Brighton Yoga Festival is a ‘Festival For Everybody’
First launched in 2014 by the Brighton Yoga Foundation, the festival is now organised by the Brighton Community Events CIC team working closely with and to support the Brighton Natural Health Foundation (BNHF)
Brighton Community Events CIC (BCE), is a not for profit community interest company, that will be organising and leading the festival, working to raise funds and awareness of the Brighton Yoga Foundation and its important outreach projects.
The festival will be run to bring people together across the yoga community, supporting teachers and businesses and to help reach those in the wider community who are not yet aware of the benefits of yoga. It is open to all, regardless of age, experience or fitness levels.
The festival will run as a low cost affordable festival, with a number of free entry tickets for those unable to pay. Run primarily by volunteers with funds raised going to support the Brighton Yoga Foundation and other future community events led by BCE.
So what does this mean now? The festival will still be the one you all know and love – just the way it is organised and processed is changing. The proceeds of the festival will still support us and we’ll of course be a big presence on the day too.
Continuing our residency at the church with more diversity in classes, offerings and spaces. We can only do better!
Brighton Yoga Festival returned in person to where we began in 2014. It was incredible to see so many people returning in person. With 1000 people back on one day.
A difficult year. We planned a hybrid event - live and in person on 24 July and online on 25 July. But at short notice a huge spike in Covid cases locally caused the cancellation of the live event. We live streamed 13 workshops with teachers from around the world and the UK and a discussion on the future of yoga post-pandemic.
With the pandemic in full flow, we had no alternative but to take the 2020 Festival online. At relatively short notice we presented 4 top quality teachers from around the world and the UK to teach online workshops and also hosted a panel on “Black Lives Matter – diversity within the yoga community”. More than 300 people attended the sessions.
Over 2,500 people attended the Festival at BHASVIC college, braving the rain on the first day. The event featured almost 100 classes, a world first survivor-led Panel on Sexual Abuse in the Yoga Community, and a celebratory coming together of the yoga community and Extinction Rebellion.
Another hugely successful festival, such glorious weather, allowed a large part of the festival to be enjoyed outdoors - it was an amazing well attended event. Over 3500 people, 100+ yoga classes
After the success of the Brighton Dome, the festival was moved to the cricket ground for an entire weekend. Allowing more people to try the benefits of yoga. 3500 people 100 classes 40 stalls
The festival was held in the Brighton Dome seeing a record number of people trying yoga for the first time. 3000 people 50 classes 40 stalls
The second Brighton Yoga Festival, with double the amount of people attending - the weather was wonderful too. 1800 people 30 classes 20 stalls
The very first Brighton Yoga Festival was launched at St. Georges Church. 1200 people 20 classes 20 stalls
