Festival Events

STUDIO OWNER | TEACHER

This festival is to celebrate and be grateful - for yoga, community, all the healing and joyful modalities we love, and of course, the birth of Anahata in Felton.

We have so many gifts to share with you and we want you to share your gifts, too.

This festival is to bring connection, warmth, fun, magic, and exchange to our lives!

Come meet me Friday afternoon during Anahata’s Open House Meet & Greet Yoga Clinic and join me for a Full Moon Reiki Sound Healing Experience on Friday Sept 29 at 7:30 PM. Take my Sahaja Divine Feminine Yoga Flow class Saturday morning at 9 AM.

With love, Victoria

EMBODIMENT GUIDE

Wren is an embodiment guide intent on learning how to be in right-relationship as a 21st century human so he can best serve life. A trained dancer and theater worker, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, waterways and personal experience that support interpersonal connection and positive change. In 2013, Wren co-founded Cocréa as a vehicle for exploring mindful, consent based relational practice through movement and dance. Channeling this intelligence, he creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body. Wren abides on the stolen lands of the Amun Mutsen and Awaswas peoples, in the San Lorenzo river watershed, in the so-called region of Santa Cruz, California. He currently works as an addiction recovery counselor with Embodied Recovery in Los Gatos, CA.

Join me for a feature event on Saturday evening at 7:30 PM: Cocréa Communiyum - Mindful Dance Workshop.

RE-ORGANIZATIONAL HEALING

I’m dedicated to helping people come into alignment and self-correct: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I have many tools to this end, all of which have significantly changed my life. I’m thrilled to share them with anyone and everyone. I’m very passionate about ReorganizationalHealing (ROH) and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

I love working with individuals and groups alike. I live and practice in San Francisco.

Join me at my 12 Stages to Healing Workshop on Day 2 of Santa Cruz Mountains Yoga & Wellness Festival and NVC Workshop on Day 3.

EASTERN BODYWORK THERAPIST

Jessie has been a professional acupressurist and bodyworker since 2002. Her interest in traditional Eastern healing arts began in 1996 with her first Reiki training. Since then she has studied several bodywork modalities including Shiatsu, Jin Shin Do, Breema and Thai Massage, accruing over 3000 hours of formal training and 5 years of apprenticeship with the legendary Mike Tan, founder of SEA Bodywork ™.

In her private practise with clients she also teaches self massage, drawing from her experience with various approaches, as well as having developed her own techniques to heal from a multitude of injuries as a highly adventurous explorer of her own physicality.

Join me at my Hands & Wrist Health Workshop on Day 3 of Santa Cruz Mountains Yoga & Wellness Festival.

YOGA INSTRUCTOR

I was first drawn to Bikram Yoga in 2006 in a search for holistic ways to heal my body and mind of stress and anxiety. I finally found what I was looking for, something that really worked!

I am so fortunate to give back after all I’ve learned from my own practice throughout the years. My hope is to guide and support everyone who walks through the door to find peace and joy with this practice of meditation and the physycal body. It is never too late to start over and try again! ~~ Namaste ~~

Join me at the festival on Saturday Sept 30th at 10:30 AM for Levitate, a workshop on handstands and inversions.

MURALIST | PAINTER

Rachel Corvese is a central California native, creating large scale murals and fine art pieces in acrylic and oil paints. She finds inspiration in nature, community, and philosophy. Expression is her form of spirituality. Her energetically-charged visions empower her community to explore connections and always be a student of life. Rachel recently opened The Vision Sanctuary, a downtown Santa Cruz gallery and community fine art studio space where you can experience and learn about the Visionary art movement.

Check out Rachel in action during a live mural painting Saturday Sept 30, 3-8 PM in the Anahata Alley Way.

PAINTER | FASHION ILLUSTRATOR | YOGA INSTRUCTOR

My name is Victoria Cristine Miessler and I am a painter and fashion illustrator based in Santa Cruz, CA.

I create psychedelic feminine felines with cosmic backgrounds and bright colors that celebrate the beauty of femininity, nature and all living beings. My creations are for people who are in tune with their spirituality and have a deep appreciation for cats and nature’s pristine elegance. It's for those who are attracted to the expansion of consciousness and fight for human rights and the protection of Mother Earth.

Introducing yoga into my life has helped me tremendously not only physically but also emotionally and mentally so it is an important part of my life and source of inspiration. Come check out my live painting of a mural on Anahata’s walls on Day 2 and 3 of the yoga festival. End your festival experience by taking my Flow into Yin class on Day 3.

PSYCHOTHERAPIST / MEDITATION TEACHER

Gavrila is a daughter and sister, a devoted dhamma practitioner, a singer and contemplative dreamer. Getting to know grief and the complexity of being human led her to study suffering and its end, bringing her to teach mindfulness over the last decade and step into the role of somatic psychotherapist. Having the great benefit of working with folks of all ages, identities, and ancestry, Gavrila knows that embodiment and mindfulness can be accessible to all and is devoted to finding the entry point for each unique person. Guided by the cultivation of awareness, the unfolding of ancestral wisdom, and the honoring of innate wholeness, Gavrila collaborates with those seeking transformation. As a trained somatic psychotherapist, she is part of the growing Relational Somatic Healing community, bringing touch into psychotherapy as means to healing developmental trauma, as well as offering Somatic Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. As co-founder of the Trauma Aware Mindfulness Collective and mentee of David Treleaven, Gavrila trains and facilitates mindfulness with the global trauma-sensitive mindfulness community. She teaches the Middle School Meditation Series at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and participates in long meditation retreats regularly to inform her teachings. Based in California, Gavrila identifies as a queer, Ashkenazi Jewess. For more on Gavrila's therapeutic work visit connectedrootstherapy.com. For more on her available trainings and writing, visit wholecompleteperfect.com.

Join me for a workshop on Meditation and the Dharma Sunday October 1st.

Rachel is technically a pop artist improvising in alternate economies such as idea economies, social economies, and other economies of intangible value while writing a long-winded dissertation on bubbles that blows.

Rachel is also a healer of the spirit, mother, and Santa Cruz Mountains local.

Rachel’s performances combine Bubbles, sound, light, movement, and the wind. It can be described as therapeutic modality that lifts the spirit for adults and kids alike.

Come see Rachel on Friday Sept 29 outside Anahata for a rare and precious Bubble Performance of this profound healing modality.

REBELLE WEAR OWNER / DESIGNER

I launched Rebellewear back in 2015 as a lifestyle brand for strong, confident and free spirited people. We collaborate with artists and artisans in creating shop experiences in various festivals around the globe.

My mission is to craft and curate unique and magical limited edition pieces that are affordable, versatile and fit for unconventional lifestyles where traveling, dancing, yoga, work and play can sometimes occur all in the same day. My clothes and jewelry collections are globally sourced and made according to ethical and fair trade principles. I am also very conscious about the materials I use and the jewelry is made by local Indonesian families of artisans that I support.

Come check out some of my clothing designs for sale at the Anahata Shop.

https://www.rebellewear.com/

OWNER FLOW STATE BODYWORK

Integrative Massage Therapy Inspired by the Waves

Mahdav is honored to offer bodywork /massage therapy incorporating long nurturing strokes inspired by the ocean and integrative energy balancing to bring the receiver to a sense of stillness and tranquility.

Mahdav practices Esalen Massage ~ Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage ~ Ayurvedic Massage .

I am excited to offer services at Anahata. Come meet me during the Anahata Open House Meet & Greet Yoga Clinic on Friday Sept 29 at 12 noon - 3 PM. I would love to support you in your practice with bodywork and healing insight.

ARTIST / OWNER OF OCTAVE LASER DESIGN

I often call myself a worker over calling myself an artist, but my partner insists that that is my professional title.

I work in wood, acrylic, paper, metal, glass, crystals, light.

Ultimately, I am following spirit and my work has been described as transformative…

“moving the energy upwards… in the direction of a higher level octave expression of the divine-heavenly-source-of-all-creation”

Come see my artworks at the Anahata Shop during the festival weekend. You can also reach me here: https://octavelaserworks.com/

SOMATIC PRACTITIONER

Sandra Larsen, a Holistic Health Practitioner for over 30 years, provides a unique perspective in the healing arts. Her expertise is in the field of somatic therapies, as a nutrition consultant, and provider of Integration services. She is listed on MAPS.org as a mental health support practitioner.

Her clients range from those seeking alternatives to pharmaceutical side effects, aspiring psychonauts, veterans, and trauma survivors. She has also worked with chronic pain sufferers in a pain rehabilitation clinic with great success, including CRPS/RSD.

Sandra's focus is on going beyond cognitive therapies to include somatic and neural strategies to support greater resilience to stress and the release of deeply held patterns of tension and trauma. She offers private sessions online via the Zoom platform. Contact: sandralarsen831@gmail.com

Join me Sunday Oct 1 at 9:30 AM for my Neurogenic Yoga session at Anahata. Looking forward to meeting you.

YOGA INSTRUCTOR

Hannah teaches creative Vinyasa flow yoga classes, with a focus on bhakti, breath, and alignment. Her classes provide a place for students of all levels to explore strength, flexibility, and discernment. Part of yoga is the physical aspect – but yoga is also about coming onto your mat, stepping away from the rest of your day, breathing in and out, and being present. Yoga gives us an opportunity to observe, inquire within, and learn to show up more fully.

Hannah is a yoga instructor in Santa Cruz, CA. She first started practicing yoga for the physical benefits in 2011, but found that what kept her coming back was the connection to mind, body, breath, and spirit. She completed her first 200-HR Yoga Teacher Training in July 2016. For more information, please visit www.hannahlerch.com

Join me at Anahata for a Heated Anahata Flow Class on Friday Sept 29th, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM. Excited to see you on the mat!