2022 | BEND, OREGON
Bend Yoga Festival
You’ll find details about our first annual festival in 2022 on this page. Looking for info about our upcoming festival?
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JUNE 24-26, 2022
Our First Annual Festival
We spent three days immersed in loving kindness and the life-giving practices of yoga: chanting, meditation, asana, self-inquiry, Ayurveda, and so much more.
Looking for information about our upcoming festival? Get details on our 2023 festival!
2022 LOCATION
Skyline Park
At our first annual Bend Yoga Festival in June 2022, we hosted a 3-day long immersion at Skyline Park in Bend, Oregon. Our 2023 festival will be held at Riverbend Park, one of Bend’s iconic gems — with direct riverfront access, and more than 15,000 square feet of manicured lawns, this is the ideal location to connect with self, others, and the natural beauty around us.
PRESENTERS FROM OUR 2022 FESTIVAL
Experts in their Field
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Sianna Sherman
Rasa Yoga Collective
Sianna (she/her), is committed to being Love-In-Action here on earth to serve. For nearly three decades, she has been an international yoga teacher, training tens of thousands of students and yoga teachers from around the globe.
As the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL, Sianna shares her voice in the way of community and collaboration. She is a gifted storyteller and awakens the imagination through the language of the soul. Sianna is an apprentice of shadow work and weaves this into every offering.
Sianna and her beloved Masood frequently hold workshops at Esalen, lead teacher trainings, and present at festivals throughout the world.
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Masood Ali Khan
Masood Ali Khan PhD, is a meditation instructor, musician, composer, producer, energy healer, actor. founder of the 'Connection to Creation'. A practitioner of yoga for over 25 years, he has an innate spiritual desire to continue his soul mission to help humanity with every talent possible. A gifted healer, singer, and musician, he’s among the few who pioneered techniques of the pan ‘hang drum’ — a singularly evocative instrument that, combined with his voice, sublimely transports all who hear him.
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Christina Sell
Christina Sell Yoga
Christina has been practicing asana since 1991 and teaching since 1998. Known for her passion, clarity and creativity, Christina’s teaching style is a dynamic and challenging blend of inspiration, humor and hard work. Masterful at synthesis, her ability to harvest and transmit the unique contributions of various yoga methods is unparalleled.
She is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher, has authored three books, hosts a podcast, and maintains an active teaching schedule presenting seminars, intensives, trainings, and workshops worldwide. She resides in Bellingham, Washington with her husband, two very affectionate cats, and the world’s best dog, Locket.
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Allie Van Fossen
Yoga with Allie Van Fossen & Body Mind Soul Studio
Hi, I’m Allie! I’m a decade-long yoga student & seeker, 500 RYT, new mom, wife to my 13-year-one-night-stand husband, ocean crossing sailor, business owner, retreat leader, YouTube creator, and the founder of a tight-knit online yoga community: the Body Mind Soul Studio. My work is heavily influenced by the chakra system, and I’m on a mission to help my students make the shift from watered down yoga that narrowly focuses on one limb (asana), to ➡️ leveraging the whole practice for on & off the mat transformation!
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Narayani
International, barefoot mystic, mother and teacher of children, yoga practitioner and teacher. I live everywhere and my home is my body. I am a lover of life and love. I am also a student of life and love. Currently, I am based in Sri Lanka. I am on my summer holidays and decided to visit my dear friend and soul brother, Kevin Kraft.
People should talk to me about anything they wish to talk about. I am incredibly open-minded, friendly and easy going.
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Ian LeMasters
Ian LeMasters Yoga
Ian LeMasters (he/him) is a yoga and acroyoga teacher based out of Portland, Oregon. A 500hr E-RYT and continued education provider, Ian has been teaching for the past decade offering class styles of vinyasa, ashtanga-vinyasa, acroyoga and handstand training classes. In addition to teaching, he is also a sports massage therapist and studies the art of handbalancing as a student through the San Diego circus center. In all of his classes, Ian is passionate about sharing alignment and technique to show that the practice of yoga is for everyone.
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Shannon Liebel
Still Water Yoga Lake Tahoe
When Shannon discovered yoga in 2005, it was the perfect balance of the mental work she enjoyed in Psychology and the physical movement of the body that she loved in gymnastics. Shannon began teaching in 2013 and opened her studio in Lake Tahoe in 2016. Nine months after the studio opened, Shannon had open heart surgery and this experience only strengthened her belief in the power of yoga. She strongly believes in the connection between mind, body, and soul, and this reflects in her Vinyasa style teaching. She loves the constant movement of the body in Vinyasa and helps her students to find strength within and bring awareness into the present moment. Shannon is the owner of Still Water Yoga Lake Tahoe, LLC, teaches daily classes, facilitates workshops and yoga teacher trainings, runs international yoga retreats around the world, and teaches at a variety of yoga festivals including Mammoth Yoga Festival, Sedona Yoga Festival, The Yoga Expo LA, and Big Bear Yoga Festival.
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Rebecca Bell
Rebecca Bell Yoga, The Shift Online Studio + Ruby Rides Bikes
Rebecca Bell has been a student of YOGA for her whole LIFE . She started seeking answers to the bigger questions in life as young as she can remember. Feeling blessed to have found a lot of those answers on her yoga mat and in her adventures climbing through out the United States, Mexico and the Himalayan Mountains, the ashrams of India and the beaches of Thailand; raced in her first 100 Mountain Bike race in Bend, Oregon to being a mom of two rowdy boys and a wife of an equally rowdy husband. 2022 gave her the gift of 34 years of sobriety, 25 years of teaching Yoga and the launch of THE SHIFT her online yoga studio. Her vinyasa flow classes will leave you feeling uplifted and transformed linking breath with movement creating a shift!
Rebecca was a co-founder/owner of the The Yoga Lab in Bend Oregon and has more than 25 years of teaching experience . She has been leading 200-hour yoga teacher trainings for more than 10 years, leads intensives, workshops series, immersions and international Yoga Retreats and has recently launched Ruby Rides Bikes a Women's Mountain Biking and Yoga retreats. Rebecca is excited to be returning as a lululemon ambassador this year!
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Kevin Kraft
Soundshala
Kevin Kraft is the owner and founder of Soundshala (www.soundshala.com), a unique mindfulness curriculum combining music, breath, movement and meditation to help achieve the mindful benefits of a sound yoga practice. This is evident in the soundscape of voice, gongs, crystal and Tibetan bowls, drums and other instruments that help us relax and release deeply into balance.
Kevin’s practice is focused on consciously accessing the inner teacher and fully coming into the resonance that all healing is accessible within. These practices help to release the body's mental and physical layers of tension we so often deeply hold onto. Through the awareness practice of cultivating our listening skills, we grow amidst both the noise and the silence of vibration. We seek to re-establish health and harmony by un-obstructing the flow of prana through the body's energy channels and connecting to our innate divine essence that is our natural authentic self.
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Brandy Berlin
Namaspa Yoga Community, Evoke Energy Yoga
Brandy is a lifelong educator known for her spontaneously generated and often comically introspective offerings. E-RYT500, co-owner of Namaspa Yoga Community and founder of Evoke Energy Yoga, she believes together the teacher and the taught do the teaching and challenges all humans to drop it down a gear and bask in everyday beauty. She is hellbent on rigorous rowdiness and bustin’ butt in sacred service to others through yoga.
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Brooke Coletta
Goddess Village
I have been teaching Yoga as well as leading trainings and retreats for the past 7 years. What I love most about Yoga is that it isn’t a “One Size Fits All”! It is a practice and lifestyle that encourages us to come as we are, no expectations or judgements. When I am in the role of teacher, expect an experience that is embodied and full of soft strength. We will move and breathe and focus on both physical and energetic alignment. We will find ways to feel EASE in the body, mind and heart. When I am not teaching, I live spending time with my family (the hubs and two girls) and also with my amazing circle of wild women!
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Petit Davina
The Yoga Lab, Namaspa
Petit has been guiding movement and meditation in many forms for over 15 years. She has wandered 6 or the 7continents exploring, connecting and learning. She has been based in Bend, OR for 11 years as teacher, student, mother, musician, athlete, yogi, dancer, adventurer... She offers her students an insightful, inspiring, flowing journey into the internal landscape and beyond. Petit leads a variety of classes including live music, dance, vinyasa, healing flow, retreats, and meditation. Come get spacious with her!
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Kathy Durham
Bend Hot Yoga
Deeply connected and rooted to the earth, Kathy continues to step into her wisdom every day! Her appreciation for order and integrity are evident in all that she does. Her class is precise and intentional, her workshops methodical and memorable, her meditations mystical and magical.
Her yogic journey has woven an amazing path for her to fully embrace self-study. She has done it all: teach a ba-zillion classes of all levels and styles, compete regionally & nationally, help manage studios, develop teachers, train competitors, host feminine embodiment circles, host retreats, and lead teacher trainings with 105F Yoga based out of Chicago, IL.
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Alexandra Lyon
Allie is an abstract artist and teacher of yoga nidra, meditation, and yoga. Her passion is to create a space for people to reconnect with themselves, deepen their awareness, and navigate the healing practices of yoga, yoga nidra, and creativity, all of which shine a light on the power of the present moment.
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Suzie Newcome
Namaspa Yoga Community
Suzie Newcome is a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, the founder of Namaspa Yoga & Massage in Central Oregon, an LMT since 2007 and a 500hr E-RYT. “I love to share the tools that have helped me to eliminate chronic pain, improve sleep, boost immunity, maintain a healthy body weight and a positive mental outlook. Ayurveda empowers each person to make the best decisions possible to enhance health, energy and immunity.”
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Becky Nickerson
The Yoga Lab & YogaWorks
As you speak to her, Becky exudes tranquility, peacefulness and calm; take one of her vinyasa flow classes, however, and you’ll see right away that Becky has an energetic, athletic and powerful practice. Becky’s classes combine breath awareness with movement, deep meditation, and music, which offers an exciting, fun, and yet challenging way to connect the body, mind, and spirit.
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Wendy Schmitt
Bend Hot Yoga & Wellness Center
Wendy has studied and has been teaching several forms of Yoga, Meditation, Energetics, Astrology, and Ritual since 2004. Kundalini Yoga KRI certified in 2011. Presently she teaches at Bend Hot Yoga studio. She absolutely loves to share the layers and different gateways for growth and inspiration to become more of an active participant of life. Kundalini yoga is an amazing practice to cultivate becoming more of who YOU are. Instead of feeling like life happens to you, empowering you to co-create with life and its rhythms.
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Deven Sisler
Deven is an internationally renowned yoga teacher known for her playful, philosophical approach to yoga, partner yoga, and AcroYoga. She has been teaching children, families, and adults since 2005 in New York City, and has been a frequent presenter at yoga festivals around the world including Wanderlust and the Telluride Yoga Festival. She offers inspirational Kids Yoga & Family AcroYoga Teacher Trainings through her website and in-studio. When she’s not teaching students how to get safely upside down, you can find her exploring the beauty of central Oregon with her husband and two young sons.
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Lisa C Swisher
Singer/Songwriter/Artist
Lisa has been a Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Healer and Chi Kung Instructor for over 20 years. Lately she has been combining her passions for energy work with sound as a complimentary vibration. We are energy beings!
She has been singing her entire life and studied classical piano, french horn and voice in her youth and during college. Lately she has been focused on singing, drumming and playing crystal bowls in local kirtan groups, including Soundshala. Singing and drumming not only feel good, but also have measurable healing effects on the mind, body and emotions. She has fallen deeply in love with crystal singing bowls and approaches the bowls as instruments that express dynamic crystalline harmonics that purify, cleanse, enliven and heal. She is available to teach and lead singing, drumming, soundbaths and chi kung for retreats. She is currently following her passions in the recording studio creating her own music.
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Maggie Umberger
Maggie Umberger Yoga
Maggie is a traveling yoga instructor, personal trainer, and corrective exercise specialist with roots in Chicago. No matter the type of movement, Maggie aims to make it accessible and filled with joy. Her teaching style is defined by her deeply rooted passion for what the human body can do and her insatiable curiosity to understand our human potential through the lens of movement. Through intelligently designed sequencing, she hopes to create the space for her students to move safely, breathe more deeply, and feel better well after class ends. Maggie offers virtual group & private yoga and training, as well as on-demand classes through her website and membership platform.
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Susan Holland Towey
Unlock your deeper potential to get upside down, then safely explore your range of backbending in partnership. This session is guaranteed to be fun, empowering and exciting — no matter your experience! Before COVID, we would be happy to match you-- but these days we ask that you please come with a partner, so you will be working with someone you already feel comfortable with.
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Shanan Kelley
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Melissa Fowler
Outdoor Guide & Yoga Teacher
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Lori Skiles
Paddle Board Oregon
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Dr. Emily Wolbers
QC Natural Health
Emily Wolbers is inspired by all things Health. She is a Naturopathic Doctor and has a Digestion & Nutrition-focused practice in Portland, Oregon. She has been teaching yoga since 2013. She completed her initial training at the White Lotus Foundation and continued on to take Advanced Teacher Training with Jason Crandell. Her teaching style encourages introspection, mindfulness & compassion for each moment.
WE LOVED OUR 2022 VENDORS
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More wonderful vendors:
4th & Heart
DialogueDirect
Journeyman Ceramics
Kaleb K. West
Kristine Ambrose
Next Ingredient Consulting
Royal Juice Company & Apothecary
Sutra Power Yoga
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to our 2022 supporting sponsors
+ to our sustaining sponsors
+ to our in-kind sponsors
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