2026 Festival Teacher Lineup
Our teachers are the heart of this weekend. Expect yoga, movement, breathwork, sound, healing, and community led by experienced facilitators who know how to hold a room.
We are releasing teacher bios and offerings in waves. Start with the featured teachers below and check back as we add more.
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I choose teachers the same way I build the festival. I look for integrity, skill, and the ability to guide a room with care. Some teachers are returning favorites and some are new to our community. Each one is here because their work belongs in the woods with us.
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You can expect a mix of movement, breathwork, sound, healing, and workshops. Some sessions will be energizing and some will be deeply restorative. Come as you are, follow what your body needs, and know that it is normal to try something new or step out early if it is not the right fit.
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Start by circling your top three sessions for the day, then leave space for rest, food, and wandering. The best moments often happen between classes. If you are coming with friends, pick one or two sessions to do together, then let everyone choose their own rhythm.
Sponsor Teachers 2026
We’re grateful for our sponsors and community partners who are also teaching this year. To learn more about them, additional details live on the main Festival page.
Jessina Mehu
Somatic Healing • Feminine Embodiment • Energy Work
Goddess Somatic Alchemy™
A trauma-informed women’s experience blending Kundalini breathwork, movement, mantra, meditation, energy work, and intuitive dance. This sacred practice supports nervous system healing, emotional release, self-discovery, and reconnection with the Divine Feminine within.
Come as you are and be guided back into your body, your voice, your power, and embodied remembrance.
Instagram: @healing_light_studios
Renee Jayne
Somatic Freedom • Nervous system • Embodiment
Nothing Was Wasted: How to Turn Your Deepest Pain into Unshakable Freedom
The world taught us to optimize. Your body is asking you to feel. As technology accelerates, our humanity must deepen. This is not another talk about fixing your nervous system. It is an initiation into being fully alive. The parts of your story you have hidden, survived, or tried to outrun are not your shame. They are your foundation and your greatest freedom.
Instagram: @renee__jayne
Dr. Nicole O’Neill
Longevity • Wellness Optimization • Aesthetics
Wellness Optimization and Longevity
Dr. Nicole O’Neill and the Med1 Aesthetics team are bringing wellness optimization, longevity support, and aesthetic care to Barefoot & Free. Stop by to learn more about vitamin injections, IV therapy, peptides, skincare, facials, massage, and modern wellness treatments designed to help you look and feel your best.
Med1 will be offering special festival pricing and limited-time offers throughout the weekend, including vitamin injections, IV therapy, tox treatments, liposomal peptides, skincare, facials, massages, and appointment credits.
Instagram: @med1aesthetics
Brandee Lukas
Holistic Wellness • Nutrition • Lifestyle
Cleanse. Balance. Build.
Join Brandee Lukas as she shares her personal healing journey and the simple wellness principles that helped her restore balance from the inside out. This educational and inspirational session explores nourishment, lifestyle support, and small intentional changes that can help you feel more energized, supported, and connected to your body.
Website: http://livepure.com/BrandeeLukas
Michigan Women’s Commission
Women’s Health • Menopause • Panel
Menopause: It’s a Movement!
Moderated by Cheryl Bergman, Executive Director of the Michigan Women’s Commission, this panel brings together menopause and mid-life women’s health practitioners for an open conversation about perimenopause, menopause symptoms, support options, and normalizing women’s health conversations. Includes time for questions and discussion.
Instagram: @miwomenscomm
Savannah Smith
Coregulation • Conscious Parenting • Motherhood
Nourished Within: Coregulation & Conscious Parenting
An educational conversation on coregulation and conscious parenting in motherhood. Savannah will explore how internal regulation impacts parenting and share practical resources to help parents support their own emotional needs while showing up with more steadiness, connection, and care.
Instagram: @nourishedpsychotherapy
Natasha Kinner
Pregnancy • Birth • Postpartum
Building Your Village: Creating a Support System for Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum were never meant to be done alone. This honest conversation explores what support actually looks like, how to identify what you need before baby arrives, and how to intentionally build your village with partners, family, friends, doulas, and care professionals.
Instagram: @livelightdetroit
Julie Brazen
Motherhood • Circle • Connection
MotherCircle
A supportive circle for mothers to breathe, connect, and tap into the wisdom of each other and the collective. This offering creates space for reflection, community, and grounded support for mothers who want to feel more connected and less alone.
Instagram: @brazen_wellness
Beth James
Founder • Yoga • Embodiment • Community
Beth James is the creator and CEO of Barefoot & Free, and this year she is bringing something brand new to the festival with 80’s Field Day, co-led with Candice. This nostalgic, high-energy offering invites you to play favorite childhood field games, win prizes, dance to 80’s music, and feel like a kid again in the best possible way.
Beth will also be offering Unprogrammable, a workshop that blends yoga, discussion, journaling, and partner experience. Come prepared to crack yourself open, question what you’ve been carrying, and leave feeling more connected, clear, and alive.
Note: 80’s Field Day includes vigorous activity and is not recommended for kiddos under 18.
Mokshajyoti Chumki
Sacred Sound Artist • Somatic Self Expression Coach
Kirtan and Embodiment Concert + Mantra Sound Bath
Chumki of Moss and Moksha brings devotional sound, mantra, and embodied presence to the festival through two music-based offerings. Join Chumki for a Saturday Kirtan and Embodiment Concert, then return Sunday morning for a Mantra Sound Bath designed to soften the body, settle the mind, and open the heart through sacred sound.
Lisa Hillary J
Yoga • Breath • Heart-Opening
The Family Reunion Love Flow
An all-levels yoga experience centered around heart-opening postures, mindful breathing, and intentional connection. Gather, reflect, and reconnect through gentle flow, supported heart openers, and moments of stillness designed to cultivate compassion, joy, and belonging.
Instagram: Lisa Hillary J
Youzar
Connection • Movement • Music • Community
Youzar leads Find Your Tribe with Youzar, a high-vibe social experience designed to help festival guests connect in a real and energizing way. Part mixer, part game, and part movement experience, this offering includes live music, energetic reset, playful side quests, teacher spotlights, and low-pressure ways to meet your people.
Instagram: @youzar.heal
Nadia Elmagrabi
Somatic healing • Lineage work • Pattern release
Nadia Elmagrabi leads You Were Never the Pattern, a somatic experience designed to help participants trace inherited patterns back to their source. Through past-life regression, lineage work, Human Design, and embodied release, this workshop invites deep self-recognition and freedom from what was never truly yours.
Instagram: @nadia_elmagrabi
Erica Schumaker
Somatic flow • Yoga • Embodiment
Erica Schumaker brings This Version of Me to Barefoot & Free, offering body-based experiences that blend yoga, somatic movement, embodiment, and nervous system support. Her class invite participants to release stored tension, reconnect with intuition, and come home to themselves with more compassion and clarity.
Instagram: @sober_yogini
Claudia Sommerville
Yoga • Movement • Sound
Flow State Frequency
Flow State Frequencies is an immersive workshop that begins with mindful yoga and movement, then transitions into a deeply restorative sound immersion. You’ll move through an intentional flow to arrive in the body, then settle into soothing frequencies like singing bowls, chimes, and ambient tones to support relaxation, presence, and nervous system ease.
Instagram: @claudialsommerville
Gwendolyn & Victoria / Truth
Opening Ceremony • Invocation • Land Blessing
Truth, Gwendolyn, and Victoria will lead the Opening Ceremony on Saturday at the Music Stage, creating a grounded beginning for the weekend ahead. Through clearing, invocation, sound, intention, and blessing, they will help open the festival space with reverence and connection.
This ceremony invites the community to arrive fully, honor the land, bless the space, and begin the weekend together with presence, gratitude, and an open heart.
Wellness Warrior Collective / Lindsaya VanDeusen
Self-love • Community • Ceremony
Wellness Warrior Collective, led by Lindsaya VanDeusen, offers Self Love Ceremony: A Collective Experience, an interactive gathering rooted in gratitude, reflection, healing, and meaningful connection. This ceremony brings the daily self-love practice of the Wellness Warrior Collective into an in-person festival experience designed to help participants reconnect with their worth and feel held in community.
Social: Wellness Warrior Collective
Ronda Pretzlaff Diegel, Ph.D.
Yoga • Psychology • Enneagram
Ronda Pretzlaff Diegel, Ph.D. brings both Introduction to the Enneagram and Loving Kindness Meditation to Barefoot & Free, offering grounded tools for self-understanding, compassion, and inner awareness. Her work blends psychology, yoga, mindfulness, and the Enneagram to support personal insight and healing.
Instagram: @rondapretzlaff
Mariel Serrano
Mariel Serrano offers Into the Heart of the Lion: A Yin & Sound Immersion and Softening Into Stillness: Yin & Yoga Nidra, grounding practices that blend yin yoga, sound, intentional stillness, and deep nervous system support.
Instagram: @mariposastarte
Josh Hartman
Yoga • Sound Healing • Playful Presence
Josh Hartman brings Rhythm & Release: A Yin Yoga & Sound Healing Journey and The Art of the Diabolo: Juggling for Kids to Barefoot & Free. His offerings blend grounding movement, deep rest, sound, storytelling, and playful skill-building into creative experiences that help participants feel more regulated, connected, and alive.
Kelsie Sadler / KelsYogi
Yoga • Inversions • Strength
Kelsie Sadler leads Inversions & Arm Balances and Quest for the Press, offering smart, empowering practices for anyone ready to build strength, confidence, alignment, and a more playful relationship with getting upside down.
Social: KelsYogi
Jenna DiClemente
Art • Yoga • Meditation
Jenna DiClemente offers Art Meditation for Busy Minds, a grounding experience that begins with gentle yoga and breathwork before moving into journaling and intuitive art-making. No yoga or art experience is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to explore.
Instagram: @jmdstudioart
Paul Hudson Mack
Workshop • Somatics • Behavioral Science
Paul Hudson Mack offers The Experiment is You and MTNS + RCKS, practical workshops that blend narrative behavioral science, somatics, small-experiment tools, and relational practices. His sessions help participants explore change, communication, self-understanding, and purposeful connection with more curiosity and less pressure.
Instagram: @paulhudsonmack
Marty Bugbee
Breathwork • Nervous system • Emotional release
Marty Bugbee leads Metamorphose Breakthrough Breathwork Experience, a 90-minute session designed to help participants down-regulate the nervous system, reconnect the mind and body, and release stored emotion. This experience weaves meditation, movement, intensive breathwork, past-self reflection, and integration for a grounded breakthrough.
Facebook: marty.bugbee
Dr. Shannon Smith, ND + Alexis Schneider, LPC
Workshop • Stress relief • Nervous system
Dr. Shannon Smith and Alexis Schneider lead Recharge & Rise: Relieve Your Stress, Reclaim Your Health, an empowering wellness workshop designed to help participants understand stress, restore balance, and explore innovative tools for supporting the body, mind, and nervous system.
Instagram: @natures_reveal
Tamara Zoner
Yoga • Reiki • Mindset
Tamara Zoner brings Yoga for Happiness to the festival, blending accessible yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, and the science of happiness into an uplifting workshop-style class. Expect movement, reflection, laughter, and practical tools for cultivating more joy, gratitude, self-trust, and inner peace.
Instagram: @tamara_zoner
Dorianna Michelle
Breathwork • Trauma release • Nervous system
Dori Curtis brings Awakening: A 9D Breathwork Journey to Barefoot & Free, guiding participants through an immersive breathwork experience designed to support emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deeper reconnection with the self.
Instagram: @Dorianna_Michelle
Ekanti
Ecstatic dance • Conscious movement • DJ
Ekanti leads Ecstatic Dance, creating a free-flowing movement experience rooted in music, expression, and embodied release. This dance journey invites participants to drop into the body, move without judgment, and connect through rhythm, energy, and presence.
Social: linktr.ee/ekanti
Candice Lamarand
Breathwork • Ceremony • Field Day
Candice Lamarand offers The Wild Within: Return to Her, Power + Release: A Breathwork Ceremony, and joins Beth for Field Day: Journey Back to the 80s. Her offerings blend breathwork, ceremony, embodied release, music, shamanic tools, and playful community connection.
Instagram: @CandiceLamarand_Activation
Lalita / Temple Lioness
Embodiment • Breathwork • Movement
Lalita of Temple Lioness brings Lotus Flow, Temple of Two, and The Inner Compass to Barefoot & Free, weaving yoga, breathwork, somatic movement, intimacy, and embodied awareness into transformative experiences. Her offerings support deeper presence, emotional freedom, self-trust, and authentic connection.
Instagram: @Temple_Lioness
Emily Joy / Emily Infinity
Sound Journey • Ambient Music • Deep Listening
Emily creates immersive sound journeys with crystal singing bowls, voice, violin, ambient textures, and acoustic instrumentation. Her offering, Sonic Sanctuary, is a gentle ambient sound experience that invites participants to settle into presence, connect with the natural surroundings, and ease into the festival morning through soothing tones, spacious melodies, and resonant vibrations.
Instagram: Emily_Infinity
Harper and Midwest Kind Sound Journey
Sound bath • Didgeridoo • Meditation
Harper and Midwest Kind Sound Journey offer Directing Your Light Through Leo and Exploring Superconsciousness, immersive meditation and sound bath experiences rooted in reflection, didgeridoo, vibrational healing, and spiritual insight.
Instagram: @harperandmidwestkind
Kim Tran / Sen Kava
Martial arts • Kava • Movement
Kim Tran of Sen Kava brings Vovinam: Yin & Yang Movement and a Kava Workshop to Barefoot & Free, offering both embodied martial arts practice and a grounded introduction to the roots, ritual, and preparation of kava. Expect a balance of strength, softness, cultural tradition, and intentional connection.
Instagram: @senkava.detroit
Renee Ferraraccio / Renee the Yogi
Yoga • Inversions • Strength
Renee the Yogi leads Strong & Balanced: Pincha Workshop and 7 Doorway Yoga Flow, bringing an empowering blend of strength, mobility, breath, and intentional movement. Her offerings are designed to help participants feel grounded, capable, and more connected to their body and practice.
Social: Reneetheyogi
Lynn Torossian
Yoga • Meditation • Gentle movement
Lynn Torossian leads Movement + Meditation, an accessible offering for anyone who wants to meditate but finds it challenging to sit still. This class gently blends stillness, intentional movement, and presence to help quiet the mind and feel more rooted in the body.
Instagram: @lmtadvisors
Stephanie Olga
Yoga • Sound • Shamanic healing
Stephanie Olga offers Dream Weaving: Shamanic Healing & Manifestation, an integrative experience blending discussion, breath, posture, sound, and sensation. This class is designed to help participants move out of the mind and into the heart, reconnecting with clarity, possibility, and inner alignment.
Instagram: @soharmonious
Katherine Pareizs
BUTI Yoga • Somatic movement • Strength
Katherine Pareizs leads BUTI Yoga, a beat-driven somatic movement practice that fuses functional movement, cardio dance, and multidimensional strength training. This sweaty, music-led class invites participants out of the mind and into the body through intuitive movement, rhythm, and full-body expression.
Instagram: @katherinepareizs
Melissa Weber / YogiStoned Yoga
Hatha yoga • Yoga Nidra • Nervous system
Melissa Weber of YogiStoned Yoga leads Move, Hold, Rest: Hatha Movement + Yoga Nidra, a supportive practice that begins with steady movement, gradually slows into longer holds, and ends in deep rest. Expect grounding music, intentional breath, and space to release what the body and mind have been carrying.
Instagram: @yogistoned
Amanda Moore Tesoriero / Flex and Flow Amanda
Yoga • Strength • Nature movement
Flex and Flow Amanda brings Learning to Fly: Arm Balances Workshop, Rise & Flow, and Flow & Wander to Barefoot & Free, offering a mix of strength, mobility, gentle yoga, and nature-based movement. Her classes are empowering, accessible, and designed to help participants build confidence in their bodies.
Instagram: @flexandflowamanda
Amy Galioto / Amy G Yoga
Alignment-Based Yoga • Breathwork • Family Movement
Amy Galioto of Amy G Yoga is an E-RYT 500-hour YACEP certified instructor known for anatomy-informed, alignment-based teaching and clear, supportive cues. She offers Realign, a foundational practice for reconnecting mind, body, and breath, and Family Yoga, a playful, welcoming class for humans young and old to move, breathe, and practice together.
Instagram: @amy.g.yoga
Shannon Lynn Smith / The Sacred Flowering
Divine feminine • Somatic movement • Embodiment
Shannon Lynn Smith of The Sacred Flowering leads Divine Feminine Womb Awakening, a somatic experience weaving movement, breathwork, mudras, body prayers, and meditation. This offering invites participants to release what no longer serves, reconnect with the sacral center, and remember their wholeness.
Instagram: @the.sacred.flowering
Jessica Smigels / MI Phoenix Gardens
Kundalini • Creativity • Meditation
Jessica Smigels brings Celestial Communication Meditations and Kundalini and Creativity to the festival, blending mantra, movement, meditation, dance, and creative reflection. Her offerings are designed to help participants access clarity, connection, and insight through embodied and expressive practice.
Instagram: @mi_phoenix_gardens
Leeza G. / Smooth Llama
Ecstatic dance • Free-flow movement • Music
Leeza G. creates Ecstatic Dance + Free Flow Movement, a nonverbal movement experience supported by music, rhythm, and group energy. Participants are invited to move freely, explore expression without judgment, and build connection through an inward yet communal dance journey.
Instagram: @smooth_llama
Marcia Faye McGee
Yoga • Kids yoga • Playful movement
Marcia Faye McGee brings Sunrise Yoga for the Playful Heart and Storytime Yoga to Barefoot & Free, offering joyful practices that blend breath, movement, mindfulness, dance breaks, and storytelling. Her classes are accessible, community-centered, and designed to help both children and adults explore yoga with curiosity and ease.
Instagram: @mmcgee02
Crystal Bell
Yoga • Philosophy • Slow burn flow
Crystal Bell leads 8 Limbs Slow Burn, a 60-minute practice that weaves movement, breath, mantra, and yoga philosophy into one intentional experience. This class explores the eight limbs of yoga through grounding, pranayama, mindful flow, strength-building postures, and restorative integration.
Instagram: @clarity.with.crystal
Laura Garcia Mulder
Kids yoga • Intention setting • Nature
Laura Garcia Mulder brings Plant a Wish Seed to Barefoot & Free, a playful kids offering that blends yoga, movement, nature, and intention-setting. Children will explore the life cycle of a seed, plant their own seed, and create a wish to carry with them.
Instagram: @lauragarciamulder
Leslie A. Banks / Full Spectrum Creative
Nature journaling • Creativity • Mindfulness
Leslie A. Banks leads Nature Journaling, a meditative creative practice that invites participants to slow down, observe nature, and document what they notice through words, pictures, and simple marks. This all-levels offering supports calm, curiosity, and deeper connection with the natural world.
Instagram: @LeslieABanks
Jose Prieto
Hatha yoga • Breath • Movement
Jose Prieto offers Jose’s Hot Hatha Flow, a high-energy movement practice designed to shake out the body, build heat, and transition into a breath-focused Hatha cool down. This class closes with guided meditation for a grounded finish.
Social: Coach_Prieto
Nikki / Whatnot Shop Photography
Journaling • Creativity • Mindfulness
Nikki of Whatnot Shop Photography leads Listening Within: An Interactive Journaling Experience, a reflective workshop that blends writing, drawing, and visual expression. Participants are invited to slow down, reconnect with their inner voice, and explore journaling in a creative, accessible way.
Instagram: @whatnotshopphotos
Haley Evans / Hazelnut Helper’s Art Cart
Clay art • All ages • Creativity
Haley Evans of Hazelnut Helper’s Art Cart leads Tap Into Your Creativity by Sculpting a Clay Magnet, a hands-on polymer clay workshop for all ages and experience levels. Participants will choose a design, sculpt with guided support, and leave with a colorful handmade magnet to take home.
Instagram: @hazelnut.helpers.art.cart
Sarah Stein / Sacred Solutions LLC
Dance • Movement • Family
Sarah Stein brings Groove Into Your Heart and Groove Into Your Heart: Kids Edition to Barefoot & Free, using the World Groove Movement to create joyful, accessible dance experiences for adults, kids, and families. No choreography or dance experience is needed — just music, movement, play, and connection.
Instagram: @sarah_sacredsolutionsllc
Seth Parker / Sivilizd
Workshop • Community • Reflection
Seth Parker offers Tending the Flame, a reflective workshop rooted in presence, community, and reimagining how we relate to ourselves and one another. This offering invites honest conversation, curiosity, and a slower way of tending what matters in daily life.
Social: Sivilizd
Heather Montalvo / Inner Altar Wellness
Flower essences • Emotional balance • Holistic wellness
Heather Montalvo leads Bloom Into Balance: Healing with Flower Essences, a heart-centered workshop exploring how flower remedies can gently support emotional healing, clarity, and inner harmony. Participants will learn how to recognize emotional patterns and intuitively choose supportive plant allies.
Instagram: @inneraltarwellness
Victoria Vollmer
Pilates • Breathwork • Music-driven movement
Victoria Vollmer brings Breath, Body & Beats Pilates to the festival, a breath-led Pilates flow that blends mindful strength, rhythmic movement, mobility, and music. This all-levels class is designed to build heat, reconnect you with your body, and leave you feeling strong, energized, and alive.
Instagram: @victoria.roze
Makenzie VanDeCreek / Zie Dey
Vin/Yin • Somatic movement • Reiki
Zie Dey brings Vin/Yin 75-Minute Flow and Somatic Movement to Barefoot & Free, offering grounding practices that blend gentle vinyasa, yin yoga, intuitive movement, and emotional release. Her classes invite participants to warm the body, soften into stillness, and reconnect with themselves through playful, nurturing movement.
Social: makenziedey
Sarah Waite / YouBloom LLC
Nature • Yoga Nidra • Mindfulness walk
Sarah Waite brings Nature Nidra and a Guided Mindfulness Walk to Barefoot & Free, inviting participants to slow down and reconnect with the natural world. Her offerings use sensory awareness, guided rest, grounding practices, and mindful walking to foster relaxation, presence, and reciprocity with nature.
Instagram: @youbloomllc
Herb Kaiser
Hatha • All levels • Grounded movement
Herb Kaiser offers Hatha Class, an all-levels practice designed to help participants feel grounded, open, and at ease in the body. Expect a simple, steady approach to movement that welcomes both newer and experienced practitioners.
Instagram: @herbalicious_om
Abbie Kiel
Yoga • Recovery • 12-step support
Abbie Kiel offers Yoga and the 12 Steps, a supportive class for anyone on a path of recovery, discovery, or sober curiosity. This offering blends 12-step reflection, yoga-based movement, open sharing, and present-moment awareness to support compassion, acceptance, and inner strength.
Social: River Bend Yoga
Zora Pullen / Body Work By Z
Mobility • Stretching • Functional movement
Zora Pullen of Body Work By Z brings Lifted Fitness and Fluid Movement to Barefoot & Free, offering stretch-based flow, mobility work, intentional strengthening, and body awareness. Her classes are designed to help participants move better, feel better, and reconnect with the body in a supportive way.
Instagram: @bodyworkby.z
Suzzanne Suleiman / PS Society
Connection circle • Community • Women’s support
Suzzanne Suleiman and PS Society lead Sisterhood Without Small Talk, an interactive women’s connection circle designed to move beyond surface-level conversation and into real belonging. Through guided prompts, reflection, and authentic sharing, this experience creates space for laughter, vulnerability, insight, and meaningful connection.
Instagram: @pssocietyus
Holly Losann
Water workshop • Trust • Surrender
Holly Losann offers Surrender to Flow, an experiential water-based workshop that brings breath, connection, trust, and gentle movement together. Participants are invited to soften resistance, release control, and explore what it feels like to be fully supported by the water and one another.
Instagram: @hollylosann
Andy Klacza
Acro yoga • Play • Connection
Andy Klacza and Mehdi Shafiei lead Intro to Acro Yoga, a playful, beginner-friendly workshop focused on trust, balance, communication, and safe partner movement. Participants will learn accessible acro skills, spotting techniques, and the joy of flying and being supported.
Social: Andy Klacza
Lisa Kasle Yoga
Yoga • Sound healing • Nervous system
Lisa Kasle brings Sound Immersion, Yoga for Inner + Outer Radiance, and Inner Pharmacy / Mindful Moon Flow to Barefoot & Free, offering restorative and empowering experiences that blend movement, breathwork, yin, crystal sound, Reiki-infused presence, and nervous system support. Her work invites participants to release tension, reconnect with the body, and restore from within.
Instagram: @lisakasleyoga
Karley Buford / Sacred Kriyations Yoga
Kriya yoga • Pranayama • Mantra
Karley Buford of Sacred Kriyations Yoga leads Sacred Kriyations Pranayama Yoga, a traditional practice rooted in breath, mantra, chakra awareness, movement, and inward focus. This offering invites participants to deepen the breath, stabilize the body, and explore the subtle spaces within.
Instagram: @sacredkriyationsyoga
Nick Nahat
Tea • Wellness • Ritual
Nick Nahat offers The World in a Cup: Beginning Your Tea Journey, a beginner-friendly talk and discussion for tea lovers and the tea-curious. This offering explores true tea, preparation, cultural ritual, sensory experience, and the ways tea can support wellbeing, connection, and everyday presence.
Joanie Barocio
Sound bath • Reiki • Reflection
Joanie Barocio leads Wild & Rooted: A Sound Bath, an immersive experience designed to quiet the mind, calm the body, and create space for inward reflection. Guided by crystal singing bowls and intentional energy work, this offering invites rest, release, grounding, and renewal.
Instagram: @wheretheferalroam
Sam Grey Yoga
Vin/Yin • Cardio dance • Sound bath
Sam Grey Yoga brings Vin/Yin and Barefoot Cardio Dance Party to Barefoot & Free, offering both grounding yoga and joyful movement. Expect a balance of energizing flow, deep stillness, sound bath support, and playful dance fitness designed to help participants feel strong, restored, and fully alive.
Instagram: @samgreyyoga
Jewel Hohman
Connection • Friendship • Social wellness
Jewel Hohman joins Sisterhood Without Small Talk: A PS Society Connection Circle, an interactive women’s gathering designed to help participants move past surface-level conversation and into real connection. This experience creates space for vulnerability, laughter, belonging, and meaningful community.
Instagram: @connectionwithjewel
Katie Denslow & Akaysia VanKlavern / Wake the Lion
Thai massage • Partner connection • Bodywork
Katie Denslow and Akaysia VanKlavern lead Traditional Thai Yoga Massage for Two, a hands-on workshop designed to help participants learn simple Thai massage techniques with a friend, partner, or loved one. This offering supports relaxation, connection, pain relief, and shared care through guided partner work.
Instagram: @massage.lady.Katie
Amanda Parr / Soul Roots Yoga & Healing Arts
Yin yoga • Acupressure • Restoration
Amanda Parr offers Yin Yoga & Acupressure: A Soulful Restoration of the Energetic Body, a grounding practice that blends mindful visualization, conscious breathwork, therapeutic postures, acupressure, and tapping. This class supports the free flow of Qi, helps dissolve energetic blockages, and invites participants back into the body’s natural wisdom.
Instagram: @amandaparryoga
Caitlin Brown & Rose Seramur
Partner yoga • Thai bodywork • Connection
Caitlin Brown and Rose Seramur lead Partner Yoga & Thai Massage, an engaging class that explores movement, touch, breath, trust, and mutual support. Participants will practice simple partner yoga poses and learn a guided Thai massage sequence they can share with friends, family, or community.
Instagram: @mindfuldetroit
Melanie Hale and Jen Ezell
Women’s circle • Ritual • Connection
Melanie Hale and Jen Ezell offer Stitchin’ In: A Women’s Circle, a 90-minute gathering designed to help participants drop the masks, soften judgment, and feel deeply witnessed. Through grounding meditation, ancient ritual, honest conversation, intentional play, and joyful release, this circle creates space for renewal and authentic connection.
Instagram: @followyourheartconsulting
Maryellen Werstine & Erin Halloran
Nature • Earth • Outdoor Ritual
Join Maryellen Werstine & Erin Halloran of the Michigan Centaurs Mounted Archery Club, for an empowering and fun introduction to ground archery.
Discover how breath, intention, focus and follow-through can transform archery into a moving meditation. This is a beginner friendly class designed for anyone to enjoy.
Note: Archery workshop is limited to 20 participants.
Lauren Anita Healing
Mind-body awareness • Compassion • Nervous system
Lauren Anita Healing offers Finding Calm in a Busy Mind, a gentle workshop for anyone who feels overwhelmed by mental noise or self-judgment. Through guided noticing, reflection, and compassionate awareness, participants are invited to create more internal space and relate to the body and mind with curiosity.
Instagram: @laurenanitahealing
Danielle & Mysteek
Lymphatic health • Gentle movement • Sound bath
Danielle & Mysteek lead The Rhythm of Lymphatic Flow, a workshop that blends lymphatic education, hands-on self-care, gentle somatic movement, and restorative sound. Participants will learn simple ways to support healthy lymphatic flow while feeling grounded, restored, and more connected to the body.
Instagram: @lymph.nymph
Lauren Neuman / The OM Garden
Yoga • Nervous system • Nature rhythms
Lauren Neuman brings Moon Flow, Myofascial Release & Nervous System Reset to Barefoot & Free. Her offerings invite participants to slow down, reconnect with the body, move with nature’s rhythms, and return to a grounded sense of presence.
Instagram: @laurenmaryneuman
Brian LeFeve / Mind Body Optimization
Yoga • Breathwork • Mind-body wellness
Brian LeFeve offers Awakened Mind, Peaceful Heart and Holistically Empowered Yoga & Wellness, blending ancient wisdom, modern neuroscience, breathwork, meditation, and gentle movement. His work helps participants quiet the mind, regulate the nervous system, open the heart, and reconnect with inner peace.
Instagram: @coachbrianlefeve
Yin with Lynne
Yin yoga • Stillness • Mobility
Yin with Lynne brings Titiksha: The Power of Yin Yoga and Yin for Yang to the festival, offering practices rooted in stillness, patience, joint health, and energetic flow. Her classes support yogis, athletes, and movement lovers in finding more ease, resilience, and freedom in the body.
Instagram: @yinwithlynne
Alexis Adams Integrative Health
Women’s health • Nature • Midlife wellness
Alexis Adams offers Root to Rise: A Meditative Hike and The Gentle Shift, creating space for nature connection, self-reflection, and supportive education around midlife transitions. Her work helps participants slow down, reconnect with the body, and return to themselves with greater clarity and trust.
Instagram: @alexisadams_integrativehealth
Ki Compton & Badger Compton / Neuro Oasis
Family acro • Consent • Co-regulation
Neuro Oasis brings Family Acro and Consensual Contact and the Art of Hugging to Barefoot & Free, creating playful spaces for families and individuals to explore trust, listening, safety, consent, and co-regulation through movement, connection, and supportive touch.
Social: One Family
Meg & Matt
Ceremonial concert • Music • Movement
Meg & Matt offer Ceremonial Concert, a heart-forward experience blending music, movement, somatic healing, and authentic aliveness. Together, Meaghan Rosalie and Matthew Allumi create a sacred space where deep healing, ancient wisdom, love, beauty, and the full human experience are honored through sound and presence.
Instagram: @whiterosegoddesstemple
Brittany Musko / The Holding Space
Connection • Storytelling • Community care
Brittany Musko offers The Holding Space: Connection as Medicine, a supportive gathering rooted in storytelling, reflection, and meaningful conversation. This experience invites participants to slow down, show up authentically, and explore the healing power of being seen, heard, and held in community.
Social: The Holding Space
Luciana Soave
Breathwork • Sound healing • Transformation
Luciana Soave leads The Frequency of Becoming: Breathwork & Sound Healing, a transformative experience combining conscious active breathwork, intention setting, and immersive sound. Participants are supported in releasing what no longer serves, clearing energetic blocks, and reconnecting with inner wisdom.
Instagram: @Luciana.Soave
Jack Harrigan
Power Flow • Heart-Centered Movement
Jack Harrigan brings an energizing, heart-centered yoga practice to Barefoot & Free through Heart Pumping Power Flow. His class invites participants to move with breath, build heat, and reconnect with their strength through an uplifting flow designed to awaken the body and clear the mind.
Hanna Harrigan
Vinyasa • Yin • Heart-Centered Flow
Hanna Harrigan brings Vinyasa Meets Yin to Barefoot & Free, offering a balanced practice that blends mindful movement, breath, and deep release. Her class invites participants to build warmth through flow, soften into stillness, and reconnect with the body through a grounded, heart-centered practice.
Mehdi Shafiei
Acro yoga • Partner movement • Connection
Mehdi Shafiei joins Andy Klacza as a co-teacher for Intro to Acro Yoga, a playful workshop focused on trust, balance, communication, and safe partner movement. Mehdi brings his own movement background and supportive teaching presence to help participants feel confident, connected, and ready to explore acro in an accessible way.
Sabrina Adleman & Andrea Tarry
Yoga • Reiki • Grounding
Sabrina Adleman and Andrea Tarry offer From Overthinking to Grounded, an earth element practice for late summer that blends guided movement, breath, nature-inspired awareness, and gentle Reiki support. This workshop helps participants shift out of mental overload and into a more grounded, steady state.
Instagram: @sabrina.adleman
M.e. / Wake Your Waters
Ecstatic dance • DJ • Community movement
M.e. of Wake Your Waters offers Ecstatic Dance Experience, a freeform dance journey featuring bass music, house, global rhythms, and tribal textures. This immersive experience invites participants to move authentically, connect in community, and celebrate the joy of being alive, together, barefoot, and free.
Instagram: @dancewithm.e._
Brandon Coleman
Men’s wellness • Nervous system • Breathwork
Brandon Coleman offers The Grounded Man and Nervous System Reset, creating grounded spaces for breathwork, movement, stress support, and honest conversation. His work helps participants slow down, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with themselves without pressure or expectation.
Social: mindfulmotionlifestyle
A New Dawn Arising / Dawn J Zuidema
Inner child healing • Laughter yoga • Yoga Nidra
Dawn Zuidema offers Meet Your Inner Child Through Laughter Yoga and Yoga Nidra with Sound Journey, a playful and restorative workshop using laughter yoga, Yoga Nidra, and sound to help participants reconnect with their younger self. This experience begins with lighthearted movement and connection, then softens into deep rest, reflection, and remembrance.
Instagram: @a_new_dawn_arising
Becky McVey
Kids yoga • Play • Movement
Becky McVey leads Kids Yoga, Ages 4+, a playful class where children explore yoga through games, stories, songs, breathwork, movement, stillness, and flow. Designed through the lens of play, this offering helps kids engage with yoga in a fun, age-appropriate way.
Instagram: @becky.mcvey
Jessie Brigham
Nature connection • Creative workshop • Kids + adults
Jessie Brigham offers The Wild Path: Journey Stick Craft & Walk and Wild Path Quest for Kids, nature-based experiences that blend outdoor exploration, storytelling, and hands-on creativity. Adults and kids will gather natural treasures, create journey sticks, and reconnect with the woods through curiosity, play, and presence.
Instagram: @jessiebrigham
Kapwa Athletics
Family field day • Movement • Community play
Kapwa Athletics leads Kapwa Field Day, a playful family movement experience rooted in connection, teamwork, laughter, and community. Inspired by the Filipino philosophy of Kapwa — the belief that we are all interconnected — this offering invites all ages into games, shared movement, and joyful participation.
Instagram: @detroit_lovefit
Ginger Marie Corwin
Yoga • Reflection • Self-Love
Ginger Marie Corwin offers With Love, From Your Older Self: A Journey Back to You and Kundalini Yoga & Meditation. Her offerings weave yoga, breathwork, meditation, reflective writing, energetic practice, and self-love into heart-opening experiences that help participants reconnect with their truth, clarity, and inner wisdom.
Instagram: @gingermariecorwin
Tone Alchemy
Drumming • Sound • Heart coherence
Tone Alchemy leads Drum Heart Coherence, a rhythmic sound experience rooted in the collective heartbeat. Participants are invited to bring a drum if they have one and join a communal journey of rhythm, sound, presence, and connection.
Instagram: @tonealchemy
Nicole Dreon
Embodiment • Visioning • Self-trust
Nicole Dreon leads Clear Path: An Embodied Visioning Experience, a workshop designed to help participants slow down, reconnect with themselves, and clarify what they want to create in their lives. Through guided meditation, journaling, reflection, and embodied exploration, this session supports self-awareness, aligned next steps, and deeper inner trust.
Instagram: @nicoledreon_
Alicia Long / Sunny Side Up Wellness
Barre • Movement • Holistic wellness
Alicia Long, founder of Sunny Side Up Wellness, leads Holy Barre, a high-vibe barre experience designed to wake up the body and lift the spirit. This energizing class blends small pulses, deep burn, uplifting beats, and joyful encouragement for a sweat-filled movement practice that builds strength from the inside out.
Instagram: @sunnysideupwellnessllc
i.e.Kawa Cacao
Cacao ceremony • Heart opening • Intention setting
i.e.Kawa Cacao leads Cacao Ceremony, a heart-opening experience rooted in grounding, breath, gentle movement, and sacred intention. Participants are invited to connect with the spirit of cacao, release what no longer serves, and welcome in creative, loving, expansive energy.
Social: i.e.Kawa Cacao
Chris Shelton
Qigong • Tai Chi • Chinese face reading
Chris Shelton brings Learn the Art and Science of Face Reading, Qigong for Emotional Wellbeing, and Tai Chi for Mind and Body to Barefoot & Free, offering practices rooted in Chinese medicine, movement, emotional healing, and self-awareness. His sessions help participants explore how the body, face, emotions, and energy patterns can reveal pathways toward greater balance and wellbeing.
Instagram: @chrissheltonqigong
Chelsea McGee & Cora Thomason
Women’s Workshop • Energy Work • Embodiment
Chelsea McGee and Cora Thomason lead Warrior Woman Awakening, a transformative workshop exploring strength, softness, self-trust, and embodied power. Through reflection, sacred ceremony, and grounding practices, this experience invites participants to release inherited stories, reconnect with inner wisdom, and awaken the Warrior Woman within.
Kuja / The Throat Singer
Throat singing • Overtone voice • Folk music
Kuja, The Throat Singer, leads Throat Singing and Overtone Workshop, an offering designed to help participants explore vocal resonance, overtone techniques, and the ancient art of singing multiple notes at once. This workshop invites expansion of voice, spirit, throat chakra awareness, and connection through traditional eastern folk music practices.
Instagram: @thethroatsinger
Maryellen Werstine & Shayna Waldman
Sound bath • Reflection • Vibrational healing
Quantum Sound Journey offers Quantum Sound Journey, a 75-minute immersive sound experience designed to quiet the mind, relax the body, and create space for reflection and healing. Through gongs, crystal bowls, drums, and other vibrational instruments, participants are invited into rest, renewal, and reconnection with the heart.
Social: MaryellenWerstine
Daryl Michelle
Yin yoga • Rest • Burnout recovery
Daryl Michelle leads Blooming from the Ashes: Burn Out Recovery, a yin yoga session created as a space for deep rest and restoration. This offering invites participants to root into stillness, release the pressure to perform, and explore what can soften, sprout, and bloom when the body is finally allowed to pause.
Instagram: @michellecocoa_
Erik Nowakowski / Joining in Movement
Feldenkrais • Somatic movement • Mobility
Erik Nowakowski of Joining in Movement offers Awareness Through Movement: The Eyes Have It and Free Your Hips and the Rest Will Follow, guided somatic practices rooted in the Feldenkrais Method. Through slow, mindful movement, participants explore how the eyes, pelvis, and body organization can support greater ease, mobility, and self-awareness.
Instagram: @joininginmovement
Jenni Eifler & Jim Bertrand / Mother Tree Vitality
Yoga • Shamanic practice • Sacred space
Jenni Eifler and Jim Bertrand of Mother Tree Vitality lead Yoga Temple: Creating Sacred Spaces for Practice and Remembering the Medicine Within, immersive workshops that blend yoga, shamanic traditions, BioGeometry, earth ritual, and guided journeying. Their offerings help participants create sacred practice spaces, reconnect with nature, and listen more deeply to the medicine within.
Instagram: @mothertreevitality
Gwendolyn’s Botánica
Botanical incense • Plant allies • Opening ceremony
Gwendolyn’s Botánica offers Botanical Incense Make & Take, a hands-on workshop where participants learn about the essence and energy of plants while blending their own botanical incense to take home. Gwendolyn also helps open the festival through smoke, sound, intention, and traditional limpia work.
Instagram: @Gwendolynsbotanica
Rafael Abrams
Ashtanga yoga • Breath • Deep rest
Rafael Abrams leads Sunrise Ashtanga: Breathe, Move, Energize and Deep Rest, an all-levels Ashtanga-inspired practice rooted in breath, presence, and intelligent movement. Participants will explore foundational postures, Ujjayi breath, steady rhythm, and guided Yoga Nidra for deep rest and integration.
Social: Rafael-Abrams
Justin True
Sons of Detroit • Men’s Work • Yoga • Shamanic Practice
Justin True is a men’s work facilitator, yoga teacher, trained shamanic practitioner, and psychospiritual mindset coach. Justin blends ancient wisdom with modern embodiment practices to support connection, healing, and transformation—using yoga, meditation, breathwork, and mindfulness as pathways toward inner freedom.
Marc Joselle
Sons of Detroit • Men’s Work • Conscious Masculinity
Marc Joselle is a facilitator devoted to the evolution of conscious masculinity and the transformative power of inner work. Trained with Sacred Sons, Marc helps create spaces for men to reconnect with themselves, experience authentic brotherhood, and live with deeper presence, purpose, and integrity.
Sir Evan S. Weber
Sons of Detroit • Steel mace • Functional movement
Sons of Detroit and Sir Evan S. Weber bring Sons of Detroit Brotherhood and Viking & Shield Maiden Steel Mace Flow to the festival, offering both grounded men’s council work and powerful movement with the steel mace. These experiences explore strength, presence, brotherhood, courage, and embodied focus.
Instagram: @sonsofdetoit
Soojin Kim
Somatic Yoga • Embodiment • Live DJ Soundscape
Art of Feeling: Somatic Yoga Journey is an immersive somatic experience inviting you gently into the body through guided somatic practices, intuitive exploration, breath, and stillness—paired with a live DJ set and crafted soundscape by Mari•Esq. This is not about performing or pushing. It’s about coming home to sensation, intuition, and the lost art of inhabiting yourself.
Kate Steele & Chelsea McGee
Somatic Healing • Sound • Transformation
Kate Steele and Chelsea McGee lead Alchemy of the Soul: Transmuting Pain into Authentic Power, an immersive workshop that explores pain, grief, and trauma as portals for transformation. Through guided reflection, storytelling, somatic awareness, sound healing, and fire ceremony, participants are invited to shift their relationship with pain and reconnect with resilience, truth, and self-trust.
Maurice Archer
Breakdance • Martial Arts • Playful Movement
Breakdance Flow
Maurice Archer is a breakdance teacher in the Ann Arbor area with over 15 years of experience and a strong background in martial arts. His work bridges discipline and flow, bringing movement to life through rhythm, form, and play. Maurice’s class invites participants into a dynamic, hands-on experience that energizes the body, sparks creativity, and frees the spirit through movement.
Meghan Stimmel
Voice • Storytelling • Spirit-Led Communication
The Call to Speak
Meghan Stimmel brings The Call to Speak to Barefoot & Free, a powerful workshop designed to help participants activate their voice, clarify their message, and speak with more courage and purpose. Through storytelling, communication, and practical guidance, this experience invites participants to stop shrinking, trust their voice, and use their message with confidence and intention.
Adina Marie
Energy Healing • Reiki • Somatic Practice
Animal Body
At Barefoot & Free, Adina offers Animal Body, a soulful embodiment experience that invites participants to return to instinct, intuition, and inner knowing through presence, energy, and somatic awareness.
Kimberly Joy Rieli
Voice Healing • Sacred Sound • Self-Expression
Reclaim Your Voice
Kimberly offers Reclaim Your Voice, a gentle vocal healing workshop that blends breath, movement, sacred circle, and self-expression. Open to all levels, this experience invites participants to release old wounds around the voice, reconnect with the body, and explore sound as a pathway for healing, confidence, and authentic expression.
Instagram: @singingforyoursoul
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