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We expect around 25 teachers, facilitators, musicians and movement practitioners to contribute to the Embodiment Festival 2026. Together they bring a wide range of expertise — from yoga, somatics and strength-based movement to breathwork, drumming, creative arts and body-based learning.
Our team is currently curating the full lineup, which will be released in spring. As always, the program will feature both returning favourites and new voices.
The festival is hosted by Björn Karlsson and Linn Löf, who guide the overall flow of the days. Their approach emphasises clarity, warmth and grounded exploration — creating an environment where participants can meet themselves and others through movement, reflection and shared play.
Once the entire Line-up is confirmed, you'll find your Artists & Workshop Leaders below!
Workshop leaders 2026
We invite you to explore the workshop leaders who have already confirmed their participation. More will be added in coming weeks.
Workshop leaders 2026
We invite you to explore the workshop leaders who have already confirmed their participation. More will be added in coming weeks.
Artists & Workshop leaders 2026
We invite you to explore the workshop leaders who have already confirmed their participation. More will be added in coming weeks as well as further workshop details.
BJÖRN KARLSSON
BREATHWORK, BODY-MIND-CONNECTION
Björn is hosting this year's Festival together with Linn. He is an inspiring health coach and breathwork specialist. He is a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor (Level 2) and in the process of completing his certification as certified Oxygen Advantage Instructor.
Training and wellness have been a lifelong passions but only in recent few years after overcoming personal health challenges – including fatigue syndrome – he chose a career path professionally guide others toward improved physical and mental well-being and self-awareness. Today, Björn focuses entirely on coaching in various capacities. Alongside his role as a health coach, he also remains active in the business realm, serving as a startup business coach at the Kalmar Science Park incubator.
Björn offers retreats for the general public, as well as lectures and workshops for companies. His work aims to help individuals and teams manage stress and achieve both mental and physical balance using scientifically grounded methods. By integrating approaches like the Wim Hof Method – an interplay of breathwork, cold exposure, and mental focus – he encourages participants to cultivate deeper self-awareness and enhance their ability to regulate the nervous system. This embodied exploration goes beyond simple relaxation: fostering resilience, and maintaining a state of presence amid life’s challenges.
Björn is also certified teacher in Hjärt- och hjärnräddning (HHR), a Swedish evidence-based initiative comparable to first aid, but for mental health provides workplaces with tools to proactively identify and address psychological challenges in the workplace.
Read more about Björn here
LINN LÖF
EMBODIED RELATING
Linn is hosting this year's Festival together with Björn. She is a dedicated somatic coach, educator and trauma therapist whose work centers on creating spaces for genuine human connection and embodied communication. Specializing in Embodied Relating, she draws on an extensive range of modalities – NARM, meditation, classical tantra, SE, Feldenkrais, contact improvisation, and Nonviolent Communication – to support clients in tuning into the language of their own nervous systems. By combining evidence-based techniques with a willingness to embrace the unexpected, Linn’s approach invites clients to inhabit their bodies more fully, to listen to the subtle cues arising in themselves and others, and to cultivate authentic presence.
Deeply rooted in both scientific understanding and lived experience, Linn’s sessions offer an environment that honors each individual’s process. Her workshops not only highlight the interplay between body, mind, and environment, but also encourage participants to welcome complexity, curiosity, and vulnerability into their practice. She guides them toward discovering richer forms of interaction, where genuine meeting points emerge through attentive listening, open-hearted exploration, and the shared longing to be seen and heard.
By weaving together these varied practices, Linn helps participants' access transformative experiences of trust, connection, and meaningful relating. Her work is grounded in the belief that true communication extends beyond words – encompassing sensation, emotion, and empathetic resonance – ultimately fostering a sense of belonging and deeper understanding among all who enter her circle.
Read more about Linn here
MARIA ENOKSSON
GENE KEYS – EMBODYING YOUR HIGHER POTENTIAL THROUGH SHADOW-WORK
With a lifelong interest in how we humans can heal, grow and live in greater harmony, flow and joy in life, Maria is currently living her passion.
She is a Gene Keys Guide and community builder for Gene Keys in Sweden alongside her work at the Relatives' Association where she supports healing from codependency. Her work is characterized by softness, humor and deep presence and she is passionate about creating safe spaces where people can land in themselves, soften around what has been difficult and face life with more curiosity and kindness.
Through contemplation, inquiry, empathy and awareness, she guides people to open up to greater flow in life – to face suppressed emotions, needs, dreams and visions and reconnect with their inner wisdom so that transformation can occur in a soft and natural way.
JANNE LÖFVENBERG
WORKSHOP CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT
Embodying Freedom. Artist, Dancer & Musician Janne Löfvenberg embodies the spirit of freedom through movement. As a foundational practitioner of the Art of Breaking, commonly known as Breakdance, he has journeyed with this art form since the early 2000s, traveling the world, and sharing its joy for over two decades.
Drawing from his extensive experience in Breakdance, as well as his practice in Capoeira and Gymnastics, Janne brings a fusion of influences to his workshops. With diverse perspectives from these disciplines, he curates classes that elevate energy and expand body awareness.
Join Janne for an energetic workshop moduled for everyone, where you'll delve into your inner balance and embrace your body as temple and your sacred vessel. Welcome to a journey of self-discovery through movement.
PATRIK HANSSON
COSMIC DANCE, QIGONG FOR SELF-HEALING, FOREST BATHING
Patrik is a certified teacher in energy work (qigong), coaching (Zen Coaching), meditation (vipassana), mindfulness (sati) and forest bathing (shinrin yoku). He has extensive experience in a number of different traditions and has studied with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach (MMTCP). He brings his experience together through Frameless Meditation where he offers coaching, workshops, trainings and retreats.
At the festival, Patrik will hold workshops in Qigong, Cosmic Dance and forest bathing with a scientific touch, as well as offer individual coaching and sessions for empathic support. Patrik is passionate about creating safe places that help us find ourselves within. This state beyond stress and judgment is the core of our being.
BIRGIT SONJA ERIKSSON
HEALING MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Birgit has studied and worked with alternative methods since the late 80s. Teacher in Rhythmic movement training BRMT, Sensory motor trainer, Qi gong instructor, Certified masseuse and Shiatsu therapist. She has studied body therapies both in Sweden, Japan and China.
Birgit's workshop is about exploring the body's natural movement patterns and letting go of tensions and limitations to feel freer in the body. The movements affect the neural network in the brain and the physical, mental and emotional health.
With the BRMT method, you can also work on correcting posture and misalignments in the body. Simple movements that make a big difference.
Learn more
MARK REEVES
RECONNECTION WORKSHOPS, THERAPEUTIC COACHING, NATURE THERAPY
Mark is an integrative psychotherapist & coach. He has been offering events in self-awareness and therapeutic healing for over 25 years, always with the focus on supporting people becoming more connected to their true nature and living more fully from that place. He creates a uniquely safe environment where people can explore all that is within them, in a way that feels engaging, fun and natural. He is trained in Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy, a wholistic and somatic approach, and is qualified as a Forest Therapy Guide.
At the festival he will be sharing his Reconnection Workshops; a space where you can be your authentic self, without the protections and masks. Releasing some of the barriers that limit who you really are and finding a deeper connection to your inner flame.
Learn more
EVA DUNDER
ARTIST, DANCER, MUSICIAN, SINGER & SONGWRITER
Eva Dunder is a force of nature with great passion for live music, dance and the art of life. With a an amazing stage presence, powerful voice, heart opening songs and lyrics, she invite us into musical journeys, and also, explorative, playful and energetic voice and dance workshops! She is an multi-instrumentalist and she has been performing, singing and dancing her whole life.
Eva Dunder is here to empower, inspire and encourage us to express our voices, bodies and authentic selves. And to spread sparkling joy, love and uplifting energies through her music, dance, artistry and way of being.
Get some inspiration and uplifting vibes already now!
Instagram.com/evadundersol
NIKLAS GUSTAVSSON
DJ
Hello,
Who am I? Who am I?
You can call me Nicke. A warm friend for life. Vibes to everything that vibes. Likes thoughtfulness in conversations, reluctant to listen to superficial conversations.
The interest is great for body, mind & soul.
Mysticism & Philosophy
Sunsets
Everyday yoga, Dance & Music
Ultra running
Heavy physical activity
Food
I will play (DJ) electronic music, inspired afro house/deep funky house among other things, on some arranged occasions during the festival.
Namaste, Who is asking?
ANN-LOUISE FRANSSON
HERBAL WALKS - MEDICINAL WILD PLANTS
Ann-Louise Fransson is a herbalist and nutritionist who created the company Botanikan, located in the area of Mundekulla. A company that lives from what nature provides and has as its basis to gather and make it simple. An own health practice with herbal and nutritional medicine and lots of courses in living from nature through food, medicine, crafts.
Ann-Louise will take you on hikes in Mundekulla's beautiful nature and teach you about the plants that can be eaten and used as food and medicine. It will be a wing-beating journey back to ancient times where doors are opened to a source of knowledge that most people today do not believe exists.
Welcome to see how you can make it easy to bring health from common Swedish plants, the ones that are only there, for us. Simple, of course genuine!
ELISAH PALS
ACROYOGA , THAI YOGA MASSAGE
Elisah Pals has been a spaceholder, organiser and jam-host for the past 9 years, for weekly gatherings, as well as bigger annual events. She loves to bring people together and connect in movement and play. Her special focus is on Thai Yoga Massage and AcroYoga, but she is also an experienced mover, and has a curiosity for many ways of connecting people.
In daily life she is an environmentalist and psychologist, helping people and society as a whole to make better and more sustainable choices, with the help of positive psychology. She cares about nature deeply. Elisah is joining us for the first time and is eager to share her skills with you. She will make you feel right at home in her workshops and in your body. Her workshops evolve around play, fun, trust, balance, body awareness and communication. We are sure you will love it.
OSKAR ALYHR
AUFGUSS SAUNA MASTER WITH GUIDED SESSIONS
Oskar Alyhr, a tall and cheerful Gotlander and founder of Happy Vikings, is an experienced sauna master with a deep passion for holistic well-being. At the Embodiment Festival, Oskar will focus on guiding participants through unique and healing sauna rituals. With his knowledge in Sound Healing and Breathwork, he will integrate these techniques to enhance the experience and create an atmosphere of deep relaxation and balance. The sauna rituals, where heat and steam are used to release tension, are combined with sound and breath to activate the body’s own self-healing power.
Oskar views each ritual as an opportunity to remind us that the power for inner healing and well-being lies within us. During the festival, he will lead participants on a journey toward increased awareness, relaxation, and restoration.
JACKIE HÄRDIG
MOVEMENT, CONNECTION & INNER AWARENESS
Jackie Härdig is a massage therapist, hypnotherapist and group facilitator from the USA who shares relational and somatic practices. She works with transformational techniques rooted in different traditions which she has learned from living in many different cultures, but works mainly with South Asian traditions as well as American Shamanism, and embodied presence. :)
She has lived in Norrland, Sweden for five years and is very excited to meet you!
CESAR ULLOA
FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT
Cesar is a Functional and Movement coach focused on helping people reconnect with their bodies through simple, effective practices. With a background as a professional athlete and years of coaching experience, he combines strength, mobility, and functional movement to improve how people move and feel in everyday life.
His approach goes beyond exercise, integrating body awareness and mind–body connection to reduce tension, restore mobility, and build lasting strength. Cesar works with individuals of all levels, especially those who feel disconnected from their bodies due to modern lifestyles. His sessions are practical, adaptable, and designed to create real, sustainable change.
ÅSE CHRISTENSEN
ASHTANGA AND HATHA YOGA
Åse has practiced yoga for over 25 years and she trained as a yoga teacher in 2017. Since then, she has held classes regularly both at a yoga studio and at a folk high school for students with acquired brain damage and/or with various functional variations, including autism, as well as at a preschool.
She is delighted and inspired by the fact that yoga (always in harmony with breathing) is so beneficial for the body, soul and senses. Åse draws much of her own life force from hikes and strolls in nature and likes to hold yoga outdoors as well.
Åse also works as a musician (mainly pianist, djembe) and music teacher. She has been to Mundekulla many times (choir singing, yoga, hiking) and is happy to come back to the beautiful and inspiring environment.
At the festival, Åse will hold morning yoga and a workshop in Ashtanga yoga.
TINA GUSTAFSSON
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES
Tina welcomes all children to meet in, among other things, creativity, games and experiencing the nature around Mundekulla. Parents - please bring warm clothes for playing and coloring.
Tina is passionate about everyone having the opportunity to develop their unique soul and connection to all living things and Mother Earth. Over the years, she has been drawn to free forms such as dance, free breathing and painting/creation and more. Vedic Art has come to mean a lot to her - as the focus is on the desire to create and try your hand at it playfully - rather than the finished result.
Tina is also a trained Zen coach (mindfulness coach) and aroma therapist.
See you at the festival!
ANNIKA SCHULLERQVIST
VOICE OPENING WORKSHOP, MANTRA SINGING, SOUND JOURNEY, CONCERT
Annika is fascinated by the transformative and magical power of mantras and how they can create power, healing and strong spiritual connection. She has dedicated many years of deep study in Vedic and Tantric mantras and has learned to embody their beauty and mystery with her voice.
When she sings, she opens her voice to another world and becomes a channel for the greater to sing through her. In her voice opening workshop she teaches techniques for opening the voice and how we can shape our lives through our voice.
Annika has explored body, voice and soul through various techniques for 20 years and conveys what she has learned with simplicity, humility and playfulness.
JACK LIDBACK
HOLISTIC COACHING TAPPING/ HYPNOSIS, SOUND JOURNEY, CONCERT
Jack is a playful and curious explorer of the human spirit, passionately dedicated to music, personal growth, and soul discovery. With an open heart and a radiant presence, he invites you into a world of transformation, healing, and deep connection. As an NLP Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Mental Trainer, and Life Coach, Jack brings a profound depth of expertise in guiding personal transformation. Through his Sound Journeys and healing music, he creates immersive experiences that harmonize body and soul, resonating on the deepest levels.
His presence as a coach and guide is a comforting blend of warmth, wisdom, and playfulness, inspiring you to explore your inner world, unlock your potential, and embrace your true essence. With a vast toolkit and a heartfelt approach, Jack walks—and dances—alongside you on your journey to inner mastery and self-discovery. Let’s explore together!
LENNART HALLSTRÖM
DJEMBÉ & CO-CREATION
Lennart Hallström is a djembe teacher, African dance musician and team building leader since more than 25 years. During the festival, he will be performing on drums at several workshops and concerts.
Learn more
www.djembecenter.se
ARVID NEHLIN
COMP. MUSICIAN PIANO
Arvid has played music his whole life. Apart from being an amazing pianist, he also plays many other instruments. He works as a sound technician, live instrumentalist, music & event organizer, masseur and sometimes even as a chef cooking food!
For many years he has played over a hundred appreciated and energetic concerts together with Mamma Dunder.
When the detailed program for the 2026 Embodiment Festival is ready, you will find it here.
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