Exploring and dancing in virtual reality at IMMERSIVE X 2025

AREA X [Photo by Theobody]

1. The Moment It All Began

I was excited to be invited to be a presenter in two tracks in IMMERSIVE X 2025 and provide the venue and host the Official Opening Party in CLUB VIOLET. 

Why was I so excited?

Because this festival isn’t simply an event — this is a community space that asks you to show up as your whole self and engage and dance in virtual reality.

I invited DJ Ru to play for us in VIOLET, who has been featured by PBS and WIRED Magazine, as a long running VR Artist and DJ creating worlds and events across metaverses for close to a decade. So I knew all would be good.. and it was fantastic! She knew how to work the VRChat video player to be compatible with Quest users in a few seconds!

Opening Party with DJ Ru [Photo by one01]

The opening party was a blast with people jumping, flying and dancing around a newly renovated dancefloor with more screens, new dance cages and updated features, designed by VRium Creative Team.

2. My Motivation

My impulse behind the Lotus Mirror of Self-Reflection session in the Transformation track was to utilize the elements within Elysium in the Empire of Love world to expand our imagination and deepen our somatic awareness of the elemental forces we live with every day. 

The inspiration that led me to design this journey is the knowing that we are in charge of our journey on Earth and we have the inner resources to co-empower self, life and others and live in beauty. We can walk around the Wheel of Measure (our value assessment of ourselves) and increase our measure in all five aspects. 

3. My Self-Reflection

But in designing this, I had to face my own mirror of self-reflection and this stimulated some internal work that I didn’t expect.

I faced the place where I don’t forgive myself for making mistakes. I faced my self-doubt and was invited to look at my own physical self-worth.

Do I actually hold and transform with my physical body with intimacy - the correct choreography? Or do I give too much with my body and deplete my energy? 

I was reminded that self-deservement sits in the mental aspect and therefore is a very important key in how we think, that is, how we view the world and our place in it. 

If what my heart desires is not already in my life, how can I increase my self-deservement to actualize it?

4. The Remembering 

Watching others step into Elysium and explore their five aspects is always a beautiful experience for me. This virtual sanctuary is designed for remembering who we are.  

Elysium takes our breath away, until we are reminded to breathe by the guide, the Keeper of Reflections. We journey through the elements, beginning with the breath, touching on a different self-reflection piece in each element. 

We transversed the 5 elements and repaired the broken mirror [Photo by ArmaniXR]

The matrix we created in this session illuminates group learning and embodiment as the essential glue in the marriage of self-development and science. 

5. What IMMERSIVE X Meant to Me

I felt honoured to be a part of a global VR festival where health, art, society, academia, transformation and tech merged in a way that felt genuinely human and where the pathways to discovery were clearly laid out by pioneers, leaders and masters. 

I am passionate about exploring what we can co-create in these new digital playgrounds.

Education held within embodied spaces using the advantages of 3D models and animations, interactive games & workshops and virtual co-presence allows for many new ways of meeting, sharing and integrating knowledge. 

To learn more about the great mission, check IMMERSIVE X’s website and watch the livestreams here.