Welcome, traveler. You’ve found the herd.
I Love Elephants is a Ram Dass–inspired camp rooted in presence, compassion, and shared care for the living world.
I Love Elephants Camp is entering its 12th year on the playa, creating an immersive destination where visionary art, movement, music, and authentic community come together. Founded by Philip Price, known throughout Burning Man as Big Bird, the camp reflects more than two decades of experience designing theme camps, producing large-scale art, and creating transformational spaces at Burning Man and festivals around the world. This year's village is centered around three signature spaces: the Visionary Arts Pyramid, the Gaia Dome, and the Love Bazaar, each inviting participants to explore, create, and connect.
The Visionary Arts Pyramid is the artistic centerpiece of the camp, featuring visionary art exhibitions, live painting, multimedia installations, artist talks, performances, and inspiring gatherings throughout the week. For more information about the visionary arts in the pyramid, go here: https://eye-dream-elephant-camp.vercel.app/
The Gaia Dome offers a welcoming sanctuary where guests can relax with complimentary tea and coffee while enjoying sound baths, meditation, healing arts, workshops, and meaningful conversation in a cool, shaded environment.
The Love Bazaar is dedicated to movement and embodied expression, hosting yoga, ecstatic dance, flow arts, conscious movement practices, live DJs, and interactive experiences that celebrate the joy of moving together.
Whether you come to build, cook, teach, move,Built on the belief that participation creates transformation, I Love Elephants Camp is a place where artists, musicians, healers, builders, and explorers come together to share their gifts. Whether you're stopping by for a cup of tea, an inspiring workshop, a yoga session, an evening of visionary art, or simply to meet new friends, you'll find a welcoming village dedicated to creativity, generosity, and the magic that emerges when people gather with open hearts.
This camp isn’t about performance or perfection; it’s about sincerity, presence, and shared care.
If you feel the call, whether you camp with us, or not, we invite you to share your intention. 👉 Submit your intention here: https://forms.gle/v2vKPemeMgotX3uS7 Let’s build this together — with presence, care, and community. Be Here Now. 🐘💛
Welcome to I Love Elephants Camp
Who we are...
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The Origin of I Love Elephants Camp
I Love Elephants was born from a love of nature, a reverence for the wisdom of the herd, and a desire to bring a deeply rooted, heart-centered presence to the playa.
Our story began with a small group of friends — yogis, ecstatic dancers, artists, and earth lovers — who shared a vision: to create a space that honors the spirit of elephants not only as majestic beings, but as symbols of collective strength, emotional depth, and gentle power.
Elephants live in tightly bonded, matriarchal herds defined by memory, empathy, and deep connection. In them, we saw a model for the kind of community we wished to build — a place where everyone belongs, where love is expressed boldly, and where consciousness rises through creativity, service, and care.
What began as a single shaded tent offering quiet conversation and intention-setting has grown into a full camp experience rooted in movement, presence, and shared humanity.
New for 2026
✨ Open-Air Movement Pavilion
We are introducing an expansive open-air movement pavilion featuring 3,000 square feet of padded dance and yoga flooring. Aluminet shade cloth will stretch elegantly between four scaffold towers, creating a breathable, uplifting environment. Unlike the enclosed circus tents of past years, this design invites the vibrant energy of the playa directly into our moving bodies and shared practice. We are deeply excited for this evolution of our ecstatic offerings.
🚐 Playa Wheels
Our camp has dreamt of an art car for several years, and 2026 may be our inaugural year. One of our creative campmates is currently manifesting magic in the form of our very own Playa Wheels. Stay tuned…
🔺 Visionary Arts Pyramid
A breathtaking new landmark is rising at I Love Elephants Camp, as 56 feet width, our Visionary Arts Pyramid is being custom fabricated to become the artistic and cultural heart of our village. Inside, we'll present a curated gallery featuring some of Burning Man's most acclaimed visionary artists, with the full artist lineup to be announced soon. Throughout the week, the pyramid will host live painting, artist talks, multimedia installations, immersive performances, and evening experiences that celebrate creativity, consciousness, and community. By day, it invites exploration and inspiration; by night, it transforms into a radiant beacon of light, art, and connection—a destination where imagination comes alive beneath the Nevada sky.Ongoing Offerings
Our Be Here Now geodesic dome will continue to host workshops, talks, and interactive art experiences, presented by a constellation of friends of Ram Dass. This space offers opportunities to engage with, reflect on, and share in the living spirit of the Ram Dass Dharma.
Between the sharing of this announcement and the opening of the Gate, much more magic will unfold.
Our camp blends the sacred and the celebratory. Elders and first-time Burners alike gather in our communal shade, cool mist, and open-hearted circles. We dance. We meditate. We build. We serve. And we remember that this is a gift—everything we bring, share, and offer is a celebration of being alive, together, here and now.
I Love Elephants is not just a name—it’s a practice. It’s how we show up. It’s how we hold each other. It’s how we imagine a gentler, wilder, more conscious world—one dusty footprint at a time.
Join Our Vibrant Elephant Community
Experience connection, creativity, and growth under the moonlight and music.
5 stars from our visitors
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What we do!
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Visionary Arts Pyramid: Featuring visionary art and fantastic realism by the likes of Alex Grey, Martina Hoffmann & Robert Venosa, curated by Niko (ArtDrop).
“'Be Here Now' Gaia Dome”: A space for workshops and shared inquiry inspired by the teachings of Ram Dass, offered by friends and longtime practitioners within the Love, Serve, Remember lineage.
Epic Misting System: Perfect for cooling off under the desert sun.
Body Painting: Transform into a living canvas and express your inner artist.
Elephant Painting: Help paint our signature elephant wood cut-outs.
Ecstatic Dance & Yoga: Shake your tail feathers in soul-igniting sessions.
Workshops: Over 50 diverse sessions to dive into movement and knowledge with curiosity-sparking sessions.
Our Placement
We are again placed in the sweetest location on the Playa! Being placed at the Portal on the Esplanade. We have 200' of frontage along the Esplanade, running about 200' up the 3:00 portal toward A Street!
