Ewa Zurakowska, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, performer, singer, and theatre director. Ewa attended the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices and graduated from the University of Warsaw with an MA degree in Cultural Anthropology. She wrote her doctoral thesis on traditional songs and site-specific theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where currently teaches performance and ritual at the Anglo-American University. Since 2010 she has been performing as a singer for Korjen, whose music draws inspiration from her ethnomusicological journeys to the Balkans, the Republic of Tuva,Lapland, Eastern Poland, and Ukraine.

Her artistic work explores the connection between space, sound, and body. She performed for the Czech company Divadlo Continuo and for Teatr Novogo Fronta as well as for several other organizations such as Studio Matejka (PL), Budalasultan (Turkey), and Rose Bruford College (UK). She directed the documentary musical performance based on mining folklore and taught at the Milon Mela Centre for Performing Indian Arts. Ewa also works as a coordinator for Polish-Czech cultural partnerships and supports the Gorzanow Castle Foundation in Lower Silesia Poland.

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Olga Lidia Kozłowska is a clinical psychologist as well as a voice artist and researcher.  Olga specializes in Slavic and Georgian vocal traditions as well as in improvisation and community singing. She is the founder of Authentic Voice and has been leading workshops since 2011 in France, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. She works with universities as well as cultural and non-governmental organisations in her native city of Wroclaw, Poland. Olga was the leader of a Georgian polyphony choir and is currently working on bringing together traditional Polish and Georgian songs with her Trio Usakhelo.

Adam Koan is a butoh dance educator and performer. Adam trained in Ballet and Modern Dance at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida and at the University of South Florida. From there he studied for five years at the Himalaya Subbody Butoh School in Dharamsala, India, where he would later become an instructor. He has since then trained under 41 butoh educators and has toured the world performing,teaching, and writing about butoh. He has guided numerous butoh workshops and intensives ranging 3 weeks to 3 months in over 15 different countries. Adam is known for his heavily detailed Butoh Manual as well as for his YouTube channel Shadowbody. Theokinesis, a Christian-inspired butoh practice, is his latest pedagogical and performative project. 

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Gaiea holds a degree in Sanskrit from the University of Oxford where she was granted a singing scholarship. Combining her love of Sanskrit with an exploration of the voice, she has visited India regularly to study with local teachers. She performs, writes and records songs,and leads regular kirtan, Sanskrit, and meditation workshops in London. Gaiea also studied Music Theatre and qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. She believes that all sound comes from and returns to silence, all movement comes from and returns to rest, and all success comes from the potential that can only be realised once one stops letting the mind rule. Through vibrations made manifest in Sanskrit, the heart opens. Gaiea has recently released a film series documenting her pilgrimage through the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Swan Alyon, PhD, is a theatre maker and psychotherapist as well as the founder and director of the Institute of Devotional Arts. After studying philosophy and theology in Melbourne, Oxford, and Chicago, Swan worked as a supervisor at the University of Cambridge where wrote their thesis on individual and social transformation. They trained at the Jacques Lecoq school of physical theatre and explored various forms of alternative theatre such as applied theatre, paratheatre, psychomagic, and drama therapy as well as numerous artistic disciplines ranging from ballet and contact improvisation to butoh and polyphonic chants. Swan also holds certificates in tantra yoga, breathwork, and hypnotherapy. They guide individuals and groups and curate seminars, retreats, art residencies in Europe and North America.

Rafael Duarte-Uriza is a researcher and transdisciplinary artist. He empowers people to comprehend that we part of parcel of the interdependent web of nature. Rafael studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia where he created the piece “Reciprocal Compression, a refuge for bees” with the support of The Foundation for Colombian Biodiversity. His work focuses on radical interdependence, coexistence, and regeneration to create art installations providing spaces of ecological awareness. His performative practice is also informed by Vipassana meditation and Contact Improvisation. As a researcher in Geobiology and Biohabitability, he is investigating georelations and respiration. His current project is entitled "Breathe deeply, dwell slowly, walk silently”.