Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Artha/Effort: Cultivating Stability and Skillful Action

Friday June 12, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Rooted in the yogic principle of artha, this workshop investigates how we engage the material world with discernment, balance, and responsibility. Rolf Gates weaves philosophical inquiry with Kripalu-style asana, breathwork, and meditation to illuminate the relationship between effort, sustainability, and wise use of energy. Participants will leave with practical insights into how embodied awareness supports both inner and outer prosperity.

Presenters

Rolf Gates

Kripalu

Friday June 12, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
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Yoga

Style Kripalu

10:30am EDT

Embodied Mindfulness: The Yoga of Singing for Health and Wellness Workshop

Friday June 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Doc Maynard Pavillion

Limited Capacity seats available

Discover the voice of your soul in this transformative workshop with internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author Girish.

Science is proving what ancient cultures and our inner wisdom already knows: your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of transformation in every facet of your life. Sharing his own experience as a sound healer, musician, yogi, and former Hindu monk, Girish offers tools and practices to find and express your true voice in this interactive and inspiring workshop.

Discover and express your true voice and reclaim the healing potential that resides there. Girish will share several enjoyable and practical techniques, based on his decades of sound healing experience, that you can incorporate into your daily life. You will discover what 21st Century neuroscience reveals about these practices, many based on ancient yogic teachings, and learn new and inspiring ways to support and open your voice. You will discover unique, liberating methods to clear old patterns that block your natural expression and fulfillment. You will feel how opening your voice leads to powerful transformation in every dimension of your life.

Presenters

Girish

Girish is an internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author. He began his music career as a jazz drummer, spent five years as a monk in a Hindu monastery, returned to music as a session tabla player on more than a hundred world music albums, and for the past twelve... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
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Meditation & Pranayama

Schedule Spotlights Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Traditions, Personal Growth & Transformation, Teacher's Path, Studio Partner Picks

12:00pm EDT

Breath & Beats: Soulful Power Flow

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Friday June 12, 2026 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT

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Limited Capacity filling up

This intelligent power flow class is practiced with music that transcends the genres of hip-hop, lofi beats, house, jazz, modern pop, and ambient sounds. Jyll's inner joy and no nonsense spiritual support will guide you through a soulful power flow practice with juicy holds that will leave your body feeling empowered and your mind happy and focused.

Presenters

Jyll Hubbard-Salk

Jyll Hubbard-Salk has been a yoga teacher for nearly 30 years and is the founder of Urban Asanas, a yoga and wellness studio located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that is committed to bringing diversity into the yoga community. Always willing and wanting to support, Jyll has cultivated... Read More →

DJ Taz Rashid

Founder, Soul Groove Wellness

DJ Taz Rashid brings a high vibrational energy to any room instantly by mixing the beats and rhythms of Love, Ancient New World, House, Devotional, and all the cosmic sounds. He is known for his unique style of blending electronic dance music with yoga and meditation, which has made... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
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Yoga

Schedule Spotlights Studio Partner Picks

2:00pm EDT

Flow and Release / Soul Serenade

Friday June 12, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

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Limited Capacity seats available

Feel good yoga flow with live music serenade to calm the nervous system while you explore cooldown postures like forward folds and hip openers.

Presenters

Matt Giordano

Yoga instructor Matt Giordano (500 ERYT) gives credit to an influential figure from his teenage years--his high school art teacher-- for sparking within him the curiosity and tenacity that eventually led him to yoga. It was Eileen Walk who told Giordano: "You are not allowed to say... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
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Yoga

4:30pm EDT

Tantra Sadhana — Doorway to Inner Freedom & Abundance

Friday June 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

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Limited Capacity seats available

Scriptures proclaim, “You are the creator of your destiny.” We have the ability to identify and choose the path that leads to true freedom and abundance. This is what tantra sadhana is all about. There are numerous tantric practices: some complex, some straightforward; some enticing in the beginning and perplexing at the end.

In this keynote, Pandit Tigunait shares the time-tested practice of tantra vidya which is sweet and insightful right from the start, and fulfilling at each step of our progress. This practice is based on his latest book, Sri Sukta: Tantra of Inner Prosperity.

This presentation will enable you to gather the tools needed to confront and conquer the forces of uncertainty, fear, and confusion sweeping across both our inner and outer worlds.

Presenters

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

Himalayan Institute

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD, is a modern-day master and living link in the unbroken Himalayan Tradition. He is the successor to Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute. As the author of numerous books, including his autobiography Touche... Read More →

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Himalayan Institute

Friday June 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
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Lecture/Talk

Schedule Spotlights Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Traditions, Studio Partner Picks

7:00pm EDT

✴️ The Ceremony Within: Experience Your Own Energy as the Master Teacher

Friday June 12, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

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Limited Capacity seats available

This is a unique experience developed by Mara Lee Gilbert for the purpose of learning the structure of ceremony itself as its own medicine; and how our greatest teacher in this lifetime is our own energy. The structure you will experience here is based on South American style plant medicine ceremonies, where Mara received her training. However, part of her work is bringing back the memory that every human on the planet has an ancestor that practiced ceremony in their own way, their own right, that connected our lineages to the Earth, and our spirits, no matter what culture or tribe it is related to. This is the art of learning the ceremony of being Human, and walking the on-going ceremony that is our lives. We remain sober for this ceremony - no plants are consumed.
Mara says: Come to Ceremony to connect more completely with the medicine that is You by deepening your relationship with your prayers and intentions, and recognizing the role you are playing in how they get answered. This is a space to take greater responsibility for how we are experiencing our lives. Bring your prayers. Bring Yourself, exactly as you are in this moment.
Mara sings, chants and shares prayers, in her unique style, which she channels from our collective ancestors and the Earth, to enhance and deepen the experience for all participants in profound ways

Presenters

Mara Lee Gilbert

M.A. in Psychology, Patchwork Progress

Mara Lee Gilbert is a Transformational Guide and Coach, Sacred Space Holder, and is currently training as a Death Doula. She works with the wisdom of the mushroom and the Earth, listening deeply to Pachamama, the body, and the spaces in between.

After over 10 years experience with plant medicine, and continued study with her ceremony teachers, she has developed her own method of serving Sober Ceremony. This ceremony guides us to understand that our greatest teacher in this lifetime is our own energy. And the first layer of... Read More →

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