Bristol Yoga Festival was born from two deeply felt values: the joyful recognition and celebration of Bristol’s vast and varied living yoga culture, and a true respect and reverence for the sacred pathway of yoga that guides seekers towards spiritual bliss.
Bristol is renowned for its enthusiasm, its creativity, passion for community, culture and open hearted welcome to any and all that move here; and yoga within the city is no different.
We have hundreds of teachers, spiritual guides, speakers and wisdom keepers that regularly hold space and offer places for students to gather, learn, grow, release and return to themselves.
Some classes are grounded in the traditional, offering insight into the way yoga has been practised for thousands of years, keeping its wisdom and integrity as an ongoing path for new practitioners to walk upon.
Others forge a different way, inspired and rooted in love for the practice, leading with their hearts, they offer creative and unique offering for students to explore - bringing those sacred teachings into the contemporary world with joy, compassion and individualism.
All lineages, interpretations, insights and perspectives weave together to create the incredible tapestry of Bristol yoga culture that can be found reaching across the city, ready for seekers to engage and enjoy.
The second value that is held close to the heart and soul of Bristol Yoga Festival is honouring and paying respect to yoga as a whole. Not just movement, breath or even meditation but as a comprehensive spiritual science that leads its practitioners to the inner consciousness and profound state of bliss that resides deep within.
This pathway has existed and liberated those who follow it for thousands of years and the wisdoms and teachings never exclude, never ask anything other than to trust in your own experience.
They allow you to return home to the knowledge and light that exist deep within. Modern society has a well meaning tendency to reduce the complex into something simple and accessible.
Bristol Yoga Festival aims to restore that depth and dive thoroughly and lovingly into the philosophy of yoga with humility, openness and unending gratitude, sharing its sacred knowledge with all those that seek.