Quinta Ten Chi is an epicenter for the transformation of humanity.
From Ego to Eco, we listen to the universe’s emergent future songs to tune in with our hearts, heads and hands and be conscious co-creators of a world of peace, abundance and love.
We take time to listen to our bodies, each other and nature.
We thrive collectively and inspire others to flourish in collaboration and celebration of diversity.
As Sarah Yip, scientist turned astrologer, says “The answer to war isn’t peace. It’s creativity.”
What is creativity?
The first definition we find on the web is: the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.
And that seems only to move the question to a different level:
– what is imagination and what are original ideas?
– Where do the things that we never imagined come from?
– Are they something born in the head of an individual person? Or belong to a different level of explanation?
How you look at these questions can really change your perspective on life and on what is necessary to allow creativity.
The 2025 Year of the Wooden Snake is a chance to shed what no longer serves us.
The Snake is Yin in nature and this shedding is unfolding through observation and precision.
The lesson of the snake is to focus on refining efforts rather than rushing into things. The snake is patient and strikes only when the moment is right, the rest of the time it is still and observing.
2025 asks us to pause, feel into the present, and practice awareness. Pierce harmful illusions. Conserve energy and only act when the time is right. This yin wood snake year is one of refinement, working with what already exists rather than seeking constant expansion.
The Yin wood energy represents the early growth of the seedling. Having broken through the soil, it is small, tender and vulnerable. We may look at that blade of grass as soft and weak because all we see is something small, continually bending to the wind and being stomped on by feet and hooves. But it remains because its outward-yielding nature is firmly rooted in its internal nature.
2025 is an opportunity for reflection, adaptability, and intentional growth, inviting us to a reconnection to our deeper purpose. If we let Snake Year initiate us, we will come out completely different people.
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To support our journey together during this deep and transformative time, we have 3 powerful invitations:
Be PRESENT
We start by slowing down and fully letting go of the wood Dragon’s urgency. It is time to be patient, take time to turn the camera toward ourselves and allow the transformation of our perception of the world by witnessing and letting go of all our preconceived ideas, including the exciting and powerful ones.
What are we willing to see? The Year of the Yin Wood Snake invites us to remove the scales from our eyes and the veil of our “point of view” from reality.
Being in PRESENCE and letting intention just fluidly unfold through us.
Perceiving without having to name, know, understand, like or dislike, opens every possibility to unfold, so that we can support what already wants to Emerge, what wants to be born and bloom Here and Now.
Allowing our mind, heart and will to freely contribute to the Beauty of the world as a prayer of Gratitude for Life.
Be SIMPLE
Snakes exude mythical qualities, and have taken on a variety of roles in different cultures. From divine shakti to Satan, snakes are and go everywhere, synthesizing duality, long stillnesses, quick kills, always grounded, unmatched instincts. Being ok at each point of the Dance, unfolding through revelation and renewal.
Life and Death intertwined forever in the constant Dance, allowing complexities to challenge us to love unconditionally, to take in each part of ourselves, even the ones that we hate the most!
Complex symbols invite a return to simplicity. It makes no sense to worry about the possible meaning of the Snake Year. Simply accept its invitation. Drop the unnecessary and simplify your life. The less baggage you carry, the more freedom you have to move and uncover your truest nature.
Be LOVE
A basketful of ritual cobras
comes into the tame little house,
their brown-wheat glisten tingled with ripples.
They lick the room with their bodies, curves
uncurling, writing a sibilant alphabet of panic
on my floor.
Mother gives them milk
—A.K. Ramanujan
We can only love what we’re willing to see, and see what we’re willing to love. The Year of the Yin Wood Snake invites us to reveal our love through presence and simplicity.
Love is the only thing that matters, love as a creative force rooted in Nature. Love as the practical expression of non-duality, the Cosmic Dance of Life. Through love we can see and accept the parts of ourselves that we have named Unlikable and reenter the flow of the Dance of Polarities.
Collaborating on behalf of Earth, listening to what wants to emerge from the whole, and transforming our planet through simply, loving every moment helps us navigate this time of accelerated developments in human awareness with the tenderness, aliveness and enthusiasm of a bean sprout!
If we let Snake Year initiate us, we will find ourselves in LOVE with LIFE!
Join us to celebrate and co-create a social field held in LOVE!
Our 3 levels of contributions:
How can you cocreate with us?
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Creative Residency
Creative Residencies are rooted in the culture of Burning Man. We offer the space and support for you to bring your dream to life!
Joning our Residency will give you the opportunity to bring something to full manifestation, being it a space for people to practice, sleep, sit, eat or a simple act of beauty in Nature. You will be supported by a collective U Journey and peers collaboration!
WOrkshops & Program
QTC will be the container for practices that encourage introspection, presence, connection with Nature and the unfolding of Creativity.
If you have a workshop, class, talk or activity that you wish to share in the festival – here is the place for you to come in.
Creative Participation
Last but not least are the people that come to join the festival bringing their unique contributions. The Creativity Festival is a no Spectators zone. Even if you buy your ticket at the door you will be invited to share yourself joyfully, playfully and creatively!
Our Approach: Theory U
QTC perspective, rooted in Theory U, suggests that a truly creative act, at any level, starts from a process of introspection – at either individual or collective level.
Where does the person, or system, see the world from?
What preconceptions do he/she/they bring to the process?
AND then be able to let go of what we already know – coming to a place of Presence in which we are Sensing what wants to emerge (Presencing).
This process invites first our mind, then our heart and will to open up and
from this empty space of surrendering to the Unknown, see what seeds are ready to be sown…..
Looked at from this perspective Creativity feels much less like a private endeavor of a gifted individual or group, and more a way of Being that allows anyone to connect with what wants to Emerge at each moment.
And if Creativity is, like Yip suggests, the true response to War, we can dream of a world in which each individual is supported and encouraged to allow creative contributions to flow!
Creativity Festival is that world!
Creativity Festival -
a world in which each individual is supported & encouraged to allow creative contributions to flow
It is a yearly event happening at Quinta Ten Chi, inspired by Burning Man and inviting collective creativity.
YES! Our Creativity Festival is open to all ages, walks of life and cultures! The urge to create and play is instinctual and we promise many invitations to allow your full self expression in the beauty of the forest!
Buy your ticket and prepare your camping gear!
Everything else, food, playmates and playground is what we offer for you to express your creativity with joy!
