Wellness Classes & Sessions

Yoga & Wellness _ San Diego EarthFest _ San Diego’s Biggest Earth Day Festival _ April 25, 2026 _ Balboa Park – San Diego EarthFest


Join us for Earth-centered yoga classes, immersive sound baths, plant-inspired reiki, heart-expanding kirtan, and mindful movement to create the world we want to see.

Classes are donation-based. Space is limited.
Pre-registration is highly recommended.

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CLASS SCHEDULE

11:00 AM Movement Zone
Fusion Yoga Flow (45 min)
With Tania Bhattacharya

Blending traditional yoga with strength, mobility, and mindful movement. Designed to build strength, improve flexibility, and reconnect with the breath — accessible and adaptable for all levels.
Tania is a 700-hour Registered Yoga Teacher based in San Diego, blending traditional yoga with strength and mobility. She teaches across both corporate and community wellness spaces and has worked with organizations including EXOS, LA Fitness, and Puppy Yoga Club, among others. She shares her fitness journey with a growing online audience of over 20,000 followers on Instagram, where she has collaborated with brands such as Adidas, Fabletics, IUGA, and Discovery+.

11:00 AM Mind Zone
Reconstructing Your Inner Infrastructure (60 min)
With Kat Donovan

Learn the relationship between your thoughts, emotions, and physical body—revealing how your internal state shapes your external reality. Through a blend of teaching and guided experiential practices, you’ll learn how to recognize where your energy is being held, how your nervous system responds to stress, and how to consciously shift your state in real time. Participants will leave with a deeper awareness of their patterns, along with practical tools to regulate their energy, improve clarity, and move through life with greater intention and control.
Kat is a consciousness and energy coach and the founder of Inner Infrastructure, a systems-based approach to personal and professional growth and expansion. Her work focuses on helping individuals understand how their thoughts, emotions, and nervous system shape their daily experience, offering practical tools to create high self worth, healthy relationships, and make decisions confidently. Her work blends grounded science with intuitive awareness, creating a space for both reflection and real transformation.

12:00 PM Movement Zone
Power Heal Flow Yoga (60 min)
With Katherine Sheridan, M.Ed.

A dynamic, all-levels yoga experience that moves through the full arc of practice—from grounding warm-up to energizing peak sequences, including standing balance and strength work, before gradually unwinding into deep rest. This thoughtfully designed flow supports circulation, nervous system regulation, and a sense of personal empowerment. With accessible modifications offered throughout, participants are invited to move at their own pace, reconnect with their bodies, and leave feeling restored, rejuvenated, and aligned. All ages welcome.
Katherine is a Certified Yoga, Wellness, and Social-Emotional Learning Specialist with over 20 years of experience in early childhood education. A Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) with a Master’s Degree in Yoga and Mindfulness, she offers inclusive, trauma-informed classes that support nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and connection. Through her work with Lakeside Yoga and Wellness, she creates welcoming spaces where participants can move, breathe, and reconnect—with themselves, each other, and the natural world.

12:00 PM Mind Zone
Emotional Cleanse & Reset (45 min)
With Cam Alaasam

Learn how to release emotional buildup, regain balance, and feel more grounded—no matter where you are in life.
Cam is a mental health therapist as well as an animal rights activist and organizer. They derive purpose and strength by striving to make the world kinder and gentler for all life forms. Cam draws on their own self-healing practices as well as their training in yoga and meditation to bring intention, presence, and connection into all the work they do.

1:00 PM Movement Zone
Guided Intuitive Movement (45 min)
With Leah Bethany Gage

You will be guided in exploring movement in six body systems, aiming to find release from pain and tension as well as the expression of what is alive for you now. This container is created with the intention to support movement through a specific structure as well as nurture personal freedom and safety in our bodies.
Leah is a multicultural French-US international creative movement and community facilitator. She is passionate about creating spaces of healing and expression that allow us to return to our sense of connection to ourselves and the world. For over a decade, Leah has been facilitating trauma-informed embodied practices and training internationally with organizations such as Prison Yoga Project, The Green String Network, Father Joe’s Villages, IVAT and RJM.

1:00 PM     Mind Zone
Earth Day Meditation & Sound Healing: The World We Create (60 min)
With Vanessa Dawson

A guided meditation focused on stepping into the world we want to create—one rooted in compassion, connection, and care for the Earth and all living beings. Followed by a sound bath with singing bowls, chimes, harp, and voice, allowing you to rest into that vision and embody it more fully. Because the world we experience begins with the state we embody.
Vanessa is a singer, meditation and yoga teacher, and the founder of Penelope’s Place Sanctuary. Through her work, she weaves together sound healing, meditation, and conscious living practices to support transformation. Using her voice through singing, public speaking, and teaching, she creates experiences that invite connection, presence, and deeper alignment. Her work is deeply inspired by her experience rescuing and caring for animals, particularly chickens, and her passion for helping others reconnect with their inner truth, their voice, and the Earth.

2:00 PM Movement Zone
Somatic Yoga (60 min)
With Tess Collins

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, we are currently in the Wood (spring) season—a time of expansion and growth. In this practice, we will honor this energy through mindful movement and awareness. We will reach outward, connect inward, and explore what is already present to discover something new. This guided experience weaves together motor control, body awareness, breath, contemplative practices, mobility, biomechanics, and more.
Tess is an artist and somatic educator whose work is rooted in decades of professional dance training, somatic modalities, anatomy, mindfulness, and Eastern philosophy, including 18 years of dedicated yoga practice. After undergrad in dance and environmental science, her movement investigation has taken her across the globe from teaching in China and Ireland to performing in India, Mexico and The Gambia and spending years immersed in contemplative and meditative practice at temples throughout South & Southeast Asia. She is happy to be grounded here in San Diego where she teaches online and onland practices.

2:00 PM Mind Zone
Rooted in Reiki: Planting Intentions with the Earth (60 min)
With Ana K. Louks

Join us for a heart-centered Earth Day experience designed to reconnect you with the grounding energy of nature. In this guided Reiki-infused class, we will slow down, tune into the Earth, and cultivate a deeper sense of presence and intention. Each participant will plant a small seed in a pot to take home, symbolizing both personal and natural growth. Through gentle meditation and Reiki energy work, you will be guided to infuse your plant with intention, care, and healing energy. This experience is designed to help you reconnect with yourself and the Earth in a calm and meaningful way. No prior Reiki experience is needed. Special thanks to Terra Bella Nursery.
Ana is a Reiki Master and the founder of Holistic Harmony, a wellness practice centered on energy healing, mindfulness, and intentional living. Originally from Tijuana, BC, she followed her calling into healing work and became certified in Reiki while living in Charleston, SC to support others on their journey back to balance and inner peace. Now based in San Diego, California, Ana creates grounded and supportive spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves and the natural rhythms of life. Her approach blends gentle energy work with real-life presence, making healing accessible, calming, and deeply restorative.

3:00 PM Movement Zone
Feminine Flow Belly Dance (30 min)
With Delilah Bisase

A beginner friendly belly dance class open to all levels. We focus on foundational belly dance movements, flowing freely with the music, and getting out of the head and into the body. Expect a supportive space where you can connect with your body through belly dance. Each class ends with intentional breath work and quiet stillness for grounding and reflection.
Delilah is a holistic registered dietitian, Reiki energy healer, and breath work and meditation facilitator devoted to helping people reconnect with their bodies and inner wisdom. She began belly dancing as a teenager and quickly discovered it as a powerful outlet for self-expression and emotional healing. Delilah found that infusing spirituality into movement and breath helped her step out of her head and into presence. Through her work, she integrates nutrition, breath work, energy healing, and dance to support others in cultivating a deeper sense of self and wellness of the mind, body, and spirit.

3:00 PM Mind Zone
Sound Bath Meditation (60 min)
With Rebecca Jane Johnson

A deeply inward meditation and visualization experience accompanied by Himalayan singing bowls. Discover how sound can expand the imaginal realm, helping to reset the body, mind, and spirit. The intention of this practice is to spark creative inspiration and support problem-solving. Participants are encouraged to bring a journal or device to capture insights from the experience.
Rebecca is a certified yoga, meditation instructor, a published author, and a sound therapist. She brings decades of study and practice to her wellness offerings. She holds creative space for clients to relax into a soundscape that opens the mind’s eye to fertile imaginal realms that help incite deep inner peace, gratitude, and healing.

4:00 PM Movement Zone
Kundalini Yoga & Meditation (60 min)
With Victor Nguyen

This dynamic practice weaves together breathwork, mantra, movement, and meditation to help awaken energy and bring awareness to the body and mind. You will experience a supportive space to connect with your authentic self, build strength and flexibility, and cultivate a sense of inner calm and clarity.
Victor feels spiritually called to be a teacher, healer and guide striving to empower others in connecting with their destiny and living balanced, healthy, happy lives. He incorporates holistic wellness modalities like massage, energy healing, heart centered communication, Kundalini yoga & meditation, and nutrition into his work.

4:00 PM Mind Zone
Kirtan: Devotional Chanting (60 min)
With Jayson Barniske

Inspired by Indian ragas, a journey through sound, mantra, repetition, and presence.
Jayson is the founder of Ashtanga Yoga Tulum and has been practicing and teaching Ashtanga and Bhakti Yoga for twenty years. Jayson studied yoga in Encinitas California with Tim Miller and Bhakti Yoga with Vijay Krishna of the Kirtaniyas. Today he lives and teaches in Tulum Mexico and hopes to impart a little bit of the dust he collected on his journey with you. Jayson published his first book in 2017, “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Enlightenment”.


Sessions Offered All Day:
• Gong Chair with Guy Douglas
• Meditation with San Diego Meditation