SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: BEND YOGA FESTIVAL
June 6-9, 2024
Bend, Oregon
FESTIVALS
Special thanks to Angela for offering an exclusive promo code for our community: FESTFAMILY for 20% off!
We’ve gone deep into yoga and nervous system regulation featuring sessions like Yoga & Lymphatics and more from Tiffany Cruikshank (who rarely teaches at festivals!), Reversing Sympathetic Nervous System Dominance, Polyvagal Theory and many others, along with unique and fun offerings like Sianna Sherman’s Yogi Happy Hour & Hypno Trance. And of course all of our signature outdoor adventures like the hike to the top of Smith Rock, forest bathing, paddle boarding and the river plunge.
Share with us what you LOVE about your festival location?
I love the convenience and the beauty: the evergreen forest, the Deschutes river, the Riverbend Park, historic downtown — it’s all together, easy to access and get around. Makes our attendees’ festival experience as stress-less as possible!
The theme of our issue this year is JOY, how do yoga festivals inspire JOY?
As we get older, it’s easier and easier to forget how important it is to intentionally build into your life experiences that foreground joy. Children find and access joy with such ease;it’s their natural state. For adults, there are so many stressors every day that it becomes harder and harder to both be available to joyful moments (our sympathetic nervous systems are mostly dominant during our waking lives), AND our daily experiences are often so draining. At the BYF, all of that drops away. There’s deep self-nurture and removal of stressors; the nervous system shifts into a parasympathetic state, so we become calm enough to be playful — fully available for connection and joy. It’s a beautiful thing! For me personally, as the founder of the festival, my joy comes from looking out at the beautiful souls around me during the event and seeing so many happy people, radiant with joy, deeply present in the moment.
Learn more:
@bendyogafestival
BendYogaFestival.com/festival-pass
