Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026

Good for All Levels, Start your day slow and steady and prepare your body for a day of "festing" with this joyful, healing, yin practice. Yin yoga consists of a gentle warm up followed by finding comfortable stretches you can hold for longer periods of time with mindful breathing. It's a great way to check in with your body and focus your energy for the day.  Jyll Hubbard-Salk, founder of the iconic Urban Asanas in Brooklyn has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and seeks to create a space in her class where "the yoga feels like home." 

Experience a Sonic Chakra Balancing Workshop with Char Willingham, an immersive experience designed to align and rejuvenate your body’s seven energy centers using the power of sound. This workshop is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being through the ancient practice of sound healing. You’ll explore the seven primary energy centers, each linked to specific aspects of your emotional and physical being. Immerse yourself in the healing vibrations of various instruments, each aligned with particular chakras, to harmoniously open, balance, and activate your energy centers. Participate in this interactive session, where you learn to use sound healing tools and techniques for personal care and to assist others, offering practical skills for everyday use while enriching your understanding of chakras and sound’s therapeutic power, suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners. This Sonic Chakra Balancing Workshop offers a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the chakra system and the healing power of sound.

Layers of gentle movement, breath, and original, live music are intentionally composed for you to unfold and sense the yogic winds, the vayus, within. This flowing class will ease into a softly guided meditation and multi-flute harmonic soundbath with Jacob “NTHNL” Rudin. His long form composition includes binaural beats and field recordings over which he plays a collection of wind instruments guiding you to deeper states of awareness and reflection.

This collaborative project is part of a series of protocols used by Megan Twining in her yoga therapy practice.

In this guided meditation, you’ll achieve deep relaxation, making this session a wonderful balance to your active practice. Based in savasana, yoga nidra takes you through the layers of consciousness to access the blissful core of your being. Sage Rountree guides you into a peaceful state similar to sleep, then gently brings you back around. You’ll leave feeling refreshed, revitalized, and ready for what comes next. 

Begin your journey with a scenic chairlift ride to the summit of Jiminy Peak, where sweeping views of the Taconic Mountains set the stage for a truly unforgettable evening. From there, you’ll be guided on a short, gentle hike down a forest trail to a secluded outdoor glen tucked into the mountainside.

Waiting for you is critically acclaimed bassist and composer Garth Stevenson, who will weave live music, meditation, and storytelling into an immersive forest-bathing experience. As the light softens and the day transitions toward dusk, allow the resonance of sound and nature to guide you into stillness, reflection, and connection.

Following the experience, participants will return via chairlift as the mountain glows in golden hour light—an unforgettable close to a magical offering.

Please note: This outdoor session is weather-dependent. In the event of adverse weather, the experience may be modified or canceled.

Come experience the delicious, comforting, transformativepractices of restorative yoga and meditation.We will begin with calming breathwork to ground you after a busyday of yoga! Then into a restorative yoga practice, a process ofmoving into a quiet state of being, away from the normal activityof the body and mind. You will channel the energies of the body -wind, blood, lymph- in specific ways that engender a deep senseof relaxation and rejuvenation.Some simple stretches will follow as a bridge back up to sitting.A short, silent meditation will complete this quietly powerfulevening session of gently gathering yourself together.