SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: WILD WEST YOGA FEST

by iana velez | Aug 19, 2023 | ARTICLES, Festivals, Festivals 2023, Profiles

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: WILD WEST YOGA FEST

Oct 14th, 2023
Forestburg, TX

FESTIVALS

Looking for something to do this Oct? 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 Lori Klinger, owner of The Ponderosa Guest Ranch (home of the fest) and the creator and visionary behind the Wild West Yoga Fest taking place in Forestburg, Texas who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival!

What inspired you to create a festival?
I have been hosting yoga retreats and workshops, music events, and dinners here at the ranch since we opened in 2018. The festival is a combination of all that we do on steroids! 🙂 I love bringing communities together and Texas is so incredibly spread out, I thought what a wonderful way to unite yoga communities in and around the Dallas/Ft Worth area and beyond. A festival is also an easy, fun and less intimidating way to dip your toe into yoga and the world of all things health and wellness. While this has been a grassroots effort that is mostly word of mouth, the festival has steadily doubled in size each year. This is year three and it just keeps on getting bigger and better!

What makes your festival unique?
It has a hippies and cowboys kinda feel. The 160 acre ranch setting with longhorns, horses, and fan favorite “Donkey” roaming freely makes it a “Texas safari” of sorts. It is a true backroads sanctuary just an hour outta the metroplex that gives festival goers a real feel of relaxation and immersion in nature. It’s a one day festival, but has lasting blissful effects especially for those escaping the daily grind of city life. It is next level high vibes!!! And by pure coincidence the total solar eclipse lands on the day of the festival. We will be having a little lunchtime watch party. Almost too good to be true!

What offering/presenter or class are you most excited about for this year’s event?
That’s a tough one. Our lineup is chocked full of incredible teachers with varied styles from start to finish, but I am so incredibly humbled and stoked that MY teacher Amy Ippolitti will be joining us this year. There are so many things to get excited about…In addition to top notch asana classes, we have aerial yoga, acro yoga, ice plunges led by a Wim Hof instructor, hooping, a sound bath, a festival wide drumming circle, live reggae music, and a vendor village with tarot, reiki, henna tats, farm fresh items and all sorts of goods for purchase. We also have speakers up top to stimulate your minds while you enjoy some downtime, or lunch from a variety of food truck options. It is literally the BEST.DAY.EVER.

IG: @wildwestyogafest
FB: Wild West Yoga Fest
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LOVE Spotlight: Bhakti Fest

by iana velez | Aug 1, 2023 | ARTICLES, Festivals, Festivals 2023, Profiles

LOVE Spotlight: BHAKTI FEST

FESTIVALS

We are so excited to celebrate the release of our amazing LOVE themed issue! This week we had a chance to connect with some of the amazing presenters at this year’s Bhakti Fest taking place in Joshua Tree, CA this Sept where the Yoga Love team will be! We asked some of our favorite artists and presenters to share with us some thoughts on what they have learned about LOVE. Check out their thoughts on love below.

Dj Drez

Love itself is perfect and it exceeds the most beautiful definitions.

Krishna Das

You don’t have to create Love or Happiness, just uncover it. This is what happens over time as we find a way to live without fear, and with an open heart. Real Love is like the sunshine. It shines on everything everywhere. I have no doubts that love is who we truly are.

Shiva Rea

What I learned about love
In this journey of life on the path of Bhakti Yoga,I have learned that love can be shared – beyond species – in that creatures share love and compassion beyond their species like the tiger that nurses piglets, cats that care for lil chicks, and that great bond that can thrive amongst humans, creatures, and all of the plant world. Love is the perfect symbiosis of our relationship with our living sacred Earth.

Love is our embodied super alchemy supporting our immune system, longevity, and flow states, and yet can be non-local such as the love in from wisdom beings, Gurus beyond time and space. Love nourishes us when the desert of life is dry when we feel the load we carry is almost going to break. Love gives us buoyancy. Every day, we can realize that love is breath – an ocean that is breathing us now and ultimately as Ram Dass, whispers to us, “love is non-judgemental awareness.”

May we open to the ocean of breath as love and may all beings be transformed in Divine love as our very nature.

Nina Rao

This is a verse from a devotional prayer that Sri Siddhi Ma sang to Maharaj-ji Neem Karoli Baba:

Yourself devoid of attributes, you shower love and grace on all,
Desireless yourself, you are the creator of the Universe.
Formless, yet thou art the true eternal Siddha, The God of all, you are known to be bound by pure love.

SRIDHAR SILBERFEIN

Love can be very fleeting, here one moment and gone the next. Best to immerse oneself in the inner love of the divine and be happy in the moment

JAI DEV SINGH

Love is simple, wisdom is love

Petra at The Sound Mind Garden

Love abides in pure motive. Love wants nothing of you, and everything for you. May all beings find happiness. Sarva Mangalam.

Allison Eaton

Love is the answer to everything.

Divasonic

Love is the highest and truest of all frequencies amplified in the presence of sacred community – ‘Divasonic’

Egemen

My time on this planet I have learned that everything is here to teach me how to love.

NIDHI PANDYA

What I have learned about love is that we often lock love in our hearts and may end up spending our entire life in shrinking, terrifying scarcity. But when we open the door of our heart and let love flow, we can see it grow. And as it grows, it transforms our own life and the lives of others; it fills all dark spaces with light and eases all density into flow.

RADHIKA DAS

I’ve learned that to love means to serve. To put aside, sacrifice and tolerate the discomfort of material life in order to give and share practices, like kirtan, that will enliven our true identity – the soul.

YOGRISHI VISHVKETU

Openness and healing at all levels. Om

You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival! Yoga Love Magazine readers can use the code yogalove when they check out for a 10% discount on ticket purchases

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: FLOW JAM FESTIVAL

by iana velez | Apr 10, 2023 | ARTICLES, Festivals, Festivals 2023, Profiles

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: FLOW JAM FESTIVAL

June 8-11, 2023
Rixeyville, VA

FESTIVALS

❤️ Yoga Love Magazine readers can use the code
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Looking for something to do this June? 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 Meredith Walsh, Festival Producer and Founder of Flow Jam Festival in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival!

What inspired you to create a festival?
I was inspired after traveling and volunteering in Tanzania, where I taught yoga at a small village school that was started in its founder’s backyard. Our festival started as a fundraiser for this school, the Ikirwa School, outside of Arusha, Tanzania. We are so excited that this year we will be bringing the founder of the school to the United States for the first time and he will be joining us this year!

What makes your festival unique?
It’s the first of its kind. We are not just music, or healing classes, but a combination of everything with a mix of Burner culture with theme camps and art cars. It is a unique setting to get incredible music on a gorgeous property while submerging yourself into the healing arts. There is nothing else like it on the East Coast.

What offering/presenter or class are you most excited about for this year’s event?
All of it! I did all the booking this year, so I know it will be our best year yet!

Learn More:

flowjamfestival.com
Instagram: @flowjamfestival
Facebook: flowjamfestival

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY FEST

by iana velez | Apr 6, 2023 | Festivals, Festivals 2023, Profiles

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY FEST

June 21, 2023
Carlin Park, FL

FESTIVALS

Looking for something to do this June? 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 Heather Viniar, visionary of International Yoga Day Fest (one of Sunshine Wellness Fests) taking place in Carlin Park, FLA who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival! The event is free for all to attend, and classes at International Yoga Day Fest are donation based, with proceeds going to Paws 4 Liberty. Here’s where to RSVP and donate

What inspired you to create a festival?
I was inspired to create a festival because I’m a connector. I connect people with their breath, with their body, and with one another. There’s nothing more fueling for me than generously listening to those around me and hearing ways I can connect them to people which miraculously just brings people together in a way that supports and benefits all.

What makes your festival unique?
What makes Sunshine Wellness Fests unique is that they create community, support local businesses, create healing, wellness, and FUN for all, and most importantly, each event gives back to a local organization that deserves a little extra love for what they do. International Yoga Day Fest 2023 is donating a portion of the proceeds to Paws 4 Liberty, a local non-profit that trains service dogs for Veterans at no cost. They are up to something so special, providing a valuable and meaningful service for the community.

We have some amazing sponsors supporting the event this year including TruWellnessMD, Bill Barbosa Photography, Collaborated Wellness Cryo, Thrive Power Yoga Palm Beach and more to be announced soon!

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

The aspect I’m most excited for at International Yoga Day Fest 2023 is that the location the event is facing and the time of day it’s at, the sun will be setting while classes go on, especially our final class which is a community sound bath/meditation. It is going to be an incredible sight to see, and an incredible energy to experience.

SOCIAL:

IG @igniteyoursunshine
FB @igniteyoursunshine

Spotlight Festival: Bronx Yoga Summit

by iana velez | Apr 6, 2023 | ARTICLES, Festivals, Festivals 2023, Profiles

SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL: Bronx Yoga Summit

June 24, 2023
Bronx, NY

FESTIVALS

Looking for something to do this June? 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 Ms. Marilyn Johnson and Ms. Abena Anum the co-curators of Bronx Yoga Summit taking place in Bronx, NY who we are thrilled to partner with! You will be able to get complimentary copies of our magazine at this festival!

What inspired you to create a festival?
Yoga can benefit the community in so many ways. Stress Management, mindfulness, increased sense of well-being

What makes your festival unique?
It’s in the Bronx! We are showing that people in the Bronx *are* interested in Healing and Wellness.

What offering/presenter or class are you most excited about for this year’s event?
ALL of them! Each one is unique and we are excited to introduce various styles to the attendees. We are looking forward to the Sound Bath, as we know it’s a powerful modality with numerous benefits.