Surfsand Resort
800-547-6100

The oceanfront Surfsand Resort is just steps from Haystack Rock and has sweeping coastline views to the north and south.  And it is a host for the 3rd Cannon Beach Yoga Festival.  Onsite events include workshops, Morning Meditation, the Keynote Address and Community Dance Party, and the Closing Ceremony.  Be in the central hub of the weekend festivities.

Festival Lodging Rates:
Eye Level King Studio or Limited View King Room @$149.00/night*
Oceanfront King Room @$169.00/night*
Beachfront King Suite @$189.00/night

*Some Doubles are also available at these rates.

Two-Night Lodging Special:
Receive $100 off (1) Full Festival Pass with a 2-night room reservation for the first 15 rooms booked.**
**Please book lodging with the Surfsand Resort to receive your Discount Code for the Full Festival Pass.  Only one code per room reservation.  $100 Discount Code may be used in conjunction with the Early Bird Special for even more savings!

(This is an Optional Workshop, register with a Partial Festival Pass or add it to a Full Festival Pass.)

This workshop explores the ancient practices of singing, devotional chant, and rhythm. It is an immersion in the luminous ocean of music through voice, mantra, devotion, movement, and meditation. The Path of Kirtan creates a sacred space for safe and playful exploration in a group setting. Participants can then journey together to more clearly and deeply connect with the divine Presence.

View a Shantala Kirtan Video and a Shantala Chant Video.

Shantala at BhaktiFest 2012

You will enjoy this workshop if you wish to:
• open your voice more fully as a sacred instrument
• deepen your experience of chanting and devotion (bhakti yoga)
• playfully explore the body as a vehicle for rhythm
• create a joyful experience of music and spirit in community with others

Opening the voice includes a voyage through vocal practices from both Eastern and Western musical traditions. In many Eastern cultures, the practice of music is approached as a spiritual practice, as the yoga of sound, and that is how it is presented in this workshop. Rhythm is explored through heart-opening rhythmic body movements, experiencing the body as a sacred instrument. From this foundation, the chanting of sacred names and mantras flow with new depth and new freedom. The weekend workshops include time to be silent in meditation, to share personal experiences from bhakti practice, and to build a sense of spiritual community through the combined fruits of all of these practices.

This workshop is offered with the intention of cultivating more beauty and more love inside ourselves, in our communities, and throughout our world. It is our prayer that the offerings of this workshop will help each one of us to give ourselves more fully to realizing this vision. May all beings live in peace, joy, and freedom!

Shantala at Pranafest 2012

(This is an Optional Workshop, register with a Partial Festival Pass or add it to a Full Festival Pass)

Join Uma Kleppinger and Kendall Hassemer as we celebrate the confluence of teachers, traditions, and practices coming together in the spirit of tapas—the alchemistry of transformation through yoga.  Following a brief guided meditation to set our intentions for the weekend, we will move through a dynamic, invigorating vinyasa practice to dissolve the barriers that stand in the way of all the goodness we wish to achieve—and receive—in our lives.  The class will be accompanied by a lively soundtrack, then ease into a quiet, contemplative closing sequence of yin yoga, infused with the timeless teachings of Rumi, Hafiz, Lao Tzu and other Eastern sages and wisdom teachers.  The practice will conclude with a candle lighting ceremony to ignite the darkness and carry us into the weekend of light, laughter and the love of yoga!