MELT at the MRC w/ Morgan Sorne, DJ Luminus, Martin Bridge & Kaitlyn Cronin

MELT at the MRC Returns for our 3rd year, 4th Saturdays of the Month

Heart centered inclusive community exploration and celebration,
in a barefoot sacred setting.

Mar. 22nd we are thrilled to welcome Morgan Sorne from Los Angeles, CA w/ DJ Luminus
w/ live painting by Martin Bridge & Kaitlyn Cronin

Doors: 6:15pm
Yoga: 6:30pm
Opening Circle & Cacao Blessing: 8pm

Morgan Sorne 8:30 

DJ Luminus: 10:15pm Closing Circle 11:45pm

Morgan Sorne is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist, composer, and musician with a 5-octave voice as his primary instrument. Beyond his stunning vocal range, Sorne is known for his hypnotic creations, deeply textured vocal collages punctuated with primitive urgency, and an emotional wisdom that seems otherworldly. “Sorne sounds of the future gawking at you with a gaping mouth, fearlessly, and enveloped in mysticism.” (Red River Noise)

Hailed by Rolling Stone and NPR as one to watch, Sorne has performed his original work at some of the most prestigious venues and galleries in North America and Europe, including Art Basel, Miami The Walker Center for Performing Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, Irving Plaza in New York, and the legendary Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco.

Fellow artists from across the creative spectrum have also recognized Sorne’s unique talents and collaborated with him including Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails (Eyes Out), TV on the Radio, CocoRosie, Gary Numan, The String Theory, Beats Antique, and composer Bear McCreary.  His original music can be heard in film, TV, games and trailers including The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix), American Horror Story (FX), Life After Gravity (3DR), Infinitely Yours (Miwa Matreyek), and more. 

Sorne recently completed illustrating a 340-page graphic novel with musician, poet, and actor, Saul Williams (Slam, Holler if Ya Hear Me) entitled “Martyr Loser King” to be released internationally through 23rd Street Books (Macmillan) Winter, 2026.

DJ Luminus

Luminus plays a colorful mix of world fusion, balancing electronic & organic flavors for ecstatic dances, CI jams & festivals.

Marek (Luminus) has a variety of backgrounds. He grew up in communist Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic) where he studied puppetry, improvisation and drama education. It was then when he started to be interested in somatic healing, body and mind connection and finding freedom through embodied expression. Later after moving into the US in 2001 , he got a counseling degree and began working as a somatic psychotherapist. He became fascinated with the practice of Focusing and completed his Focusing Teacher Certification. Focusing became a framework for his psychotherapy practice, currently in Greenfield MA ( Solis Healing Arts ).

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Later on he encountered the dancing community and discovered contact improvisation form of dance. This opened new ways for him to work with bodily energy and to explore how dancing improvisation can contribute to healing stuck emotional energy.
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From there it was only a step away to become a dance facilitator and DJ in 2012 and to start working with energy of music and its impact on the body, connection to one self and to others.
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Since then his journey as a DJ and workshop facilitator led him to creating healing workshops and dance events across the US as well as internationally. Some of his beloved places that he likes to visit and create events is Vancouver BC, island Ometepe Nicaragua, Portland OR, and of course his homeland - Prague.
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Currently he co-creates regular ecstatic dance events with his teams in various locations.

Live Painting with Martin Bridge and Kaitlyn Cronin

Martin Bridge: Many of my works strive to honor small but critical elements of our ecosystem that are often overlooked. The creation of these works for me become a meditation on complex dynamics and how I both affect and am affected by them. One of my greatest hopes as an artist is to inspire others to help mend the sacred covenant between mankind and the web of life on earth, which gives and sustains our lives.

It is that desire that drives me to try and create palpable connections between my artworkand the environment around me as I try to achieve a better balance in
how I live.

Kaitlyn Cronin: Kaitlyn’s work lives in the intersection of spirituality, mycology, creativity, and the integration of Death in the sacred cycle of Life. The more she dives into each of these avenues the more she recognizes they are all languages describing the same phenomenon.

With the mycelial web as her greatest teacher and creation as her devotional practice, you can find Kaitlyn dancing in between realms as an apprentice to Mystery. 

Through visual art, ritual, conversation and workshops, Kaitlyn weaves stories and passionate inquiries that imbed us into our ecosystems and spark a deep remembrance of our interstitial and unique place in the expansive web of life.

Earthen Elixirs by Casey Rose Morgan

MELT: Live Music, Yoga, Cacao Ceremonies, Workshops, Ecstatic Dance, Sound Healing, Live Painting, & Elixirs,

The HeARTbeat Collective, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) arts and cultural organization based in Montague, MA

The HeARTbeat Collective is a group of people united by the common cause of creating and supporting gatherings, workshops, and events that inspire and educate people through the healing and expressive arts, with a focus on healthy and sustainable relations to the earth and one another.