Soundscapes to Inspire and Uplift
Live music is an integral part of the yoga festival experience, adding rhythm, soul, and celebration to the day. Throughout the festival, you’ll enjoy performances from talented local musicians offering a mix of soothing acoustic sets, upbeat world rhythms, and soulful sounds that complement the energy of the event. Music creates a vibrant and uplifting atmosphere to help Inspire Yoga.
Live Music Schedule
8:45 am Main Stage Opening Meditation with Danita Nelms
Our Mandala Yoga Festival team has created an inspiring festival for you. Please join us as we ceremonially open the festival with gratitude for all the resources we have been gifted! Yoga is a practice that begins with you. We will practice a loving kindness meditation that begins with you and celebrates the world at large. Expand your awareness and receive the sacred space of the Mandala Yoga Festival!
9:30 am Main Stage Natural Satellite
11:30 am Main Stage Brilliant Bliss Mantra Music Journeys
1:00 pm Gathering Grasses Sounds of the World with Chaotica Fire Arts
The Sounds of the World will come alive as you hear whispers of enchanted flutes, the rumble of didgeridoos, and the heartbeat of dozens of drums, with stories unfolding through strings and harmonicas as the Chaotica performers add enchanted flow arts throughout this beautiful musical landscape.
Bring the flow of your unique dance, and the movement of your soul alive, as Bernardo Cano invites you to dance along with the music as you enjoy this creative all-instrumental ensemble of rhythm and melodic worlds.
2:00 pm Main Stage Ryan Hader and The Backward Echo Band
Ryan Hader has been crafting his unique brand of musical mantra magic for almost two decades. Together with the Backward Echo Band, Ryan offers regular Kirtan events featuring call and response chanting of mantras rooted in ancient yogic traditions. All are welcome!
4:00 pm Main Stage Inspire! — Bernardo Cano’s Live-Looping Beats and Mantras Co-Creation
In this wildly creative and organic set, Bernardo will build a multi-layered Vocal Harmonic Singing Loop LIVE, in-the-moment, with the help of fest participants who are invited to co-create the flowing musical landscape. While roaming the audience, Bernardo will collect vocal sounds and mantra words into the microphone that will then be looped and woven into the sound tapestry, ultimately creating one amazingly inspired LIVE song. Throughout the experience, Bernardo will be joined by his Chaotica Fire Arts team who will be adding beautiful flow arts movement to the magic of the creation.
5:15 pm Main Stage LIBERATE Ecstatic Dance Experience + Energetic Activation with Andrea Ivory
LIBERATE is a powerful, immersive musical journey created by Creatrix Andrea Ivory, designed to awaken your inner spark, tap into your personal power, and liberate your truth. Born from a transformational experience in the Costa Rican jungle, Andrea channeled completely original music that energetically captures a shift from suffering to freedom. Blending diverse genres, rhythms, and vibes, the experience builds in waves, inviting you to breathe, listen, move, dance, reflect, or simply be present—however liberation calls to you. Encoded with transformative frequencies, the music offers potent activations to support your own return to Liberation.
6:45 pm Main Stage Closing Ceremony with the Festival Team
We will close this Mandala Yoga Festival with our creative planning stories, maybe some bloopers, and likely a few tears! The planning team will share with you some of the personal moments that have made this festival so extraordinary. Please join us as we close this festival with gratitude and love!
Meet the Musicians
Andrea Ivory 5:15 pm
Brilliant Bliss Band 11:30 am
Chaotica Fire Arts 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm
Natural Satellite 9:30 am
