Saturday, October 17, 2026
Our largest Chicago gathering of the year: four movement stages, a breathwork tent, twenty local vendors and a closing circle at four.
The session
The festival runs from ten until four across Northerly Island, with four stages programmed on the hour. Two are movement stages, one is a talks stage, and the fourth is a quiet tent running breathwork and sound sessions in forty-minute blocks.
Entry is free and always will be. A handful of the smaller workshops are capped and ticketed at ten dollars to cover the instructor, and those sell out roughly two weeks ahead. Everything on the main stages is open to walk up to.
Twenty vendors line the central path, all of them businesses run by people from the three cities we work in. The day closes with everyone on the main lawn for a fifteen-minute circle at four, which is consistently the part people write to us about afterwards.
Led by Imani Brooks · Founder and executive director
Come prepared
Written for this gathering specifically, not a generic packing list.
There is no ticketing system on this site. Send the team a line saying which gathering you want, and a person writes back with your place on the list.
Also on
More from Chicago, or more festivals in the other cities.
YogaSaturday, September 12 · Chicago
An all-levels vinyasa practice on the grass at Montrose Point, timed so the last three poses land as the sun clears the water.
BreathworkThursday, September 24 · Chicago
A guided ninety-minute breathwork session indoors, ending with twenty minutes of stillness and a cup of tea with the people next to you.
YogaThursday, October 8 · Chicago
Five long, fully supported shapes held for eight minutes each, designed for the end of a working day rather than the start of one.
