Schedule
Big Bear Yoga Festival 2025: Elevate Your Heart
Returning to beautiful Big Bear Lake, California.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
39707 Big Bear Blvd, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
9am-6pm Vendors Open - Performing Arts Center, Outside
9am-6pm Creators Village Open - Performing Arts Center, Outside
9-9:45am - Opening Ceremony - Theater Stage Inside - Nick Young & Bombay Rain, Leeza Villagomez, RDM Studio & Nilanjana Banerjee with Robin Bradley - Host
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
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
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
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)
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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