Welcome to the event! Our 15 minute opening ceremony will include:

• Welcome by SDYF Founder,  Shawna Schenk

• Grounding + Connection Exercise (5 minute breathwork)

• Intention Setting Exercise (Bring a journal or something to write notes with) led by SDFY founder

Start off the festival clear + focuses with what you want to achieve! Magic happens at this event!

Start the festival right with CONNECTION in a fun and playful partner yoga  class with Cat + Pat. This is  a fun and dynamic partner yoga, to stretch, connect and have fun with each other. We will also engage in a laughter yoga practice to open the heart!

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Flourish is a global well-being community inspiring extraordinary living. Connect with like-hearted beings in a conscious community and explore life affirming practices led by some of the world’s most experienced and exciting spiritual teachers. We create outstanding in-person immersions in Southern California and host transformational wellness retreats around the world. No matter where you are on your journey, all of you is welcome here.

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Pat Sperry is the founder of Flourish Well-Being. He is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Professional Executive and Personal Coach, Men’s Work Facilitator, and world traveler. With over thirteen years of teaching experience including four years in India, China, and Southeast Asia, his commitment to practice paired with his playful and impassioned spirit makes him an approachable and impactful teacher. His mission is to serve and empower his communities to flourish by showing up as an example of embodied, integrated, and whole-hearted living.

 

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Catalina is a practitioner of Ancestral Medicine, Reiki Master, Sound Healing Artist, Certified Yoga Therapist, and devoted mother of three beautiful girls. Catalina currently offers crystal bed healings, 1-on-1 coaching, and a monthly San Diego based women’s circle. Her mission is to empower people to access their own divine wisdom by holding a space of unconditional love.

 

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 A fun, dynamic, rigorous practice that combines fitness moves with the strengthening and lengthening benefits of yoga poses and cardio intervals. It promotes a strong core, long and lean muscle mass, fat burning, improved circulation as well as flexibility to facilitate supportive balance for the entire physique. Yoga Sculpt is usually performed on a yoga mat in a heated room but at SDYF we will practice under the beautiful San Diego sun! All movements are low to mid impact, which protects your joints and muscles from the pounding of other exercises like running and jumping and it’s an all-levels class so everyone is welcome to join and do as much as you can!

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Led by:  Ana is the founder and co-owner of Namaste Fitness along with her husband. She is a 500-Hr certified Yoga Teacher, BootyBarre™ and bbarreless™ instructor, TRX and Pilates Suspension Method instructor, Kids Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, Rocket Yoga,Yoga Wall, Pre and Post-natal Yoga, Connected Warriors, Pilates and Yoga Sculpt certified instructor as well. This along with her International Business Degree both from San Diego State University and UABC Tijuana.
Her passion for helping others in their wellness journey comes from her love for her family. After having her second child in 2013 and leaving her corporate job to be a full-time mom, she started practicing Yoga with the intention to get back in shape, but she quickly realized that yoga is not just about the physical but the emotional and spiritual connection and growth too. It helped her discover her purpose to inspire others to live a healthy, clean and mindful life which is the key to happiness.

This calming + restoring class will leave you feeling peaceful, relaxed and calm. The practice is gentle, focused at restoring the body, bringing relaxation and peace to the mind and soothing the emotions. We will move simply and gently, slowly restoring the body. Movements will be mindful and focus on releasing the tension and stress that is built up in the body. Students should come to this class to [try to] to relax [we know it can be hard for some of us] and feel less stressed. No experience needed. 

Led by:  San Diego Yoga Festival founder and creator, Shawna Schenk: Not only is Shawna the founder and creator of San Diego Yoga Festival, she is the founder and creator of Yoga With Shawna and owns a yoga studio and reiki center in Imperial Beach. She has created a powerful place that offers various healing services, classes and monthly memberships to the community along with providing internship experiences for her students in her certification programs. She has authored 12 books and aside from being a healing center and yoga studio is a holistic health practitioner school offering certifications and diplomas in: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Yin Yoga Teacher Training, Meditation and Mudra Teacher Training, Reiki Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 Trainings, Sound Healing Trainings, Aromatherapy Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 Training and Breathwork Training. She also owns a retreat center, Desert Dimension, in Twentynine Palms, California. You can take a retreat with her there in the magical desert outside of Joshua Tree or rent out the retreat center for your own business. Also catch Shawna leading retreats throughout the world including places like Sedona, the Cayman Islands and Tulum.  

Learn to recognize the physical manifestation of emotions and transform that emotional energy into movement and vocalization. This emotional energy often goes undetected and shows up in distraction techniques such as eating and mindless scrolling. Using the practice of Conscious Body Alchemy you will learn to read emotional maps encoded in physical body sensation. You will be guided to follow these maps to release emotions from the body by alchemizing their energy into movement, breath and vocalization. Aided by asanas (yoga stretches) chosen specifically to reach areas of deep tension, you will find your physical edge and explore the emotions stored deep within tight hamstrings, shoulders and hips. This class is suited for all levels and requires no specific experience, flexibility or fitness level, only an open mind and a willingness to express that which is stored within. 

 

Led by: Melanie Ezell is the Author of “Weight Is Not the Problem: A Non-Diet Approach to the Alchemy of Physical Transformation”. She holds certifications as a nutritionist, personal trainer, yoga instructor and meditation teacher. She is a survivor of stage IV ovarian cancer. She lives with her husband and son in Hawaii where she coaches people who are ready to end the war with their bodies and weight. In her free time she teaches yoga and surfs waves big enough to scare her.

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Awaken the Wolf Spirit within you with Wolf & Lion creator Elyssa Swann, through a continuous vinyasa flow focusing on the magical attributes of the wolf. Wolf spirit brings the intensity of passion in your everyday endeavors. It's an invitation to look at what supports your authentic self and the true expression of yourself. The spirit of the wolf guides you to trust your instincts and to live life powerfully. This yoga sequence will link together powerful postures that aid in the embodiment of the wolf spirit.

 

 Led by Elyssa Swann has been a dedicated personal fitness & lifestyle coach and health activist since 2002. She has always been drawn to building community and was inspired to create her own yoga lifestyle brand called Wolf & Lion. She created a signature class called Wolf Spirit Flow that combines the styles of Vinyasa flow with attributes of the “Wolf Spirit”: living life powerfully with passion, authentic self-expression, and trusting your intuition. Elyssa strives to live by these attributes and brings that energy to all her offerings.

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Looking to open yourself to the whisper of intuition hiding behind your everyday?  This class is guided by channeled intuition, providing a safe and playful space of healing for all levels of practitioners to receive messages of their own Divine Intuition.  The practice emphasizes settling into peaceful cooperation of all levels of your consciousness by mindfully moving through traditional Asana.  You will be skillfully led through postures to meet your body where it is.  Participants are encouraged to follow their bodies intuition and to explore in the sacred container of practice created by the community.  The class will include a suggested intention to guide your self discovery; meditation connecting your consciousness to body, breath, and spirit; intentionally paced flow; and close with a state of peaceful letting go and rebirth.

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Led by Courtney Walters, 500 RYT specializing in soulful practice that aligns the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of self. Her classes focus on practical physical alignment, building intuition and deeper connection with self through breath and mindful movement

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 Connect with your Higher Self through the cutting edge modality of HypnoBreathwork® that uses breathwork to clear energetic patterns, hypnosis to reprogram the subconscious mind, and visioning to fire new neural pathways. You will be guided through a brief asana practice to drop into your body, get comfortable and cover your eyes to prepare for an expansive 30 minute breathwork journey to meet your Higher Self. Your subconscious mind will reveal what is blocking you from embodying your Higher Self, which we will clear using the power of breath. You will receive powerful downloads of what intuitive action steps to take toward manifesting your Higher Self vision and leave the session clear, calm, and with a roadmap toward embodying your Higher Self. If you have something to cover your eyes, please bring it. 

 

Note: This practice is not recommended if you are pregnant or have a history of cardiovascular disease, seizure disorders, personal or family history of aneurysms, or using major medications.

 

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Led by: Carrie Mailloux who is a  200 Hour Certified Yoga Teacher based in Vermont, but will always call California home. She is a reiki healer and certified HypnoBreathwork® facilitator who is passionate about helping people reprogram subconscious beliefs and tap into their unlocked potential. In her classes, Carrie intends to create a welcoming and inclusive environment in which she guides students on a journey of remembering: remembering the innate wisdom of their bodies, their breath, and that they are always enough. 

 

Get into your body and out of your mind with this fun, playful take on vinyasa. Attendees will be invited to move themselves in a way that creates a synergy between mind, breath and body. Give yourself the freedom to move like you. All levels are welcome, fun is mandatory.

 

Led by John Quirk. Moving from corporate life as a television producer in New York City to teaching yoga and meditation full time in 2014, John possesses a unique mix of being a quick thinking leader and a carefully listening student. John aims to honor the tradition of yoga and its teaching while infusing elements of quantum physics and laughter in his classes. Expect classes to be skillfully layered for all levels, infused with theme and intention, and always a lot of fun! Founder of Q Yoga, SoCal Wellness Retreats and SoCal Workplace Wellness, John leads impactful wellness retreats locally in San Diego as well as in Bali and Costa Rica. John offers his time as a mentor to new teachers, teaches free classes in his community and works with the local food bank in San Diego. His rescue dog Lola is his biggest fan!

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The focus is on the meditative flow of breath and movement. This dynamic power vinyasa class will work out your whole body and moves at a slightly faster pace. The class will feature a 'peak posture' where the parts of the body needed to be strengthened or stretched out will be focused on. 

 

Led by: Diana Sophia Virissimo, OwnerE-RYT 500, YACEP, Fitness Coach, & Reiki Master

Diana’s yoga journey began in 2008, after a bad neck and back injury from a car accident. At that time, she was looking for ways to help remedy the pain and learned about the benefits of yoga. After practicing yoga for 3 weeks, the pain went away and she was hooked. Yoga not only enhanced my flexibility and strength, it also nurtured her spirituality, compassion, and happiness. This experience changed her life and gave her a new sense of purpose: to become an instructor and share this healing gift with others. 

 

She received her 200-hour certification in 2012, during which time she attended multiple trainings to learn how to teach different formats so as to broaden her knowledge and reach all types of audiences. Vinyasa, yin, sculpt, hatha, bootcamp, mommy & me yoga, restorative yoga, gentle yoga, barre, and reiki are just a few of the many formats of health and fitness that she has certifications and experience in. 

 

Words of encouragement and inspiration are a staple in Diana’s classes. Her goal is to leave you as excited and passionate about yoga as she is, while feeling motivated and challenged in your practice.

 A hypnotizing and immersive wellness and creative experience in which we will do a yoga, meditation and breathing practice to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album which will leave you feeling both balanced and inspired. No experience needed. 

Led by: San Diego Yoga Festival founder and creator, Shawna Schenk: Not only is Shawna the founder and creator of San Diego Yoga Festival, she is the founder and creator of Yoga With Shawna and owns a yoga studio and reiki center in Imperial Beach. She has created a powerful place that offers various healing services, classes and monthly memberships to the community along with providing internship experiences for her students in her certification programs. She has authored 12 books and aside from being a healing center and yoga studio is a holistic health practitioner school offering certifications and diplomas in: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Yin Yoga Teacher Training, Meditation and Mudra Teacher Training, Reiki Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 Trainings, Sound Healing Trainings, Aromatherapy Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 Training and Breathwork Training. She also owns a retreat center, Desert Dimension, in Twentynine Palms, California. You can take a retreat with her there in the magical desert outside of Joshua Tree or rent out the retreat center for your own business. Also catch Shawna leading retreats throughout the world including places like Sedona, the Cayman Islands and Tulum.  

Join personal trainer and yoga instructor Laura Wouters and Locally Well San Diego for Abundance Yoga Flow, a purposeful and intentional class designed to release tension, boost confidence, and energize your entire being. Through a series of dynamic and invigorating yoga poses, you'll activate your body's potential and set positive intentions along the way. Following this empowering flow, immerse yourself in a Mindset Meditation. By shifting your focus from scarcity to abundance, you'll allow yourself to recognize and appreciate the richness that surrounds you in every aspect of life.
 

About Locally Well San Diego + Laura Wouters

 

Locally Well San Diego is your go-to source for the latest health + wellness news, trends and events here in San Diego. Follow @locallywell or visit locallywell.com to get the latest! 

 

 KATIE B. HAPPYY has always taken inner transformation seriously. The fire in Katie B.’s spirit took a giant pause when she woke up in 2015 with Bell’s palsy and the right side of her face paralyzed. Katie B. used her paralysis to give up definitions of societal normal beauty and aims to create not just work outs, but work ins. Her memoir, "Cheers to Chaos - 8 Tools for the Puffy Eyed and Powerful" hit Amazon Best Seller lists in the first week and continues to inspire thousands internationally. Read it for a laugh. Read it to feel lighter. Read it to remember the profound and fundamental truth that you are not alone. Katie B is featured in the Amazon Prime documentary "The Author" telling the inspiring stories of how to find happiness in the modern world.

From her BA in international conflict resolution to her over 10,000 hours of master yoga/fitness certifications, her global company has changed thousands of lives. b inspired, LLC, & charity organization helps you rediscover your power.

Katie B is a life long self development fan. From life-changing Self-Venture International Retreats to epic online Zoom classes on her b_inspired app, the b_inspired team helps you align up to your clarity in your calling. Katie B has hosted over 40 yoga teacher trainings, training thousands of people how to give their purpose & passion back to the world.  She works directly with fortune 500 & hospital corporations to help prevent burnout with their employees with her b_inspired curriculum of self development. 

Katie has appeared on NBC and CBS, been featured in Shape magazine, and serves as an international lululemon model/ambassador. She has taught/spoken at many festivals, including Wanderlust; been a presenter at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India; presented at StartUp Conferences nationally; and created her own bi-coastal “Sweat for Service” event where thousands of people give back to the families of fallen soldiers.

The tragic loss of her young, forty-three-year-old mom from breast cancer helped fuel Katie to create her 501(c)3, b_inspired, which helps people discover who they are after loss. She’s taken hundreds of cancer survivors on healing weekends to start fresh and redefine their power, and b_inspired 501(c)3 has raised over $100k to help fund orphanages in Ensenada, Mexico & Rishikesh, India. If you're feeling uninspired, you know where to go. Katie B will help you find your breath again, to live your life more fully and to b_inspired. 

Join us for an all-levels Pilates practice followed by relaxing yoga flow. Feel rejuvenated and relaxed.

 

Led by: Jennifer Tipton has been leading yoga classes for close to two decades. She is an ambitious traveler and co-owner of Yoga Pilates Travel. Vanessa Mayer is a skilled Pilates instructor and owns a studio in La Jolla, CA. She co-owns Yoga Pilates Travel.

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Transmission Meditation is a combination of Karma and Laya yogas which accomplishes the effects of Kriya yoga as a side benefit.  As a group world service meditation, the two great paths to enlightenment - meditation and service - fuse together to enable participants to make rapid progress on the path.  A year of Transmission Meditation done regularly is said to be equivalent to 5-20 years of normal intense spiritual practice.

 

Led by: John McNab has participated and facilitated a Transmission Meditation group for 30 years.  He had meditation with the person who brought Transmission Meditation to the public, Benjamin Creme, regularly up to the time of Mr. Creme's passing.  Transmission Meditation is held three times weekly in the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego and is always free.

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  In this class,  participants will be guided to develop a healthier, kinder relationship to their bodies using Internal Family Systems and somatic tools. They will learn practical, new ways to be more in tune with the messages their bodies are communicating, so that they can feel more relaxation and confidence. Participants will walk away feeling less in battle with their bodies and more befriended to their bodies. 

 

Led by: Stacia Aashna is an Embodiment Coach, who is certified in Internal Family Systems for individuals and couples. She is also a licensed clinical hypnotherapist and meditation teacher. Stacia's childhood challenges inspired her to seek a more meaningful life and now she helps others to do the same.