Bhakti Fest 2010 – 4 days of Kirtan, Yoga, and Music 9/9 – 9/12
Get Excited! This year’s Bhakti Fest is just around the corner, and it’s shaping up to be one of the year’s most incredible events!
Bhakti Fest 2010 is a 4 day music festival celebrating devotion through chanting, Yoga, meditation,and community, taking place on September 9th – 12th, in Joshua Tree, California. Held at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center on 450 acres of sacred land and making use of Frank Llyod Wright designed buildings, the leading names in Kirtan, Yoga, and healing will share their inspiration and spirit. Festival go-ers will experience an abundance of kirtan on 2 stages, with over 80 hours of music by notable Kirtan performers such as Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Deva Primal & Miten, and Dave Stringer. The country’s leading Yoga instructors will share their energy and experience with practitioners of all levels from sunrise to sunset each day in two yoga halls. Yogis and aspiring Yogis alike will have the opportunity to deepen their practice and challenge themselves with new asana styles. The beautiful sanctuary will hold workshops and seminars with Ram Dass, Shyamdas, Howard Wills, and many more, while the healing sanctuary will house top bodyworkers practicing massage, shiatsu, Reiki, acupuncture, and structural energywork.
Check out what Yoga Journal had to say about last year’s festival:
The deserts of California echoed with kirtan for 58 consecutive hours during the first Bhakti Fest, held in September 2009 on the grounds of the Joshua Tree Retreat Center in Joshua Tree National Park. The main organizer, Sridhar Silberfein (who says he arranged for Swami Satchidananda to give the invocation at Woodstock), booked dozens of kirtan musicians such as Wade Morissette, Dave Stringer and Jai Uttal as well as yoga teachers like Sara Ivanhoe, Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, and more. Neither in 100-degree noontime heat, nor at 3a.m., did the chanting stop for a moment. Yoga classes, in a variety of styles, went on from dawn to dusk in a separate tent.
The inaugral Bhakti Fest drew 2,500 people, most of whom camped in the desert. The festival offered inexpensive packages starting at $100 for the whole weekend, and then donated half the proceeds to charities such as Embracing the World, Oxfam, the Seva Foundation, and the Love Serve Remember Foundation (run by Ram Dass). “The driving force of the festival is dedication, service, and helping people out,” Silberfein says. “Certainly not money. That’s way down the list.”
The 2010 Line-Up
:: Kirtan ::
The kirtan line up includes Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, and MC Yogi, just to name a few!
:: Yoga ::
Some of this year’s teachers inlcude Shiva Rea, Mark Whitwell, Seane Corne, Duncan Wong, and many more!
For additional information, go to the festival website. You can also stay up-to-date by clicking here and friending Bhakti Fest on Facebook!
In case you weren’t pumped enough….Check out this video form last year’s festy - SO amazing!
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