Avatar. The yogis base point.
Avatar is an awesome and large summer Festival of Yoga and Music on the Black Sea. For several years it used to be a little summer trip of Kiev and Odessa yoga folk that in a few years turned out to appear one of the most large-scale yoga events.
Not a yogi yet? You could try it on while the Festival 😏 just by keeping the flame of the Universe love in your heart 😌💖
Wondering where is a place you could reveal a real you without templates? Looking for an island where you would be surrounded with a non-judging energy that reflects all the beauty of your inner world 🎆🕊? It’s #avatarfest sure thing!
As a bonus, you could throw away your shoes 😆 and walk around barefoot feeling a green grass tenderness and a heart-melting sand warmth.
Thus naturally Avatar appeared to be the summer base point of all yogis embodying the most desired principle of being “both pleasant and useful”.
The deepest knowledge and practices are organically combined with August sea and sun, music and fun, tea and joyful communication.
The number of happy guests increased from 29 to 1350 in 5 years. The only stream transformed into a scalable program represented by 210 masters and 35 musicians from 15 countries of the world. Today the program of the 6-days Festival includes 19 simultaneous streams of practices and multiple thematic locations with over 550 classes and performances.
We invite Honored Masters and School Leaders, innovative techniques Authors and all those who have exceptional personal skills and a practice value to share with you. The practice is the key concept of Avatar. That’s why you won’t notice non-practitioners and those who choose to follow the coaching fashion but not a deep awareness of sharing aspiration among the Masters.
No one persuades anybody in anything creating a peaceful, tranquil and playful atmosphere that fulfills the soul with a harmony and a silence.
A conscious solitude meets a natural fusion of all the souls within the Avatar space. You feel home and get connected organically without preliminary ceremonies and awkwardness.
In that atmosphere you would learn from and be inspired with internationally recognized deep practitioners from the Grandmasters Flow. They would practice, drink tea and meet dawns along with you for all the 6 days of the Festival.
The Festival doesn’t adhere to any particular tradition, an ideology or a school creating the openness of approaches and providing the diversity of practices. The spirit of freedom is paramount.
Beginners could try different traditions and choose the one to stick to. Experienced practitioners are not limited with restrictions or dogmas of any school. That’s why you breeze so easy here and draw the energy of a freedom so conducive for a new comprehension and a mindfulness.
Sometimes a 5 minutes attention and a cup of aromatic coffee on Saturday morning fulfills the weekend of beloved ones with a holiday spirit. Likewise the transformations launched and the love manifested within a week of Avatar brings an awareness to your mind and harmonizes your spirit for months ahead.
We’re studying and practicing a lot, we’re communicating and making friends a lot, we’re swimming in the August sea and dancing by the fire, we’re walking barefoot and drinking tea while admiring magnificent sunrise. Nevertheless the main value is the opportunity to meet a real inner you while being surrounded by people open and pure like you are, to settle down and to move away from the hustle and bustle. Voilà! You’re coming back to your everyday world reconnected and full of strength and love.
What flows and locations are awaiting us this year?
Grandmasters stage<. Worldwide recognized and honored Masters transfer their knowledge with those eager to deepen their practice. The Grandmasters stage participants are granted with the Certificate of course completion. Being here is a brilliant opportunity to interact closely with those who inspire. For participants with PRO tickets only.
Shiva and Shakti.The flow for young though bright and talented Masters with a nominal gender division only. Male or Shiva practices are supposed to require strength, endurance and volition. Female or Shakti ones emphasise sensuality and grace focusing on what girls usually love more, such as mandala, dance, facial yoga, mehendi etc.
Meditation Space is a secluded and quiet place to study mindful practices of diverse traditions.
Inbody Space is an area for contact, bodily and dance practices with lots of massage and body health techniques.
Transformation Space is created for transformational games, art therapy, creativity and other developmental practices which are not yoga but are loved by yogis.
Lecture Hall is a space for lectures on nutrition, ayurveda, astrology and everything what yogis are interested in.
Kid Space is a place where more than 15 Masters are engaged for an uplifting and wholesome leisure of little fellows. The program includes not only fun kids yoga (for example, a jungle yoga or children’s acro-yoga) but fairy tales, games, handicraft, cooking classes so on. All children enter the Festival free.
Beach Space. We are lucky to have a secluded beach as for such a metropolis proximity that naturally draws us to a deep morning routine as a qigong and breathing practices. Magic tea ceremonies are held there at a sunup, and plavita sadhana classes and frisbee games at noontime. You can also join mantra jams, fire shows, drums, shaman dances by the fire after the sunset.
Fly Yoga Space is a separate platform for those eager to try a zero G and to take off the ground by practicing in hammocks. You would be able to try 10 different fly yoga approaches from Masters of all over the country.
Music Stage is a night performances and music space. In 2017 it turned out that yoga Masters are really talented and creative! The Yoga therapist from Minsk Alexander Novikov sang Radiohead songs and the famous Ashtanga Yoga Master from Oklahoma, Andrew Eppler, performed with magic tricks. That’s why we appointed half an hour in the program schedule for our Masters creative work presentations. After that we go on music bands live performances of different styles like “world”, “ethno”, “reggae”, “new age” with “chill” and “ambient” meditative DJ sets as a cherry on our night show’s top.
The Teacher’s room is a discovery of the Festival. That is a separate space where yogis meet Masters to get answers on their questions on a pre-scheduled basis.
Additionally, the Avatar space is equipped with:
- The Tea Space where many Tea Masters hold ceremonies of different traditions;
- The Massage Space where one could try various massage techniques within cozy Masters tents;
- Food Court with a Vegan, Vegetarian and Vedic Cuisine;
- Yoga Market with yoga goods and printed publications, hand-made products, ornaments and accessories;
- Mehendi is a place for Masters of henna drawing;
- Sport activities spot;
- Dating Space is a place for getting acquainted and yoga dating on a daily basis. Avatar yoga wedding ceremonies are taking place in this beautiful space.
To make you deepen into your practice and not being distracted with imperfect conditions, we decided on moving to a comfortable Seashore Recreation Center in order you could stay in cozy well furnished 4 and 5-star rooms.
And we still do have our camping! Staying in camping implies shower and WC facilities. Camp supervisor watches out and provides an order and a cleanliness within a camp space.Tent is needed to stay there but we could help you renting it or cooperating with your campmates in order to share your fellow yogi’s tent with available place.
You could get to the Festival from Kiev on our Shanti Bus.To get there from another cities and countries you could choose any transport that comes to Odessa and take a bus №86A to Gribovka from the “Privoz” bus station. Also we help to find companions for those who travels by car on our Facebook page.
The tickets. All the Festival venues are available with your Regular Ticket, except the Grandmasters Stage that require special Ticket Pro access.
Children under the 16 years old enter the Festival free!
See you under the warm sun!
1 — 6th of August 2019 (the 31st of August is a pre-Festival day)
Lebedivka (85km from Odesssa, Ukraine)
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