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
9am-11:30pm Classes, Guided Activities and Celebration!
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 - Movements Through Affirmations
Wagon Wheel Atrium:
Eagle's Nest (Outside): Tai Chi with Michael Taber of AstroTaber
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside):
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 - Afternoon Tea & Meditation
Wagon Wheel Atrium: Sandy Steers - Shamen Energy Healing
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside):
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: Chakra Radiance with Janet Grace Nelson
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.
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside):
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: Dana Andrews - Vinyasa Flow
Eagle's Nest (Outside): Melissa Warwick (Dass Akal) - Kundalini Yoga : Awakening Anahata
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside):
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 - YOGA LOVE IAM - TREASURING YOUR LIFE!
Experience & learn a 5-phase meditation & energy medicine activation that incorporates ancient & modern methods of increasing your Love Intelligence (LQ) for total well-being. Engage freedom and clarity as you release limitations and expand your full-bodied design for incredible life. In this Integrative Actualization Meditation, you intentionally immerse in unconditional love for every aspect of your being. In honoring your unique worth and amazing design, you enliven your valor & passion for living your greatest love story.
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside): Olga Mysse - Yoga Nidra & Sound Bath Under the Trees
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 - Sun Salutations from the Heart
Wagon Wheel Atrium: Reina Prado - Harmonizing Love - invites participants to a yoga nidra heart-centered flow that includes a guided journey with a sound bath infused with light language and angel toning. This 45-minute heart-opening activation guides participants to harmonize with the frequency of Love.
Eagle's Nest (Outside): Tara Swoboda - Gentle Heart Chakra Flow
NEW! Happy Trails Under the Trees (Outside):
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
Opening with Gongs with Danielle Santaniello of Grasshopper's Healing Sounds
Drums with Rafi, Tachi, Amy and Vivian of Waking Seed
Buddhi Yoga with Jeanne Iridescent
Goddess Dance and Yoga with Chelsea Cano
LIVE MUSIC with Sacred Sounds
Guided Meditation with Robin Bradley and Sound
Sound Meditation with Singing Bowls with Danielle Santaniello of Grasshopper's Healing Sounds
Wagon Wheel Atrium:
After Glow Details:
Danielle Santaniello, Sound Practitioner - Where sound meets serenity.
Rafi, Tachi, Amy & Vivian - Invited you to step into a sacred space where sound becomes a bridge between worlds. Through the deep heartbeat of the drum, the cleansing shake of the rattle, and the breath of the flute, we call in the guidance of the ancestral spirits. Together, we listen and respond to the energies in the room, allowing vibrations to move, transform, and bring us into deeper connection with ourselves and each other. May these sounds carry you exactly where you need to go, and may the journey bring healing, clarity, and remembrance.
Sacred Sounds is a spiritual music collective born in Long Beach, CA - formed by three Nepali immigrants with one mission: to bring love, healing, and sacred Himalayan melodies to the world. Blending ancient mantras, earthy reythms, and heartfelt harmonies, their music is a journey inward and a call to community. What heals them, they now share with you. Arpan Karki - Vocals, harmonium, rhythm guitar. Sunny Shrestha - rhythm/lead guitar, vocals. Manohar Gurung - Himalayan Percussionist. Let the sound be your medicine. Let the heart remember.
Jeanne Iridescent - Jeanne is thrilled to share the Buddhi Yoga practice with the Big Bear Yoga tribe! Buddhi Yoga is its own evolution of Kundalini and Vinyasa Yoga with elements of hip hop and tribal dancing! Safe and enjoyable for all levels and everyone body with a body is welcome to join in and let their light shine! ✨
Dr. Robin Bradley, Loving Life Legacy - AFTER GLOW Host - UNIFYING HEARTS: CELEBRATORY ILLUMINATION MEDITATION - Join this dynamic participatory meditation for an amazing group experience. We will expand our Energetic Heart, activate our Enlightened Brain networks, and Embody our Essence of unique, passionate life energy. With guided conscious meditation and energy medicine methods, we will treasure & expand our Awe, Love & Joy into full momentum. As we UNIFY our hearts, minds we will support our light/energy bodies to collective celebrate the best of humanity, and illuminate the night!