DIRTY SOUTH FEST 2024

DIRTY SOUTH FEST 2024

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: DIRTY SOUTH FEST

August 23-25, 2024
Atlanta, GA

FESTIVALS

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Looking for something to do this August? We are thrilled yoga festivals are back and can’t wait to check out all the amazing events taking place around the world. This week we had a chance to connect with Catherine Koonce, Director of Operations at  Dirty South Fest who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival! 

What makes your festival unique?
This is Dirty South Yoga Fest’s 10th year! In 2024, we added a Friday schedule that includes two expert panels. Extending the schedule allows more time to gather together to flow, breathe and find tiny joys throughout the weekend.

Share with us what you LOVE about your festival location?
I love bringing people into Downtown Atlanta. The architecture, the diversity, the community make up a beautiful and historic landscape to share with our attendees. Our ticket holders also appreciate the free parking deck at the Loudermilk Center!

The theme of our issue this year is JOY, how do yoga festivals inspire JOY?
Our beloved yoga community in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast shines with JOY during and after Dirty South Yoga Fest. Joy begets gratitude beautifully. JOY is easily found and spread when you’re able to curate, coordinate, and execute such a meaningful event for three days. 

Tickets & schedule available on Friday, May 24
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SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: LITT YOGA FESTIVAL

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: LITT YOGA FESTIVAL

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: LITT YOGA FESTIVAL

Aug 29 – Sept 1, 2024
Quilcene, Washington

FESTIVALS

BIG BEAR YOGA FESTIVAL
Looking for something to do this August? We are thrilled yoga festivals are back and can’t wait to check out all the amazing events taking place around the world. This week we had a chance to connect with Debbie Dixon, Founder and Creator of LiTT Yoga Festival who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to pick up complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival! We asked Debbie to share some thoughts on JOY, which is also the theme of our new issue and this is what they shared. 
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“We are thrilled to bring the LiTT Yoga Festival to Quilcene,” said Debbie Dixon, Founder of LiTT Yoga Festival. “Our goal is to create a space where attendees can rejuvenate their mind, body, and spirit while celebrating the power of love and community.”

What makes this festival unique? 
LiTT Yoga Festival – A rEVOLution of LOVE – will feature Music, Yoga, Inspirational Talks and Community, in the breathtaking backdrop of Leland Lake in Quilcene, WA.

Get ready to embark on a transformative journey of love, music, and wellness at the highly anticipated LiTT Yoga Festival, set to take place Labor Day weekend Aug 29-Sept 1 in Quilcene, WA. Hosted against the breathtaking backdrop of Leland Lake, LiTT Yoga Festival brings together a stellar lineup of performers and presenters, including the renowned DJ Drez, his talented wife Marti, Govind Das, Eoin Finn, Torin Frost, Johanna Beekman and the captivating Manoj Chalam. Attendees can expect an immersive experience filled with live music, invigorating yoga sessions, inspiring workshops, soul-nourishing sound healing, and the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals under the theme of LOVE.

The festival offers something for everyone, from seasoned yogis to beginners, music aficionados to nature lovers. With a diverse range of activities and experiences, LiTT Yoga Festival aims to foster a sense of unity, self-discovery, and holistic well-being.

LiTT Yoga Festival is a unique gathering that combines the transformative power of yoga, live music, workshops, and sound healing in the serene beauty of nature. With a focus on love, unity, and self-discovery, the festival aims to provide a holistic experience for attendees to nourish their mind, body, and spirit.

Share with us what you LOVE about your festival location?
Leland Lake is a truly magical place, the desire of the owner, a fellow yogini, was to one day have a Yoga festival on her property and everything has been so thoughtfully placed with this in mind. It truly is a place to reconvene with nature. 

The theme of our issue this year is JOY, how do yoga festivals inspire JOY?
I have found that for me, most of my Joy comes from opportunities to serve others. My method of service in everything I do is heart centered. I get people to feel their own hearts and listen to that voice within that just wants to play and see life as a big adventure.

It is so easy in the business of life to move away from what is really important. Life entices us, sucking us into the stories and dramas of the ego and we find ourselves moving further and further away from our joy. Many are walking through life listless and uninspired. My life purpose and goal behind all that I do is to reinspire passion and reignite the spark that glimmer of hope that allows for growth, expansion and transformation.

From inception until now the wild ride of creating a festival has expanded every part of me giving me a larger capacity to hold an even greater amount of JOY!
Although I hold the title of creator of LiTT, I think in actuality LiTT has created me. Throughout the process of visioning and creating LiTT I feel like I have been reenvisioned. I have two children and when each was born I felt like a part of my heart that I didn’t know I had lit up. LiTT is my third child and my heart has grown exponentially since its inception. And I can’t wait for those that experience it to feel that love!

My whole life I have gathered people together under the umbrella of LOVE whether it be retreats, workshops, classes or life coaching. But, now more than ever it feels like I needed to grow the stage. The world as we know it is dissolving. Old belief systems are being dismantled and the world, like me, is being re envisioned. We need more ways to come together under the common desire for community, connection, healing and LOVE. 

LiTT isn’t just a place to listen to some amazing music or do some yoga, it is an opportunity to unplug from the chaos of life and plug into nature. It is an answer to the calling of the soul which requires we slow down, nourish, play, move and connect on the level of the heart. LiTT calls us to HEAL-EXPAND-LOVE-REMEMBER-BECOME

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KULA YOGA FEST 2024

KULA YOGA FEST 2024

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: KULA YOGA FEST

September 6-8, 2024
North Conway, NH

FESTIVALS

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Three Days Of Expanding Consciousness Featuring Yoga Classes, Live Music, Vendor Village, Wellness Workshops and MORE!

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S PREMIER YOGA FESTIVAL is back for a second year. You’re invited to immerse yourself in a weekend of community connection, inspiring yoga classes, holistic well-being workshops, and uplifting music as you take in the beauty of the White Mountains just north of North Conway at Theater in the Wood.

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SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: TRANSCEND FEST 2024

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: TRANSCEND FEST 2024

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: TRANSCEND FEST

September 14-15, 2024
Middlefield, CT

FESTIVALS

BIG BEAR YOGA FESTIVAL
Looking for something to do this Sept? We are thrilled yoga festivals are back and can’t wait to check out all the amazing events taking place around the world. This week we had a chance to connect with Allie, the creator and visionary behind the Transcend Fest taking place in Middlefield, CT who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival! 

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What inspired you to create a festival?

I love my home state of Connecticut and wanted to create an event where we all gather for a weekend and we can create a sense of community with one another while having the ability to meet local teachers as well as try different classes we may have not known existed right in our backyard!

What makes your festival unique?

This festival is unique because it blends yoga and movement classes with wellness modalities as well as forms of spirituality.  It is the first festival that really encapsulates a well rounded healing and transformational experience. There is truly something for everyone here, even if you are not into yoga or movement based classes.

What offering/presenter or class are you most excited about for this year’s event?

I am so excited for every presenter, it’s so hard to choose!  Just to highlight a few of our AMAZING offerings at Transcend Fest would be Kundalini yoga, Tantra, Shamanic healing, puppy yoga, and herbalism.  There are 90 offerings throughout the weekend, you will have to check out the website to see the full line-up!

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SPOTLIGHT: BHAKTI FEST

SPOTLIGHT: BHAKTI FEST

SPOTLIGHT: BHAKTI FEST

September 27-29th , 2024
Joshua Tree, CA

FESTIVALS

BEN CLARK INTERVIEW

We are thrilled to partner with Bhakti Fest this year and to celebrate the launch of our JOY issue we asked some of the presenters of this year’s festival to share some thoughts on joy. We are so excited to also share this special offer exclusively for our community.

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ALLISON EATON
“Joy is an inner radiance that shines outwardly when we are aligned with our truth.”

SHIVA REA
“Embodying collective joy is a cellular power that we have been accessing as long as we have gathered around the fire – the birthplace of the world’s first yoga practices. Now the science of collective gathering and the beneficial effects of movement, chanting, and meditation are catching up to what we have none forever – we long to be together to generate the power of collective joy particularly in challenging times. Bhakti Fest is such a transformative gathering for accessing this love-joy power within us all.”

JAI DEV
A festival where we come together to tap into the unifying life-force is a powerful catalyst to experience genuine joy. Real joy, when cultivated, can stand the test of time. It carries us through life’s ups and downs. A festival like this connects us into the great mystery, and thus to each other. From there, a great joy emerges naturally.

GOVIND DAS 
“Yoga festivals inspire great joy…even beyond joy…these gatherings inspire bliss!

Why?!

Because joining together with hundreds or even thousands of other like minded souls, all singing, practicing, dancing, and meditating together creates an undeniable and palpable field of the consciousness of unity and love, where the heart naturally opens and the nectar of joy and bliss arises. Don’t take my words for it, go experience it yourself!”

NINA RAO
“Yoga festivals are the current day non-traditional version of a sacred ‘mela’, with the goal to start or deepen one’s individual spiritual life path by coming together and receiving the support of like-minded community in practice. There is tremendous joy in the sharing of the practices that will ultimately lead to the lasting Joy of Real Happiness which is said to be our true nature.”

MARIEME
“Joy for me means balance, and I get balance by being as open and as understanding as possible. When I understand what’s going on and the ways of the universe I’m able to process everything better and life is just pure bliss and full of surrender.”

RADHIKA DAS
“Yoga Festivals give us a chance to gather with truth seekers. The collective inspires an expansion of consciousness.”

 

SAEED YOUNAN
“Joy to me is seeing the joy on other people’s faces while dancing and allowing me to take them on a musical journey”

NATALIE VALLE
“Joy for me is about enjoying the moment, finding happiness in simple things, and sharing those moments with others. It’s about letting go and letting happiness take over, whether I’m laughing, dancing, talking, or just being in nature. Yoga festivals wrap all of this together, making them a perfect source of joy for me.”

 

 AJEET 
“For me it is always important to take intentional time from our busy lives to reconnect and give space to our inner worlds. Yoga is a beautiful and nourishing practice for body and heart, so to take time away from the needs of daily life to let this practice carry you inward is an incredible gift and can give so much. These spaces nourish and inspire so we can go back to our lives with fresh energy and more in tune with the realm within.”

ARJUN BRUGGEMAN
“The feeling of joy for me arises when the grace of surrender happens. From acceptance of what is comes the feeling of peace and then the joyful blooming of life itself.”

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ATHA RETREAT HOUSE

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Retreat Bliss at Atha Retreat House

Our newest studio partner Atha Yoga Shala, located in Delray Beach, FLA also has a gorgeous retreat space you won’t want to miss! The retreat house sits on a 4 acre property right in the middle of Delray Beach. You can enjoy a full-service spa with 5 saunas on the property and yoga studios, heated, non-heated, and outdoor facilities. Learn more about this beautiful space below in our chat with COO Nicole Acacio. 

What makes Atha Retreat Shala unique?

We sit on 4 acres in Delray Beach, FL. and you are transported to a tropical lush garden when you arrive at our property. We have heated and non heated yoga space/studios on property, an outside event yard with a stage and large space for yoga under the stars, a shaded large deck surrounded by trees, flowers and foliage to practice on, have meditations or just group discussions. We also have a full service spa with 4 infrared saunas, a barrel Sauna, and 5 treatment rooms for massages, our shaman, aesthetician, and workshops. 

What is the benefit of hosting a retreat at Atha Retreat house?

You can come with your own group and have all you need on property.  The house sleeps 10 with 3 bedrooms all with twin beds upstairs, sleeps 7 easily in shared rooms and downstairs 1 large king bedroom and another large bedroom with 2 queen beds. As a yoga teacher, you will have access to our non-heated space, deck and event yard area to teach your group or you are invited to study with our teachers and take part in any of our 52 classes offered weekly. Plenty of areas for group discussions, classes, sound baths, etc. 

What is special/fun/interesting about the location of Delray?

Downtown Delray is less than 15 min walk to the bustling action of Atlantic Ave, filled with shops, restaurants, cafe’s, music venues, etc. There are also amazing public beaches less than a 5 min car ride from our property. 

Is the retreat space only for yogis? Can anyone book a stay?

Anyone can come to ATHA RETREAT HOUSE and dive into an experience they would like with as many yoga classes as they need, to spa services, beach time, dinners on the Avenue or just a peaceful couple days with one of our facilitators guiding them through their stay here with us.

The theme of our next issue is JOY, how do yoga retreats inspire JOY?

Funny you should ask. We say constantly to our staff and clients, they seem to enjoy it so much because they are truly sitting in their seat of JOY here at ATHA. Our clients get to know themselves a little bit better, our teachers and facilitators are their true self here and work is a state of JOY as they are in their true seat of JOY in their practices.  I can honestly say that an experience here at ATHA SHALA and staying at ATHA RETREAT HOUSE and self care at the ATHA SPA creates JOY! Come stay with us and find your seat of JOY

BEN CLARK INTERVIEW
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