Main Stage (FRI-SUN)
4pm-10pm
Song Keepers
Porangui
Poranguí is a world music multi-instrumentalist known for solo improvisational live looping. Born in São José dos Campos, Brazil, he grew up in the cultures of Brazil (his mother), Mexico (his father), and the southwestern United States. He currently resides in Sedona, Arizona.
Sacred Sounds
Ayla Nereo is a singer, composer, producer, dancer, and visual-poetry creator raised among the Northern California forests and rivers. Called a “bridger of sound,” Ayla dances between timeless and modern, with a particular joy for cross-pollinating musical styles. Her songs seem a genre unto their own, as she moves between vocal looping, produced beats, live drumming, orchestral string arrangements, Celtic melodies, disco rhythms, electronic soundscapes, and even dashes of hip-hop wordplay.
Bass Music
Scott Nice
Informed by his personal healing journey Scott Nice brings a union of electronic and acoustic sounds to both move the body and feed the soul.
Organic Electronic
Heather Christie & Vir McCoy
Heather Christie is a trailblazer: DJ, producer, vocalist, songwriter, mentor, music label founder, and mama; she is on a mission to usher in a new wave of feminine musical creation. Heather has gone viral and been featured in publications worldwide for the story of her trailblazing in motherhood & music. Vir McCoy, a musical force in his own right, joins on lively stringed instruments such as guitar, Irish Tenor banjo, djeli ngoni from Mali, and the Turkish Cümbüs.
UK Electronic
DJ DragonFly
DJ Dragonfly is a multi-faceted artist and DJ with a background in engineering and a deep passion for music production and performance. He describes himself as a "student engineer of many things," combining his technical skills with his love for music to create unique sonic experiences.
Electro Funk DJ
Polish Ambassador
Musician. Producer. Beatsmith. Recording artist. Composer. Dance-floor general. Label-head. A mystery man of many hats, The Polish Ambassador rocks more than just a trademark jumpsuit, authoring sublime, intentional artistic works, animated safaris in technicolor sound. At first breath, The Polish Ambassador was an experiment, David Sugalski’s sound-art passion project that came to life.
Sacred Music
Marya Stark
Marya Stark is an award-winning vocalist, music producer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is a bard, storyteller, and poet. Her body of work is steeped in the transformational arts of music therapy, mythical folklore, energetic alchemy, and womb empowerment.
Loop electronic world
Mah ze tar
Māh Ze Tār is propelled by the vision of fusing traditional eastern music with modern electronic composition as a form of cultural preservation. Each Māh Ze Tār set is uniquely dynamic- The listener can expect to hear the ancient sounds of the Sitar and Oud in one song and the timeless melodies of the Ney and Duduk in the next- bringing a kaleidoscope of emotions through the wide plethora of ancient sounds, mesmerizing vocals, and grooving beats.
World Improv
Muvica
3 Musicians playing contemporary dance music, with old world instruments and a live immersive improvisational feel. Come dance to something new every time.
Bhakti Fest Stage
(Ives Park)
7am-7pm
Yoga & Kirtan
Dj Drez & Marti Nikko
Global pioneers of mantra-infused music and yoga culture. Their collaborations fuse hip-hop, sacred chant, and soulful vocals, creating experiences that uplift and inspire.
Jai Dev
World-renowned kundalini yoga teacher and Ayurvedic practitioner. He is the founder of Life-Force Academy, transmitting timeless teachings for vitality, love, and spiritual radiance.
Shimshai & Susana
Beloved world-fusion duo whose songs weave devotional lyrics with Latin, reggae, and folk influences. Their music carries the spirit of community and sacred celebration worldwide.
Saul David Raye
Sacred chant artist and spiritual teacher known for his ecstatic, heart-centered kirtans. His offerings unite mantra, music, and mysticism in service of awakening. Internationally acclaimed teacher of yoga, healing, and sacred music. His offerings integrate heart-based practices, shamanic wisdom, and devotional traditions.
Masood Ali Khan
Musician and teacher known for his handpan soundscapes and yoga offerings. His workshops integrate sound healing, meditation, and conscious movement for transformation.
Jacqueline Michelle
Singer-songwriter and medicine musician sharing songs of healing and remembrance. Her voice transmits both tenderness and power, guiding listeners into deep presence.
Janet Stone
International yoga teacher and lineage holder sharing vinyasa infused with philosophy and devotion. Her teaching bridges ancient wisdom with modern life, empowering practice on and off the mat.
Kavita Kat Macmillan
Sacred vocalist and sound alchemist weaving mantra, soul, and story. Her offerings create transformative spaces of beauty, healing, and devotion.
Egemen Sanli & Madhu
Visionary sound healers offering transformative journeys with traditional instruments, mantra, and improvisation. Together they bridge ancient sounds with modern healing practices.
Meera dawhan
Devotional yogini and meditation guide offering practices that bridge stillness, movement, and sacred connection. Her work inspires presence and inner alignment.
Karnamrita dasi
All acoustic, entirely improvised from start to finish.
Masters from various world traditions come together to channel music to move your soul.
Joss Jaffe
Internationally recognized kirtan artist, percussionist, and producer. His work blends mantra, world rhythms, and contemporary production to create uplifting devotional experiences.Masters from various world traditions come together to channel music to move your soul.
MaryZelle
All acoustic, entirely improvised from start to finish.
Masters from various world traditions come together to channel music to move your soul.
Kiranjot
Renowned mantra singer with roots in Sikh and yogic traditions. Her angelic voice and luminous presence open portals into devotion and prayer.
Amanda Giacomini
All acoustic, entirely improvised from start to finish.
Masters from various world traditions come together to channel music to move your soul.
Evan Hatfield
A multi-instrumentalist weaving sitar, electronic beats, and devotional soundscapes that transport audiences into expanded states.
Sharanam
Devotional musician carrying sacred mantras and heart-centered songs. His work bridges Eastern traditions with modern expression, creating powerful spaces of stillness and connection.
Adarsh
Musician and sound healer devoted to the transformative power of mantra and rhythm. His music invites embodied joy, presence, and spiritual awakening.
Indy Rishi Singh & Diana Cantu Reyna
Teachers and facilitators blending yoga, meditation, and storytelling. Their collaborative workshops invite laughter, insight, and heart-opening community connection.
Nat Kendall
San Francisco–based yoga teacher, musician, and kirtan leader. His classes weave bhakti, flow, and mantra into heart-expanding, soulful practice.
BHAKTI STAGE
Center Stage (Fri-Sun)
10am-6pm
Food - Wine - Music
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Soul Sounds
Mamuse
Wholeheartedly fed by the folk and gospel traditions, MaMuse (Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker) create uplifting music to inspire the world into thriving. Interweaving brilliant and haunting harmony with lyrics born of honed emotional intelligence, MaMuse invokes a musical presence that inspires the opening of the heart. Playing a family of varied acoustic instruments including upright bass, guitar, mandolins, and flutes, these two powerful women embody a love for all life. The synergy that is created through this musical connection is palpable and truly moving to witness.
Soul Funk Hip-Hop
The Dogon Lights are a Bay Area-based, quintet band whose name is derived from the Dogon people of Mali, known for their mask dances and astronomical knowledge.They blend West African instruments and rhythms with hip-hop, funk, and world music influences.
Psychedelia
Whiskerman
Over the last 7 years the Oakland band has developed an underground reputation for tackling the sublime with their ambitious songwriting, thunderous stage show, and acute lyricism. They have since emerged as an engine of the Bay Area’s revitalized psychedelic and festival scenes.
Funk & Soul
BeauBeau Band
An offshoot of the California Honeydrops:
BeauBeau Band is an exciting new project for bandleader/drummer/vocalist Beaumont Beaullieu. The band combines roots rhythm and blues, funk, soul, and New Orleans music - upbeat, groovy and danceable though and through, it features some of the finest musicians from the Bay Area, CA
Folk
Soulstrum
Hailing from Sonoma County, this brother duo brings heartfelt Americana to the stage. With rich harmonies siblings can achieve known as “blood harmonies”
Brass band
Black Sheep Brass
Black Sheep Brass Band is rooted in music spanning generations. You've most likely heard of the big band era (Tommy/Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, etc.). Maybe you've even heard of Traditional (Trad) Jazz and Bay Area Funk? BSBB blends all of these genres and more.
Soul Sounds
The Heeters
The Heeters band is comprised of Tom Quell (vocals/guitar, and a couple members of The California Honeydrops (Lorenzo Loera on keys and Miles Blackwell on bass).
Lorenzo and Tom co-write the songs, which have that classic soul sound & those catchy hooks--with a personality that makes them still unique and relevant within the world of modern music.
Soul Funk Hip-Hop
King Dream, led by Oakland native Jeremy Lyon, is a Bay Area rock ‘n’ roll band known for crafting heartfelt and cerebral dive bar anthems. Their music seamlessly blends the raw energy of American rock legends like Springsteen and Petty with the psychedelic vibes of ’60s West Coast music and the contemporary spirit of bands like My Morning Jacket and The War on Drugs. Lyon and his band have an impressive track record, having performed at notable festivals like Outside Lands and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, toured both nationally and internationally, and even experienced the gritty reality of busking on the streets.
psychedelic pop/rock
Suzanimal
Suzanimal is a smart, playful psychedelic pop/rock project from San Francisco Bay Area singer, songwriter and bassist Suzanne Galal. Inspired by her love of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. Galal — a scientist and pharmacy professor by day — picked up a bass guitar for the first time at the age of 30, and began writing confident, groove-centered tracks soon after.
Funk & Soul
Sakoyana
Sakoyana is a jazz-funk band from Sonoma County, California. Influenced by sounds and creations of all kinds. Primarily the music is rooted in jazz, blues, and funk, but is also influenced by western classical music, hip hop, Indian classical music, space, plants, meditation and much more. The music strives to balance tight compositional structures with improvisation and joyful noise.
Folk
Animal Prince
Animal Prince is an art-pop project from singer-violinist Fae Nageon de Lestang and percussionist Grant McLeod. Fae’s vocals are a captivating instrument, drawing the listener into a landscape that’s playful yet polished, soulful but never self-serious, layered with string arrangements, synth grooves, hooks, harmonies and the occasional actual birdsong. Borrowing from bossa nova, indie folk, yacht rock and chamber pop, Animal Prince would be at home on a mix with Feist, Emily King, or Pet Sounds, but the sound is uniquely their own: tender, danceable and delightfully feral.
Workshops & After Hours Stage Fri-Sun
(Soft Medicine)
The Art of Being Fully Alive
Introducing the practice of Radical Aliveness, a dynamic, embodied process that invites full human expression. Through guided exercises and group exploration, participants will move between deep stillness and wild release, laughing, crying, moving, connecting, and discovering their authentic aliveness in community.
Cultivating Intuitive Gifts
Strengthen your intuition and connection to self, others, and the world in this experiential workshop. Through practices like Contemplation Meditation, Body Awareness, and a gong sound bath, you’ll learn to cultivate inner peace, trust your intuitive gifts, and discover new ways to take intentional, grounded action in daily life.
Surrendering Into a Deeper Place of Being
Explore the shift from identifying with thoughts and emotions to recognizing yourself as the awareness in which all experience arises. Through a talk, guided meditation, and Q&A, discover the freedom of surrender and the realization that your true nature is wholeness itself—complete, present, and not defined by the “me” of thought or identity.
Sensing, Connecting, and Moving from Within
Discover deeper connection through movement, awareness, and authentic expression. Blending Authentic Relating and Authentic Movement, this workshop invites verbal and nonverbal exploration of emotions, presence, and connection. Through guided practices and witnessing, we’ll create space for curiosity, embodiment, and genuine human connection.
PULSE Fusion Partner Dance for Beginners!
Discover the joy of Fusion partner dance in this playful beginner-friendly workshop—no experience or partner needed! Learn the basics of frame, tone, and lead/follow connection through movement games and improvisation. Build confidence, meet new friends, and explore connection skills you can bring to any dance floor.
Collaborative Vocal Improv Music
Explore spontaneous vocal expression and co-create improvised, acapella music in community. Through playful games and deep listening, we’ll practice presence, collaboration, and non-attachment—creating and releasing rich vocal soundscapes together. Arrive early to build shared awareness before our attuned, joy-filled closing jam.
Empath Relationship Challenges
+ PLUS Radiant Heart Ceremony
Learn tools to strengthen energetic boundaries, release others’ emotions, and create a sovereign field for clear, empowered connection. Discover that strong boundaries are truly erotic!
Experience heart-centered rituals of connection through breath, touch, and movement in a safe, sacred space. Nurturing, sensual (not sexual), and open to all—shared pleasures heal!
The Art of Slowing Down
+ PLUS Experiencing Tantra
Slow down and reconnect through science, meditation, and reflection. Gain practical tools to cultivate peace, presence, and a more intentional, nourishing way of living.
Discover what Tantra truly is through heart-centered rituals and conscious connection. Explore ancient and modern practices to feel more alive, open, and deeply connected.
Fluid Dance
Fluid Dance invites you to explore the water within your body through guided movement and dance improvisation. Drawing from Noguchi Taiso, dance, and contact improvisation, you’ll embody the fluidity of water, release tension, and awaken creativity while discovering a deeper connection between body, mind, and flow.
Expressive Art & Writing for Healing
Reconnect with yourself through art and writing in this restorative workshop. Guided creative prompts invite self-expression, emotional release, and healing. No experience needed, just curiosity. Explore mindful creativity as a path to resilience, insight, and wholeness in a gentle, supportive space.
Tapping into the Genius of your Superconsciousness
Working with EFT (Tapping) we will relax our nervous systems from stress, hyper-vigilance, and tension to a state of deeper awareness, accessing higher states of our super intelligence endogenously. By quieting the mind and neutralizing unhelpful programs, we start to bring down heart-walls, create coherence between the higher heart and the higher mind and tune into GAMMA (the state of higher awareness, love & intelligence).
Awaken and Expand Your Erotic Blueprints
Explore the five erotic blueprints in this experiential workshop for singles and couples. Through touch, music, and body wisdom, participants will deepen embodiment, enhance intimacy, and expand pleasure in a safe, playful, and supportive space.
Identity Alchemy
Identity Alchemy invites you to release old labels and reclaim your personal agency. Through reflection, surrender, and community connection, explore self-love, authentic presence, and the freedom to choose who you want to be, creating new possibilities in how you see yourself and the world.
From Jealousy to Love Secure
From Jealousy to Love Secure offers a safe space to explore jealousy, its roots, and impact. Through reflection, roleplay, and neuroscience-backed tools, participants learn to reframe and release jealousy, cultivating trust, deeper connection, and transforming this tender emotion into love and understanding.
The Art and Science of Qigong
Join Sean T Fox for a Ceremonial Qigong workshop blending Daoist wisdom, movement, and breath. Suitable for all levels, participants cultivate balance, energy flow, strength, and joy, connecting body, mind, and spirit while attuning to the season’s abundance.
FreeYourStyle: Somatic Movement Play
FreeYourStyle invites you to release judgment and tap into flow through playful, authentic movement. This somatic experience helps you express your own style, explore your edges, melt walls, and have more fun while connecting deeply with your body and creativity.
