Soundscapes to Inspire and Uplift

Live music is an integral part of the yoga festival experience, adding creative heart and soul celebration to the day. This year’s Sound Arts Odyssey invites you to immerse and elevate — join us for our uniquely interactive concert experiences happening all day at the Main Stage and Gathering Grasses.

Sound Arts Odyssey 2026 — an epically immersive experiential sonic journey to elevate, uplift, and respark the soul — LIVE, co-creatively dynamic, and danceably divine!

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The Experience — flow in … immerse … flow through … follow your bliss

Throughout the day, journey into ceremonial sounds, ambient atmospheric awakening and ancient yogic mantra magic — flow with world fusion sonic delight and into heart expanding lyrical soul grooves — and soar into an ultra-high-vibe collab jam of co-creation and celebration of the human spirit.

Inspired movement, dance, drumming, and flow arts will further enhance our Sound Arts Odyssey experience all day long in the Gathering Grasses in front of the Main Stage. Feel free to join in — dance, express, sing your heart open wide, or find a comfy spot in the grass to relax and bask in the sounds and vibes.

Be sure to wander through, shop, and connect with the amazing vendors surrounding the Sound Arts Odyssey experience!

Festival Sound Arts Coordinators Savi and Mark Gehrke have put their vision, hearts, and energy into generating a fresh new sound arts experience inspired by the yogi’s journey for the main stage and gathering grasses at the 2026 Mandala Yoga Festival.

We’re excited to announce this year’s sound artists — a co-creative group of gifted musicians who love the inspired synergy and magic of collaboration, while each bringing their own unique expressions, energy, and appeal.

Sound Arts Odyssey Schedule

Opening Ceremony | 9:00 Main Stage

Join us as we open the festival with high vibration energy, intent, gratitude, and love — enter into a ceremonial sound meditation featuring Ace Champion ‘Good Buffalo’ on Flute with shaman drumming and guided breathing meditation with Savi and friends.

Relaxatone | 9:30 am Main Stage

Bliss out with Relaxatone’s ambient atmospheric awakening sound journey — For this special performance, Jason is joined by his wife, Kate Voss, on keyboards and ethereal vocals, adding warmth and melodic beauty to Relaxatone’s signature cosmic sound.

Brilliant Bliss Band | 10:45 am Main Stage

Brilliant Bliss returns to the festival with their interactive, participatory mantra music journey that expands the collective field with more Love, Peace, Harmony, and Unity. Come ride the mantra waves, let these ancient sounds wash the mind, clarify the heart, sooth and uplift the soul. This is Bhakti Yoga — chant with us!

World Duo | 12:30 pm Main Stage

Jason and Ryan bring world fusion rhythms and intricate guitar loops alive, creating magically woven meditative waves with sonic flavors inspired by India, Brazil, and West Africa. Feel the music, let it move you! World Duo with Jason Goessl + Ryan Thomas

Natural Satellite | 1:45 pm Main Stage

Journey into your soul’s happy place with returning festival artists, Natural Satellite — Jason’s saxophone weaves in and out of verses harmonizing beautifully with Karli’s angelic voice. Their lyrics center on themes of self-love, reflection, and personal growth—offering listeners both comfort and inspiration. Natural Satellite with Karli + Jason Reisdorf — Mile of Music and local favorites!

BEing Collective Collab Jam | 3:00 pm Main Stage

Featuring: Jason Goessl, Ryan Thomas, Karli & Jason Reisdorf, Savi & Mark Gehrke
Immerse! Dance! Sing! Raise the Vibrations! Empowering, ancestral, elevating! Our Sound Arts Odyssey musicians come together for an epic interactive sound journey that weaves sonic looping waves of cello, sax, guitar, drums, percussion, singing bowls, harmonium, and human voices — while opening and empowering the human spirit, affirming our voice and expression matter. Featuring & journeying from Natural Satellite’s Karli Reisdorf’s song, “Do You”. Dive deep, expand wide, dance wild, sing strong, express YOUrself!

Festival Closing Ceremony | 4:15 pm Main Stage

Be with us as we bring this year’s Mandala Yoga Festival to a close, celebrating the inspired magic of the the day and all who gathered, as we offer honoring gratitude to all the hearts, hands, and energies that were infused into it — featuring Ace Champion ‘Good Buffalo’ on Flute and guided breathing meditation with Savi, followed by celebratory drumming, dancing, and gratitude with the festival creation team.

Live Painting

Art in Real Time at the Festival Live Painting by Multimedia Artist, Adam Zins

Throughout the day, Adam will be artistically expressing and capturing the essence and spirit of Mandala Yoga Festival onto the canvas.

Through his creative eye and heart of connection with nature and the world around him, Adam will paint the festival pulse alive with vibrant color, texture, and moods he sees and feels around him. Stop by and watch the painting come to life in real time!

If you feel moved, shower some words of appreciation for Adam's offering, he is sharing his gifts with our festival from the goodness of his heart as one of the many gifted volunteers creating and adding magic to our beloved festival.

Be sure to check out Adam's artworks that are for sale, along with a bounty of handcrafted products at his amazing wife Tanja's vendor booth: TT's Nothing But Nature's Goodness

Flow, Dance, and Drumming Arts

Inspired movement, dance, drumming, and flow arts will further enhance our Sound Odyssey experience all day long in the Gathering Grasses in front of the Main Stage.
Feel free to join in — dance, express, sing your heart open wide, or find a comfy spot in the grass to relax and bask in the sounds and vibes.

Empower Bellydance Troupe | Oshkosh

Empowered Belly Dance Troupe is an eclectic group of dancers from all over the Fox Cities area and have danced their way throughout Wisconsin and into Michigan. From flow festivals to castles and the Great Lakes Belly Dance Convention, they are a dynamic group of not only dancers but also friends who aim to change the world and empower others through dance, creativity, compassion, and play.

Special thanks to Andrea Sunshine for being our Flow + Dance Arts Volunteer Team Lead!

Additional Flow Artists: Fox Valley Flow Jams

Rhythm + Drumming Artists: Oshkosh Rhythm Institute

Meet the Musicians and Bands