NEPA Yoga Fest

🧘‍♀️ Opening Mediation : Ground & Elevate with Chelsea Manganaro & Mara Morell
NEPA Yoga Festival 2026 | Kickoff Session
Join festival founder Chelsea Manganaro for a powerful opening class that sets the tone for the entire weekend. This all-levels flow is designed to help you ground your energy, open your heart, and elevate your intention for the festival ahead.
Through gentle movement, breathwork, and intention-setting, Chelsea & Mara will guide you in reconnecting with your body, your purpose, and the collective energy of our vibrant yoga community.
🌞 Expect:

• Centering breathwork & gentle warm-up
• Guided intention-setting to start your festival journey
• A soulful soundtrack & grounded energy

Let this be your anchor — the class that welcomes you home to your mat and to yourself.

🧘‍♀️ Opening Class: Ground & Elevate with Chelsea Manganaro
NEPA Yoga Festival 2025 | Kickoff Session
Join festival founder Chelsea Manganaro for a powerful opening class that sets the tone for the entire weekend. This all-levels flow is designed to help you ground your energy, open your heart, and elevate your intention for the festival ahead. A must attend to hear about important announcements, as well as much needed spinal preparation for the rest of the day. 
Through mindful movement, breathwork, and intention-setting, Chelsea will guide you in reconnecting with your body, your purpose, and the collective energy of our vibrant yoga community.
🌞 Expect:

• Centering breathwork & gentle warm-up
• Empowering vinyasa flow accessible for all levels
• Guided intention-setting to start your festival journey
• A soulful soundtrack & grounded energy 

Let this be your anchor — the class that welcomes you home to your mat and to yourself. 

Release your hip grip and more more freely in your body with the use of Rollit Theraphy Balls. With a miture of yoga postures and self massage techniques you will be ready to move and find new space in your practice. 

Flow, breathe, and center in this 60-minute all-levels class guided by world-renowned instructor Paola Cruz, E-RYT 850. This class invites you to connect breath with movement, build inner strength, and return to presence. Set to a soulful rhythm and guided with Paola’s signature grace and wisdom, this experience offers a space to move, release, and ground—leaving you both energized and centered. All levels welcome.

This Kundalini Yoga experience is devoted to expanding compassion, dissolving separation, and awakening the heart’s natural radiance. Through breathwork, mantra, movement, and meditation, we clear emotional blocks and elevate our frequency so happiness and healing extend beyond ourselves into the collective. Come move, breathe, and align with the intention: may all beings everywhere be happy, free, and at peace.

JourneyDance®: Embodying Abundance


Abundance as an internal state, cultivated through joy, pleasure, presence, and shared movement.


In yoga philosophy, abundance is not accumulation — it’s alignment. It’s the experience of enoughness that arises when we are present in our bodies and connected to one another.


This somatic movement experience explores abundance not as something to chase, but as something to feel.


Through grounded, choice-based movement, we’ll move from individual awareness into collective rhythm — exploring breath, expression, and community as pathways to embodied fullness.


Abundance here is not excess — it is aliveness.


Participants will leave with:
- A joy-centered oracle card — featuring a guiding word and reflection prompt to reconnect with embodied abundance beyond the festival
- The “Joy Anchor” practice — a simple 2-minute nervous-system reset they can use anytime they feel disconnected from aliveness
- A curated 3-song “Abundance Reset” playlist — designed to guide them from grounding to expansion, so they can revisit the experience of joy through movement at home


All movement is invitational and choice-based. All are welcome. No experience needed.

This class explores yoga as a holistic real-life practice; one that supports us wherever we are, rather than requiring ideal conditions.  Through movement, pause, and reflection, participants will explore how traditional yoga concepts, such as abhyasa (consistent practice) and vairagya (non-attachment) show up in real-life: parenting, work, uncertainty, grief, change, and rest.  Rather than striving for peak poses, this class emphasizes felt experience, nervous system regulation, and the wisdom of listening inward.  

Anusara, a school of Hatha yoga, is a heart-centered practice with a firm foundation in alignment and awareness of muscular and organic energy. Enjoy a traditional class that includes learning the Invocation, pranayama, a mixed-level sequence, and meditation. Students will receive a printed guide with translation of the Invocation. 

Summer calls us to expand — to take up space, speak clearly, and live boldly. But true expansion begins with grounding. This trauma-informed somatic flow explores the balance between rooting and rising through the yogic principle of Sthira & Sukha — steadiness and ease.


Class begins with gentle settling and embodied breathwork to support nervous system regulation and a sense of safety. From there, we build gradually into slow spinal waves, grounded standing postures, and intentional heart-opening shapes that cultivate strength without force. Throughout the practice, students are guided to move with awareness rather than performance — exploring what Sthira (stability) and Sukha (softness/space) feel like in real time: Where do I brace? Where can I soften? Where am I ready to expand with steadiness?


This experience emphasizes choice-based language, accessibility, and integration over choreography. We close with guided reflection and a practical takeaway students can carry into everyday life, including a simple 3-breath grounding tool and the mantra:


“I rise because I am rooted.”

Dharma Yoga:

Dharma Yoga is a graceful practice that includes elements of vinyasa and longer holds of some poses. It opens up the body, making it more flexible and strong and giving you energy for the day. The sequences are built based on the spiritual teachings of Sri Dharma Mittra, a worldwide-known yoga master.

Bollywood Bliss: Dance, Expression & Joy
Step into the vibrant world of Bollywood with this high-energy dance class that blends traditional Indian movement, modern choreography, and infectious music. No dance experience needed — just bring your enthusiasm and let loose!
Led by an experienced instructor, this class is all about celebration, self-expression, and pure joy. You'll learn fun, accessible routines set to iconic Bollywood tracks while getting a great cardio workout.
🌟 Expect:

• A warm-up to get your body moving
• Easy-to-follow Bollywood choreography
• Laughter, rhythm, and community vibes
• A cultural journey through dance

Perfect for all levels — come dance your heart out and leave with a smile!