Big Bear Yoga Festival 2025:

Elevate Your Heart

Schedule

Big Bear Yoga Festival 2025: Elevate Your Heart

Returning to beautiful Big Bear Lake, California.

Saturday, October 4, 2025


Performing Arts Center (PAC)

39707 Big Bear Blvd, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

Saturday, October 4th

9am-6pm Vendors Open - Performing Arts Center, Outside

9am-6pm Creators Village Open - Performing Arts Center, Outside

Inspriation

9-9:45am - Opening Ceremony - Theater Stage Inside - Nick Young & Bombay Rain, Leeza Villagomez, RDM Studio & Nilanjana Banerjee with Robin Bradley - Host


Expansion


10-11:45am -

Theater Stage: Nick Young & Bombay Rain - Sole Rave Ecstatic Dance Party with guided meditation and dancing! 

Front Hall: Charisma Love

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Amy Madrid

Eagle's Nest (Outside): Tai Chi with Michael Taber of AstroTaber

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Big Bear Retreat Center - Forest Bathing Meditation Hike


Connection


12-12:45pm -

Theater Stage: Nick Young & Bombay Rain - Meditative Sound Bath with Guided Meditation

Front Hall: La’Toya Berthil

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Sandy Steers

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Blanca Guevara - Wright - Embodied Awareness Through Pranayama - Easy Walk to Meditation Spot

1-1:45pm -

Theater Stage: Leeza Villagomez

Front Hall: Katie Felt - Anahata theme yoga

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Christie Hall

Eagle's Nest (Outside): Michael Garrity - Meditation for Opening the Heart. It will include some information on the view of Tantra Yoga, as well as, guided meditation of a technique using breath, mantra, and visualization to awaken compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness. We will finish with kirtan.

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Michelle Soth - A Journey Through the Chakras with Yoga Nidra

Transformation - Open Your Heart

2-3:15pm -

Theater Stage: RDM Studio - Performance, Kirtan and Dance Workshop

Front Hall: Ashley Yau - Being Me: Living Beyond Distraction

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Christie Hall

Eagle's Nest (Outside): Melissa Warwick (Dass Akal) - Kundalini Yoga : Awakening Anahata

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Nancy Rascon


3:30-4:45pm -

Theater Stage: Michelle Kearney-Lopez - Healing with Sound and Light

Front Hall: Leeza Villagomez

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Robin Bradley - ONLY LOVE IAM

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Christine O’Hara: Follow The Wisdom Of Your Heart & The Voice Of Your Soul - “This guided experience will take you on a journey through the layers of your being, while steeping in the medicine of our greater body, nature Herself. Explore guided body, breath, and awareness techniques to invite you into a state of stillness. Explore self inquiry through journaling prompts. Find meditation in motion through a gentle asana flow. Meditate under the trees with like-minded souls. Finish your practice with a ritual to call in your heart’s wishes guided by the wisdom of your soul.”


5-5:45pm -

Theater Stage: Kirtan - Kamini Natarajan

Front Hall: Samuel Odiakosa

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Reina Prado

Eagle's Nest (Outside): Tara Swoboda - Gentle Heart Chakra Flow

Hike & Yoga (Outside): Jeannette Ali - Coming Home” - a meditative walk then a heart opening gentle yoga sequence for all levels. 


6-6:45pm -

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Karen Elaine - Acro Yoga

Eagle's Nest (Outside): Debbie Sanders - Yoga Dance Flow

Celebration & Dedication


7-11:30pm - Celebration & Dedication

Theater Stage: Robin Bradley - Host, Gong and Singing Bowls - Danielle Grasshopper Sound Bowls, Ashley Yau, Kamini Natarajan

Wagon Wheel Atrium: Space for Meditation & Relaxation: Sacred Liight (sign-up) 

Sunday, October 5th - at Big Bear Lake - Add-on Only

8-9:30am - Early Morning Hike and Yoga **Special add-on class for people who like to practice early in the morning! $25

10-11:30am - Paddleboard Yoga with Amanda **Special add-on class. $58 - 10 students only

10-11:30am - Hike and Yoga **Special add-on class. $25


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