CREATE. CELEBRATE. COLLABORATE.
Hotel Peter & Paul
SEPTEMBER 3-6 2026
Presenter Lineup
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Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band
New Orleans’ own Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band weave together kirtan, soulful melodies, and heart-opening rhythms into a powerful musical experience. Known for transforming spaces into collective celebrations of devotion, their offerings invite you to sing, feel, and connect—both within yourself and as a community.
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Paloma Devi
Paloma Devi is an internationally recognized devotional singer, yogini, and teacher whose work blends sacred sound, movement, and mysticism. A lifelong spiritual pilgrim with over 25 years of yoga practice, she shares kirtan, voice activation, and embodied devotional music around the world. Creator of the Vocal Moksha Method, Paloma’s offerings uplift artistic expression and connection through what she calls her signature style of “Celestial Soul.”
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Ananda Das
Internationally renowned kirtan artist Ananda Das brings a deeply devotional and uplifting presence to the festival. With a voice that carries both power and tenderness, his music becomes a doorway into joy, connection, and the sacred—inviting all to drop into the heart through mantra and song.
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Victoria Martinez
Victoria Martinez offers a grounded and intuitive approach to movement, guiding students into deeper connection with their bodies through breath, alignment, and presence. Her teaching creates space for both strength and softness, supporting practitioners in building trust within themselves.
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Brynnevere Hertley
Brynnevere Hertley is a yoga teacher and movement guide devoted to helping people reconnect with their bodies through mindful movement, breath, and presence. Her classes blend strength, fluidity, and grounded awareness, creating a space where students can explore both challenge and ease. Brynnevere’s teaching encourages curiosity, self-trust, and a deeper connection to the wisdom of the body.
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Cameron Shayne
Founder of the Budokon Yoga system, Cameron Shayne is a visionary teacher blending yoga, martial arts, and mindfulness into a dynamic, disciplined practice. His approach challenges students to move with intention, cultivate strength, and embody a deeper sense of personal responsibility and awareness.
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Jimmy Wilson
Jimmy Wilson is a teacher practitioner of vibrational sound therapy and master teacher of Sattva yoga & meditation. He combines his passions for sound healing, healing frequencies & medicine music to incorporate a blend of electronic and acoustic instruments into his sound journeys to create unique soundscapes for deep resets & meditation.
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Erica Hoff
Erica Hoff is a yogi, traveler, storyteller, and seeker devoted to following her curiosity and creating a life of meaning. She studied at Sattva Yoga Academy in Rishikesh, India, in the Himalayan Kriya Yoga tradition, and is Level 1 certified with LoveYourBrain, a yoga program supporting people affected by brain injury and their caregivers.
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Brittnee Castille
Brittnee Castille is a yoga teacher and co-owner of Leela Yoga in Baton Rouge. Her teaching blends the strength and structure of Ashtanga with the fluidity of Vinyasa, layered with embodiment practices and empowering dharma. Her classes are strong, intentional, and designed to help students reconnect with their breath, focus, and inner power.
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Vikram Hirani
Vikram Hirani is a yoga teacher and educator who has been profiled in Esalen Journal and taught for Lululemon in Bangalore, India. His classes and teacher training modules are known for being historically informed, philosophically grounded, and relevant to modern practice, designed for students who want to understand not just how to practice but why
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Adrienne Edson
Adrienne is a New Orleans–based yoga teacher and musician, and the band leader of the devotional music group Rad Bhav. Her work weaves together movement, music, and bhakti (the yoga of devotion) to create practices that are both grounding and heart-opening.
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Charlotte Mabry
Charlotte is a New Orleans–based yoga teacher and sound practitioner offering Meditative Restorative Yoga and Sound Bath classes that invite deep rest and inner reflection. Her sessions combine a gentle restorative yoga sequence with guided meditation inspired by the dharma, accompanied by vibratory sound from instruments such as gong, crystal singing bowls, Koshi chimes, tuning forks, and ocean drum.
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Mark Berger
Mark Berger is a yoga teacher, storyteller, and community builder based in New Orleans. With over 20 years in movement, meditation, and wellness, his classes blend strong asana, playful energy, and yogic philosophy that meets students right where they are.
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Zoë Thibeault-Stone
Zoë Thibeault-Stone is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher and the Director of Operations at Free to Be Power Yoga. Her teaching draws from Himalayan Kriya Yoga traditions and incorporates pranayama, meditation, and mindful movement to support a balanced and integrated practice.
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Rebecca Crenshaw
Rebecca Crenshaw is an E-RYT® 500 yoga teacher with over 1,000 hours of training in anatomy, yoga therapeutics, injury prevention, and accessible sequencing. She teaches alignment-based yoga that supports athletes, beginners, and all bodies. Rebecca teaches at the New Orleans Athletic Club and Wild Lotus Yoga and serves as Director of YEAH! Yoga, bringing yoga and mindfulness to youth impacted by incarceration.
About NOLA Yoga Fest
New Orleans Health & Yoga Festival is a one-of-a-kind gathering in the Gulf South; a space where movement, mindfulness, music, and community come together in a powerful and meaningful way.
At its core, this festival was created from a deep place of devotion. Devotion to service, to community, and to the transformative power of these practices when they are shared from the heart.
More than just a yoga event, NOLA Yoga Fest is an immersive experience. It’s a place to learn from local and nationally recognized teachers, explore a wide range of practices, and connect with others who are walking a path of growth, healing, and awareness.
From energizing flows to grounding meditations, live music to meaningful conversations. This is a space to come home to yourself, and to each other.
MISSION: Nola Yoga Fest is a vibrant celebration that ignites connection through movement, immersive workshops, live music, and philanthropy. Rooted in our mantra — “Create. Celebrate. Collaborate” — we gather to flow, learn, connect, and give back, creating an unforgettable experience in the heart of New Orleans.
VISION: To be the Crescent City’s leading conscious festival, where movement, culture, and connection converge, and celebration sparks transformation and lasting community impact.
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tools to pause, to feel, and to respond instead of react. Through consistent practice, participants build emotional regulation, resilience, and a deeper sense of self-worth.
This is the kind of impact that ripples outward—into families, communities, and futures.
When you attend NOLA Yoga Fest, you are part of that ripple.
This year, we are honored to support YEAH! YOGA, an organization bringing trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness to youth impacted by the juvenile justice system.
Working within detention centers and residential foster care environments, their programs offer something many of these youth have never been given—
