Beginning with a guided meditation to set intentions for the evening, guests were given the opportunity to write letters or notes centered around something they wished to bring into the new year, something they wished to leave in the current year, or a cycle they wished to break. We followed with a five course dinner intertwined with performances including aerial, contortion, and shabari. Each dish and performance was themed around new beginnings, stepping out of a period of darkness, or welcoming a change.
Post dinner and performance, we moved into the final guided meditation before attaching the letters to the lanterns and stepping outside to ignite the flames and let our intentions roam free, welcoming in the new year.