By Deidre Norman
We were so excited to hear about the brand new yoga festival happening in Mammoth this year! The Mammoth Yoga Festival is happening June 14-17, 2018…
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By Deidre Norman
We were so excited to hear about the brand new yoga festival happening in Mammoth this year! The Mammoth Yoga Festival is happening June 14-17, 2018…
By Ashley Shires
With so many yoga and music festivals out there, Campout for the Cause stands out as a conscious, authentic gathering, focusing on purpose and deep connection. Each year the festival chooses a different nonprofit cause, and this year it is supporting a two-year old girl with a rare childhood cancer…
By Ashley Shires
I have had an amazing, transformative experience every time I've attended Shakti Fest, at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, and this year was no exception. The festival is a full weekend of live sacred music and yoga with the most open-hearted people I've ever met. Reflecting on the 9th annual festival, I was overwhelmed with highlights, but the practical Capricorn in me has a few tips and take-aways I'd love to share with you…
PRESS RELEASE FROM WANDERLUST
Eric Krasno, Danny Mayer, Louis Cato, Mary Corso, Jesse Murphy & More Will Perform Together For the First Time at Wanderlust Festivals in Stratton, VT and Squaw Valley, CA…
By Ashley Shires
All the teachers we’re bringing into the academy are showing up big time, really wanting to share their wisdom in a practical, educational way...
By Brooke Nally
Set in the whimsical jungle just outside of Ubud, the Bali Spirit Festival made it’s 10th year around the sun, celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary. It was my first time to Bali, and I didn’t know what to expect...
By Ashley Shires
My favorite part is how people come together from all over the country: old friends and new friends, that sweetness of friendship and celebrating the path of love, the journey of love. Specifically at Shakti, celebrating the divine feminine. I’ve felt this great connection to my own mother, my first guru, love for the mother. That is very easy to translate into a relationship to God as Divine Mother…
By Julie Fustanio Kling
"I didn’t choose Kundalini, it chose me,” Rosen says. “Beyond a shadow of a doubt I am being directed and blessed. I don’t feel like my life is mine anymore..."
By Aleta Arora
It was a truly magical experience. As I entered the tent that was serving as a stage for this marvelous performance my eyes were immediately drawn upwards. There I was greeted by a kaleidoscope of colors. They gave me much of the same sensation as being a child and looking through that treasured kaleidoscope for the first time...
By Autumn Feldmeier
I'm a seasoned festival goer, a 10 time Burner, I attended the very first Wanderlust in Tahoe and I have traveled around the world to festivals like Bali Spirit Festival, Envision Festival and others. In the past I avoided Lightning In A Bottle (LIB) because I assumed it was too LA. Covering LIB for SF Yoga Mag last year changed that perspective for me and I absolutely loved it…
By Julie Fustanio Kling
Men outnumber women when it comes to presenters this year at Sat Nam Fest, April 11-15 in Joshua Tree. SF Yoga Mag caught up with three of them to ask them how they plan to help heal the divide between men and women in the #metoo era...
PRESS RELEASE BY LiB
Featuring Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Medicine Woman & Sundance Chief Carmen Vicente, Kaypacha of New Paradigm Astrology: The Pele Report, Activist & Founder of Indigenous Environmental Network Tom Goldtooth, Creator of Center of the Cyclone Meditations Biet Simkin, Founder of Juniors Pickles Jerrold Ridenour, and many more...
By Nikita Mehta
As the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, some 400 yogis gathered on the cool sand overlooking the surf for a singular purpose; to set a Guinness Book World Record for the largest collective Ohm circle in the world. For 25 minutes we sat, facing each other, facing the ocean, facing the sky and gave our vibration to the collective...
By Ashley Shires
The theme of this year’s festival is “Transformation Begins Here.” We asked five Hanuman presenters, Kia Miller, David Newman, Dayna Seraye, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and Tiffany Cruikshank to comtemplate the theme, asking them how their transformation with yoga began and how it continues to this day...
By Nikita Mehta
I hope for the retreat to be a time we can become very grounded in ourselves in a way that clarifies our actions in the world. Time spent introspectively heals and rejuvenates us to go back to our daily life feeling connected in a way that lets in a little more joy...
By Ashley Shires
Jai Uttal, the Grammy nominated musician, is a pioneer in the world music community. He began studying classical piano at age seven and later learned to play old-time banjo, harmonica and guitar...
PRESS RELEASE FROM SHAKTI FEST
Shakti Fest 2018: Yoga and Sacred Music Festival Mother’s Day Weekend May 10 – 14. Shakti Fest returns for its eighth season, this year on Mother’s Day weekend (May 10 - 14) at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, in Joshua Tree, CA...
By Autumn Feldmeier
A truly amazing festival! Yoga + Beach + Jungle + Tribal Talks + Sustainability + Witches + Live Music +Art + Connection + Meditation + so much more!! Envision, you surprise me every time...
By Nikita Mehta
There are 108 marma points in the body. These are vital life force points where two or more types of tissue meet. They are junctures in our body, places of incredible energy movement. In yoga we connect to these marma points when opening the heart or releasing energy through our crown...
