Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026

What is kundalini anyway? How can we have an embodied experience in a safe and supported way? These are the themes that will be explored as we journey through spinal suppleness, mantra meditation, connection and community. The whole point of this immersion is to have a lived experience of your beauty, grace and perfection. No self improvement required, simply show up as you are.

Luminous Coherence unites modern science and ancient wisdom. This is a breakthrough, evidence-informed protocol that draws from neuroscience, CBT-informed self-inquiry, mindfulness, and tantric kriya meditation. Initially, the technique accelerates access to unified—non-dual—awareness. Progressively it then is applied to retrain default patterning in the brain and nervous system, transforming maladaptive mental, emotional, and behavioral tendencies. The result is a new and expansive sense of freedom––moment to moment to moment.

Research shows the practice provides “significant” measurable gains in emotional resilience, stress recovery, daily functioning and discipline, trauma-linked reactivity, creativity and insight—in seasoned as well as newer meditators. Rather than chasing peak experiences, the practice leads one to the stable healing ground of coherence, clarity and compassion for yourself, others and the world.

Grief is a sacred teacher - an expression of love, loss, and transformation. In this healing workshop, we journey through the five elements—earth, water, fire, air, and ether—to explore how nature’s wisdom can support us in moving through grief with compassion and grace.

Through a blend of grief yoga, breathwork, meditation, and somatic practices, we will honor our emotional landscapes and awaken the body’s natural capacity for healing.

In this 90 min class we will explore the depths of our inner landscape and where there is unprocessed and unexpressed e-motion (energy in motion). Giving opportunities to experience active choice throughout the class, and notice how we respond to discomfort and where we can deepen into self kindness.

It's tempting to use gratitude as an escape route from discomfort. But true gratitude is not a demand to pretend everything is fine; it’s the capacity to see and embrace the full, honest landscape of our experience. This session encourages us to acknowledge difficulty while still recognizing the innate tenderness and beauty that exist.

In this 90-minute session, we’ll explore gratitude as a steady, honest, and embodied practice that dismantles the myth of toxic positivity and roots us in reality while creating space for possibility. Through a blend of heartfelt discourse, meaningful reflection, and an accessible all-levels yoga practice, you’ll discover how gratitude can be a grounding force without glossing over the truth. We will explore how deep presence becomes transformative, supporting clarity, connection, and full integration.

You will be guided through an all-levels yoga practice utilizing asana, relaxation, pranayama, and meditation to feel gratitude from the inside out, through sensation and embodied awareness. This layered approach is designed to foster clarity, connection, and deep integration, allowing you to cultivate a sustainable sense of appreciation that is both honest and whole. All are welcome to explore this powerful path of presence.

In a culture shaped by speed, comparison, performance, and constant noise, it can feel almost natural to abandon ourselves in the name of fitting in or keeping up. But meaningful healing and genuine presence often asks us to
move in the opposite direction. It asks us to slow down, listen inward, and reclaim what the world teaches us to ignore.

In this 90-minute session, we’ll explore what it means to heal “against the grain,” especially when external pressures or internal habits push us toward disconnecting, perfecting, or overriding our own truth. Through grounded discourse and thoughtful reflection, we’ll look at the subtle patterns that masquerade as strength or goodness, and how yoga philosophy helps us discern what truly supports growth, clarity, and connection.

You’ll be guided through an all-levels yoga practice using asana, pranayama, and meditation to help you sense what alignment feels like in your body—moment by moment, breath by breath. Together, we’ll explore how embodiment becomes a compass for living with integrity, compassion, and courage, even when the world pulls us in a different direction.

This session is an invitation to return to yourself, trust your own inner knowing, and walk a path of healing that is honest, grounded, and deeply your own.

Step into a transformative experience where movement, breath, and self-awareness come together to unlock your full potential. In this dynamic class, Diana will guide you through a powerful Kundalini Yoga practice enhanced with the transformative teachings of the Enneagram. This unique blend will help you tap into your deepest energy, revealing new layers of awareness, while guiding you to connect more fully with your true self.

Kundalini Yoga, with its invigorating flow of postures, breathwork, and meditation, opens and activates your energy centers, leaving you feeling rejuvenated and deeply aligned. By incorporating the wisdom of the Enneagram, Diana will help you better understand how your personality type shapes your thoughts, habits, and yoga practice. You'll gain valuable insights into your personal growth, empowering you to create lasting transformation both on and off the mat.
Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or brand new to the practice, this class offers something for everyone. It’s more than just yoga, it's a journey of self-discovery, healing, and growth. Come ready to break free from old patterns, deepen your awareness, and experience a renewed sense of balance and clarity.

Join Diana for an unforgettable experience that blends the power of yoga with the profound insights of the Enneagram, and leave feeling connected, centered, and more aligned with your true purpose.

This class explores the intimate relationship between the psyche, the nervous system, and the body through the lens of the chakra system, held within a trauma-informed, psychological, and spiritual framework. The work of understanding how our beliefs, emotions, and survival patterns live in the body has been central to my own healing and remains the foundation of my teaching.
Transformational inner work invites us to turn toward the aspects of ourselves we’ve learned to avoid, suppress, or judge. Rather than bypassing discomfort, we learn how to meet it with awareness and skill, allowing insight and compassion to replace reactivity and self-betrayal. When internal narratives are brought into consciousness and worked with somatically, the body can release long-held tension, and the mind can reorganize around greater clarity and choice.
During our time together, we will explore shadow work, trauma and the brain, nervous system regulation, and the chakra system as a map for understanding both psychological patterns and energetic flow. Asana, pranayama, and meditation will be used intentionally to support specific energy centers, helping to restore the connection between body, breath, and inner intelligence.

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.

Step into the sacred role of the Cauldron Keeper and explore the ancient, lunar-rooted practices of the Moon Witch as a vessel of transformation. This immersive workshop weaves together moon wisdom, ritual, and embodied intention to help you tend the inner cauldron, the place where intuition, emotion, and magic alchemize. Through gentle movement, breathwork, and guided reflection, we will clear residual energy from the past cycle and create space for what is ready to emerge. A central focus of this workshop is learning how to create and hold your own New Moon ritual, so you can return to this practice again and again with confidence and clarity.

Activation of the lunar force invokes the power of steadiness, immovable resolve, and the qualities of self-knowing. In this practice we’ll activate the lunar force and invoke its nurturing and sublime qualities through a powerful, yet deeply soothing asana, pranayama, and meditation sequence for body and mind. Through experience and some theory, you'll cultivate the forces that lead to calm in the midst of turbulence and that awaken peace, intuition, and courage

Vinyasa becomes more than movement when practiced with purpose.This class is designed to awaken possibility, build strength, and create connection through intentional flow.You’ll leave feeling grounded, expanded, and inspired — an embodied reminder that how you move shapes how you live.

Life rarely offers perfect conditions. Whether we’re navigating personal stress, collective uncertainty, or the everyday unpredictability of being human, balance can feel elusive and sometimes even impossible. Yet yoga teaches that steadiness is not something we wait for; it’s something we cultivate from within.

In this 90-minute session, we’ll explore “the middle” as a living practice rather than a destination; as a place of integration, presence, and internal alignment that can hold us even when the world feels chaotic. Through grounded teaching and reflective inquiry, we’ll look at how imbalance shows up in our minds, bodies, and relationships, and how we can reconnect with the inner center that helps us meet life with clarity and compassion.

You’ll be guided through an all-levels yoga practice using asana, pranayama, and meditation to help you feel steadiness in your own body—moment to moment, breath to breath. Together, we’ll work with practices that support
grounding, spaciousness, and resilience, creating space to remember the stability that’s always available beneath the surface.

This session offers a chance to pause, breathe, and recalibrate and to rediscover a middle that is not fragile or rigid, but alive, responsive, and deeply human.

At the heart of the tantric tradition stands Saraswati, the radiant embodiment of knowledge, intuition, and the hidden currents of wisdom that guide every seeker. In the esoteric teachings of the Durga Saptashati, she is revealed as the gatekeeper to the vast treasury of tantra vidya, and the one who holds the key to unveiling the deeper nature of reality. Known as maha maya and yoga nidra, Saraswati illuminates the many layers of human experience, from the most ordinary to the most sublime, and shows us how to move skillfully between them.

In this transformative session, you will explore this multifaceted divinity not as a symbol, but as a living force that unlocks access to the true heart of tantra. You will also learn the meaning and practice of a rare and sacred Saraswati mantra, preserved in both the Vedic and tantric traditions, and discover how this mantra opens the doors to clarity, creativity, and inner awakening.

From this vantage point, this session expands into the wider world of tantra itself—a tradition that, for millennia, has offered a priceless trove of techniques to support and accelerate our spiritual growth. Yet today it is often overshadowed by confusion and sensationalism. Some encounter rituals, mantras, kundalini, and chakras; others become absorbed in deities and mystical practices.

Pandit Tigunait, drawing on a thousand-year lineage of tantric masters, will cut through this modern jungle of misunderstanding to reveal the rich and sublime essence of tantra. You will learn how to discern which aspects of the tantric tradition resonate most deeply with you, how to navigate common pitfalls with confidence, and how to follow a path that leads directly to inner fulfillment and true freedom.

Vishoka Meditation is a classical yogic approach to meditation that uses the subtle dimension of breath as a doorway into the mind’s natural state of clarity, joy, and inner radiance. Rooted in the Himalayan Tradition and drawing source wisdom from the YogaSutra and the Lotus Sutra, this practice offers a comprehensive yet accessible pathway toward a sorrow less state of awareness—one that does not bypass life’s challenges, but transforms our relationship to them.

In this workshop-style session, Ishan Tigunait will introduce the foundations of Vishoka Meditation, weaving together guided practice and philosophical context.  Participants will learn essential techniques that unite the subtle aspect of the breath with the mind’s power of awareness, revealing a deeper and more luminous dimension of consciousness already present within us.

This session is well-suited for both newer meditators and experienced practitioners seeking a clear, grounded, and systematic approach to meditation.

In this experiential session, we will explore:
● The purpose and essential experience of meditation in relation to yoga practice
● How breath awareness reveals our healing potential, and helps us bridge body and mind
● How an embodied experience of prana is the self-revealing dimension of mind
● Key principles that make meditation accessible, sustainable, and joyful
● How Vishoka Meditation practice supports emotional resilience and inner stability

Participants will leave with a felt sense of the practice and a deeper understanding of how meditation can become a source of clarity, healing, and inner nourishment.

Coby invites participants to shift perspective and explore their ache as something that can awaken us, rather than something to push away. Through the principles of Instinctive Meditation®, reflection, conversation, and inquiry, this interactive lecture creates space to stay with longing, pain, desire, and grief—and to consider how our ache may also guide us to remembering who we are, to beauty, to truth, and ultimately… joy.

This integrative practice weaves grounding Qigong with subtle meditation to explore the meeting point of matter and spirit. We begin with slow, accessible Qigong forms that cultivate the water and earth elements, building stability, rootedness, and energetic containment. From this grounded foundation, we transition into silent meditation, inviting a felt ascent into ether and spirit without leaving the body behind. Expect integrated calm focus and the quiet lift of embodied spirit. Suitable for all levels.

This workshop is for festival-goers who feel the spark of teaching—or who want to deepen the way they show up in any room they enter. Abby blends nervous system awareness, self-trust, voice, and presence to help participants step out of their heads and into their bodies. You’ll explore teaching as leadership: how to hold space with confidence, speak from authenticity, and embody who you are rather than imitate someone else.
Rooted in the philosophy behind Radiance Yoga’s signature classes—known for being packed week after week—this session offers a behind-the-scenes look at what truly creates magnetic, impactful experiences. It’s not about choreography or cues alone; it’s about energy, clarity, and connection.
Designed for both aspiring and current teachers, this workshop is experiential and transformational. Participants will move, reflect, and reconnect with their own inner authority. You’ll leave feeling grounded, capable, and inspired, thinking: “I want to be in rooms like this more often. I’m ready to grow into my voice and share this energy.”

Join musician, former Hindu monk, and author, Girish, for a deep dive into the healing practices of Bhakti Yoga in this transformational 90 minute journey through Breathwork, Chanting, and a Mantra-infused Restorative Savasana practice.
We'll share an entirely new Breathwork experience in this upcoming session with Girish, diving into the powerful BREATH OF LIFE practice from the monasteries of Tibet, followed by a deeply healing Vocal Yoga session, preparing us for some sweet call-and-response Kirtan before transitioning into a restorative Savasana practice, serenaded with live music and chanting.
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 years has written, recorded, and performed his own original music and taught Sanskrit mantras and chanting in music festivals and yoga studios all over the world. His seven albums have received critical acclaim from O, The Oprah Magazine, Yoga Journal, and The Guardian, among others. Girish's book, Music and Mantras, continues Girish's mission to share the art of meditation through music and mantra with the world.