Our VibeWell Schedule is officially locked in, and we could not be more…
There are no words.
Or there are a million words.
Google “synonyms” for “excited” “grateful” “over the moon” “dancing in the streets” and “ready, set, let’s do this”.
That will give you the vibe for sure.
Or watch this video to get Bridget’s feelings:
Okay! On to the schedule, the presenter bios, and class descriptions:
Asbury Hall
8 AM to 8:45 AM: Rise and Release with Bridget Riepl
9 AM to 10:30 AM: Inner Bliss, Outer Glow with Karena Virginia
11 AM to 1 PM: Aligning with the Rhythm and Wisdom of Autumn with Jillian Pransky, and Live Music by the Soulful Scott E Moore
1:30 – 3 PM Abundant Lotus: A Hip-Opening Journey and Mythology Workshop with Ellen Mosko
Asbury Lanes
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: 75 Minutes to Awakening with Johnny Scifo
10 AM to 11:30 AM: Goddess Flow: Opening Your Heart and Awakening Your Soul with Phyllicia Bonanno
11:45 AM to 1 PM: Letting Go of the Physical (Because it Can’t Always Be a Tight Asana) with Vanessa Van Noy
1:30 – 2:45 PM: Strength, Transformation, and Levitation Through the Art of Arm Balances Jess Stickler
3 PM to 5 PM: A Photographic Exploration of the Power of Yoga to Unite People Across Cultural and Physical Divides with Robert Sturman
Danny Clinch Gallery
8 and 8:45 AM Meditation and Sound Healing with April Puciata and Bridget Lyons (two sessions)
10 AM AM Love Yourself, Heal Yourself with Stephanie Moore
11:30 AM Fire Your Fears with Bailey Frumen, founder of MINDRISE
1 PM Yoga and Inclusivity, NOW: A Panel Discussion with Lockey Maisonneuve, Stephanie Barrios-Cullins, Phyllicia Bonanno, and Alisha DeLorenzo
Asbury Hall
8 AM to 8:45 AM: Rise and Release with Bridget Riepl
You’ve awakened with one intention: to vibe really well. Start your festival experience with VibeWell’s founder, Bridget Riepl, and get ready to love this beautiful life during 45 blissful minutes of soul-shifting movement and meditation, surrounded by an intimate group of yogis ready to tap into their natural radiance, get unstuck, magnetize the miraculous, and have the best day ever.
The first 50 yogis to sign up for this class will be guaranteed a set of Sound Off headphones, the perfect accessory for a powerful flow in the pursuit of peace. Our noise-isolating headsets will cocoon each yogi by guarding against every distraction so that you can go DEEP.
Bio: Bridget is a mother, yoga teacher, writer, content creator, speaker, presenter, coffee snob, and local adventurer. Bridget started teaching yoga in 2010, as a cathartic release after long days of lawyering. In 2012 she made a massive shift, choosing to transform her part-time yoga commitments into a full-time pursuit of passion. Since then she has taught thousands of hours of yoga all over NJ and beyond, written for MindBodyGreen and the Huffington Post, served as a Lululemon and Manduka Ambassador, had the distinct honor of running NJ’s Global Mala, and contributed her expertise to trainings, retreats, speaking engagements, and workshops.
Bridget started the NJ Yoga Collective and the VibeWell Yoga Festivals to create an all-inclusive online destination for yoga in the Garden State. She works every single day to connect community, offer inspiration, provide suggestions for practice, educate readers, and showcase local experts finding balance in their lives and pursuing their dreams.
9 AM to 10:30 AM: Inner Bliss, Outer Glow with Karena Virginia
Are old wounds keeping you from living, loving, and flourishing in the world like you want to be? Unhealed past trauma can permeate our spirit, rob us of our natural radiance, and create barriers to feelings of inner peace. Are you stuck? Are you ready to attract a miracle? Do you know how powerful your subtle body is? You have everything within you already to glow and magnetize the miraculous. It just takes a bit of gardening and fertilizing through the magical science of Kundalini Yoga and Sat Nam Rasayan to elevate your frequency and draw everything to you. The impossible is possible now more than ever.
Reclaim your inner bliss and enhance your outer glow in this extremely healing workshop acclaimed Kundalini Yoga teacher, Karena Virginia.
Through this extraordinary blend of discussion, Kundalini Yoga, breathwork, meditation, healing you will discover: Techniques to enhance personal confidence, boost your resilience, heal ancestral wounds, and enliven your intimate relationships; Kundalini yoga to raise your vibration and improve your overall well-being; How to strengthen your relationship to the divine and begin creating miracles; Connect with your angels and feel how very loved you are
It is your time to shine. Can you empower your inner light and allow yourself to GLOW?
Bio: Karena Virginia studies yoga and movement in college while receiving her degree in performing arts. After a few years in the entertainment business, she decided to bring yoga, meditation, healing and mentoring to others. She has been a spiritual coach and Kundalini yoga instructor for over twenty years. Karena is the author of ‘Essential Kundalini Yoga’ and the talent in the highly acclaimed yoga video “The Power of Kundalini Yoga”. She is also the voice in the IOS APP “Relax and Attract” and has been featured in many media outlets as an expert in mindfulness for the modern world. You may notice her from a recent Yoga Journal cover which was shared internationally. She is a peace activist and a member of the Oprah Winfrey Belief team who cares deeply about humanity and children. Karena lives in the suburbs of NYC with her husband and children. Karena has observed many miracles throughout her life, and her passion is to share hope with others through her open heart and healing vibration. For more on Karena, please visit her website www.karenavirginia.com.
11 AM to 1 PM: Aligning with the Rhythm and Wisdom of Autumn with Jillian Pransky, and Live Music by the Soulful Scott E Moore
Centered, clear, and connected. Come join Jillian to harness the season’s transformational energy.
Autumn brings us both change and reconnection; good-bye and hello; transition and transformation. It is an essential time to pause, as we flow between the expansion of summer and contraction of winter. To fortify our inner resources, like a tree pulling in sap.
Weaving together mindful chakra-flow yoga, mantra, restoratives, meditation and essential teachings from her new book, Deep Listening, Jillian will guide you to release blocked energy, surrender layers of deeply held tension, and nurture your capacity for greater joy, compassion, insight, and connectedness.
You will finish feeling clear, connected, inspired, and deeply nourished. Ready to harness this season’s transformation energy!
This class will feature live music from Scott E. Moore, who will support our trip through the chakras with a blend of modern ambient beauty and sultry rhythm and blues.
Bio: “Jillian’s teaching style and deep respect for each student has literally changed my life. She is the only teacher I know who is completely lacking in judgment or ego when she teaches. I get a huge dose of love, just being in her class. I would follow her wherever she goes” – Rosanne Cash
Jillian Pransky is an international presenter and the author of Deep Listening. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapy and the director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga teacher training for YogaWorks. Jillian created and leads Yoga Journal’s four week course, Restorative Yoga 101 and is a featured yoga expert for Prevention Magazine. She is a guest teacher at many renowned holistic learning centers including Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, the Omega Institute, Mohonk Mountain House, and Blue Spirit Retreat Center. Her Calm Body, Clear Mind DVD and Relaxmore CD have garnered excellent reviews from Dr. Mehmet Oz, Yoga Journal, and many others.
Jillian infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease. Her seamless style of working simultaneously with the body, mind, and spirit, while attuning with nature and the environment, creates inspiring classes and an integrative healing experience.
At age 9, Jillian was first introduced to yoga as well as initiated into TM Meditation (her mother’s idea of ‘family counseling’). But it wasn’t until the early 90’s that she began a passionate study of yoga. She was first certified to teach yoga in 1994 and was initiated into the ISHTA yoga lineage by Yogi Raj Alan Finger and his father Mani Finger in 1998.
Since then she has been graced with the opportunity to study deeply with many masters and today, her work is greatly influenced by Erich Schiffmann, and somatic movement therapist Dr. Ruella Frank. As a student of Pema Chodron’s since 1998, Jillian’s yoga is infused with Buddhist meditation and spirituality. She also draws from trainings and intensives with T.K.V. Desikachar, Sharon Salzberg, Gary Kraftsow, Angela Farmer, Stephen Cope, and more. She is a E-500 Registered Yoga Alliance teacher, ISHTA Yoga Certified, Anusara trained and Certified in Restorative Yoga Therapy and Thai Yoga Healing.
In 2000, after 10 years in the corporate world, Jillian left her position as Mass Market Marketing Director for St Martin’s Press to transform her part time yoga career into her full-time passion. Since then she has been featured in Dr. Memhet Oz’s video YOGA 101, offered a TEDx Talk, and appeared in many publications including The New York Times Well Blog, Yoga Journal, Self Magazine, Family Circle, Yoga Dork, Kripalu Bulletin Magazine, Yoga Journal Mentor, and has appeared on CNN.
1:30 – 3 PM Abundant Lotus: A Hip-Opening Journey and Mythology Workshop with Ellen Mosko
We will practice a variety of hip-opening postures, utilizing both yin and yang styles, to encourage a release of tensions in both muscles and mind. One of the major hip-flexor muscles, the Psoas, is associated with our fight or flight response. Targeting this area to relax and soften will instead stimulate the rest and digest response. As the hips continue to soften we’ll practice the actions for lotus or half lotus posture. Using the wall, props and your own awareness you’ll be encouraged to work at your own pace to express the fullness of the pose in your unique style. Throughout the workshop, we’ll discuss one of the myths of Lakshmi whose beauty, wealth and abundant blessings are a gift to all.
Bio: Ellen Mosko is a recognized, respected, and much loved yoga teacher, with deep roots and years of study in Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, Hatha, and Sivananda Yoga. A practicing yogi since her sophomore year in college (when a friend needed a few bodies to help her through a fitness thesis), Ellen began her teaching career in 2003. Her first 200 hour training created the foundation for both her teachings and an unwavering commitment to always learn more; today, she is a sought after “teacher’s teacher”, known for seamlessly using her cues, sequences, and every prop in the room to help students transform, connect, and better understand their alignment, anatomy, philosophy, and subtle body energetics.
Ellen is a E-RYT 500-Hour, YACEP certified yoga instructor with a library of yoga classes and writings featured by Yoga International. Ellen teaches public and private classes, trainings, and workshops nationally, and offers mentoring sessions to certified teachers seeking to explore and develop their own authentic voice. “I think our world moves at a very fast pace and in that chaos, we can lose ourselves. I teach – and I practice – because yoga is the anchor that keeps bringing me back to my own heart.”
Asbury Lanes
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: 75 Minutes to Awakening with Johnny Scifo
The healing traditions of Yoga, Buddhism, and Shamanism offer us practices to cultivate strength, love, and power, transforming us and our surroundings into Heaven on Earth. By properly managing energy, the awakened being sees all of life’s offerings and recognizes abundance available in each moment. Featuring pranayama, a gong bath, qi gong and asana, drumming meditation, and a sound bath savasana, this mixed modality practice will show you precisely where your energy is stuck and will provide the system shock necessary to realign your practice with true growth instead of chasing bliss. Find out what kind of seeker you are, and where to focus your energy next. The transformative nature of awakening comes through practice. Join us.
Bio: Johnny is a RYT-500 advanced certified yoga and meditation teacher and has been a devoted yogi for over 10 years. Trained in diverse healing modalities, his energy practices and multi-instrumental sound healing invoke powerful experiences for his students. A mixture of modern science, ancient wisdom, and raw love, Johnny is a living example of the internal power we each possess for positive change and the ability to fulfill one’s dreams and dharma. He is an active contributor to the #1 meditation app Insight Timer, inspiring over 500,000 meditations worldwide with his healing music. His first musical meditation release, The Meditation EP, was featured as a teacher’s resource on Elena Brower’s TEACH.YOGA for its unique blend of rhythms influenced by neurological principles. Johnny has taught sound healing for Kripalu, Lululemon, NY Yoga Magazine, The Rubin Museum, and educational institutions including Ramapo College and SUNY New Paltz. Johnny currently teaches workshops and immersions in New Jersey and New York. His sound healing music (free downloads), mix tapes to support asana practice, and meditation resources are available at JohnnyScifo.com.
10 AM to 11:30 AM: Goddess Flow: Opening Your Heart and Awakening Your Soul with Phyllicia Bonanno
Bio: Phyllicia is a yoga teacher, advocate for mindful living, sound healer, and the co-founder of the Sisters of Yoga, a social media collective that celebrates and empowers the underrepresented, diverse community of yoga teachers and students around the world. If you follower Phyllicia on IG, you know that she shares a piece of her soul with every single person who is lucky enough to stumble across her page…can you imagine what it’s like to sit with this woman in person?!
11:45 AM to 1 PM: Letting Go of the Physical (Because it Can’t Always Be a Tight Asana) with Vanessa Van Noy
Our bodies change. Our practices transform. We age. We get injured. We learn. Yoga is so much more than a physical practice and yet our attention gets stuck on perfecting poses, Instagram envy style. Join Vanessa for what might be one of the most important classes you ever take – a yoga flow fully focused on shifting your headspace from the shock and awe of the asana to the inner work.
This practice was designed for yogis of all levels. Expect adjustments, assists, and a whole new sense of awareness that will undoubtedly weave into your life, on the mat and off.
Bio: Vanessa Van Noy has been teaching in the NY metro area for nearly 20 years. She has worked with professional and collegiate athletes people with physical limitations, and everyone in between. She specializes in creating practices that are fluid, functional and fun. She encourages humor & compassion, perseverance & perception, love & laughter. Vanessa is very hands-on in her classes, using touch as a way to deepen a posture or just show a little love.
Vanessa is a distinguished yoga teacher known for her compassionate activism, unique self-expression, and intelligent style of teaching. Vanessa has been featured in numerous blogs, sites and magazines across the globe. She has advanced her already extensive trainings with rockstar yogis as Bryan Kest and Ana Forrest. Her style has grown and developed over the years , but her undeviating standard has and will always be challenge, compassion, and community.
Vanessa is the founder of “Headstands for Hunger” a yoga-based non for profit whose mission is to unify local yoga teachers and their communities, to feed hungry people and homeless pets nationwide.
1:30 – 2:45 Strength, Transformation, and Levitation Through the Art of Arm Balances Jess Stickler
Balancing on any part of the body other than the feat is a challenge of strength as well as faith and courage! We dare ourselves to trust our physical and mental strength when we approach these magical poses. Magic quite simply is transformation, magic occurs when we transform our self-understanding from the mundane to the infinite, when we transform something that previously seemed impossible into something that is possible. This workshop will offer practices to explore arm balances, and bring us closer to understanding some of these tricky asanas, as well as techniques and modifications for all experience levels
Bio: Jessica is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher since 2008, and also serves as a mentor in Jivamukti’s Teacher Training program. She teaches classes and workshops internationally in Australia, Germany, Trinidad, and the Czech Republic. She loves to teach a wide range of students from beginners through advanced practitioners, and has worked closely with those who are recovering from injury. Jessica’s classes incorporate dynamic movement, choreographic sequencing, with special attention to alignment and modification options. Classes are infused with a variety of inspiring music, meditation, and yoga philosophy.
3 PM to 5 PM: A Photographic Exploration of the Power of Yoga to Unite People Across Cultural and Physical Divides with Robert Sturman
Join world-renowned artist/photographer, Robert Sturman, as he and his camera take us around the globe. This photographic exploration highlights the power of yoga to unite people across cultural and physical divides.
Sturman’s work has given him the opportunity to make art with yogis in Kenya, Italy, Thailand, Israel, Cuba, to name but a few. From United States prisons to orphanages in Africa and the streets of Palestine, he has photographed all walks of life, embodying yoga poses with equanimity and grace. So many people, so many stories: breast cancer survivors, Maasai Warriors, Hasidic Jews, police officers, soldiers and inmates serving life sentences, each one a unique expression of humanity.
“For me, making art is about much more than a pretty picture. My responsibility as an artist is to capture the intrinsic beauty and irreducible value of every subject, to awaken compassion and to use art to inspire humanity to move forward, reaching towards our greatest potential.”
Robert will also be sharing a few secrets on how to make powerful, poetic images, celebrating the beautiful art of yoga. One of these secrets is already within your grasp, as many of his published works have been captured through the lens of his phone.
Bio: Robert Sturman is a dedicated yogi and photographer who has increasingly focused his work on capturing the grace and embodied mindfulness of asanas. His portraits, whether set in the lively streets of Manhattan, the expansive beaches and canyons of Malibu, the timeless elegance of Walden’s New England, the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, the colorful vistas of Cuba, or the bleakness of Marin County’s San Quentin Prison, remind us that there is beauty everywhere.
Danny Clinch Gallery
Good Vibrations:Tantric Meditation and Sound Healing Experience with April Puciata and Bridget Lyons
Stillness is where the healing begins. Sound has the ability to positively affect our whole being. Join April Puciata and Bridget Lyons as they come together to create this incredibly special opening experience which will elevate your vibration and allow you to find a deep sense of connectedness.
Together, they will utilize ancient meditation techniques in conjunction with sound healing to rejuvenate the system and bring the mind into to a clearer and calmer state. This guided meditation, infused with pranayama, Kriya and a visualization, will be enhanced with sounds and vibrations of the crystal singing bowls, crystal pyramid, drums, chimes and other healing instruments. Together April and Bridget will help quiet the chatter, welcome the present moment, and allow you to tune into your own divine essence. You’ll leave feeling inspired, grounded, and connected as a community.
Fire Your Fears with Bailey Frumen
Bailey Frumen, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist, author, speaker, and coach mentoring ambitious leaders and entrepreneurs by providing the roadmap that takes them from frustration & overwhelm into action & purpose. She has been named ‘one of the top 20 life coaches to watch’ by popexpert.com. Bailey is the author of Own Your Power: Your Guide to Feeling Powerful, Fearless, and Free. Her work has been published in Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, Aspire Magazine, Natural Awakenings, Popexpert, and numerous guest blogs. She is also a featured author in the best-selling anthology, Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Opening To Gratitude & Grace through Inspired Living Publishing. Through her Own Your Power Mastery, live events, speaking engagements, and transformational coaching, Bailey helps leaders and entrepreneurs to find clarity and connection to purpose, so that they can take the action. With 10+ years of experience, Bailey guides driven women and men cut through the fog of feeling stuck and overwhelmed by feeling confident to master their mindset and live the life they’ve always wanted. For more from Bailey, check out BaileyFrumen.com or say hello on Facebook and Instagram!
Deep Dive: How to find Divine Self-Love and Healing with Stephanie Moore
Focusing on putting ourselves first and getting clear on what we really want in order to do that. The ways of finding out what is truly holding us back from moving towards our self evolution. How to find and embrace divine self love through radical acceptance, and, finally, a meditation on how to find your true desires, those that set your soul on fire.
Bio: Stephanie is a talented, reputable Spiritual Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Reiki Master/Teacher, Physical and Energy Body Worker, Reflexologist, Fire Cupping Therapist and Yoga Teacher who offers unique and individualized treatments. Paired with her degree in Psychology and 15 years experience, she has helped hundreds of people deal with areas in their lives where they are feeling stuck or stagnant and helps them move through feelings such as abandonment, betrayal, lack of self worth and unforgiveness.
She believes that once we deal with the subconscious programming and negative self talk and parts of our selves that we deny or dismiss, the parts that keep us trapped in our mind— once we heal the body with energy and align with our truest selves, we can then and only then find the freedom to live a joyful, powerful, brave and love centered life. It is why she called her Mind Body and Spirit in Balance.
You can find Stephanie practicing out of her new studio in Lebanon, NJ, doing what she loves most, connecting, guiding and holding sacred space for those ready to journey towards the seat of their soul. When not there, she is teaching Yoga in several studios across NJ, working at Yoga Festivals, hosting Self-Care Days at Honor Yoga Studios in NJ, at Yoga Stream in Princeton and leading workshops in Self-Care, Crystal Healing, or, her specialty Hot Stone Restorative. Recently, she was designated principle Master Healer for Honor Yoga Retreats in the Catskills, NY. She is also hosting co-facilitating Yoga/Coaching Retreats in October on the Big Island of Hawaii and next April in Costa Rica.
Yoga and Inclusivity, NOW: A Panel Discussion with Lockey Maisonneuve, Stephanie Barrios-Cullins, Phyllicia Bonanno, and Alisha DeLorenzo
We invite you to join us for a groundbreaking conversation about inclusivity and diversity in the yoga and wellness industries: where we are, who we are, where we’ve come from, and what we can do to open lines of communication and stand in solidarity with communities whose voices are inadequately heard and represented.
“Yoga is a microcosm of what’s happening in the world,” says Grace Millsap, a Charlotte-based teacher and activist. “We are not exempt from these issues, and sometimes they become even more hush-hush, as the yoga community is supposed to be a safe space.”
Our incredible panelists are advocated for more inclusion in the yoga and wellness industries. They live that mission everyday by showing up, speaking on it, and doing something about it. Come learn from them and engage in what might sometimes be uncomfortable, but ultimately is our greatest possible path towards wholeness, authenticity, and a true 8 limbed practice of yoga.
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