Wellness Connected Festival 2026

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About this Event

🌿 Welcome to the 6th Annual Wellness Connected Festival 🌿

Join us for our 6th annual Wellness Connected Festival, a two-day gathering rooted in healing, connection, and intention, held in the heart of Big Bear Lake. Through immersion wellness workshops, holistic services, music, and shared experiences, we aim to nurture the mind, body, and spirit—while raising the vibration of our collective consciousness.

Wellness Connected Festival is a gathering of local Healers, Practitioners, Teachers, and Artisans coming together to teach, learn, grow, heal, love, and raise the vibration of the collective consciousness for the betterment of humanity. Join us for our 6th anniversary Wellness Connected Festival and help us shift the collective consciousness towards a New Earth of LOVE.

✨ Explore our Vendor Village featuring wellness businesses, artisans, and conscious creators.

✨ Participate in free outdoor community offerings including:

• Drum Circle

• Cacao Ceremony

• Yoga

• Meditation

• Qigong

• Sound Bath Immersion

✨ Deepen your experience through educational workshops led by experienced practitioners covering topics such as holistic health, music therapy, herbalism, energy work, nervous system regulation, and more.

📅 Event Details

Saturday, September 19, 2026

11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Sunday, September 20, 2026

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

📍 Chateau Big Bear Boutique Hotel

42200 Moonridge Road

Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

Call Chateau at 909-866-6666 for 15% off your stay! Code WCF26 for the Wellness Festival. Tell them you will be attending the festival 😍

🌐 www.wellnessconnectedfestival.com

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🎟️ Community Admission (Suggested Donation) $20

A suggested donation of $20 helps support festival operations, educational programming, workshop facilitators, and the continued growth of this community event.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Community admission includes access to:

• Vendor Village

• Outdoor Community Programming

• Festival Gathering Spaces

• Community Activities and Demonstrations

🧘 Workshop Experiences Tiers

#1) $25 for 1 Workshop

#2) $60 Workshop Bundle includes 3 workshops

Educational workshops are held throughout the weekend inside the Nobles Chamber and Ballrom. Workshops are available as optional upgrades and may be purchased individually or through workshop packages and workshop topics and facilitator announcements will be released soon. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended.

🌟 VIP Weekend Immersion Pass Tier

#3) $125

Our VIP Weekend Immersion Pass includes:

• Unlimited Workshops

• VIP Festival T-Shirt

• VIP Festival Tote Bag

• Wellness Gift Bag

• Priority Workshop Registration

*Limited VIP Passes Available.

*Reserve Your Spot Today

*By registering now, you'll be the first to:

✔ Receive festival announcements

✔ Access workshop registration when it opens

✔ Learn about featured facilitators and vendors

✔ Receive VIP and event updates

We look forward to gathering with you for a weekend of wellness, inspiration, education, and meaningful connection in beautiful Big Bear Lake.

Saturday Outdoor Agenda

🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Calling of the 4 Directions and Drum circle

Info: Join Selia, host and Organizer as she calls in the 4 directions and blesses the land before entrancing you with the beat of a community drum circle lead by Mike. Feel the rhythm and percussion permeate your body, mind, soul, and spirit. Bring your drums and jam to the beat of Mother Earth and connect to the ancestors of the mountains.

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Cacao Offering by Myra Godoy

Info: Join Mayra as she taps into the transformative energy of Cacao and leads you on a spiritual journey through a sacred ritual. This ceremony revolves around the consumption of ceremonial-grade cacao, which serves as a catalyst for connection, healing, and self-discovery. Immerse yourself in the profound experience of a Cacao Ceremony guided by Mayra, where you'll find unity, inner healing, and a deeper understanding of yourself.

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Qi Gong

Info: enriching Qigong journey designed to cultivate harmony within yourself. This practice combines gentle, repetitive movements, intentional breathwork, guided mindfulness, and healing self-massage. Together, we will step into a space of high performance and body-mind cohesiveness. Experience the profound connection between your mind, body, and spirit as you engage in practices that promote healing and well-being. No matter where you are in your life's journey, this one-hour session will help you gain clarity and generate energy together. Whether you are a beginner or have prior experience, come and awaken your inner energy!

🕑: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Headliner: Sacred Sounds

Info: Join our headlining musical experience, Sacred Sounds, collective that organically came together through the 2025 Wellness Connected Festival. United by a shared passion for healing, music, and community, they offer an immersive journey filled with heart-opening vocals, intentional mantras, and soul-stirring melodies. The resonating sounds of the drums, harmonium, guitar, sitar and other sacred instruments weave together to nourish the mind, body and spirit. Gather beneath the pine trees and celebrate 2026 Wellness Connected Festival with us!

🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Ecstatic Dance Workshop by Rosie Velasquez of The Mystic Rose

Info: Join Rosie as she teaches you a free-form dance practice called Ecstatic Dance where you can gather to dance to music without the need to follow the instructions of a leader. In Ecstatic Dance the music is the leader and participants are free to weave their way through the different soundscapes.

Saturday Knobles Chamber

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
How to stay centered while the world is burning down by Rachel S. Heslin

Info: Staying Centered While the World is Burning Down Life is getting crazier by the moment. Every day, there’s a new crisis: personal, political, environmental…. How can you stay sane, let alone do something about it? In this presentation, Rachel will introduce a way of looking at crises as an integral part of the ebb and flow of Life. She will give strategies to discover who the world is asking you to be, as well as tools to become that person – the person you always knew lay inside you, waiting to blossom: the person who can rise to meet the challenges of our evolving world.

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ceridwen’s Cauldron by Rev. Dr. Pamela Dawn Hancock

Info: Ceridwen’s Cauldron: Myth, Medicine, and the Alchemy of Transformation
is an experiential workshop weaving together Celtic myth, ritual practice,
and contemporary approaches to inner transformation.
Rooted in the theme of Spirit and Fire, this session invites participants
into the living myth of Ceridwen—the keeper of the cauldron, whose
sacred brew initiates profound transformation. Drawing from both
academic research and lived practice, this workshop explores how
ancient mythologies can serve as maps for navigating change, challenge,
and personal evolution in modern life.What Participants Will Walk Away With:
* A lived experience of Ceridwen’s myth as a tool for personal
transformation
* A grounded framework for working with cycles of change and “the
unknown”
* Practices for engaging transformation in a way that builds resilience
rather than overwhelm
* A deeper connection to myth, imagination, and the inner landscape as
sources of guidance
This work is informed by traditions of plan

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Somatic Breathework of NeuroSomatic Therapies by Kimberly Quezada LMFT

Info: Experience the transformative power of your breath in this guided somatic breathwork workshop designed to help regulate the nervous system, release stored stress and tension, and reconnect you with your body.

Through intentional breathing techniques, gentle somatic awareness, and guided meditation, you'll be invited to slow down, quiet the mind, and create space for healing from the inside out. This immersive experience can help cultivate emotional resilience, increase mental clarity, reduce anxiety, and leave you feeling grounded, refreshed, and deeply connected.

Whether you're new to breathwork or have an established practice, this workshop welcomes all experience levels in a safe, supportive, and heart-centered environment.

Benefits may include:
• Nervous system regulation
• Stress and anxiety reduction
• Emotional release and healing
• Increased energy and mental clarity
• Greater mind-body awareness
• Deep relaxation and inner peace

🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Meditation & Magnetism in the mountains featuring Greg Mesterhazy and Nancy C

Info: HEAL, ACHIEVE , ATTRACT & TRANSFORM... Bio-magnetism +hypnotherapy with Greg Mesterhazy (Mester Method) & Nancy Chase (The Confidence Shoppe) Learn how to regulate, re-pattern and create. They will guide you out of stress (fight/flight) and into a regulated, coherent state using a combination of bio-magnetism and hypnotherapy-followed by clear next steps for continued success. Participants will: *understand how stress and dis-regulation affect the body.* Experience a real-time shift-through magnets + hypnosis * Leave with a felt sense of regulation and clarity and receive a path to continue the work.

Saturday Ballroom Agenda

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Indigenous Workshop by Native American Dancer Eric Running Path

Info: Eric Running Path is an Indigenous Eagle Dancer, Eagle Ambassador, and a member of the Navajo Nation from Gallup, New Mexico. Eric Running Path is very proud of his Native American heritage and enjoys helping others to understand the culture through dance and explaining various indigenous craft work to a variety of audiences around the world. Enjoy Eric Running Path Indigenous Workshop and embrace the Indigenous culture in a beauty way.

🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The medicine circle teaching by Waka Tuka

Info: Medicine Circle Teachings: Indigenous Wisdom & Connection

Join us for a meaningful introduction to the Medicine Circle and Indigenous teachings. Guided by traditional wisdom, we'll explore the four directions, the cycles of life, and our connection to ourselves, one another, and the natural world.

The circle is one of humanity's oldest sacred symbols, representing unity, balance, and the continuous journey of life. Through storytelling, reflection, and discussion, participants will gain insight into living in greater harmony with all our relations.

Come with an open heart and a willingness to learn from timeless teachings that continue to inspire healing, respect, and connection.

🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Drum Journey by Milagros
Sunday Outdoor Agenda

🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Community Drum circle, prayers for world peace

Info: blessing of the land before entrancing you with the beat of a community drum circle. Feel the rhythm and percussion permeate your body, mind, soul, and spirit. Bring your drums and jam to the beat of Mother Earth and connect to the ancestors of the mountains.

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Yoga by Dana Andrews of Mountain Yoga Center

Info: Allow Dana Andrews to lead you through a sequence of yoga postures and mindful breathing techniques carefully crafted to enhance both your physical and mental wellness.

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Meditation for world peace by Luck and Kitty of Guru Rinpoche Temple

Info: Join the monks of Guru Rinpoche Temple in the tranquil Big Bear Valley for an enlightening workshop on the benefits of meditation. Discover the significance of their beautiful temple while exploring themes of community, compassion, and wisdom. Participants will learn about the powerful mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum," which embodies compassion and inner peace. Engage in guided meditation sessions tailored for all experience levels, designed to cultivate mindfulness and tranquility. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals while gaining tools for personal transformation. Join us on this journey toward world peace and leave inspired and renewed.

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Be the Dolphin Workshop by Kim Ureta of Water Release Therapy

Info: Join Kim Ureta for 'Be The Dolphin' workshop, where you'll embark on a journey to tap into the ocean's vibrant energy and unlock your inner joy. Inspired by the playful and curious nature of dolphins, this experience combines water-based practices, breathwork, and meditation to help you connect with your sense of wonder, creativity, and delight. Bring a towel and bathing suit. We will be in the heated pool for about an hour.

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Closing of the 4 Directions with Sound Bath Immersion by Selia Jimenez Host &

Info: Join Selia Jimenez, owner of Soothing Canna Massage & Wellness and founder of the Wellness Connected Festival, for the festival's closing ceremony.

Together, we will honor the sacred practice of Closing the Four Directions, offering gratitude for the healing, connections, teachings, and community we have shared throughout the weekend. This heartfelt ceremony symbolizes the completion of our collective journey while carrying the intentions, wisdom, and love cultivated during the festival back into our daily lives.

Following the ceremony, Selia will guide you through a deeply restorative Sound Bath Immersion, using soothing vibrations and healing frequencies to help integrate your experience, promote relaxation, and leave you feeling grounded, renewed, and connected.

Come as we close this sacred gathering with gratitude, intention, and the healing power of sound.

Sunday Knobles Chamber

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Calming the Vegas Nerve and Aroma Touch Hand Massage Demo

Info: Join Dawn from High Vibration Energy LLC for an enriching workshop designed to enhance your well-being through holistic healing practices. As a certified practitioner in massage therapy, AromaTouch, sound healing, Reiki (Master level), and tapping (EFT), Dawn's journey into holistic healing began with her personal quest to overcome challenges such as neuropathy, brain fog, afternoon fatigue, and dry, irritated skin. In this engaging session, Dawn will guide you through techniques to calm the vagus nerve, an essential component of your body's relaxation response. You'll also experience a hands-on AromaTouch hand massage demonstration, discovering how essential oils can alleviate not only physical discomfort but also emotional and spiritual challenges.

🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Introduction to Somatic Workshop & Sound Bath Experience with Seiji Davis

Info: Reconnect with your body through the somatic workshop and sound bath session led by Holistic Bodyworker and Somatic Educator Seiji Davis.

Introduction to Somatic Movement Workshop with Seiji Davis
Gentle, easy movements that relax your muscles, calm your nervous system, and release deep tension.
These simple practices rewire the brain habits that keep you tight and in pain — no forcing, no strain.
Regular practice brings:
-Deep, lasting comfort
-Less pain (or none)
-Better posture
-Reduced stress
-A younger, freer body
Seiji explains everything with humor and clarity in a safe, supportive space for real transformation.
Easy. Gentle. Powerful. Perfect for anyone whose body hurts or feels stuck.
Ends with an Enchanted Sound Experience A beautiful sound journey for deep relaxation, emotional release, and nervous system healing.

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Janet Grace Nelson of Love your Life Coach
Sunday Ballroom Agenda

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Musical Conversations Workshop by Alec Johnson

Info: Workshop Description: Join Alec 's Musical Conversations Workshop as he guides you to explore how improvisation, listening, and rhythm can deepen musicianship and everyday life skills. Through simple and interactive songwriting exercises, participants will learn how to create music on the spot that sounds like a precomposed song. This workshop is informative and accessible to both seasoned musicians and total beginners and the mission is to impart that you are capable of playing music, regardless of your skill level. You will learn how to unlock music as a tool for everyday well-being and connection. Musical Conversations equip you with the tools and techniques to create music and enjoy the benefits of fostering musicality in your life. Through these fun and practical activities you can cultivate communication skills, greater confidence, and nervous system resilience.