FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The Anahata festival provides a vast array of opportunities to nourish your mind, body, and spirit. You can engage in transformative workshops, immerse yourself in soul-stirring live music performances, experience the pure joy of dancing, rejuvenate yourself in the tranquil nature, and purify your body in the sauna. Embrace the abundant offerings of the festival and allow yourself to connect deeply with your inner self and the divine.
Workshops
The workshop program and schedule for 2025 is in the making, but here are the highlights
Yoga
With Igal
Join Igal for an hour-long, all-levels mindful slow-paced yoga class that's perfect for everyone. We'll work on building a strong foundation, energizing our bodies, and using our breath to explore different poses. Igal will guide you through each movement, helping you find balance and support while you engage and recharge. Whether you're new to yoga or have been practicing for years, this class offers a great mix of challenge and chill vibes. Come ready to connect with your body and mind, and leave feeling refreshed and centered.
Igal is a multi-faceted practitioner dedicated to bringing greater health and happiness to clients for over a decade.
He's a practicing Registered Massage Therapist, Medical Acupuncture Practitioner, Yoga student & Teacher and Sound Therapy Facilitator.
Avid lover of life, music, healing practices and healing arts, mysticism and everything in between.
Kundalini Yoga
With Elena Klymenko
Anahata Kundalini Yoga with crystal Bowls sound bath – practice that focuses on opening the heart center and aligning with your true path. We will start with realigning chakra warm up, followed by Hatha flow to get your entire body and mind rejuvenated and balanced, followed by special Kundalini yoga kriya for the open heart shining with love and kindness.
Kundalini Yoga is called the Yoga of Awareness. It is a dynamic, powerful tool that is designed to be an experience for both body and soul.
In Kundalini Yoga we harness the mental, physical, and nervous energies of the body and put them under the domain of the will, which is the instrument of the soul. This technology precisely and consciously combines breath, mudra, eye-focus, mantra, body locks, and postures to balance the glandular system, strengthen the nervous system, expand lung capacity, and purify the blood. It brings balance to the body, mind, and soul.
Your experience will be enhanced with the meditative sound of seven crystal bowls corresponding to each chakra which helps with their alignment and balance.
Shamanic Sound Circle
With Masha Andreeva
A large sound circle has become a staple of Anahata. We activate our shamanic wisdom through offering a gift of improvised soundmaking to each other, setting off into a journey into our hearts and dreams. Explore your voice, practice deep listening and mindful sounding that open the heart and invite harmony.
Let your heart guide you, hear your inner voice, take a look at the signs and messages that are waiting to be discovered. As a group, we will be co-creating a healing soundscape for a receiver. Participants will take turns in receiving – journeying through the soundscape. No previous musical experience is necessary. User-friendly instruments will be provided. You may bring your favourite instruments, if you have any.
Connect and Reset
With Zeena Dotiwalla
Relax and unwind – and learn how to help someone relax and unwind too! This
workshop invites you to collaborate with a partner to both give, and receive the
healing benefits of therapeutic touch. This class is welcome to all, whether it is your first time offering manual therapy, or you want to enhance and hone your palpation skills. Zeena will offer her knowledge and experience from her extensive education and training in osteopathy, professional dance, yoga and personal training. The class will be divided in two parts; you and your partner will each take turns offering, and, oh yes – receiving (!) therapeutic touch. Zeena will guide you through every step of the process, from head to toe, while leaving room for your own intuitive inner healer to take the lead. This is an opportunity to connect, not just with another person, but also to your own inner self. In this interoceptive journey, you will leave feeling a little more connected to your body, the earth, your partner and the world around you.
* It is recommended (but not necessary) to bring: a partner, a (yoga)mat, pillow(s), blanket, water, journal, and any other therapeutic additions you may enjoy.
** Verbal consent will be necessary for touch therapy
Facilitator Bio:
Zeena is an active member of the OAO (Ontario Association of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners). She received her D.O.M.P. (Diploma in Osteopathy Manual Practice) and D.Sc.O. (Diploma in the Science of Osteopathy) from the Canadian College of Osteopathy (2020). Her treatments consist of layering various techniques, such as cranio-sacral therapy, osteo-articular mobilizations, myofascial release, as well as addressing visceral, fluidic and energetic work.
Zeena has also earned a diploma in contemporary dance from L’école de danse
contemporainne de Montréal (formerly known as LADMMI, 2011), a BFA Hons in
dance from York University (2008), certified in Reiki Level Two (2016), completed
her 200-hour yoga teacher training with the Yoga Alliance (2021), CanFitPro
Personal Trainer certified (2012), First aid and CPR certified, and bilingual in
English and French.
Vocal Alchemy, Embracing Joy and Connection
With Francesca Ranalli of Sacred Earth Sounds (M.Mus, B.Mus, Vocal Alchemy)
Joyful freedom of expression and song is every Soul’s birthright, yet many of us
are inhibited vocally, silenced in physical and psychological ways.
In this workshop we’ll explore the voice as a reflection of the soul and how we
show up in the world and embrace liberating the power of the voice through
collective song.
By deepening into the art of transforming feelings, thoughts and experiences with the voice, the powerful effect of intentional vibration within the body and the joy of collective singing we will honour Self and the immense capacity for well-being we each possess, offering permission and surrendering to trust.
All of this will be grounded in an understanding of vocal pedagogy affording ease and authenticity.
Francesca’s journey with the voice spans many years and expressions. She holds
space with sound, teaches voice to actors, and performs as a classical, jazz, and
indie vocalist. She brings this collective experience and knowledge into any work she does to facilitate well-being. She views working with sound and voice as the facilitation of the vibrations, sounds and energetics for the healing capacity that exists within each of us. It is in the conscious nurturing of this capacity within ourselves that we assert ownership and growth of well-being and whole living.
Decode & Clear Your Chakras:
A Deep Dive with the Eden Method
With Katya Revenko
Chakra energy can be a powerful healing force—but only when it is flowing freely. When your chakras are blocked, stagnant, or out of balance, your body can’t function at its best. Your energy gets depleted. Your connection to deeper wisdom weakens. You may even feel cut off from yourself.
In this experiential workshop, you will discover:
🌿 How each chakra stores emotionally significant events—your wins, your wounds, your life story
🌿 Why unprocessed memories in your chakras can silently affect your health and limit your potential
🌿 How to clear, balance, and energize your chakras using hands-on Eden Method techniques
🌿 Why working with chakras is so transformative, and when it’s most beneficial to do so
✨ You will also learn:
🌿 3 core functions of chakras
🌿 What chakras really look like and how their seven layers carry different types of information
🌿 Unique insights about the Root and Crown chakras
🌿 Why the Throat Chakra—also called the “Holy Grail”—is unlike any other
🌿 How to prepare your energy system for chakra work and deep chakra clearing
This workshop is perfect for beginners and experienced energy explorers alike. You will leave with tools you can use immediately to start clearing stuck energy, reconnect to your inner guidance, and begin a deeper healing process.
Your body remembers more than your mind ever could—let’s clear what no
longer serves you.
Facilitator Bio:
Katya is a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner and Teacher who helps people activate their body’s natural ability to heal through the gentle yet powerful tools of energy medicine.
A lifelong seeker, Katya wears many hats: she’s a daughter, wife, and proud mother of two amazing children. With a background as a seasoned fashion artist and dancer, she brings creativity, curiosity, and a deep belief in the magic of inner healing to everything she does.
Her journey into energy healing began with a personal quest to restore her own well-being. Along the way, she discovered the life-changing power of Eden Energy Medicine—and never looked back.
Katya is passionate about helping others reconnect with their body’s wisdom, release stuck energy, and feel more vibrant, grounded, and alive. If you see her at the festival, don’t hesitate to say hello—she welcomes meaningful connections, whether you’re simply curious or seeking guidance on your healing path.
Find her online at www.eemhealingarts.com or on Instagram @eemhealingarts.
Voice Jam
With Will Klein
Welcome to Voice Jam! A fun and interactive event where we practice our authentic voices through improvised singing.
We sing in a circle where we play various vocal improv games. Our voices are used as a musical instrument to make sounds, tones, and percussive noises. It's a fun practice, playing together in a supportive container.
Will leads us through harmonizing, toning, rhythm games, and call and response. When we are warmed up, we have a Voice Jam, where we create music together. It is a practice in active listening, authentic expression, and collaboration.
All musical skill levels are welcome! Beginners, music hobbyists, shower singer, sound healers, or more experienced musicians who wants to dive into the world of vocal improv.
Many of us may be shy to sing in front of others. This is very common. By witnessing each other express in a supportive container, we regain our confidence in using our voices in an authentic way.
Some of the benefits may include:
🌿 Fuller singing voice
🌿 Developing our musicianship skills
🌿 Feeling more connected with others
🌿 Releasing creative blocks
🌿 Sense of ease and playfulness
“The opposite of depression is expression”
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Emotional BA-dy Alchemy: Transform Your Emotions, Unlock Your Magic
With Saēna
Emotional BA-dy Alchemy is a manifestation method and emotional embodiment tool I’ve developed to guide participants through a soul-aligned process that invites them into a deeper relationship with their emotional landscape, and empowers them to work with emotions as creative tools to shape the life they want to live — not just to feel better, but to create better.
In this guided experience, we explore how to “dress” the emotional body with intention — choosing emotional states that align with the life we want to embody, and learning how to step into them from the inside out. This method blends somatic practice, parts work, creative ritual, and emotional frequency work into a tool that participants can carry with them into everyday life.
Rather than suppressing or fixing emotions, this approach opens space to harness the emotional landscape as a source of power, clarity, and creative momentum — a way to alchemize feeling into becoming. It’s a playful, grounded, and transformative experience that bridges imagination, presence, and personal power.
Facilitator Bio
Saēna is an emotional wellness guide and creative facilitator with a background in psychology. Her work blends somatic practice, emotional alchemy, and ritual to support deeper connection to the emotional body and empower soul-aligned living.
Through her practice, Simurgh by Saēna, she offers one-on-one sessions and group workshops rooted in inner child healing, parts work, Focusing, and embodied emotional integration. She guides clients through transformative processes that build emotional literacy, deepen nervous system awareness, and open space for aligned self-expression, using emotions as creative energy for inner alignment and manifestation.
Her approach is intuitive, grounded, and playful — inviting people to reconnect with their emotional truth, access their own inner guidance, and relate to their feelings as allies in becoming who they’re here to be.
Science and Psychedelics:
Today’s Key Issues and Finding Your Voice Within Them
With Brian Rush
Brian is a Scientist Emeritus, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto. With over 45 years’ experience as a mental and substance use health services researcher, Brian is among the leading researchers in psychedelic science in Canada and internationally. He is a strong advocate for Indigenous voices and perspectives in this space, author of major research syntheses and scientific papers and lead
researcher for the Ayahuasca Treatment Outcome Project and the Entheogen Treatment Outcome Project.
Brian will lead a workshop offering participants learnings and insight into:
the state of the science concerning psychedelic and traditional entheogenic medicines - what we “know”, how we “know” it, and what we would like to “know” about their healing potential, current regulatory issues and challenges to improve access to these medicines as well as responsible therapeutic and ceremonial practices that honor the sacred and community.
Participants will be encouraged to reflect on key issues in the field today related to science and ceremony (e.g., Indigenous reciprocity; intersection of science and spirituality; role of industry and community) and find their voice in the issues that most resonate with them and their own gifts.
Move, Laugh and Play
With Corinne Sunshine
Come back to your body and into your joy with a light-hearted, energy-shifting session that blends playful movement, laughter yoga, and expressive dance. Guided by Corinne Sunshine, a psychic intuitive, energy shifter, playful guide and joyful space-holder, this experience helps you shake off stagnant energy, reconnect with your inner child, and lift your spirits—no experience needed, just a willingness to move and laugh from the heart.
With a presence that is playful, nurturing, and deeply open-minded, Corinne creates a welcoming container where healing can happen through movement, sound, and spontaneous joy. You'll explore the magic of intentional laughter, silly sounds, and intuitive body play, all designed to help you release and realign from the inside out.
Your Vibe Revival
With Thu Nguyen and Chenny Xia
Ready to reset your system and reconnect to your natural rhythm? Your Vibe Revival is a dynamic, body-led journey to help you activate neurogenic tremoring and your own healing tones as a way to activate your innate vibrations from the inside out.
We’ll begin with gentle Qi Gong to awaken the body and breath, followed by a guided practice in Neurogenic Tremoring (TRE)—a powerful technique that activates your body’s natural release mechanism through subtle, therapeutic shaking from the inside out. Then, we’ll co-create a soundscape through collective toning and vocal play to harmonize our nervous systems and voices as one. You'll have a chance to get up after your neurogenic tremors are activated to let your body dance you, a new way to experience ecstatic dancing.
This is a space of curiosity, rest, and gentle reconnection to your true vibes. Come as you are. Leave with a renewed sense of aliveness and vibration in your body. Bring your mat, pillows and blankets for extra comfort.
Facilitator Bios:
Thu Nguyen is a former tech entrepreneur who spent 20 years in start-ups before her body said no—through cancer, diabetes and more chronic illnesses. Now, as founder of Nusqool, a new school for old souls - Thu guides others in reconnecting to their bodies, nervous systems, and soul path through TRE, Medical Qi Gong, Access Bars, Embodiment, Movement, HeartMath, and coaching relational trauma.
Chenny Xia is an entrepreneur and multi-disciplinary facilitator who creates spaces where people feel cared for, be witnessed and transformed. She is the CEO of GotCare, one of Canada's fastest growing companies. Chenny weaves courage, play, and care into everything she does.
Maha Shakti ('Great Energy') Practice
With Justine (Anjali Om)
This Maha Shakti class, modelled on the teachings of Dharma Yoga, delivers a beautiful, highly introspective experience that offers challenges on multiple levels! It starts off with a heat-building vinyasa sequence of yoga postures linked together in a seamless and exceedingly graceful fashion to help build a collective consciousness among the group. This is followed by a series of postures that are held longer with an aim to allow the practitioners to go inward and find stillness in body and mind. Pranayama techniques and visualization exercises help calm the mind and foster the imagination. Spiritual teachings are interspersed throughout the practice to help keep the focus inward. We will conclude with a guided savasana to offer a final chance to experience meditation through another method.
Justine Hoang (Anjali Om) has been a devout practitioner and teacher for over 20 years. She has accrued over 1100 hrs of formal training, holding certifications in Dharma Yoga, Hatha-Raja Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga – Primary Series, and Acrobatic Partner Yoga. She offers weekly online and in-studio classes throughout the Ottawa/Gatineau region, leads workshops, yoga immersion programs and retreats, and has been a guest teacher for multiple teacher training certification programs both locally and internationally. Throughout the summer, she can often be found teaching yoga and leading kirtan (devotional chanting) with her music group - the OMBuds - at parks, beaches, yoga festivals and other public events.
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Creative Codes art playshop
With Derek Stevens
Ready to play, in a visual way? Channel your creativity and let your imagination
soar through an intriguing exploration of colour harmony, the golden ratio and sacred geometry of life.
This class will weave constellations in your imagination connecting music to math to colour and nature, right down to our very finger tips.
How is it that the same principle that makes us all unique is also what connects us? Why do certain patterns appear across the Earth and various eras of time?
What connections can be made between the Milky Way galaxy, our planet, the human body, and an irrational number that goes on infinitely without repeating itself?
And how can this help inspire us to make really cool, fun, awesome art?
Combining optical illusions, the meditative art of sacred geometry, and mandalas, this course will leave you with a souvenir and a visual reminder of the magic and memories over the weekend.
From parabolas, to the golden triangle, and the seed of life, Derek will guide and share in what he has learned about how to construct combine and apply these shapes in your own personal mandala.
Starting with canvas and a compass to establish a blueprint of your vision, we will apply colour patterns and several simple principles to allow the seed idea to organically unfold.
Derek is an artist, musician and plant enthusiast with a strong interest in metaphysics and sacred geometry.
As an ambassador of the principle of 'mistake-proOf' art and the freedom that follows exercising our imagination regularly, Derek enjoys blending a balance between organic and geometric, monochrome and maximum colour,
taking inspiration from nature and always seeking the magical things in life things that make us go "Wow..!", he delights in diving through the dimensions of art and the unknown in search of the paradoxical, wild and wonderful.
There will also be a collective collaborative piece set out in the open with the invitation to come and be creative and have fun as a community. Throw your UV paint, patterns and glitterbomb feelings into a geometric portal over the weekend, and be sure to watch for the reveal on the outro when the hidden masked pieces are peeled and the true shape is unveiled ~
Embodying the Echo
Integration workshop with Andjela Uzelac
As the final workshop of Anahata, Andjela will guide you through a gentle, grounding journey to integrate the magic, insights, and transformations of the weekend. Through a nourishing blend of yoga stretches, somatic practices, and guided visualization, you’ll be invited to land deeply within yourself and attune to your natural rhythm. The space will include moments of stillness, pockets of silence, and journaling prompts to support personal reflection. We will close with a heartfelt sharing circle—honoring our experiences, witnessing one another, and gently weaving the threads of connection into embodied memory.
Bring your journal
Andjela is an intuitive healing practitioner trained in Spiritual Psychotherapy, Spiritual Direction, Reiki Levels 1 & 2, and Vinyasa Yoga. Her passion lies in awakening others to their potential and empowering them to recognize themselves as divine beings within this Earth School. Her personal journey has revealed the profound capacity we each hold to transform and heal. Having been initiated into this deep knowing, she now feels called to share it—activating the power and light within others. She is devoted to continuing her work by offering group spaces and communal gatherings as we collectively shift into a new age and energetic frequency.
To learn more about Andjela, you can visit her website: www.healing-glow.ca
Inner Attune For Connected Flow: A Guided
Journey Into Embodied Movement
With Michelle Karunarante
Come home to yourself, open to another, and co-create a shared field of presence through movement and music.
This workshop offers a pathway out of the thinking mind and into the felt sense—where movement becomes a language of trust, attunement, and aliveness. By cultivating sensitivity to your own rhythms and the subtle energy of another body, you’ll learn to move in relationship with another while still staying in touch with yourself. From this place, dancing becomes a co-creation—a fluid, heart-led dialogue between self, other, and sound.
Through breath, grounded movement, and relational awareness practices inspired by partner dancing, we will explore how to feel more fully, listen more deeply, and move with intuitive freedom.
We hope to create a space to feel grounded and confident in our bodies to be more relaxed in connection and present to the joy of shared experience.
No dance experience is needed. All bodies, backgrounds, and levels of comfort are welcome.
Michelle Karunaratne is a yoga and breathwork facilitator, Brazilian Zouk dancer, and lifelong student of embodied presence. She has pursued a variety of disciplines and learned that connecting movement to breath can bring us back into our bodies and connect us deeper into our emotional and energetic landscapes. Over time, this can help clear space for self-listening and inner guidance to allow the emergence of inner freedom, joy, peace and more ease in savouring all shades of our lives.
Unleash Your Inner Power: Sacred Theatre
With Dan Fox
Step into the circle and onto the stage — where play meets presence.
Join professional actor Dan Fox for Sacred Theatre, a joyful and energizing workshop that invites you to explore your voice, body, and inner power through improvisation, storytelling, and group connection.
Through playful and accessible theatre exercises, we’ll:
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Wake up our voices and bodies
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Share our names with clarity and strength
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Practice presence and awareness in fun partner and group games
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Explore short scenes and spontaneous monologues (for those who feel called!)
This space is all about expression, connection, and having fun — no acting experience needed. All ages are welcome, and children who love to move and speak up are especially encouraged to join!
Come laugh, stretch your edges, and discover what sacred aliveness lives within your voice.
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Anger Aloud! - Anger Release for Women
With Amy Chu and Alexandra Jordan
Do you feel numb and spacey when triggering events occur?
Or, do you have occasional outbursts and are concerned how it affects others?
Are you ready to connect and move anger to find power, relief, and grounding?
Anger is often suppressed in women due to cultural influences of past and present. The skill of navigating through anger often wasn't taught to us, and instead, we stifle this protective energy in hopes of feeling safe. We are taught to be "good girls" and to disconnect from anger, which also holds the key to our inner power.
However, anger that isn't expressed externally turns inwards, and understanding how to manage this misunderstood emotion is crucial for maintaining our emotional, physical, and mental well-being. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, anger is related to the liver, and learning to move this emotion can lead to the overall balance of body and mind.
What to expect
🧠 Psychoeducation on Anger
Understand the psychology, physiology, and sociology of anger to build a healthier relationship with it.
🗣️ Express Yourself Safely
In a trauma-informed and safe environment, learn safe ways - like through vocal chakra tuning, anger-releasing breathwork, Somatic Tantrum Movements, Kali Breaths and more - to release anger without causing harm to others.
💪 Transform Anger into Power
Your solar plexus is the seat of your power and also where anger is stored. Learn to allow this energy to protect you and propel you instead of hold you back.
🌐 Connect with like-minded Women
Join a supportive circle to share experiences and witness each other's power.
Are you disconnected from your anger? Here are common signs:
✴️ Belief you have no anger
✴️ Passive-aggressive comments
✴️ Avoiding conflict
✴️ Tightness in jaw, neck & shoulders
✴️ Skin and gastrointestinal issues
✴️ Difficulty setting boundaries
✴️ Self-blame
✴️ Resentment towards others
✴️ Over-apologizing, excessive politeness
🔥 Join the Workshop and Reclaim Your Power
Take a step toward a happier, healthier, and empowered you. Let's transform anger into strength, resilience, and a deeper self-connection.
Amy Chu is a trauma-informed anger release coach and sound healer. She has been doing anger release coaching for over a year, under Blaze to Blossom, and she found her own healing through somatic therapy and vocalization. Born in China and raised in the West, she overcame acute chronic pain by understanding the intricate relationship between her heritage and emotional repression, and moving this emotion.
Alexandra Jordan is a certified Emotion Code, Body Code and Belief Code Certified Practitioner and breathwork facilitator. Using Emotion Code, she helps clients release emotional baggage and energetic imbalances that often manifest as symptoms in the body, as well as psychic manipulations by others. She also has a background in holistic nutrition and somatic trauma-informed training and incorporate multiple modalities in her healing practice.
Anahata Sounds
Friday evening will treat us to live music performances and electronic music will start Saturday afternoon with the sounds of ambient and downtempo and will slowly morph into upbeat dance party by the evening. Sunday we continue to relax with the ambient music in the daytime and will have a second dance night. Saturday and Sunday evening will be sprinkled with some live music – see below for sound bath and live performance details as well as DJ lineup.
DJ LINEUP
house / d&b / downtempo chill
Deep techno / minimal
Shamanic-organic-dynamic house
Hypnotic Modular techno
Organic percussive multi-genre ecstatic mix
Amapiano
Melodic tech house / d&b
Deep driving house and techno / Melodic tech house
Basstech drum n step polymorphic dub
Soulful Organic House / Afro House
VJ: WKSBYKS
Click the DJ name for more details
Live Performances
Sound Bath
With Project Mariri
Enjoy one hour of multi-instrumental multi-dimensional journey through sound.
Project Mariri is a collaboration between Mariya Garnet and Masha Andreeeva based on their longstanding dedication to using music as medicine. Their experience with traditional healing modalities of South and North America and Eurasia informs their shared values that nature is sacred and that we are all interconnected in the web of life on Mother Earth.
Masha and Mariya are integrating years of traditional apprenticeship with formal western education in psychology and psychotherapy to create safe space filled with healing sounds for groups and individuals to journey through soundscapes.
"Mariri" means Force of Nature/Forest for Indigenous people of the Amazon. We feel that the name strongly relates to our belief that nature is sacred and we are part of it. "Mariri" is also a tribute to our plant medicine work.
Will Kleinwood
Will Kleinwood is a guitarist and vocalist known for creating improvised sound journeys that flow naturally from moment to moment. Inspired by ecstatic dance, sound baths, and the pulse of the natural world, he uses classical guitar and voice to shape evolving soundscapes that reflect the energy of the space around him. His music moves fluidly—layering melody, rhythm, and breath into an experience that feels both grounded and expansive. With a focus on presence and intuition, Will invites listeners into a state of flow where sound becomes movement and each performance unfolds as its own journey.
Kirtan with Prema Vani and Anjali Om
Prema Vani, known as “the voice of love,” is a devoted yogi and Kirtan artist whose music flows from the heart, inspiring deep spiritual connection and inner peace.
She travels annually to India and has spent many years in ashrams under the guidance of Gurumatha Amma and Dr. Yogrishi Vishvketu.
Prema Vani is a dedicated student of classical Indian music, studying under Ustad Mushfiq Hashimi in Ottawa.
Rooted in the traditions of Indian classical music and global devotional sound, she weaves ancient mantras with soulful melodies to awaken love and unity in every listener.
Her name reflects her purpose—to share divine love through sacred song and preserve the integrity of ancient yogic practices.
Through each offering, Prema Vani creates a sacred space that guides audiences on a journey of the soul, invoking the power of collective chanting and the timeless vibration of Bhakti.
Justine (Anjali Om) is a devoted yoga practitioner and a teacher of Dharma Yoga since 2005. She was introduced to the path of Bhakti Yoga through her lineage, which continues to inspire and guide her spiritual journey.
For over a decade, she has been leading and playing at Kirtans in her local community, as well as across the USA and Europe. She is the founder of The OMBuds, a Kirtan band that offers soulful music at private gatherings, yoga studio events, and festivals throughout the year.
As a student of Ustad Mushfiq Hashimi, Justine finds great joy in composing music and writing devotional songs. She feels deeply blessed to collaborate with fellow musicians in creating uplifting Kirtans and satsangs that open the heart.
She is honored to accompany her beloved friend, Prema Vani, with whom she shares a profound connection through Bhakti and the sacred power of music.
Fire Show
Ignite your imagination with the breathtaking fire performances on Friday night, accompanying the live music, and additional shows on Saturday and Sunday.
Teeba Alkhudairi - fire hoop
Masha Andreeva - fire poi
Vendors
Anahata expanded in 2023 and was delighted to host these talented crafters this year, who offered us locally and lovingly hand-made jewelry, clothing, delicious food and drinks!
Contact us, if you would like to join as a vendor in 2025.
Merkaba Acres-grown foods
If you and your family get hungry between the communal brunch and dinner, theres no need to rush to the tent and start cooking - Merkaba Acres's got your back!
Hand-made vegetarian sandwiches by Renee
Fresh burgers on Saturday
For the meat-lovers, Merkaba acres will be grilling up some juicy burgers made from the beef raised on the farm, served with the delicious salad from the greens grown on the farm. $20 cash per portion.
Enjoy freshly made two-bite sourdough sandwiches filled with local produce on Sunday afternoon.
On your way back home, stop by the farm store and stock up on farm-fresh organic eggs, frozen meats and fresh greens!
Zsolt Sauce
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Red Thai Chili Peppers, and time. No Sugar, Oil or Preserves. Vegan, Keto and Paleo Friendly plus Gluten-Free with a no-refrigeration required shelf life of five years. Leave it out with your salt and pepper instead of losing it in your fridge.
It's the sauce everyone can enjoy, as it's not about the heat but the flavour. His youngest taster was 6 months old (recorded on Instagram) at the Tillsonburg Fair in Ontario and she loved it!
Zsolt always has his sauce by his side and will take you on a magical Guided Flavour Journey that will blow your mind. It's a kid-friendly trip that anyone can partake in!
Hand-made jewelry and crafts from the Rainforest
Brian Rush will offer Amazonian hand-crafted jewelry and other personal use “artes” from two Indigenous communities in Acre, Brazil - the Huni Kuin community of Aldeia Caucho and the Nukini community of Aldeia Recanto Verde.
Brian will also have available hapeh from the same two communities - hapeh being a sacred snuff used historically in many parts of the Amazonian basin for healing and spiritual purposes (e.g., improved circulation, cleansing negative thoughts, reducing anxiety or craving for alcohol). In respect and reciprocity for
Indigenous people in general, and these communities specifically, all proceeds from the sale of these hand-crafted gifts are returned to their creators (the families of Jose/Para and Iri/Fatima and to Txana Yan Shanenawa, a young shamanic trainee living with his family in Aldeia Caucho.
Sauna
Wood-fired barrel sauna has become a staple at Anahata. Sweat, refresh and chill by the fire in a cozy and welcoming atmosphere. The sauna experience is included in the price of the ticket and will be available on Saturday and Sunday.
