with the shaman Joe Molloy, and the shamans Otilia Selicean, and Valeria Koudoumogiannaki
Traveling is what inspires him, as it allows him to apply the art of meditation, eastern philosophy and ancient shamanic practices from all humanity throughout his journey as an activist and artist. The source of his inspiration is his journey to the world’s largest desert the Sahara desert and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, Iceland and the Scandinavian countries and Greece, Aegina, Delphi, Olympus and Pieria, Ikaria, Samothrace, Crete and Gavdos.
Since the summer of 2020 he is one of the Label Djs of British and Historical Liquid Sound Design – London, UK
founded in 1998 by 1998, Youth -Martin Glover, who is the bass player of the historic Killing Joke and the founder of the historic Dragonfly Records – UK (1993).