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2025
When Non-Attachment Cultivates Collective Creation and Transformation
Connect with the Greater Yogic Family to Build Community
Community as a Practice: An Excerpt from Jivana Heyman’s Book
Experience Sacred Land Journeys with Aumbase Sedona
The Rhythm of Purpose: My Journey as a Yoga DJ & Wellness Music Guide
Integrating Ayurveda and Yoga for the Ultimate Wellness Practice
2024
Indigenous Wisdom of The Pleaides & Lessons of Their Light
Magic Hiding in the Red Rocks
Immersions on the Red Rocks: Go Deep at SYF2025
Ayurveda as Integrated Healing for Wholeness
Create the Retreat of Your Dreams with AZ Soul Retreats
20 Minutes with SYF Photographer Ty Dobbs
Social Action Empowered by Interconnectedness
Relationships As Health: Ayurveda’s Healing Power with Insiya Rasiwala-Finn
Ayurveda and Quantum Physics: An Unexpected Pairing for Personal and Social Transformation
From Ashram to Impact: How Yoga Transformed My Life (And How It Can Transform Your Practice & Business)
Vedic and Western Astrology: Our Life in the Stars with Dennis M. Harness, Ph. D.
A New Paradigm for Healing Through the Power of Ritual with Dr. Monisha Bhanote
Why Co-Creation is Key to Personal, Community and Global Change
Anahata Ananda: Shamanic Healing Arts for Transformation
Use Your Practice to Inspire Community Action With a Holon
2023
Use the Solstice to Align to Your Inner Truth
Your Mindful Giving Guide for This Holiday Season
Complement Your Practice With Authentic Ayurveda
Go On Retreat, Help Heal the World with Soul Community Planet
Ground Into Your Practice, Anywhere, With The Root Board®
All Together Now: The Power of Intentional Community
What Yoga Teaches Us About Balance
A Yoga Hug to Midline — The Foundation for Asana
Role of Odissi Movements in Trauma Healing
Ayurveda — The Big Bang of Medicine
Nature Beyond Threads: Artful Designs Inspired by Nature’s Beauty
Vista Celestial: Beauty, Spirituality and Simplicity
The New Paradigm in Healing Body-Mind-Spirit and Planet
Using Polyvagal Theory to Attune to Your Nervous System
A One-of-a-Kind Holistic Experience in the Heart of the Mayan Riviera
6 Ways to Fall in Love with Your Yoga Practice
Spiritual People Launches with a Mission to Bring Communities Together to Thrive
4 Yoga Poses for Opening the Heart Center
Inspiration Through Mindful Chair Yoga
The Power of Functional Movement & Partner Yoga
The Ancient Roots of Surya Namaskar
Acharya Shunya’s Short Balance Meditation for the Equinox
Slow Down and Surrender with Yin Yoga
10 Years of SYF with Crisanto Santa Ana & Alan Alcid
Stick Your Marketing with Sticker Communications
10 Years of SYF with Hemalayaa Behl
2022
More Not-To-Miss Booths at the 2022 Conscious Expo
Manoj Chalam: Telling Stories Behind the Practice to Reveal Inner Truths
Your 2022 On-The-Land Excursions!
What Not to Miss at the SYF Conscious Expo 2022
Janet Farnsworth: Using the Body as Access to Grace
Dr. Tequilla Hill: Creating Grace Through Compassionate Connection
Shanna Small: Creating Grace by Adapting Tradition and Learning to Flow
Allé K: Trans Yoga and Holding Space for Collective Liberation
Fern Conn: An Energetic Approach to Nourish More Than Your Anatomy
Retreat to Spirit: A New Kind of Trauma-Informed Training at SYF This Year
Hawah Kasat: Finding Yoga Everywhere
Desiree Rumbaugh — Moving Through the Ages with Yoga
Oneika Mays: Why Diversity of Ideas is Important at Yoga Festivals
Crisanto Santa Ana: How Music Creates the Space for Grace
Why SYF Is Different This Year — And Why You Can’t Miss June’s Event
2020
Friday March 27, 2020
Saturday March 28, 2020
Sunday March 29, 2020
The World Needs You – Your Message Matters
Four Unique High Desert Retreat Destinations (Outside the US)
Better Together – 4 Reasons to Embrace the Power of Community
The Butterfly Effect: 4 Ways Yoga Sparks Personal Evolution + Collective Growth
2020 Vision: Clarity Of Purpose – Setting Your Intention for a Meaningful Decade
2019
The Greatest Gift
Gratitude 365
Wisdom on the Wing: Taking Flight with Our 2020 Faculty
Brain & Soul Science for NEXT Level Yoga by Pete A. Sanders Jr.
Vedic Astrology for The Weekend of SYF2019
3 Tools for Easing Life with Trauma – Today
Sedona Yoga Festival & Zero Waste
2019: A Year Without Waste
Every Soul Has a Journey. What’s Yours?
ClimateYogi: Awareness + Action
Yoga for PTSD Training and Healing Village at SYF2019
Keep calm and do some Yoga
Soul-u-tions: Solving the Connection vs Protection Dilemma
2018
Zen Living in Mystical Sedona
Meditation: Pressing the Reset Button
Monumental Moments
9 Insights from Living with PTSD by Marc Titus @cedarmesa
Yoga for PTSD at Sedona Yoga Festival
WHAT CAN I DO by Rama Jyoti Vernon
Waking Matters
Channelings by Amean Hameed
Are You Feeling Disconnected or Uninspired? Tap into a natural source of energy to increase your vitality and aliveness
The Sister Wound and the Feminine Rising
The Spirit of Yoga in Sedona
Forward Thinking about Springing Back: SYF2019
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #7: NOW is the Time for Community
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #6: The Trauma Training Experts are Here
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #5: Our Teachers are Sages for the Ages
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #4: Music for Sacred Movement
CEUs at SYF2018
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #3: Your Students Will Thank You
The SYF2018 Special Events Calendar is Here!
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Reason #2: It’s Freakin’ Sedona, Y’all.
SYF2018 Red Rock Magic Trolley Schedule
7 Reasons to Get Your Asana to Sedona: Important Conversations are Happening
HealingPAQ Offerings to SYF2018 Participants
Yoga of the Soul and “Living Your Retreat”
The 2018 OMcoming Ball featuring Tao Porchon-Lynch & MC YOGI !!!
Happiness Reset at Sedona Yoga Festival
Kids Yoga is back for SYF2018!
‘Crazy Salad’ Recipe from Balsamic Mercy
Yoga Blessings Arrives in Sedona
Unity of Sedona – Sedona’s Center for Masters and Students on the Spiritual Path
Sedona Yoga Festival 2018 Musicians Line-up
YogiTunes: Your Yoga Soundtrack
2017
Why Learn About Relationships From Us
The Buzz of Benevolence
Note from the Director on intention: SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE | Effortless Action
Summer Solstice & International Yoga Day Savings
Join us for the World Premiere of MANTRA – Sounds into Silence, at the Illuminate Film Festival
Collective Insight; Sedona Yoga Festival
Yoga Magic in Sedona
A Brand New Year, 11 Solstice Reflections by Jason Vargo
Sedona Yoga Festival Always Will Be My Home – Testimonial by Alan Alcid
Ten Things I Learned at The Sedona Yoga Festival
Testimonials from SYF 2017
The Evolution Revolution: Sedona Yoga Festival Wrap Up! By SF Yoga Magazine
Top 5 Reasons Why We Love the Sedona Yoga Festival by SYF Vendor Pi Yoga Pants
New Special Night Time Events Now Available at SYF2017 – BUY YOUR TICKETS
Join us LIVE at the 2017 SEDONA YOGA FESTIVAL! Now for Purchase at Sedona Yoga Festival
10 AWESOME Things You Probably Didn’t Know about SYF 2017
We are thrilled to welcome Kathmandu Yogi – A Sedona Yoga Festival Sponsor
You’re Invited, to the 2017 Sedona Yoga Festival
Lost in a Social Media Vortex? 6 Real Marketing Strategies for Yoga Teachers … Plus Free Video Download!
The Healing Power Of Your Creativity – Blog by SYF Sponsor, Infinite Beginnings
Yogi Detox
Yoga for PTSD
Kid Zone Returns to SYF with Sitara Van Block
Robert Sturman on Tao Porchon Lynch; Asana Artist, SYF 2017 Presenter, Author, and 98-year-old Yogini
2016
Ten Gallons – A Story of Strength
From Presents to Presence… the best gift of All.
Kathmandu Yogi – More Than Meditation
Total Body Cleanse – Find your way hOMe.
The Beauty of Slow – by Heather K. Parris, owner of Self Propelled Tours in Sedona, AZ
The Most Valuable Yoga Sutra; Love
What is Yoga Music? An Insightful look & FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD from DJ TAZ
Spiritual Detox; A Whole Body Cleanse, The Key to a Happier Life?
Adventure Travel – the Makings of an Aumbase Sedona Adventure
2017 Sedona Yoga Festival to be held at The Collective Sedona
Yoga Rocks the Park Returns to Phoenix & Tempe this Fall!
What happens at Sedona Yoga Festival? What can you expect?
5 Reasons Sedona Yoga Festival Will Rock Your Asana
Letter to Attendees of SYF2016
Love Your Brain Foundation
Yoga is the healing balm…
Teri Undreiner
Pamela Joy Teacher Feature
Mimi Solaire
2015
SYF Presenter Amalia Camateros
Anton Mackey
Camella Nair
Albert Flynn
Isabella Greene
What is a Vortex? by SYF2016 Presenter Pete Sanders, Jr
Consciousness Unfolding – the Creation of Transformation.
Denise Thompson
Silvia Mordini
Journey Back Home by Dulce Ruby
Blast from the Past, Paving the way to the 2016 Sedona Yoga Festival
2014
The Magic Portal of the Winter Solstice
How Gratitude Improves Our Well-Being
Turkey with a Side of Gratitude!
From Stress to Inspiration Sedona Magic
The sky is blue… but all I see is grey.
Gratitude
Connect to the Present Moment
Yoga For Personal Growth – Yoga Is About Living!
the Art of Toes…
The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: A Q&A with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Consciousness & Your Gut by Jeff Masters
The day has arrived!! We are just waiting for you!
Chakra Energy Dance: A SOULful, Whole-Being Healing Experience with Stephanie Colletti, SYF2014 Presenter
A walk through our stunning venues-words and photos by SYF’s Executive Assistant, Jeness May
Cooking the Yoga Sutras by SYF2014 presenter, Camella Nair
SYF2014 Musical Download by SYF’s very own Musical Director and Sound Alchemist, Valerie Irons
Yoga and Mysticism for Women by SYF 2014 Presenter, Camilla Nair
Why Military and Veteran Families Matter by 2014SYF Presenter, Pamela Stokes-Eggleston
Yoga For Lawyers at Sedona Yoga Festival
FIRST PENGUINS AT SEDONA YOGA FESTIVAL by 2014SYF Presenter, Silvia Mordini
How yoga helps Vets by SYF2014 Presenter, Chris Eder
Sedona Yoga Festival, a consciousness evolution conference
Vajrayogini
5 Reasons to Go To A Yoga Festival by SYF2014 Presenter, Silvia Mordini
Truth, Love, God – by SYF2014 Presenter Tymi Howard
JOY TRAINING ~ it ain’t for wimps by Marguerite Baca
2013
Nick and Javier Montoya Share Ageless Yoga (Intro to Yoga Pre-Festival) at the Sedona Yoga Festival
Waking up from Savasana on Solstice day…
‘Tis the Season to Reboot your Nervous System: 2 Transformative Practices to do Anytime Anywhere
Yoga for Veterans at SYF2014
Winners Announced – SYF2014 Luxury Weekend Getaway