OLD AND NEW TEACHERS
An inspired team of returning and new facilitators and musicians will guide the festival, offering their unique gifts to our shared celebration
Festival Program
Our New year’s Festival offers everything from dance to stillness, connection and inner exploration. We will release the full program a couple of weeks in advance, so you can prepare and be inspired before your arrival.
New Year’s DINNER
On December 31st, we will gather for a carefully prepared New Year’s Eve buffet, a dinner experience unique to this time at Ängsbacka.
Welcome 2026 witH Presence and Celebration
As the year turns, we are invited to pause and consciously choose how we wish to begin this new chapter.
“Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.”
— Rumi
As the New Year approaches, we invite you to Ängsbacka for a gathering that is more than celebration. It is a threshold. A space to pause, reflect, and step across with intention, clarity, and authenticity.
Rituals are bridges that connect what has been with what is yet to come. They allow us to honor our journey and to step into the future with reverence and joy.
The New Year’s Festival at Ängsbacka is an invitation to slow down and connect to your authentic Self while opening to renewal, play, and freedom of expression. In the cozy embrace of community, surrounded by forest, firelight, and the stillness of winter, we’ll weave together reflection and celebration, honoring this turning of the year with both stillness and aliveness.
CHECK-IN & CHECK-OUT
Check-in: 15.00 – 18.30 at the reception
First program starts: preliminarily at 16:30
Dinner first night: 18.30 – 19:30
Welcome Ceremony: 20:00 in Upper Barn
Check-out*: 15.00
*Clean your room before this time. You don’t need to formally check out at the reception.
New Year’s Eve Celebration the Ängsbacka way
On December 31 we gather for a festive vegetarian buffet, prepared with seasonal ingredients, colorful, nourishing, and full of flavor. Sharing this meal sets the tone for the night: warmth, connection, and celebration.
After dinner the evening deepens with live music and a ceremony of intention and community. Together we pause to honor the threshold into a new year, to root ourselves in presence and to connect as one.
Then we carry that spirit into the night around a great bonfire, a place to see and be seen, to meet one another in the glow, to celebrate as one tribe beneath the winter sky. From there, the night flows into a sober dance party of freedom and wild joy, where you can dance, let go, and lose yourself in the rhythm of new beginnings.
Welcome 2026 With Presence and Celebration
The New Year is more than a date, it is a threshold. A rare moment to pause, reflect, and choose how we wish to begin again. At Ängsbacka we honor this passage with both depth and delight: stillness and ceremony on one side, music and dance on the other.
The New Year’s Festival is a space to come home to yourself and to step into 2026 with intention, joy, and freedom, in the company of like-hearted people who long, as you do, for presence and connection.
Whether you arrive alone, with friends, or with family, you are welcome here.
Come as you are, to be seen, to celebrate, to reflect, and to dance into the new year together.
A glance into our previous New Year’s Festivals
Teachers & Musicians
The program team is currently working on the development of an amazing program with the best teachers and musicians. In the months leading up to the Festival, we will regularely announce new teachers and musicians so do come back to check it out!
🌟 JOIN THE NEW YEAR’S FESTIVAL 🌟
Volunteering at New Year’s Festival
If you long to deepen the New Year’s experience at Ängsbacka even further you are welcome to apply for a volunteer spot. As a volunteer you commit for the full period Dec 27 – Jan 3 and in exchange for your service you pay a lower fee. Read more and apply below!
AS A NEW YEARS FESTIVAL VOLUNTEER
- You will explore what it’s like to bring presence and joy into volunteer work.
- You will arrive on December 27th, two days before the New Years Festival begins, and you will leave on January 3rd, one day after the festival has ended.
- You are invited to attend all of the offered activities, outside of your working commitments.
YOU AGREE TO
- Contribute with five hours of working meditation per day, except on your day off.
- Join the practice of sharing every day, except your day off.
YOU RECEIVE
- A discount on the New Years Festival in exchange for your contribution to the work.
- Three vegetarian meals each day. You can sign up for vegan and gluten free alternatives.
- Accommodation in an indoor dorm either on-site or off-site.
We will soon open the possibility to apply as a volunteer for the New Years Festival
KaSia Soraya
Program Coordinator
Kasia Soraya brings together a unique blend of artistry, depth, and precision to her work as Program Coordinator. A therapist, lawyer, poet, and event organizer, she is dedicated to shaping spaces where transformation, community, and joy can flourish.
She has been part of Ängsbacka’s heartbeat for many years, co-creating and coordinating festivals and gatherings. Kasia has carried the New Year’s Festival, among others, with dedication, vision, and care — weaving together music, movement, poetry, workshops, and rituals that nourish mind, body, and spirit — always seeking to create experiences that uplift both the individual and the community.
Trained in IFS, Somatic Experiencing (SE), NARM, and Systemic Constellations, Kasia supports people in reconnecting with their inner resources, building resilience, and embodying compassion. She runs her own therapy practice and is actively engaged in the international IFS community, serving on the boards of IFS Nordics and IFS Sverige, helping root this work in the Scandinavian context.
Beyond her organizational role, Kasia is a mother of two daughters, and a lover of poetry, music, and embodied spirituality. She brings both clarity and creativity to her leadership — bridging structure with flow, intellect with heart.
