Feb 3, 2014 | Sedona Yoga, Yoga Festival, Yoga Festival Experience
- Amara Resort and Spa
We are proud to work with many sensational Sedona venues and after taking the final walk-throughs and measurements, we couldn’t help but share the exquisite beauty that honors Sedona in all of her glory. Each location holds an incredible space for transformation, growth, imagination, exploration and creativity.
Come take a look with us and plan your SYF2014 Transformation!!
Salt water hot tub burrowed in the salt water infinity pool nestled cozily above the creek at Amara Resort and Spa. Here you can catch Pamela Quinn’s Ayurvedic workshops, Barbara Matsura’s Qigong’s Ba Duan Jin classes, and Robert Sturman’s Yoga Photography classes.
- Heather admiring one of John’s many phenomenal bronze sculptures that highlight the Sedona Creative Life Center.
Sedona Creative Life Center. Dedicated to creativity, fulfillment, growth and coming together in a diverse spiritual community for personal spiritual advancement, the Creative Life Center offers magical views of Sedona, beautiful spaces to gather and lifting rooms for learning. Home of our Mindful Therapeutic Yoga Practices for Veteran’s 2-day Intensive Training for Yoga Teachers, You’ll get to enjoy a healing meditative sonic journey on Saturday evening with East Forest from 7pm-10pm. Mark Whitwell presents Sunday morning as we move into Sarah McLean’s Meditation Gathering for World Peace at 1pm.
Start your mornings off right at 7 Centers Yoga Arts. Each morning there will be a Morning Sunrise Agni Hotra and Meditation at 7am with Ruth Hartung. There are many fulfilling classes here, Shelly Prosko’s “Happy Hearts Healthy Backs”, Liz Tucker’s “Bhavana in Motion” and Julia Mick’s “Biology of Ecstasy”. Sunday sit with Rama Jyoti Vernon for the World Peace Meditation at 1pm as Sarah McLean leads the broadcast Live to the World!
SYF 2014 Staff hard at work visualizing the magic and music that will unfold at the Sedona Rouge Hotel and Space. Starting Friday off, we have Barbara Matsuura’s “Sheng Zhen Gong, Unconditional Love Practice”, Saturday Stephanie Colletti gets our chakras dancing in her, “A SOULful , Whole-Being Healing Experience” and Sunday, Ana Brett and Ravi Singh encourages us to balance those crucial “glandular go-getters” in their, “Happy Hormones: Kundanlini Yoga” class with live gong music!
- Agave’s Terrace
Agave of Sedona is walking distance from our thriving Heart Center Vendor Village and home to one of the most breath-taking views here in West Sedona. Himalayan Institute’s Luke Ketterhagen will be teaching his class, “Agni Sara, The Master Practice” here, where you are sure to become the energy, light and transformative qualities of fire in this strengthening class. Finishing Friday off, Marguerite Baca will have us laughing, dancing with Outlaw Yoga and spinning fire with SYF’s Artistic Director, Matthew Hunsaker and tribe! This is where I’ll be Friday night, for sure!!
That’s just a few venues for now! Stay tuned for more visually stimulating captures that will be caught by our team of photographers and active participants!
Feb 1, 2014 | Yoga Festival
What an amazing musical line-up at the Sedona Yoga Festival this year!
The pre-festival begins with Michael Kolasa’s kirtan. Michael brings such depth and heart to chanting, filling the room with pure divine presence. Sheer bliss.
On Friday night, one of my all-time favorite sacred music artists…Girish. His voice brings us right into the space of our heart and his soul-?lled groove will move you from sheer stillness to ecstatic booty-shaking bliss. Wow!!!
Another fabulous choice for Friday night is Rahasya, the dynamic yogi duo. Their weaving of mantra, hip hop, funk and gospel will have everyone up dancing and celebrating!
And as we move to Saturday night, we have the soul-shaking shakti of Larisa Stow and Shakti Tribe. Larisa is a true bhakti priestess living her soul’s purpose. She and the Shakti Tribe pour forth powerful God-essence with their mantra rock, shaking us down to our very core! Holy cow!
Also on Saturday, Emily Tessmer/Orinda Blue will be serenading us with her melodic voice. Taking “spiritual pop” to the next level, Emily willenchant the audience with her angelic spirit and deep devotion. At Sedona Yoga Shala,a new yoga studio in town, the high energy of Lokah Bhakti’s “Yoga Art Show” brings the spirit of bohemian yoga alive, fusing together live music, dance acro-yoga and more!
A celebration of soul expression! Local favorite, Porangui will take the audience on a music and dance journey with his world percussion beats! Upbeat, soul-shaking fun! Get your dancin’ shoes on!!!
Agave will feature Mental Physix, a DJ duo made up of Crisanto Santa Anaand Dru Ali. Their mission?To explore the fusion of music and yoga to “create a divine union of healing, through self-realization and sound.” They are completing their “Journey To Sedona” tour at this event – it will be a grand celebration, not to be missed! Mental Physix is a multi-talented, DJ duo from Southern California. They will take you on an intensely spiritual journey through downtempo, drum & bass, dub-step, tribal, jazz, hip-hop and reggae and more!
Throughout the weekend (please check the schedule) more amazing music will be offered! The husband and wife team of Dub Sutra offers us an eclectic mix of electronic dub downtempo with chanting and live instruments mixed in. Their music will take us on a magical journey. Mental Physix is a multi-talented, DJ duo from Southern California.They will take you on an intensely spiritual journey through downtempo, drum & bass, dubstep, tribal, jazz, hiphop and reggae and more!
Andrew Ecker will lead us in a fun, interactive drum circle, where we can come together in music song and dance. It will bean amazing time exploring the healing effects of drum culture. Local dance troupe Haribol Yoga Dance is a collective ensemble of dancers and musicians joining together to help spread their love of yoga. Through the combination of vinyassa-style interpretive dance, and heart-felt kirtan, this caring group of individuals seeks to uplift others with their talents. The Haribol Yoga Dance workshop will be family friendly, open for children (and adults) of all ages.
The festival closes on Sunday evening with Sedona’s beloved kirtan band Natesh Kirtan (formerly kirtan wallahs). Their kirtan is a steady climb into the pure bliss of the heart! They will set you on ?re chanting the names of the divine!
I am so excited for this amazing line-up! The Sedona Yoga Festival is offering up some wonderful artists that are sure to blast our hearts wide open! Do you have your festival pass yet? Be sure to visit https://sedonayogafestival.com to get yours!
For those of you who were not able to buy passes this year, please come by the Heart Center Village Stage where so many artists will be offering FREE classes, music and dance. See you there!
