Something special is coming to the DMV
A pop-up lounge of connection, beauty, and meaning. Come as you are, leave more radiant than when you arrived.
For badass goddesses
craving something special
We call it Experiential Alchemy™
noun. gathering, practice, art
Luminous experiences that invite personal transformation through beauty, mischief, & creative ritual.
Not self-help, not spectacle—something rarer: a collective enchantment where delight becomes medicine, reflection meets play, & each participant emerges a little more radiant, a little more themselves.
Also? Damn good cocktails & mocktails.
What’s in the Mix:
🍸 Curated cocktails + elevated mocktails
🍇 Seasonal bites & sweet/savory boards
💬 Conversation starters & creative prompts
🎨 A hands-on ritual (yes, you’ll make something)
🛍 A quirky marketplace with treasures to take home
✨ A few surprises we’re not telling you about
Meet your
Hostess
Manya Dotson is a writer, creative strategist, and experience alchemist who curates gatherings that shimmer with intimacy, mischief, and awe.
With a background in anthropology and marketing-for-good—and nearly two decades living and working across African and Asian countries—she’s a lifelong student of ritual, adornment, and the ways beauty binds us. A maker at heart, Manya delights in crafting not just cocktails, but moments: layered, luminous, and a little bit wild.
She’s here to welcome you to Elixir: part salon, part spell, all heart. (And a little trouble!)
The Grimoire
Not everything I make behaves itself.
The Grimoire is where I keep the beautiful trouble—poems that taste of unfinished business, spells that smirk, unfinished sketches from dreamed up oracle decks, and rough draft chapters that escaped my memoir and refuse to return quietly. Here lives the raw stuff, caught in the act of becoming—before it’s shaped into artifacts of insight and awe.
Think of it as an alchemist’s junk drawer, if the junk was wonder, mischief, and a little too much truth.
Open at your own risk.