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Earth
Baseline
the main stage
The party. Big bass, heavyweight sound, headline DJs and electronic artists. Tne festival's grounded, physical pulse - the Root and entry frequency that holds the tribe and anchors in the baseline frequency.
A Festival For What Comes Next
Cohera
Where the collective Mind meets the Heart of the Earth
- a new world takes root -
The Concept
Something new is being created,
and you're invited to help build it.
Cohera is a festival for what's coming next
- a few days where the world falls away and a different one comes into focus. Good air. Living water. Food that feeds you. Music that moves you. And people who, the moment you meet them, feel like they've been waiting for you too.
Listen closely and you'll feel something beneath the music. Cohera is for those who hear the pulse of the future echoing through their dreams - and the primal heartbeat of the ancestral Earth answering back. We gather to awaken, to re-member and to co-create a world of collective joy and coherence.
The name
carries the intention.
Coherence - the moment mind and heart, the one and the many, fall into the same rhythm.
Hera - keeper of union, of family, of the living order that holds a community together. Goddess of women and birth, and queen of the gods.
Two forces meet on this land: the mind, with all its vision and design - and the heart, with all its earth and soul and body. Cohera is where they marry. Everyone who comes is part of this alchemical union.
We're not throwing a party
- we're opening the doors to a new world.
The Vision
So much more than a festival :
a seed and living matrix, woven with sacred design.
We are creating a field that awakens remembrance, tribal co-creation and collective joy for all those that step in. Experiences rooted in ceremonial science, alchemy and transformational energetics, elegantly integrated into the very architecture of what we build.
High-level ancient magic, translated into modern play. Cosmic gardening where one seed grows into a tree, that produces 100s of seeds that can be carried onwards.
But for simplicity, we'll keep calling it a festival.
Beyond
the weekend.
A festival doesn't have to end when the last note fades. It can be the start of something that stays long after we've moved on.
Instead of gathering to Burn, we are gathering to Birth.
This is the essence of Cohera - gatherings that leave real-world positive impact in the places we touch. Sometimes that's healed land and ecological restoration. Sometimes it's the creation of a new community nest. Each festival looks different, shaped by the land, the collective needs, and the people who gather on it. The intention underneath is always the same.
Birthing ground
for a new world.
We move like a tribe, along the earth. Each gathering becomes a seed planting, prayer and birthing ground for the world we already know is possible - one built through devotion, presence, and collective will, one festival at a time. Connecting the talents, resources and heartfelt love from all of us who are able to steward this vision together, and using it to lay roots for the world we wish to see to grow.
This is the new matrix we are encoding with Cohera - ancient magic held inside modern architecture, a field that remembers, restores, redistributes, and a joy that doesn't just move us for a weekend, but moves the world forward with us.
The Invitation
A collective vision -
woven together.
To truly weave the level of magic we know this wants to be, we need to do this together. It's time to connect the puzzle pieces.
We are welcoming in grounded stewards, experienced hands, high-level artists, conscious storytellers, mages, game designers, ceremonialists, frequency masters, logistics managers, and all those who can feel this collective vision speaking through them.
You probably already know if this is you - the blueprint is alive within us, and we are all finding each other. This is going to take a village.
It's time to unite and rebuild our world.
THE CANVAS
A living centre, a sacred axis.
Anchored with elements
Six distinct, characterful environments held across natural land. Each space holds its own crowd, from an intimate temple to a full dance plain. Move freely between them. Each will be its own world, while remaining connected to a carefully woven overarching flow, woven through ceremonial design. This is early-stage scaffolding, there is much more to come.
Home
HEART
Temple
Above & Below
Tribal Village
Fire
Emergent
Air
Baseline
Earth
Ascension
Water
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Air
Emergent
the live stage
Live improvisation and sonic experimentation - instruments and electronics in conversation, live artist collaborations, and original soul-channeled sound. More about presence and listening than the main floor; new frequencies, performed in the round.
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Ether · Centre
Home
the social heart
The festival's living room. Easy daytime hangs with vinyl DJs and acoustic guitar singers; funk, Latin, and soul - relaxed, groovy music to eat and gather to. Dancing in our collective kitchen. Intimate comedy sets at night, gentle sound journeys at dawn, and casual games throughout. An open music corner where anyone can pick up a drum, guitar, or shaker and play. This is where we land, eat, relax, laugh and connect.
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Above & Below
Temple & Altar
the sacred centre
A quiet, contemplative anchor. Not programmed with performance - it's a place to pause, write an intention, make an offering at the altar, and sit with the totem. The still point of the whole gathering, holding our prayers and collective field. Earth altar woven intentionally with the prayers from multiple traditions, anchored with the energetics that hold the community.
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Fire
Tribal Village
the fire
Indigenous fire keepers and ancient knowledge holders tending the flame day and night. Sacred song circles where people bring instruments and create together, council gatherings for wisdom-sharing and community dialogue, ceremony at the inner circle, a children's space by day, and the community project board where guests post what they're building and the support they're seeking.
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Water
Ascension
transformation & knowledge
The learning, expanding, shedding and collective healing space. Consciousness education, visionary talks, cosmic breathwork journeys, blueprint activations, and transformational practices. Alongside it, healing tents offer one-on-one readings, alignments, bodywork - for those stepping into purpose and inner work and needing support. Recentre and reboot.
The Palette
Earth. Cosmos. Community.
Together we'll be painting with much more than just colour.
Shared resources
Elder wisdom
Rites of passage
Gift economy
PRAYER
HONORING THE FEMININE
Plant intelligence
Restorative justice
Welcoming children
New myths
CHAKRA ACCENTS
Earth
Root
Sacral
Solar
Heart
Throat
Third Eye
Crown
Universal
Divine
You don't come here to escape the world.
You come to remember how to build a new one.
And you leave with new kin, real momentum, and a clearer map of who you came here to be.
S T E P T H R O U G HWELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD
Reach out
Get in touch
If you'd like to be in touch, please send us an email to our temp email coherafestival@gmail.com or WhatsApp on +27 72 372 5853.