Class Guides
These guidelines are meant to assist you in selecting a class, but every body is welcome to try out any of the classes, regardless of prior experience level! Come as you are, do as much or as little as you wish, and stay for what resonates with you! All classes are 45 minutes unless otherwise noted.
The entire class will allow for participants to remain seated or possibly on their back
Pose variations will be provided to create a broad opportunity for physical accessibility
The class will be flowing in nature, allowing participants to move through a variety of postures that feel connected to one another
The class will include frequent transitions up and down on the mat
The class will include parts that may be considered fast-paced, coordinating one breath per movement in certain sequences
Prior yoga experience suggested.
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Schedules
Constellation Tent • Cosmos Tent • Galaxy Tent • Moon Yoga Tent • Stars Tent • Sun Tent • Kids Tent
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Constellation Yoga Tent
9:00 am Root to Rise: A Vinyasa Journey Through Earth & Energy with Laura Paton
Ground down to rise up! Root to Rise is a soulful, all-levels vinyasa flow designed to reconnect you with the steady strength of the earth while awakening the energy within. This class weaves together strength, softness, and spaciousness, leaving you feeling both rooted and radiant. Come as you are, move how you feel, and rise in your own way.
10:00 am QiGong and Gentle Yoga for the Year of the Fire Horse with Jan Marnocha
Experience a unique practice in this all-levels class that combines Qigong and yoga. Qigong, which means "cultivating life energy," encourages the flow of qi (life force) through gentle, flowing movements and synchronous breath. We’ll start with a Qigong series and transition into a gentle yoga flow designed to create body awareness and flexibility. This is the Year of the Fire Horse. The year's intensity may tempt you to push too hard, leading to exhaustion. Qigong helps you maintain a steady, sustainable pace (riding the horse rather than being run over) by balancing the fiery, upward energy with grounded, restorative movement. Both practices help reduce tension, promote relaxation and an overall sense of peace.
11:00 am Tai Chi for Beginners with Janice Zuege
TaiChi is a series of gentle, physical forms and movements that enhance balance, stability, and improve movement confidence. Each form flows into the next without pause, ensuring that the body is in constant motion. When practiced regularly, it becomes movement meditation. The benefits of TaiChi encompass everything from mental, physical, and emotional benefits to spiritual and healing benefits.
12:00 pm Yoga Pilates Fusion with Jessica Fagan
Rooted in mindful movement and inspired by strength, this class blends the core-focused precision of Pilates with the fluid flow of yoga. Expect an energizing, full-body practice that builds stability, mobility, and endurance while keeping you connected to your breath. You’ll move with intention, challenge your limits, and leave feeling grounded, powerful, and refreshed.
1:00 pm Pattern Interrupt: Somatic Movement for Chronic Tension with Craig Woolley
Discover the transformative power of slow, intentional movement in this somatic-based yoga class designed to rewire your nervous system and release chronic holding patterns. Through mindful, brain-retraining exercises, you'll learn to interrupt habitual tension and pain cycles that have become embedded in your body over time. Expect deliberate, small-range movements performed with full attention, allowing your brain to "remember" how to move without compensating patterns. Perfect for those dealing with chronic tension, repetitive strain, or anyone seeking a deeper mind-body connection.
2:00 pm The Magnetic Goddess Awakening with Kristi Passehl
The Magnetic Goddess Awakening is a transformational breathwork and somatic exploration journey that dissolves suppressed emotions and self-abandonment patterns and awakens embodied feminine power.
3:00 pm Yoga Pilates Fusion with Heidi Zich
This fusion class blends vinyasa yoga with the core-centric strength and precision of Pilates.
Class begins with stabilizing the spine and waking up your abdominals. We’ll then move into yoga sequences and balancing poses; all with an added emphasis on alignment and core control. Just like a vinyasa yoga class, this wraps up with savasana.
4:00 pm Kriya Flow with Bethany McAnally
Kriya Yoga is an ancient spiritual practice that combines meditation, breath control, and movement to help quiet the mind, balance the body's energy, and cultivate inner awareness. This Kriya Flow practice will seamlessly combine this ancient tradition with a gentle vinyasa style flow, to leave you feeling grounded and energized.
Cosmos Yoga Tent
9:30 Vinyasa -Somatic Fusion with Alicia Renard
Designed to support beginners, hypermobile bodies, and those with mild to moderate chronic pain, while still appealing to the seasoned practitioner. The flow of vinyasa meets the healing power of somatic movement. Moving with care and compassion, we use yoga poses to explore and learn from the sensations of our body. Expect an intentional warm up, structurally sound and anatomical cueing, and a focus on how the poses feel over how they look. Class is completed with a guided body scan Savasana.
10:30 am Breathe, Rise, & Connect with Lori Smasal
Engage in this vinyasa practice - its moments of grounding, pauses, intentional sequences - and link with the energy and atmosphere of the festival. You’ll be invited to move, breathe, and rise into deeper awareness and a connection to something beyond yourself. Leave feeling rooted, uplifted, and attuned to self and the collective spirit of the community around you.
11:30 am Chair Yoga with Rebecca Vanderloop
A chair yoga practice that is appropriate for all levels; incorporating breath work and movement from the support and stability of the chair.
12:30 pm Yoga for Golfers with Jim Crane
Golfers take lessons all the time—working on a better backswing, improved setup, or fine-tuning their mechanics. But what happens when the body does not cooperate with the lessons being taught? If you watch golfers on a driving range, you can often see what is happening in their bodies. Tight muscles may limit rotation, weak muscles may force the arms to do more of the work, and poor balance can affect consistency throughout the swing. The body always adapts to how it is used, which is why movement, strength, mobility, and breathing become so important as we age. In this class, we will use the golf club as a tool to improve strength, balance, mobility, posture, and breathing. The goal is not only to support a more comfortable and effective golf swing, but also to help participants move with greater ease both on and off the course. Whether you are trying to improve your game or simply enjoy being outside on the course and smelling the fresh-cut grass, this class is designed to help you prepare your body for a better golfing experience. (Please bring along a golf club, putter preferred, if possible.)
1:30 pm Where do my Femurs Go? with Lisa Brazeau
This all-levels class will emphasize femur grounding in various asana. Explore your connection to the earth and the strength and stability our legs provide.
2:30 pm Connection with Brittney Dorsey
This spirit-led class is an invitation to return to the present moment through breathwork, meditation, and mindful movement, creating space to embrace gratitude and carry it into daily life. Rooted in connection, this practice weaves together inner awareness and shared experience, gently guiding you to rewire patterns and build trust in the knowing that you are guided. We’ll close with a meaningful connection exercise, leaving you feeling grounded, uplifted, and deeply connected.
3:30 pm Cacao Ceremony and Breathwork with Erika King
A cacao and breathwork ceremony is a sacred fusion of ancient plant medicine and powerful breath practices designed to open the heart and expand awareness. Ceremonial cacao is a heart-opening elixir drink that gently softens emotional barriers and invites deeper presence. This flows into guided breathwork to create space for profound healing and self-discovery. Together, they form a transformative journey of emotional freedom and inner connection.
Galaxy Yoga Tent
9:15 am Beyond the Veil: Breath and Meditation with Daniela Garcia Allie
This breathwork and meditation class will take you on a cosmic journey to heighten your frequency. Be prepared to come into your center and expand your heart through the use of imagery and guidance with the rhythm of music.
10:15 am Know Thyself - Sound Remedy with Ace Champion
Join Ace Champion, also known as Good Buffalo, for a transformative musical experience in Vibrations of the Earth. As an Ancient Native Tree Flute musician, Good Buffalo plays a variety of flutes from over 40 countries around the world along with 15 other meditative style instruments from over 10 countries. Allow yourself to be transported by the soothing and inspirational sounds of his Ancient Relaxing Flutes, which will cleanse negative energy from your mind and body. In Vibrations of the Earth, Good Buffalo shares his love and passion directly from his soul, guiding you on a journey through the enchanting melodies of his diverse flutes. You are invited to immerse yourself in a deep connection of mind, body, and spirit through a performance with stress relief and calming benefits.
11:15 am Resonant Stillness: Singing Bowls & Ambient Sound Journey with Cody Taycher
A deeply immersive sound journey blending live singing bowls with professionally produced ambient soundscapes to guide the body into states of relaxation and inner awareness. Participants are invited to lie back and receive as layered tones and textures gently regulate the nervous system. No experience needed—just come as you are and rest.
12:15 pm Heart in Harmony: Sound Bath & Guided Meditation with Jesica Schwarzbauer
This heart-centered sound experience is designed to harness the momentum of the Waxing Gibbous moon as we prepare for the Strawberry Moon. We’ll refine intentions, cultivate heart-brain coherence, and align with themes of love, connection, and abundance, both individually and collectively as you comfortably sink into deep restoration. The session will close with a guided meditation and a journaling prompt.
1:15 pm Brad Sullivan & The Jarring Gong of Danger!
This immersive, cinematic sound experience will be your guide through an epic hero's journey. Gongs, intuitive chanting, drumming, throat singing and more! You'll ride the waves of vibration, and come out feeling like the hero of your own movie!
2:15 pm Deep Rest guided Meditation and Sound Bath with Miranda Pollnow
A guided meditation utilizing breath awareness alongside the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls.
3:15 pm Yoga Nidra: Meditation for Deep Rest with Jessica Haessly
A meditation practice that combines mindfulness, body scan, and imagery practices into a cohesive, deeply relaxing meditation session, best practiced in savasana (corpse pose, lying on your back) or in a supported seated position.
Moon Yoga Tent
9:00 am Trauma Informed Hatha Yoga with Brooke Ulrich
Kriyas and breathwork will invite you deep within where we will explore the depths of your being in alignment-based postures. In a safe environment, we will create an open invitation for anything to come to the surface, accepting the parts of yourself you’ve been working to uncover with compassion. The goal is to develop acceptance for all of yourself and empower you to treat yourself with loving kindness.
10:00 am Gentle Flow for Inner Peace with Kylee Knox
A soft, heart-centered flow inviting you to slow down, breathe deeply, and return to a sense of inner peace. Through gentle movement and mindful transitions, we’ll soften the body and open space within the heart. Practice will close with rest and a brief sound meditation.
11:00 am Yin to Nidra with Melissa Benson
Yin to Nidra is a deeply calming practice designed to help you unwind, release tension, and settle into profound rest. The first 30 minutes will focus on yin yoga—longer‑held, floor‑based postures that gently open the body, hydrate the connective tissues, and invite spaciousness through stillness. The final 15 minutes transition into yoga nidra, a guided meditative rest often called “yogic sleep.”
12:00 pm Yoga Burn with Allison Butt
This dynamic class blends yoga, bodyweight strength training, and bursts of cardio. Build strength, endurance, balance, and mobility while keeping your heart rate up through powerful movement and intentional flow. Challenge yourself and leave feeling strong, energized, and empowered.
1:00 pm Vinyasa Flow w/Djembe Drumming with Nikki Hendrickson
A grounded power vinyasa flow with djembe drumming that combines breath, movement, and connection to the earth. The extended savasana will begin in silence for a few moments and then introduce the drums again for a relaxing meditative sound healing moment.
2:00 pm Myofascial Therapy and Yin with Sara Karimi
This class will incorporate self-massage and myofascial trigger point release techniques which will be taught and guided. Some yin poses will be utilized to find full release of fascial tension, creating relief and relaxation. If you have access to tennis balls, Lacrosse balls, or therapy balls, please bring them along!
3:00 pm The Path Back with Cathy Goehler
A heart-centric class to to support healing from injury, illness or grief. The class includes movement that is slow and steady, utilizing the RAIN (recognize, allow, investigate, nurture) method of checking in with body and mind.
4:00 pm Yinspired with Polly Tripp
In Yinspired, we will practice a gentle, accessible, form of yin yoga that includes attainable stretches, flowy transitional movements, release of tension, and grounding.
Stars Yoga Tent
9:15 am Reiki/Yoga with Bonnie Manthey, Amy Haffner (reiki) and Melissa Anderson (reiki)
This session incorporates reiki energy and yoga movement to make one class. Reiki yoga events combine gentle yoga with hands-on energy healing to promote deep relaxation, chakra balancing, and emotional release.
10:15 am Gentle Morning Vinyasa with Tanja Zins
A gentle morning vinyasa that invites us to begin the day with mindful, flowing movement; nurturing a harmonious connection of body, mind, and spirit.
11:15 am Surrender into Strength with Nikki Sunshine
This asana practice is designed to guide participants to get in touch with their own innate strength. Instead of forcing or building strength, we will surrender ourselves to the courageous flame of vitality that lives within. Using postures, movement and music, the energetic blocks that keep us out of touch with our personal power will simply dissolve.
12:15 pm Superpositions of Yoga with Austin Kopitzke
Step into various superpositions with your soul in this intermediate vinyasa class. The sequence will begin with a gentle warmup to connect body and breath, then pick up speed to tap into pranayama and soul.
**Superposition is a quantum term meaning to fully embody multiple states at the same time. There are no specific arm balances or "advanced" asanas in the flow, but the option is always there if those are in your practice.
1:15 pm Yoga for Self Love with Kelly Kelderman
This gentle yoga class is designed to help you reconnect with yourself and cultivate greater self-love. Throughout the practice, you’ll learn about the importance of self-compassion while moving through accessible poses and receiving supportive reminders to honor your body, mind, and heart. The session will conclude with a calming self-love meditation, leaving you feeling grounded, nurtured, and deeply connected to yourself.
2:15 pm Chaka Rebalancing Flow and Savasana+ with Nicci Anderson
The class will start with centering and breathwork, along with a short explanation of the chakras, followed by a slow vinyasa flow moving through postures that align and open up each chakra. The class will conclude with an extended, 10-15 minute savasana to balance and ground.
3:15 pm Partner Yoga: Connection Without Performance with Sara Ann Aerts
An interactive partner yoga class focused on connection, communication, and trust through shared movement and breath. You’ll explore giving and receiving support, setting boundaries, and being fully present with another. No partner required - come with a friend or connect with others during the experience.
Sun Yoga Tent
9:30 am Vinyasa Yoga with Dan Wilson
This vinyasa flow practice will be led at an intermediate level, so some yoga experience is preferred.
10:30 am A Twist on the Tibetan Rites with Kimberly Kamps
Increase your strength, mobility and longevity in this class inspired by the Tibetan Rites. Several movements will be repeated 21 times as you move through this vinyasa-style practice.
11:30 am Vinyasa Flow with Makayla Neely
Step into a vinyasa flow designed to guide you out of your mind and into your body, reconnecting through breath and movement. Together, we’ll explore playful yet challenging balancing poses, woven with deep stretches and graceful, fluid transitions.
12:30 pm Vinyasa Yoga with Crystal Hill
Vinyasa is a dynamic mix of flowing poses and some static holds for moderate to advanced yoga students. Creative sequences incorporate breath work with movement to build heat, strength, mobility and body awareness. Variations are offered throughout the class so each person can choose the level of intensity that feels right for them—whether they’re seeking a strong, invigorating flow or a more spacious, steady practice. All levels welcome, but prior experience is recommended.
1:30 pm Buti Yoga with Jessa Bongiovanni
Buti Yoga is an energetic asana practice; vinyasa remixed! A fusion of yoga poses, cardio intensive dance, calorie-torching intervals and deep core engagement through spiral structure technique. All practiced with upbeat music, leaving you with an empowered release. Your soulmate workout.
2:30 pm Strong Flow Yoga with Melanie Landgraf
Strong Flow is recommended for experienced beginners and intermediate students and is taught in a flow-style using sun salutations. This class offers a wide range of postures and variations. This class may not be the most appropriate for those brand new to yoga. If you have been practicing for at least a few months, feel comfortable with foundational postures, and are looking for more strengthening or challenge, we think you'll love it!
3:30 pm Roots & Rhythm Vinyasa Flow with Shannon Dysinger
Roots & Rhythm is a music-infused vinyasa flow that blends grounded movement, breath-led transitions, and soulful rhythm. Expect a well-rounded class designed to leave you feeling rooted, open, and restored.
Kids Yoga Tent
All kid classes are 30 minutes or less. Instructors will guide according to the ages and attention spans of participants as best as they can. Kids and their accompanying adult(s) are free to jump in or out of the class as desired.
10:00am Kids Aquatic Adventure with Jen Tews
Explore the deep! Journey to the ocean and explore the marine life through yoga.
11:00am Be the Rainbow with Nikki Sunshine
This is an asana class designed for kids that combines postures, play, dance, stillness and connection. The class incorporates some basic yogic postures and practices, while also infusing creativity and play to keep kids engaged. Throughout the class the kiddos will have the chance to practice yoga, self expression, and even a few moments of stillness.
12:00pm Kid’s Yoga Story with Jess Fagan
Kids will be guided through a yoga flow that will be inspired through story.
1:00pm Murphey’s Magic Moment with Murphey Davel
A playful, energetic yoga class led by a kid! Murphey brings creativity and fun to the mat, making yoga feel like an adventure. This class is all about moving our bodies, uand finding our calm. Perfect for young yogis of all levels, this session encourages self-expression, confidence, and connection through joyful movement.
2:00pm Kid’s Animal Yoga with Heidi Heimerl
Get ready to rawr, bark, fly and swim! We will playfully explore yoga poses, while envisioning and embodying the spirit of great animals. While not all fun and games, this gentle intro to yoga nurtures some of life’s most important skills; emotional regulation, the ability to pause and reflect, focus, and understanding the body’s sense signals. Start them young!
3:00pm Super Hero Yoga with Chris Marcks
The world needs your help! There is a shortage of Super Heros and now is the time to learn skills to team up in protecting the planet. Join Chris for a playful practice that takes you in and out of poses that will help you be more like your favorite super hero so you too can stand up for good!
4:00pm Be the Rainbow with Nikki Sunshine
This is an asana class designed for kids that combines postures, play, dance, stillness and connection. The class incorporates some basic yogic postures and practices, while also infusing creativity and play to keep kids engaged. Throughout the class the kiddos will have the chance to practice yoga, self expression, and even a few moments of stillness.
Teen Activities
10:00am Soul Paint with Kylee Knox
Located in the Pavilion Let your flow create a work of art! Participants will get to paint a canvas on their mat (without getting messy!) using asanas as their artistic expression. Artwork is yours to take home and enjoy! Then Join Kylee in the Stars Tent at 11:30am for a Self-Compassion Flow.
2:00pm Partner Pose Fun with Tommy Douglas & Jessica Fritz
Located behind the Kids Tent (Rain location in Gazebo) Practicing yoga can be even more fun when you try out poses with a partner! Learn from Tommy and Jessica how to get in and out of partner poses in this relaxed activity with a playful approach toward learning how to practice yoga with a buddy. Here by yourself? No worries! We'll get you paired up to try things out. And if you want to play some more with partner poses, catch the full class at 3:30 in the Stars Tent.