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 6, 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 : Reveal Your Inner Authenticity with Reiki and Mindfulness with Lisa Bennett
Introduction to Reiki and how energy healing can be of great support in balancing life and body. Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction. Utilizing this technique can help us find relief from anxiety, depression, pain relief, quicker recovery from surgery, and much more. Bringing in peace of mind and body assists with better, deeper sleep and relaxation which in turn assists to balance the whole body and mind for more energy and support for you to show up in your true authentic nature for your life and others.
Lisa is a Usui/Holy Fire III® Reiki Master, Karuna Reiki® Master, Meditation Instructor, and Ceremony Officiant. Along with a growing practice she teaches Reiki in person, online, and on Retreat with her daughter Ashley.
1:00pm : WORKSHOP (2 hours): WOMEN'S MOON MAGIC with Patricia Gallet
Come, give voice to the dreams of your soul as heavenly bodies move across the sky and magic is in the air!
For those wishing to use moon energy for practical magic. Whatever your spiritual path, the moon offers you a “personalized” monthly opportunity to work with nature and the cosmos to connect to The Divine. This workshop offers valuable information, both ancient and modern, specifically addressing woman's magical nature and a meditation to assist in consciously using the times of the moon and earth to attract and magnetize things you would like to create, develop, and make manifest in your life. Handout is included. Optional: bring your astrological birth chart or you can print a free copy at astro.com/free/free_chart_e.htm click on “Chart drawing, Ascendant”
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 :Round Table Discussion: Near Death Experiences Led by Jackie Burns
Have you experienced an NDE? Together we will explore this phenomena and share our experiences.
12:00pm : WORKSHOP (2 hours): Connecting to Your Inner Guidance and Intuition with Heather Webster
We all have guides and can connect to them in a variety of ways. These guides can be there as we try and make decisions in life, but with the hustle and bustle of the world sometimes they are difficult to hear and connect with. In this hands on presentation, I will share tools and techniques that support tapping into your personal guides and intuition. We will use the tools to practice these techniques and then dive into how this connects to becoming the goddess every individual has within and to help you make the decisions that align with your path, your purpose.
Every individual may connect in a different way, so there will be different options to try throughout the workshop. As a nature based insight coach, I will be supporting you through the workshop with practices that range from oracle cards to mindful outdoor experiences. You will also leave with an understanding and process that will help you to continue to deepen your connection where no tools will be required and you can tap in at any time and also help others in connecting to their guides.
2:00pm : Opening the Door to Miracles with Diane of the Sanctuary
Has the Law of Attraction proved to be ineffectual in your life? Are you one of many people who has experienced mixed results? Have you tried a ton of spiritual techniques and energy healing modalities but are still stuck in one or more parts of your life? Miracles are a natural occurrence. They are meant to happen all the time. Ancestral karma, traumas, and past life issues create blocks to miracles. Through compassion, we can clear these blocks. Our lives can shine. This workshop will allow you to start ending separation. Separation from love, from money, from your divine plan, from The Goddess. The time has come for all humans to open the door to miracles.
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