Cedar Springs Retreat Center
A Sanctuary for Renewal, Celebration, and Connection
Cedar Springs, ​located in the foothills of the Sierras just 40 minutes from Yosemite National Park, offers rental space for a wide variety of retreats, including dance, music, yoga, and permaculture, as well as weddings, family reunions, and corporate events. We also produce our own workshops, camps, and retreats. We can accommodate up to 400 people on our land in different types of accommodations. We have a full-service commercial kitchen serving delicious, primarily organic meals, with chefs that can accommodate a wide range of dietary needs.
Please note that we are in a construction phase and some of these facilities may not yet be in place.
Cedar Springs Retreat Center Proudly Sponsors
Sattva Fest
Camping Retreat
Canceled
Due to construction delays at Cedar Springs retreat center we are unable to hold the Sattva Fest event this year. Tickets will be refunded.
Awaken Your Spirit at Sattva Fest Retreat. Step into a sanctuary of peace and transformation, where meditation, Kirtan music, yoga, and sacred movement come together to create a deeply immersive experience for the soul.
Here, nature becomes your temple, music your prayer, and movement your meditation. Whether you seek stillness, devotion, or physical renewal, Sattva Fest offers a space to reconnect and awaken..
MAP
Lineup:
Jai Uttal Appearing with Full Ensemble
I’m Jai Uttal, a Grammy-nominated composer and musician, and my heart and mind are filled with the rhythms and melodies of both India and the rock, jazz and reggae of the Western world. My travels through India, where I met incredible saints and musicians, led me to embrace Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of the heart, which I’ve been sharing with you all for over 50 years.
It's been my deep joy to sing for you, and with you, all these years, creating spaces where everyone can open their hearts and discover the innate beauty their own voices.
Acharya Mangalananda
Appearing with Full Ensemble
Acharya Mangalanda is an American disciple of Sri Anandamayi Ma and has been deeply associated with India and its culture since he was 19 years old. He has been a follower of the Path of Bhakti Yoga and Mantra Yoga for over 40 years under the training of Sri Anandamayi Ma, and some of her closest Disciples, including Swami Bhaskarananda ji and Swami Kedarnath. Mangalananda shares both kirtan and workshops in Bhakti Yoga and Swakriya Yoga worldwide,
MC Yogi
Leading Yoga Practice with a Beat!
MC YOGI is an internationally known recording artist, award winning author and seasoned yoga teacher. He's taught yoga and performed at large scale yoga and music festivals across the globe.
Gabriel Harris
Sound Healing
Native of the San Francisco Bay Area and son of folk music icon Joan Baez. Gabriel grew up with a wide spectrum of musical influences and a strong sense of social justice. In his late teens Gabriel discovered and fell in love with traditional African drumming and music, and began his tutelage with the legendary Babatunde Olatunji, who embodied not just West African drumming, but the heart and soul that the tradition springs from.
Prajna Brianna Vieira and Mr. David (David Estes)
Kirtan
Prajna Brianna Vieira and Mr. David (David Estes) each bring over 25 years of Hindu devotional chanting practice and professional musicianship to their dynamic duo. They will present a traditional Bhakti Yoga kirtan practice including call-and-response chanting with the audience. Both performers lead, trading off on vocals, and playing different instruments — Prajna on harmonium and melodica, and David on Indian drum, chikari banjo, and acoustic guitar.
DJ Dragonfly
My DJing is always inspired by the belief that to dance is to be reminded that our bodies have something beautiful to express to music, and that our bodies are beautiful. And when you lose yourself to the rhythm, melody, frequency and tempo that You become the music, that YOU just might be music having a human experience.
Ken Martini
Downtempo DJ
Ken Martini has been DJing and curating downtempo spaces for decades. His approach emphasizes “emotional matching” rather than traditional beat matching, allowing for a rich diversity of musical styles and a broader range of movement expression. This kind of soundscape invites dancers into deep connection, with a shared sense of oneness naturally emerging. Step into this sublime space and experience altered states through music and movement.
Devi Daly
Yin Yoga Practice
With deep roots in the yogic path of healing and devotion, Devi Daly shares Yin Yoga as an embodied form of prayer. Over the past 25 years, she has quietly touched the lives of thousands of practitioners through her soulful classes, both in person and online. She taught for over a decade alongside MC Yogi at Point Reyes Yoga and now reaches a global community through her YouTube channel (70k+ subscribers) and Devi Daly Yoga app. At Sattva Fest, she’ll offer an immersive Somatic Yin Yoga practice – an inward journey that will invite you home to your heart, your breath, and the quiet wisdom within.
Denise Martini
Continuum Teacher
We will explore the fluid dynamics that we are as part cultural beings, part primordial soup, and part stardust through exploring various breaths, sounds, movement, and stillness in our central channel while opening to receive what’s available to us as we reside between the heavens and earth!
Tanvi Mongia
Classical Indian Dance Workshop & Performance
Tanvi Mongia trained as an Indian classical Bharatnatyam dancer since she was 5 years old and completed her Arangetram or “graduation” from dance when she was 16 under my guru, Madhusri Sethuraman. This art form is ancient and deeply reverent of the rich stories of Hindu gods and goddesses.
Mangalananda
Meditation
Mangalananda is a direct disciple of the great woman Saint, Shri Anandamayi Ma, who is written about in Yogananda’s book “Autobiography of a Yogi”. He began his spiritual life under the guidance of Swami Satchidananda (founder of Integral Yoga and Yogaville) and lived in one of his ashrams in 1972. After an inner experience with Anandamayi Ma, he travelled to India at the age of 19 to find her.