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!

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®: Collective Rhythm


In yogic philosophy, connection is not something we force — it’s something we remember.


Beneath the noise, the rushing, the overthinking, and the feeling of being separate, there is a shared rhythm that connects us all: breath, movement, music, presence, and our shared humanity.


This uplifting JourneyDance® experience invites you into that collective rhythm through guided, choice-based movement designed to awaken joy, presence, play, and connection in an accessible and welcoming way.


Together, we’ll explore how movement can soften self-consciousness, bring us into the present moment, and create a sense of belonging — not through pressure or performance, but through shared experience.


Participants will be invited to:
• experience movement as a pathway to connection and shared energy
• reconnect with joy, play, and authentic expression
• explore how collective movement can support grounding, openness, and aliveness

Participants will leave with:
• A small heart crystal to carry as a reminder that connection begins within — and expands outward through how we move, breathe, and show up together
• An invitation to attend an online New Moon Ceremony + JourneyDance® experience on June 15 to continue exploring connection, reflection, and embodied community beyond the festival
All movement is invitational and choice-based. No dance experience needed. All are welcome.

Ahimsa in ActionNon-Harming as a Living Practice
Within the eightfold path outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Yamas and Niyamas form the ethical foundation of yoga. They are not rules meant to restrict us, but guideposts that refine how we relate to ourselves and the world.
The very first Yama is Ahimsa.
Often translated simply as “non-harming,” Ahimsa invites something much deeper than avoiding violence. It asks us to examine the subtle ways we cause harm through thought, speech, and action and to consciously choose compassion instead.
In this class, we will explore how Ahimsa lives inside the physical practice of yoga.
What does non-harming look like on the mat?
It looks like:
• Listening when the body whispers before it has to scream
• Choosing steadiness over ego
• Backing off when something feels unstable
• Letting comparison dissolve
• Replacing self-criticism with curiosity
Rather than pushing into shapes to prove something, we soften into awareness. We practice honoring our edges without forcing beyond them. We learn to move from self-respect instead of self-judgment.
Ahimsa is self-love in motion.
As we move through mindful sequencing, you’ll be guided to tune into sensation, breath, and internal dialogue. The practice becomes less about performance and more about presence.
When we embody non-harming physically, something shifts off the mat as well. The patience we cultivate with our hamstrings becomes patience with our family. The compassion we offer our tight shoulders becomes compassion in conversation.
Yoga begins with how we treat ourselves.
Through breath, alignment, and conscious choice, this class becomes a living meditation on gentleness.
Not weak.
Not passive.
But powerful in its softness.
Move kindly.
Listen deeply.
Practice Ahimsa in your body and in your life.

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. 

Sunday Funday - Happiest Hour Yoga Party by the Wave Pool 11am        All Levels All welcOMe Yoga flow designed to be one of the Happiest Hours of your day, weekend or even perhaps your Life! Allow yourself to connect through breath and movement in a fun and playful way. Allow yourself to be surrounded and fully immersed in all the elements Water, Earth, Ether(space), Air and Fire 🌞 and finish with a nice Savasana feeling balanced, complete and blissful.

Chakra Alignment FlowMovement • Mantra • Energy Awareness
This intentional flow is a moving meditation through the body’s energetic landscape.
Rooted in the traditional chakra system described in yogic philosophy and referenced in texts like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, this practice explores the seven primary energy centers as pathways for awareness, balance, and transformation.
Each section of class will focus on one chakra through:
• Targeted asana (postures that stimulate that energetic region)
• Breathwork to direct prāṇa
• Specific bija mantras (seed sounds)
• Intentional affirmations
We begin at the foundation.
Muladhara – Root Chakra
Grounding postures such as malasana and warrior variations.
Mantra: LAM
Theme: Safety, stability, belonging.
Svadhisthana – Sacral Chakra
Hip-opening flows and fluid transitions.
Mantra: VAM
Theme: Creativity, emotion, pleasure.
Manipura – Solar Plexus Chakra
Core activation and strengthening sequences.
Mantra: RAM
Theme: Confidence, personal power.
Anahata – Heart Chakra
Backbends and expansive chest openers.
Mantra: YAM
Theme: Compassion, connection.
Vishuddha – Throat Chakra
Shoulder openers and breath-centered holds.
Mantra: HAM
Theme: Expression, truth.
Ajna – Third Eye Chakra
Balance postures and inward gaze.
Mantra: OM
Theme: Intuition, insight.
Sahasrara – Crown Chakra
Seated meditation and stillness.
Silent awareness.
Theme: Unity, higher consciousness.
The mantras are woven gently into the rhythm of the flow, creating vibration that resonates not only physically, but energetically. Sound, breath, and movement combine to guide prāṇa upward through the subtle body.
This class is accessible yet layered, making it meaningful for both newer practitioners and seasoned yogis seeking deeper energetic awareness.
Expect:
• Fluid transitions with clear energetic intention
• Guided mantra repetition
• Thoughtful sequencing aligned with each chakra
• A final integration in savasana to harmonize the system
This is not just a physical practice. It is an internal alignment.
Move with awareness.
Chant with intention.
Leave feeling balanced from root to crown. ✨