BEND YOGA FESTIVAL 2024

by iana velez | Jan 16, 2024 | ARTICLES, Festivals, Festivals 2024, FRONT PAGE POSTS, Profiles

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: BEND YOGA FESTIVAL

June 6-9, 2024
Bend, Oregon

FESTIVALS

Looking for something to do this summer? 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 Angela Liesching, the founder and festival director of Bend Yoga Festival in Bend, Oregon coming up June 6-9, 2024

Special thanks to Angela for offering an exclusive promo code for our community: FESTFAMILY for 20% off!

What makes this year’s festival unique?
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

GET TICKETS HERE

Festival Spotlight: Bend Yoga Festival

by iana velez | Apr 11, 2023 | ARTICLES, Profiles

Festival Spotlight: Bend Yoga Festival

By iana velez

PROFILES

Festival in Bend, Oregon coming up June 8-11, 2023

Passes are on sale now for the 2023 event at BendYogaFestival.com with the lowest possible price for the 4-day full fest pass. Special thanks to Angela for offering an exclusive promo code for our community: BYFLOVE for 20% off!

What inspired you to create a yoga festival?

More than ever, we need opportunities to connect in real-time, face to face with others — no screens! Safe spaces that focus on authentic connection are necessary in order for healing to happen, and we believe that the need to heal is a universal condition of life. It’s our mission and our passion to create these safe spaces for authentic connection, joy, and unity through yoga.

What makes your festival unique?

Our location! Bend, Oregon, is an outdoor adventure wonderland, as well as a thriving and exciting mountain town, so our fest-goers get to paddle board, learn to mountain bike, take breath-taking hikes, explore a phenomenal food scene, and even learn to climb at world-class places like Smith Rock. The opportunities are endless, making our fest a perfect vacation or retreat experience!

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

I’m most excited about the possibility of Janet Stone headlining our festival in 2023, but all of our presenters are exceptional — any one of them could headline any festival in the world!

Learn more:
@bendyogafestival
bendyogafestival.com

SPECIAL OFFER:
BYFLOVE for an additional 20% off!