Come explore the divine beauty of Yosemite and awaken your inner goddess! This festival of spiritual wellness offers a chance to bask in spirit-cleansing waters, access ancestral healing powers, and uncover personal development.
So step into this sacred space amongst our stunning Sierras—feel liberated as you celebrate yourself with readings and share your unique glow. Unchain that beautiful divinity hidden within - let it free at Yosemite Goddess Festival.
Enjoy the festival with your Goddess tribe!
Honor your divine self and come revel at the majestic Yosemite Goddess Festival! Delight in feasting, deep revelations from readings, soul-nourishing wellness treatments by healers, melodious music played just for you--all in gloriously joyous celebration of being a goddess.
Get ready to experience an unbelievable showcase of singer-songwriters, alternative, folk, bluegrass, and other musical genres that will rock your world! Brace yourself for the electrifying sounds of Essence, Tea Noelle, Ava Grace, The Jespersons, Candica Lamb, Adriana & The Wildflowers, Cheyenne Hernandez, and many more on stage. Get set to immerse your heart and soul in two days of music that will uplift, rejuvenate, and inspire you to feel every beat, every rhythm, and every melody! Don't miss out on this epic celebration of music - it's going to be mind-blowing!
Essence & Friends
Award winning singer-songwriter Essence has been immersed in music and art since childhood. Having released six albums of original music on both independent and major labels, her forthcoming album “Father’s Daughter” is slated for release in Fall 2023. Fully steeped in the traditions of Appalachian, Americana and Country music, the album is an honest and at times humorous account of her losses and wins; to the bone and from the heart. Essence recently received national and international spotlights for her work with Bernie and the Believers through NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and BBC. “The story of Bernie and the Believers is the most powerful I've ever come across at the Tiny Desk.” - Bob Boilen, (host and creator of NPR's online music show All Songs Considered and NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts series.) She is also one half of the tribute project “Johnny and June Forever”, in partnership with Danny Uzilevsky shining light on the music and legend of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Essence is also the proud mother of a beautiful son and daughter.
Candice Lamb
Candice Lamb is a singer-songwriter from Merced, CA who has been performing in the Central Valley for over 20 years. She loves performing cover songs as well as some of her original music. As a child, Candice was musically influenced by mostly soul and R&B, but has grown to love many genres over the years including folk, oldies, and alternative. Singing was always her first passion and she enjoyed her high school years singing with the Merced High School Choir. She learned how to play guitar and piano while attending Merced College. In 2019 her band, Candice and The Passengers, was nominated for a Modesto Area Music Award. In 2021, Candice was nominated for a Modesto Area Music Award for the Unplugged category.
Cheyenne Hernandez (and the Pura Vida Experience)
Cheyenne Hernandez is a traveler on a journey of self-discovery and evolution. The past 10 years of her life, especially, have brought great learning and profound healing. It is this growth that has become the foundation of her present musical expression. Cheyenne sees music as a vehicle for the remembrance and celebration of a deeper reality of which we are all a part: that we are all members of one human family. Beyond that, we are a part of all life on earth! Acceptance of this calls upon us to appreciate this universal family and to love and respect the mother that gave birth to it. Cheyenne sings of all these things and of the beauty and sacredness of life.
Adriana & the Wildflowers
Adriana and the Wildflowers is a guitarist and poet. Her sophisticated songwriting takes audiences on a journey through the subconscious, while creating space for emotions big and small.
She believes in the therapeutic power of music. A self-taught artist from the Sierra Nevada foothills, she hopes her audience will see themselves in the stories she shares.
Téa Noelle
Téa Noelle is an emerging singer-songwriter, performer, and music producer from California.
With a warm and sultry vibe, smooth and refined vocals, and rhythmic acoustic guitar skills - she describes her versatile musical style as “indie RnB with a jazzy pop flow.”
Téa’s unique and captivating sound and original songs tell an empowering story of release and growth, which inspired local playwright Summer Krafft, and the Center Stage Conservatory to create a full-length theatrical interpretation.
Four-time MAMA Award Winner, Téa continues performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, house concerts, and private events throughout California, Téa studies audio engineering for live music and theater, and produces her own original music.
Ava Grace
Ava Grace is an award-winning collegiate singer-songwriter best known for her work with internationally acclaimed blues band, Gravel & Grace. Her multi-instrumental solo show spans many genres, with a focus on her alternative, folk, and indie original work.
The Jespersons
"The Jespersons" are an Indie Folk duo hailing from the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Jared originally comes from a rock and jam band background in Southern California while Kaye comes from a folk, country and gospel background in New Zealand and Australia. They met in the mountains around Yosemite in 2010 and have brought their musical styles together to form earthy, evocative and uplifting music. Their sound consists of tight, rich vocal harmonies with rootsy and expressive instrumentation on cello, mandolin and guitar. Their music is a combination of earthy folk with overtones of bluegrass, blues and jazz.
Channeling psychedelic cabaret dreampunk into her performance alter-ego, Grooblen, Stokes’ healing work braids themes that are reflective, surreal, pensive, and whimsical. Inspired by musical artists Fiona Apple, Frank Zappa, Jeff Buckley, and Genesis, critics have compared her work to “the intimacy of Joni Mitchell and intensity of K.D. Lang” (The Other Side Reviews) for her masterful connection with audiences.
Her work is a tangled testament to overcoming the ripples of traumatic experiences — sounds that soften and reset our rigid self-restriction as a trauma response to harmful experiences.
October 5, 2024
The Goddess Within Stage
Guest Goddesses will join us on the Goddess Within Stage to share their gifts on a variety of topics. For two days we will gain incredible insight, grow, expand our thoughts, ideas and hearts.
12:00pm : The Healing power of Yosemite
Heather Sullivan is a founding member of the Balanced Rock Foundation that is a non profit organization bringing wellness and a connection to nature since 2000.She will share her wisdom of being a wild women in Yosemite and guiding other women to find connection and empowerment through backpacking ,yoga and being mindful of your environment.
1:00pm : The Miracle Experiment: Utilizing the Power of Sacred Sound to Materialize Your Desires
Shannon Sinclair of Soul Side Out will teach the consciousness technique that will level up your ability to materialize your desires in complete ease. If you have had difficulties getting the Law of Attraction to work for you, come see how Directed Intention + Sacred Sound can deliver measurable results
2:00pm : Becoming More Aware of Present Tme with Diane Gysin
When we become present, all stories go back into our past timeline. We become closer to being whole and complete. Through awareness of our
bodies, mind and energy field we can find present time, feel safe and become open for love. Let's relax the nervous system, soften the eyes, bring in our aura/energy, release the need to be any part of our past and love life. I have been teaching energy for over 30 years. 20+ healing modalities. 2 powerful near-death experiences.
3:00pm : HeartMath Resiliency with Twyla Reece
Most of us have been taught in school that the heart is constantly responding to "orders" sent by the brain in the form of neural signals. However, it is not as commonly known that the heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart! Moreover, these heart signals have a significant effect on brain function—influencing emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving. In other words, not only does the heart respond to the brain, but the brain continuously responds to the heart.
4:00pm : Capture More Through Mindful Photography with Heather Webster
Goddesses LOVE to grow and expand their views.
There is so much beauty all around us and this beauty can be captured at any moment and give us a direct connection to ourselves. This presentation will center around using Mindful Photography to capture the beauty around you and connecting to your inner guidance and goddess. We will be exploring mindfulness techniques we can use when capturing that moment of your day, whether out in nature or taking a photo walking around town. As we go through the presentation, we will talk about how this type of photography connects us deeper to our guidance and intuition and how to create that for the participants. This is a session geared for anyone with a camera, whether a cell phone or a stand alone camera, from beginner to expert.
Goddess Engagement Center
The Goddess Engagement Center is an area with scheduled training, workshops and discussion circles. This is a place of learning, engaging, nurturing and growing.
11:00am : TAT Trauma Relief Technique
We all have negative experiences that can linger. Jackie will teach you a healing technique that is easy and works! It’s a gentle self healing process that once you learn it you will be able to do on your own.
1:00pm : Flower Readings with Patricia Gallet
The Goddess loves her women and her flowers! Bring a real flower, one that only you have touched, our Psychic Medium will pick one at random and give a mini reading from the combined energy of the person and flower. The flower reveals only what is constructive to be revealed in the moment and in public. These demonstrations are personally insightful and naturally delightful. Floromancy is a psychometry technique that flourished in the Victorian age and continues to be practiced today. These will be short messages to reach as many attendees as time allows. The fairy folk may have a few on hand at the event so feel free to come and play!
Patricia Gallet is a Psychic Medium certified through Trilogy Institute in Lily Dale, New York. Born and raised in Los Angeles, her mother Helen Wass Gallet, ensured that Mariposa has always been considered "home." We welcome her at Mariposa's first Goddess Festival.
2:00pm : Round Table Discussion: The Modern Goddess
Join us for a round table discussion entitled, the Modern Goddess, which will explore what it means to be a Modern Goddess, as a person, a societal movement, a journey, and more.
3:00pm : Using a Pendulum for Instant Answers-Yes/No and So Much More with Orenda Caldera
By the end of our time together you will know how to get instant answers any time you want, even if you've never touched a pendulum before. Seasoned dowsers come on in as well because I'll also be sharing some advanced techniques that will take your practice to the next level. You won't believe what all you can accomplish with one little pendulum!
4:00pm : Embracing the Shadow Goddess with Lynetta Avery
Aspecting is a powerful integration exercise with Benefits that include:
Increased Self-Awareness
Emotional Regulation
Practicing Active Listening and Empathy
Improved Relationships
Reducing Inner Conflict
Enhanced Problem Solving
Increased Resilience
Greater Authenticity
Personal Growth
The greatest gift from this work is the empowerment that you feel when you are complete with an Aspecting Session.
You go from Victim to Creator. Taking responsibility, solutions come to you, you feel integrated, whole and present.
5:00pm : Master Your Emotions: The Secrets to Manifestation with Tara Lynn
The ingredients of manifestation that no one talks about.
I will speak on the topic of worthiness, and how to transmute the negative emotions around feeling unworthy/ not good enough through alchemical processes
This is a unique twist on the topic because I will explain human processes of emotion and how it plays into the art of manifestation.
Through a series of exercises, I will guide the group in exploring the fuel to their emotions that are hidden behind a veil, interfering with their ability to manifest pure desires, not the shadow of it.
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