Dustin is a certified yoga teacher, Animal Flow instructor, and personal trainer. His practice is grounded in gratitude and flow.

“I love yoga because the practice effectively regulates the nervous system as well as increases balance, flexibility, strength, mindfulness, and concentration. Yoga has impacted my life by dramatically improving my mental, physical, and social health.”
 

Tara Butler of Soul Link Yoga is a kundalini yoga instructor and sound bath practitioner
based in Bloomington, Indiana. With a deep reverence for yogic philosophy and mindful
living, Tara weaves wisdom into every class—offering gentle insights that ripple beyond
the mat. Her offerings invite students to explore the sacred path of self-discovery.
Through movement, sound, and stillness, Tara guides others toward greater presence,
healing, and spiritual connection.

I discovered yoga 10 years ago as a way to manage chronic pain, but I quickly realized there was something special about yoga. Yoga doesn't just heal the body—it supports the mind and spirit as well. Yoga improves my life in every way, and I’m passionate about helping make yoga accessible for everyone. It’s an honor to hold space for others on their yoga journey, even if only for one class.

Stephanie Coy began doing yoga recreationally 25 years ago. It wasn't until she was faced with some extremely challenging, traumatic times that she turned to the yogic path as a way of life. Yoga brought the peace and strength she so desperately needed to endure those times, and it has since become the foundation of her life. She is a 200 RYT with a 40-hour trauma informed yoga certification, currently working to compete her 500 RYT. She identifies as a person in long term recovery from alcohol, substance use, and various mental health conditions, and yoga is her primary pathway to maintaining that recovery. Currently, she provides free yoga, meditation, and regular mindfulness and yoga-based community events to the substance use and mental health affected population in Louisville, Kentucky, and is very passionate about the power of the practice. While you never know what the class may entail for the week, she primarily leads slow flow vinyasa and yin-based practices. Whatever you have going on in your life, she will be the first to tell you, yoga fixes EVERYTHING!!!

Shana Schack (Facebook: Shana Michelle) is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, seasoned festival enthusiast, and roving bookmobile librarian with a passion for making movement accessible to all bodies. With over two years of teaching experience and as a 30-year festival adventurer, Shana brings a joyful, grounded presence to every yoga class.  

Amanda is currently teaching at Inner Warrior in Louisville, KY- home studio to many of the event’s organizers. She trained and taught in Miami, FL at Skanda Yoga Studio with Louisville’s own Ken “Anand” von Roenn and brings fresh teaching perspectives to our region. When she isn’t teaching yoga, she serves as Executive Assistant for the Fungi Foundation and believes that education on the Fungi Kingdom can balance the body and mind while symbolically healing our environment. About why she loves yoga and art - “Yoga and art have changed my life by embodiment. Both have penetrated my life and all of its layers in the most profound sense. Both have taught me to hold space for thousands on the road to embodiment through yoga, meditation and other methods of healing. I came into a deep meditation path through shamanic practices and learned that my art is my voice. These elements are experienced in both my physical (asana) and metaphysical (everything else) teachings and my everyday life.”

Becki Roman’s is a lifelong yogi who embodies yogic principles in all facets of her life. She is a gifted asana practitioner and steeped in knowledge of many yogic traditions. She officially trained over decade ago at Eternal Health yoga studio with Shelli Carpenter, and now teaches community donation-based yoga at Sacred Cross Oratory in New Albany. In addition she serves as the Executive Director of Hope Southern Indiana with years of experience in non-profit organizations. She will teach the first class of the event- a community Hatha class geared toward everyone.

Abbie Guard has been a lifelong student of meditation, even before she knew what the word meditation means.  These early experiences of meditation and mindfulness practice blossomed into an adult who deeply values radical acceptance, accountability, and vulnerability.  She is deeply passionate about working with children and introducing them to skills that will enable them to reduce their own and others' suffering as they come into their own in the world.

Carmela has been teaching meditation and movement for over 10 years. She has always connected with spiritual energy through dance and has been more recently exploring this connection through Yoga, opening the Bodyworks Studio in 2021 to bring more movement opportunities to the community. Her daughter Bella has recently discovered how fun yoga can be and how creative you can be with yoga. She will be assisting in leading the children's class.

Hello I’m Christina Griswold! I love all kinds of flow arts, and my favorite flow prop is the hulahoop. Once at an event, I saw a woman with a led hoop and immediately knew that I wanted to do that. I've been hulahooping for years now, and even when life demands I take a break, I always make it back and consider it a lifelong practice. My experience with hooping has given me freedom, and I feel called to share what I have learned with others. I feel great joy sharing my hobby with others and watching them learn to love hooping as much as I do. I always wanted to be a part of an event like this and grow the community through flow arts. I am honored to participate and glad to have an opportunity to both teach and learn. I will be teaching a children’s hoop class and provide individual and group instruction during scheduled time at Bear’s Prop, Stop, and Flow Zone. Much love

Lisa Is a certified Hula-Fit and certified Kid's Hula Instructor and joins us having previously taught at several flow and music festivals including PlayThink and The Moonshiner's Ball.  She is currently vagabonding around the country in their RV with her husband.  She has taught hooping at Soul Rebel Lex and Arabesque Dance Studios in Lexington, KY.  She has done multiple hoop performances and is a Super Hooper for the March Madness Marching Band. Lisa is a retired Montessori teacher that likes to dabble in art and play her ukelele.  She will be offering group/individual hoop instruction in Bear's Prop, Stop, & Flow Zone during scheduled time and a class just for the children. 

Tiffany Harvey is a 30-year-old artist whose life is fueled by passion, color, and the joy of creating. Painting is her soul’s work — a deep expression of emotion and energy — but her creativity doesn’t stop there. She’s also a skilled tattoo artist, a lover of plants, crafts, DIYs, and a fire poi performer who thrives on the rhythm of movement and music.

A free-spirited, fun-loving hippie at heart, Tiffany finds inspiration in anything that sparks imagination. She began sharing her love of art early on, teaching painting classes through the Arts Council of Mercer County as a young artist, and has continued to encourage others to explore their own creative paths.

Whether it’s on canvas, fabric, skin, or spinning flames under the stars, Tiffany lives to create — and to help others discover that same magic within themselves

I am  Tonic Herbalist in a lineage called the Gate of Life, a 5000 year old tradition of herbology and health philosophy. Taoism evolved from the precepts of our lineage. I focus on promoting health of body/mind/spirit through incorporating Tonic herbs into a daily regimen of pure foods and physical activity. I believe we cannot achieve true spiritual perception without maintaining a healthy body that's clean inside.

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Sadie was born and raised in an intentional community in Bath County, Kentucky. She is completing a graduate program in clinical mental health counseling at Lindsey Wilson College and is projected to graduate and receive LPCA licensure in August, 2025. She has one year of clinical experience counseling a wide variety of populations with a focus on children and adolescents. They are experienced in modalities such as CBT, REBT and Motivational Interviewing. Sadie is interested in yoga and herbalism and takes a holistic wellness approach to counseling. She will be helping facilitate a talking circle focused on grief.

​Sarah Young is a creative event coordinator, experiential educator, and joyful orchestrator of all things playful. With over a decade of experience across community arts programming, event hospitality, and Montessori-inspired education, she brings a grounded and imaginative approach to every event she is involved with. As the founder of SoulShine Events, Sarah believes every gathering begins with a soul—a spark of intention meant to be nurtured and shared. At this year’s festival, she’s curating the Kids Tent experience—a space where children and grown-ups alike are invited to play, create, explore, and reconnect with the child within.

Ben Short is a 200hr CYT who has been teaching yoga full time since 2015, with well over 2500 hours of teaching experience! Ben is a versatile teacher, enjoying sharing Vinyasa or Hatha, Restorative or Yin, even Hot Yoga. He’s noted for his warm positivity, detailed instruction particularly excellent for beginners, and compassionate delivery empowering all to feel comfortable and focused.

Ben is also an accomplished musician and composer. Bringing those two worlds together, Ben offers live musical accompaniment for yoga classes that is truly special, uniquely able to flow the music with the practice, often described as downright magical!

And come festival time, Ben loves to share his passion for astronomy and stargazing, offering fun and interactive nighttime workshops teaching and identifying the night sky!  

Catt started her business, Cosmic Cattails LLC, as a eclectic florist & healing herbalist in November of 2023 after a profound spiritual awakening. That is just the beginning of her journey. Catt continues to follow her own intuition and be led by Spirit which also (eventually) led her to becoming a tarot card reader, then onto a
reiki practitioner. All these skills & talents have a common nature – they offer healing to one’s mind, body, and/or soul.

The latest, greatest addition on her journey is guided meditations for deep healing
and one’s individual authentic power. As her mediumship grows, communication
between other realms expands with heightened downloads and crystal codes. For now, it’s still all a Cosmic mystery!

Ezra grew up near Marengo in southern Indiana and has been attending festivals since childhood.  He joined the circus at age ten and has a unique story and many gifts.  He loves all things flow and music, and will join us to share poi instruction during scheduled time at Bear's Stop, Drop, & Flow Zone as well as a class for the children that includes sock poi making. When he isn't teaching, you may see him performing or doing the goblin dance.   

Carlin is an artist, homemaker & nature enthusiast living in Tennessee. This weekend she will be presenting “Intro to Wildcrafting: Preserving Your Wild Harvest” as well as narrating during the glassblowing demo with G-May Glass.

Maria Young was introduced to West African drum and dance in 1994 at City College San Francisco. The rhythms and movement captivated her and she knew she would dedicate her life to the study and teaching of this art form.

Maria now resides in Louisville, Kentucky. She works with an organization called Dreams With Wings. "The Mission of Dreams With Wings is to empower children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism as they recognize their strengths, contribute to their community and pursue their dreams." She also teaches private drum and dance lessons in person as well as dance classes on zoom. Since in Louisville, she has performed at Worldfest, the Humanitarian Awards Ceremony at the Muhammad Ali Center and at the "Church of Assumptions." Through her teaching and sharing of this rich culture, she wishes to reach as many as possible, with the intention of spreading healing, joy and inspiration. 

Maria's Website

In addition to organizing and hosting this event, Lisa Vish will be teaching Tantra 101 in the dharma circle tradition of a condensed transmission of important yoga philosophy related content. She has trained in many traditions but considers kundalini and tantra (specifically Sri Vidya) to be her primary practices now. Embracing rituals and practices to recondition the nervous system, overcome maya and obtain self-realization is traditionally included in many yogic traditions and will be briefly discussed.

Oldham county native Sisi is an intuitive folk herbalist, shadow worker, and psychic channel with over a decade of experience. Her purpose is to bridge the gaps between the spiritual and material world by guiding others back to their center and cultivating their unique relationship with source and Mama Gaia. She co creates handmade jewelry, herbal remedies, and spirtual offerings with Spirit and her guides with her business Kundalini Rising Co.

Nearly 4 years ago, I made the decision to step out into m back yard and look at the ‘weeds’ I was standing on. Not long after that my house was covered in those dried weeds! I took every opportunity to study every single plant the acre of land I lived on had to offer. From Broadleaf Plantain to Wild Lettuce and Chicory, I was steadily growing my apothecary and knowledge of plant medicine. Fast forward to current times, where ‘weeds’ are my whole life. I am constantly trying to providing whatever knowledge of plants I have to anyone willing to listen, I have grown into a small business focued on salves, make up removerd, tinctures, and teas. My favorite part of learning plant medicine is that there will always be something more to learn about.

I’ve always been one to find and gather others for a good time, but for most of my life I lived numbed by drugs and alcohol. Determined to dance my way through difficult journeys, and the healing rhythm of fire flow, I found myself again. Dancing no longer under the influence of substance but rather to the primal whoosh of a flame. My purpose is to share that transformative power that empowered me to find my peace and joy. I strive to guide others in releasing worry and fear, discovering a sober presence in life, and joyful community within the Sacred Fire Circle. A tribe forged not in the dim haze of bars or the isolating hunger of addiction, but in the shared, primal pulse of Creation and Courage.