2026 Faculty
2026 FEATURED PRESENTERS
Our 2026 Featured Presenters . More Facilitators/Teachers Being Added Daily.
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Sam Grout is the founder and lead facilitator of OM Festival, curating intimate, transformational experiences designed to deepen emotional intelligence, embodied presence, and personal growth. With over 15 years of experience producing yoga festivals, wellness retreats, open-source gatherings, and major tech conferences nationwide, Sam blends heart, vision, and practical expertise to create spaces where attendees reconnect with themselves, expand consciousness, and step into their full potential.
A retreat leader and national speaker on Emotional Intelligence, Sam integrates mindfulness, movement, music, and leadership practices in a seamless, immersive way. She has collaborated with organizations including Wanderlust, Stratton Mountain Resort, Equinox Resort, GE, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services.
At OM Festival, Sam leads signature experiences such as YogaShape and GlobalBeats, guiding joyful, energizing sessions that combine mindful movement, music, and embodied freedom. For those seeking deeper transformation, Sam offers limited VIP sessions and small-group workshops throughout the festival, creating a rare opportunity for personalized guidance and connection.
A sixth-generation Vermonter, Sam is deeply honored to return to the Green Mountains and share OM Festival’s immersive, life-changing experience with her hometown of Arlington, Vermont.
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Kali Basman is a transformative yoga educator, devoted to guiding participants into greater self-awareness, embodied presence, and holistic well-being. With years of experience leading retreats, workshops, and teacher trainings worldwide, Kali blends alignment-based yoga, energy work, and conscious movement to create immersive experiences that leave participants energized, balanced, and inspired.
At OM Festival, Kali leads signature sessions that combine dynamic vinyasa flow, mindfulness practices, and intentional breathwork, offering attendees a deeply personal and transformative journey. Her teaching emphasizes authenticity, joy, and integration, creating a safe and empowering space for exploration.
Kali’s international experience and dedication to conscious living bring a unique, heart-centered perspective to OM Festival’s curated transformational container.
For more info go to: kalidurgayoga.com
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Adam Brous is a seasoned yoga and mindfulness teacher, specializing in somatic awareness, restorative practices, and emotional intelligence integration. Founder of Hineni Yoga School, Adam has led retreats, workshops, and community programs that help participants cultivate resilience, presence, and deeper self-understanding.
At OM Festival, Adam guides sessions that blend gentle movement, meditation, and somatic practices, fostering embodiment, clarity, and inner alignment. His teaching approach emphasizes intentionality, connection, and sustainable transformation, providing festival-goers with tools to carry growth beyond the event.
Adam’s work is deeply rooted in creating safe, curated spaces for exploration, making his classes an essential part of OM Festival’s premium, immersive experience.
Come practice, breathe, and shine with Adam at OM Festival. 🕉️✨
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Josie Bray (she/they) has over two and half decades in the wellness industry in multiple modalities including Yoga, Meditation, Somatics, Functional Anatomy, Pilates, Personal Training, Myofascial Mobilization, Trigger Point Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki, and Western Herbalism. Josie is an expert space-holder for transformation and weaves these modalities together to create custom-designed programs and sessions for her clients and students. Josie is a level 3 Franklin Method Educator and has worked directly with the founder Eric Franklin, she has studied Tantra Hatha Yoga with Kevin Courtney for nearly 20 years, and she is an initiated Shamanic Practitioner in Unani Medicine from Malaysia Borneo through Ann Drake.
Passionate about modern trauma healing research and its overlap with indigenous practices, Josie teaches sensitive people how to connect to their energy centers in a multi-disciplinary, creative, and structured way so that they can experience permanent change. She’s guided hundreds of creatives, entrepreneurs, and seekers step into their intuitive gifts, develop healthy boundaries, and create lives that embody their values. Josie has extensive knowledge of pelvic health and has created the Total Control Technique, a ten-week coaching program to eliminate Urinary Incontinence in women and fems through principles of nervous system regulation, functional anatomy, yoga, and meditation.
Josie has decades experience as a theater and dance artist, producer and teacher. Along with Corrigan Luckey, Josie is a cofounder of Oak and Thistle Healing, a company steeped in Shamanic Practice that combines the power of herbs and mushrooms with embodiment and healing modalities. As a duo, they are committed to supporting people transmute illness into
health, connect to community, and find joy in the aliveness of the world around them.
Josie’s sessions are grounding, stabilizing, and clear, leaving participants with an increased sense of peace and wellbeing that goes far beyond class time.
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Welcome back, Liz Ridgely — a true OM’ie through and through.
Returning for Year Four, Liz is not only a beloved teacher, but a founding force behind the OM Council, having spearheaded this initiative with vision, devotion, and heart. She is one of our greatest evangelists—an embodied expression of what OM is all about.Liz Ridgely is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Quantum Reiki Practitioner, Tantrika, and Venusian Temple Arts Priestess. Through the sacred teachings of Tantra, Liz guides practitioners to awaken their creative and orgasmic life force—fueling pleasure, purpose, and the courage to consciously create the reality of their dreams.
Her work is playful, somatic, trauma-conscious, and deeply empowering. Liz’s presence is joyful, soulful, sensual, and magnetic—inviting beauty, magic, and embodied liberation into every space she holds. To experience Liz is to remember your radiance.
We are honored to welcome her home to OM once again. ✨
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Kishori (Kelly) Skinner returns home to The OM Festival for her fourth year, and we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome this beloved OM’ie back into the mountain magic. Kelly’s presence is a living transmission of joy, devotion, beauty, and deep heart-opening transformation.
A Bhakti Yogi, spiritual teacher, and devoted practitioner, Kelly serves as a conduit of divine love—inviting others to remember their true nature and fall in love with life itself. Her teachings are rooted in Bhakti Yoga, meditation, Reiki, and sacred end-of-life work, all offered with tenderness, reverence, and grace. Her medicine supports beings in living radiantly and meeting life’s transitions with peace, awareness, and love.
An integral part of Kelly’s path is chanting and leading Kirtan, which she describes as collective prayer—a joyful call for the divine to be felt and embodied together. Based in Burlington, Vermont, she leads weekly yoga classes, offers free community Kirtans with her band Kelly & the Kartels, and guides international retreats that weave devotion, movement, mantra, and meditation.
Through her work with Kelly Skinner Inc., she offers group and one-on-one journeys focused on energetic healing, spiritual deepening, and living yoga as a devotional way of life. Kelly’s teaching is infused with warmth, presence, and devotion—creating spaces where transformation feels natural, joyful, and beautifully human.
We are honored to welcome Kelly back once again—an anchor of heart, song, and sacred remembrance at The OM Festival
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Corrigan Luckey (they/them) is a Reiki Practitioner, Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner, and Sound Healer. They are in the process of study, training, and initiation of Unani Medicine Shamanic Practice from Malaysia Borneo as well as in the process of training as a herbalist through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Corrigan worked as a professional musician for two and a half decades before turning their love of vibration toward sound healing. They continue to be in deep menteeship with billboard-charting musician and sound healer Kristen Miller.
Corrigan is an alchemist and outdoor enthusiast who understands the potency and potential of nature and multiple healing modalities to shift a person’s life into freedom, love, and peace. Along with Josie Bray, Corrigan is a cofounder of Oak and Thistle Healing, a company steeped in Shamanic Practice that combines the power of herbs and mushrooms with embodiment and healing modalities. As a duo, they are committed to supporting people transmute illness into
health, connect to community, and find joy in the aliveness of the world around them.
Corrigan’s sessions and classes are spacious and deeply nourishing, cultivating clarity of mind, a relaxed sense of being, and an embodied connection that continues well beyond the final moment of practice.
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We are overjoyed to welcome Karley St. Pierre to the OM Festival teacher lineup this year! 🌿💫
An E-RYT 200 based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Karley is a true cosmic-comedienne—bringing laughter, liberation, and deep connection to the mat. If laughter is the best medicine, then cracking jokes in down-dog is absolutely her prescription.
Karley’s offerings blend yoga, breath, and meditation with humor, humility, and compassion, creating spaces that feel both playful and profoundly grounded. Her teaching is rooted in authentic stewardship and a deep reverence for the human experience—inviting students to soften, open, and reconnect with joy through movement.
At the heart of Karley’s work is vulnerable, courageous humanity: the practice of seeing and being seen, exactly as we are. Her classes are an invitation into belonging—where everyone is welcome, laughter is sacred, and liberation lives in the body.
We can’t wait to share this joy-filled, heart-forward experience with you at OM Festival’s 4th year celebration of yoga, beauty, and community. 🌈🧘♀️
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Dana returns for her fourth year at OM, and we couldn’t be more grateful. A beloved teacher who has been with us since day one, Dana’s offerings are rooted in joy, connection, and heart-centered healing. Her passion is bringing people together in love and creating unity through movement and breath.
An E-RYT 500, Dana teaches traditional Hatha Yoga for both beginners and advanced practitioners, with a focus on mindful alignment and conscious breathing. She also offers Yin Yoga, guiding students into stillness, patience, and compassion. Across all her classes, Dana weaves in the practice of santosha—contentment and presence.
A Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, Dana has been sharing this joyful, deeply healing practice since 2010. Laughter Yoga is accessible to every body and invites play, stress release, and heartfelt connection—no matter what.
Dana is also a devoted Bhakti yogi, accomplished vocalist, and kirtan leader. Blending modern melodies with ancient mantras, her kirtan offerings open the heart, steady the mind, and celebrate our shared humanity.
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✨🌸 Cornflower Returns to OM Festival — Year Three! 🌸✨
We are beyond delighted to welcome Cornflower back home to OM Festival for his third year, sharing his soul-stirring sound meditations, workshops, and embodied musical journeys. A true facilitator of beauty, presence, and connection, Cornflower’s offerings are an invitation to remember who you are beneath the noise—to soften, open, and glow from the inside out.
Cornflower’s sound emerges in the moment, weaving voice, breath, rhythm, and intention into a living prayer. Through layered vocal loops, mantra-like lyrics, and intuitive grooves, he creates immersive soundscapes that gently guide you inward while igniting the body with movement, devotion, and joy. His sound meditations are both grounding and expansive—spaces where stillness dances, hearts open, and magic becomes tangible.
In his workshops and classes, Cornflower holds a loving, welcoming container where sound becomes medicine and music becomes a bridge to the soul. Participants are invited into deep presence, emotional release, playful exploration, and collective resonance. These experiences are less about performance and more about connection—to self, to community, and to the unseen beauty moving through us all.
Drawing from a wide spectrum of musical influences and a devotion to improvisation, Cornflower creates experiences that feel alive, organic, and lovingly guided by the moment. Each session unfolds uniquely, meeting you exactly where you are and inviting you gently into deeper awareness, joy, and embodied prayer.
Cornflower’s intention is simple and profound:
to inspire, uplift, and empower—
to create spaces of resonance where love leads, magic flows, and community remembers its shared heartbeat.✨ Come rest, rise, dance, and dream inside Cornflower’s magical world of sound at OM Festival. ✨
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We are so excited to welcome Shira Brenner to OM 2026 for her first year—bringing a celebration of beauty, joy, and magic.
Shira is a transformational guide of yogic sciences, an evolutionary astrologer, a dance-party starter, and the founder of The Abracadabra Astrology Method—an innovative framework that bridges the ancient sciences of astrology and Kundalini yoga with neural reprogramming.
For over a decade, Shira has helped women unravel people-pleasing patterns and step into the radical truth of who they are: embodied, sovereign, and whole.
Her path is deeply personal. After the sudden loss of her father and aunt, followed by the end of a five-year relationship at age 29—her Saturn return—Shira embarked on a journey of healing from disordered eating, guilt, and shame she carried in her body, her choices, and her voice.
Her reclamation came through astrology, subconscious reprogramming, somatic healing, Kundalini yoga, central nervous system regulation, and heart coherence practices. She broke free from cycles of self-doubt, fear, and emotional suppression—and in doing so, discovered not just liberation, but the embodiment of radical joy.
Shira is known for her vibrant energy, magnetic presence, and out-of-the-box thinking. She weaves her background as a dancer and former world-traveling ELL teacher into her work, bringing celebration into the often messy and miraculous process of becoming our truest selves. With a balance of spiritual wisdom and grounded Capricorn practicality, she reminds her clients that healing doesn’t have to be heavy—it can be ecstatic, sacred, and even a little silly.
Having studied with renowned astrologers such as Debra Silverman, Steven Forrest, and Kaypacha Lesser, Shira brings timeless celestial teachings into modern relevance. Her sessions and mentorships are intuitive, science-backed, and heart-centered, blending astrology, somatic awareness, and soul remembrance in ways that feel both cosmic and deeply healing.
Through immersive journeys, the Abracadabra Astrology Mastery Course, movement classes in The Star Tribe Collective, and 1:1 offerings, Shira supports women in shedding inherited narratives and social conditioning—especially those rooted in the need to please, perform, or prove. She guides them back to the heart, the center of knowing, creativity, and soul-led desire.
Her mission is simple—and radical: to help women reclaim the truth of who they are and step into the next level of expansive, liberated self-love.
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Mark is an Original OM’ie and festival powerhouse, bringing four years of OM magic (and counting!) back to the mat. Skateboarder, surfer, snowboarder, DJ, yoga adventurer, and Lululemon ambassador — he fuses movement, music, and energy into every class, creating flow, joy, and pure festival vibes.
Off the mat, Mark channels his creativity into tattooing as the owner of Endless Summer Tattoo and a semifinalist on Ink Master Season 5. At OM, he’s not just teaching yoga — he’s bringing the heart, soul, and spirit of the festival to every student.
Get ready to move, groove, and feel the OG OM energy with Mark!
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"Catherine Hamilton, Ph.D. EYRT 500 Catherine leads invigorating flow sequences that focus on building core strength, stability, and increased mobility. Her classes are designed to cultivate a healthy and joyful practice that balances strength and relaxation. Emphasizing inclusivity, Catherine encourages students to embrace their individuality and make adjustments as needed. Each week, she introduces new themes to keep classes engaging, incorporating mudras, hand yoga, and breath work for healing and transformation. Beginners are warmly welcomed to join Catherine's classes, where they will find a supportive and encouraging environment.
With eight years of teaching experience, Catherine trained teachers in adapting their teaching to the chair. She is a dedicated student of various yoga styles. Beyond her work in the studio, Catherine is a devoted wife, mother, and advocate for social justice. Her certifications include Honest Yoga 200 Hour YTT, Chair Yoga, Dharma Yoga Wheel, Yin, Reiki Level 1 and 2, Skill In Action, Foundations of Yoga Sutras, Foundations of Pranayama, and she is currently pursuing her 300 Hour certification at Westchester Academy of Yoga.
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Catherine Hamilton, Ph.D. EYRT 200
Catherine leads invigorating flow sequences that focus on building core strength, stability, and increased mobility. Her classes are designed to cultivate a healthy and joyful practice that balances strength and relaxation. Emphasizing inclusivity, Catherine encourages students to embrace their individuality and make adjustments as needed. Beginners are warmly welcomed to join Catherine's classes, where they will find a supportive and encouraging environment.
With eight years of teaching experience, Catherine trains yoga teachers in adapting their teaching to the chair. She is a dedicated student of various yoga styles. Her certifications include Honest Yoga 200 Hour YTT, Chair Yoga, Dharma Yoga Wheel, Yin, Reiki Level 1 and 2, Skill In Action, Foundations of Yoga Sutras, Foundations of Pranayama, and she is currently pursuing her 300 Hour certification at Westchester Academy of Yoga.
DJ Love began her career in the late 80’s as a college radio disc jockey. She went on to play cassettes at NYC’s Central Park’s roller-skating oval in the 1990’s, and played jock jams on CD’s at hockey games for ten years in the early 2000’s. In 2018, DJ Love began playing vinyl at senior living centers and yoga studios throughout Vermont. DJ Love is the creator of DJ Yoga VT and Girls Gone Vinyl VT. She collaborates with community organizations throughout the US and Canada. DJ Love has a residence at the Burlington Surf club where she has been spinning tunes since 2020. Everywhere DJ Love goes, she lift spirits ad brings the vibe.
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"I am the founder of Rising Lotus Inc. and the author of the Rising Lotus Yoga Training Manual. Rising Lotus Yoga is a 300-hour yoga teacher training program. It is also the featured yoga program at Detox Oasis, a French Lick, IN wellness ranch, and Thera-Ranch retreat center in Joshua Tree, CA. I am also a massage therapist, aquatic bodyworker, and addiction counselor.
I began practicing hot vinyasa in Northern California in 1998. 2001, I completed my first YTT, a 300-hour Iyengar program at Heartwood Institute. 2007, I completed my second YTT, a power vinyasa training at Frog Lotus Yoga in North Adams, MA. I have studied and practiced yoga extensively with experienced teachers and practitioners in the Anusara, Hatha Raja, Iyengar, and Ashtanga lineages.
I teach classes at yoga studios in Owensboro, KY, and Evansville, IN. I also volunteer as the wellness coach for the H.L. Neblett Community Center in Owensboro and facilitate workshops for Weight Watchers.
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After being medically retired from the US Army in October of 2014 Bear Crevier began his work in the nonprofit world. While enrolled in a Masters program at the local State University he started and led a nonprofit for veterans that helped them connect to the wilderness of New England. While he deeply loved this work and put his life into building a strong program that supported veterans and military families his health became something that needed his full attention. After being told by his VA doctor that he was on the edge of being diabetic for the rest of his life he decided to make a massive change. Through a change in diet and a change in how he thought about what he put in and on his body he decided that he wanted to be more connected to his food and medicine and so he learned to forage and hunt and fish for wild game and how to make medicine from plants and mushrooms and he found himself more deeply connected. Now Bear spends his time teaching free workshops on topics like fermentation, making maple syrup, bee keeping 101, making hard and sweet cider, herbal tea formulation, ethical foraging, using mushrooms in medicine, cannabis cultivation, homesteading, plant and mushroom walks etc. Bear and his wife Aidale run their nonprofit called Ancient Healing Paths. Ancient Healing Paths offers free educational workshops and facilitates free access to alternative healing modalities.
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"When two who have devoted their lives to their art join forces, the creative chemistry is contagious. Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg have more than four decades of practice, teaching, and experience between them in yogic arts and bhakti bliss. Together, they commit their body, mind, heart, breath, and voice in service to the Most High and the majesty of its manifest expressions. In their offerings of yoga, music, meditation, kirtan, and satsang, they invite others into the grounding, elevating, and ever-expanding process of tuning their own divine instruments, and to come together in transformational alchemy, joyful communion, sacred embodiment, and ecstatic celebration. Join them for classes, workshops, festivals, trainings, and retreats nationally and worldwide. Visit gershonemusic.com for more info.
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"A soulful, beautiful transmission of the Divine...Mystical Kirtan with Mirabai Moon offers a passionate embrace of the Divine Essence right here, right now... in your embodied human form, just as you are.
Singer/songwriter Mirabai Moon's immensely versatile and powerfully expressive voice is most frequently compared to that of folk icons Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Ani DiFranco. Her music takes listeners on a journey, flowing effortlessly from ethereal dreaminess to soulful blues and jazz.
She honed her craft studying vocal improvisation with jazz legend Bobby McFerrin and Rhiannon of Voicestra. After nearly two decades of songwriting and three original albums, she fell in love with the practice of Kirtan. In 2010, Mirabai devoted herself as a Bhakta, singing sacred chants in Sanskrit, sharing her profound love of the Divine with others through call and response devotional chanting.
Mirabai's life changing experiences with kirtan and mantra practice led her to explore other sound healing modalities. She now uses crystal singing bowls, chimes and other vibratory instruments with groups and individual clients for healing and transformation work. Mirabai tours across North America and internationally, sharing chant music and sound healing in yoga studios, healing centers, and festivals. Her offerings guide participants into experiences of profound healing and unconditional love through Bhakti Yoga practices."
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"Jessica Otieno is a subtle energy expert, yoga educator, and healer whose work bridges ancient wisdom and modern understanding of the human energy field. With over a decade of experience studying subtle energy systems—and more than two decades immersed in holistic healing practices—Jessica offers a deeply grounded, trauma-informed approach to yoga, rooted in self-discovery, energy awareness, and spiritual embodiment.
She is trained in multiple styles including Kundalini Yoga, Vinyasa, and Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga, and is the founder of Many Paths Wellness, a healing space in Roswell, Georgia. There, she blends traditional yogic sciences, somatic mindfulness, and live aura and chakra imaging technology to help students and clients reconnect to their energy, their truth, and their soul’s journey. Jessica’s classes are compassionate, deeply intuitive, and somatically attuned—drawing on her lived experience recovering from a serious accident and years of chronic illness to gently guide others back into their bodies.
Jessica is a Reiki Master, health coach, and transformational facilitator who believes that true healing happens when we listen to the language of the body and energy field. She integrates accessible movement, pranayama, meditation, and energetic insight into every offering—whether it’s a slow kundalini-infused practice, a meditative SUP session on the water, or an immersive group workshop on the aura and chakra system.
Through her work, Jessica supports spiritual seekers, sensitive souls, and skeptics alike in reconnecting with their intuition and innate healing power. Whether teaching on land or water, her intention is always to help people soften into themselves, awaken their subtle awareness, and realign with who they came here to be."
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"My journey with yoga began around 10 years ago, with a dedicated yoga and meditation practice beginning in earnest 7 years ago. After discovering the physical and mental benefits I gained from this practice, I decided to enroll in a yoga teacher training course. From there, my passion for yoga teaching grew and I found myself specializing in teaching classes focused on relaxation, awareness, and self-care, including Yoga Nidra. I received my in-person 200 hr certification in 2019 and followed it up with my 300 hr training in 2022. I also received my Yoga Nidra certification in 2022 and will complete a Master Nidra training in March of 2023.
Since then, I have dedicated my energy and time to developing my yoga teaching and yoga Nidra skills. My classes are focused on creating a safe and comfortable space while promoting the utmost respect for students and their individual needs, beliefs, and capabilities. I integrate both Eastern and Western techniques, using a combination of traditional yoga poses, meditation, and guided imagery to foster healing and transformational growth.
My classes are designed to nurture a deeper connection to oneself while guiding students to embrace positive change and transcend into a more empowered state of being. I combined my knowledge of yoga, meditation, and Yoga Nidra to create seamless and graceful classes that encourage immediate and lasting transformation.
I am deeply honored to be able to offer my teachings to my students. I am passionate about yoga and helping others to discover the many avenues which this beautiful practice can bring us all."
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Ian has been slacklining approximately 7 years. He loves sharing his passion with others. He recieved his teaching certification though the ISA(international slackline association) and is heavily influenced by the Yogaslackers!
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Stephen has played singing bowls for years, but in 2022, returned to doing live sound baths inspired by the pandemic and a friend’s healing journey. He has always dabbled with other modalities, including yoga, kirtan, singing, massage, ecstatic dance djing, but decided to redouble his efforts with sound baths to deepen a healing presence in the world. As well, he helps opperate Community of Sound and Vermont Synthesizer Society. As a sound practitioner, he either performs at a distance OR offers to place bowls on people’s bodies. In times past he would include an array of instruments, but now he primarily focuses on deepening his impact with bronze singing bowls.
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An all women’s kirtan collective sharing musical trance and meditation devotional ecstatic music of various faiths. Based in western Massachusetts, we blend the awakened you into a deep embodied chakra presence with Bhakti and loving kindness practices. Trance inspired dance, qigong and yoga nidra are integrated in our workshop offerings. Our focus is to uplift the divine feminine in each of us with a celebration of the light and creative Shakti force that we each are embodied now in this moment! Namastelove
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