Name: Awaken Your Soul | A Sunrise Practice
Start: 2026-06-12T06:30:00-0700
End: 2026-06-12T07:45:00-0700

Where you belong. The Bend Yoga Festival is an inclusive, multi-day celebration of yoga, wellness, and outdoor experience rooted in the landscape of Bend, Oregon. Expect sessions led by internationally respected educators, alongside community ritual, specialty offerings, and adventures that invite you directly into Central Oregon’s rivers, trails, and wide-open sky.

This year’s theme: Making Space for Joy.

And yes — you’ll feel it.

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This year, you can filter the schedule by "Pathway" — there are six, based on what you might be looking for. It’s a way to navigate the schedule and easily find what you seek. The pathways are:

Movement & Practice
Explore Bend
Restore & Regulate
Tradition & Lineage
Empowered Aging
Arts & Performance

Awaken Your Soul | A Sunrise Practice

FULL

Friday June 12, 2026 6:30am - 7:45am PDT

Meet at The Commons, then Walk Together to the Riverside

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Experience the transformative power of sunrise yoga as we flow through a vinyasa warmup, syncing breath with movement. Dive deep into powerful breathwork techniques to invigorate your being and cultivate inner peace. Then, immerse yourself in the sacred repetition of the Gayatri mantra, chanting it 108 times to connect with divine energy. Feel uplifted and inspired as the sun rises, awakening your soul and setting the tone for a day filled with purpose and joy.

Join us as we greet the dawn and embrace the magic of each moment together!

Note: This session is acoustic, and therefore limited in capacity. Just the sunrise, the flowing river, and Kia to guide practice. Nothing to get in the way. 🕉️

MEET AT THE COMMONS BY 6:30AM; WE WILL WALK TOGETHER DOWN TO THE RIVER. THE COMMONS ADDRESS: 875 Brooks Street, downtown Bend. Sorry, we cannot wait for latecomers.

Presenters

Kia Miller

Founder, Radiant Body Yoga

Kia Miller is an internationally celebrated yoga instructor and founder of Radiant Body Yoga (RBY), a holistic practice rooted in Kundalini and Tantric traditions. Designed to awaken each practitioner to their higher nature, RBY effectively integrates breathwork, movement, and meditation... Read More →

Jaya Lakshmi

Musician, Producer, Teacher, Jaya Lakshmi Music

Jaya Lakshmi began leading kirtan and writing devotional songs on the guitar, harmonium and piano in the early 1990?s shortly after receiving harinam initiation from Srila Govinda Maharaj, a spiritual teacher of bhakti (devotion) from West Bengal, India. As a singer/songwriter she... Read More →

Volunteers