the 2025 festival AUGUST 8-10

The Woodstock Center for Awakening, a New York-based, not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, is dedicated to the exploration of awakening in all its forms and to be an event-driven intersection where people and groups may find each other, learn together, and thrive through building community. At the Woodstock Center we say, “We are not what we think,” and sense that the broad, planetary acceptance of this understanding may prove humanity’s salvation. While holding open space for realization along spiritual lines, we aim to increase thresholds of peace, love, equanimity and alignment through communion, example and instruction. We seek to assemble a host of healing radicals and to enact earthly and social awareness, conscious activism and personal growth. Through connecting with local people and organizations engaged in healing modalities and the arts, our intention is to be a positive “center for awakening” in the Catskills and beyond, open to all who find us and whom we will meet wherever they are in their path. Through our myriad endeavors, we seek to foster dialogue, empowerment and social responsibility and to contribute to the well-being and development of Woodstock and beyond. Learn more here. We are the sponsoring organization of the annual Woodstock Festival of Awakening.

A live musical performance at The Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening, with musicians playing various instruments on an outdoor stage, decorated with colorful artwork and a banner overhead, and an audience seated on the grass.
A group of people standing together outside in front of a house with a banner and flags, some dressed in casual clothing and others in traditional Buddhist robes, celebrating community or culture.
Three people standing outside a building, two wearing maroon robes and one in red dress, with a person playing guitar. Two other photos show a woman with short black hair smiling and waving, and a man with white hair and a woman with short curly hair sitting and smiling indoors.
An elderly man with long white hair, beard, glasses, and a straw hat sits on a porch holding a book titled 'Awaken Children.' Next to him, an elderly woman with gray hair, wearing reflective sunglasses, a colorful scarf, and red patterned clothing, holds a smartphone. They are seated in front of a window with trees visible outside, with a vase of yellow flowers on the table in front of them.
Crowd of people gathered outdoors at a festival, some seated on the grass and others standing, clapping and taking photos, with tents and trees in the background.
An elderly woman wearing a colorful flower crown and traditional clothing, with her hands in prayer, surrounded by people in vibrant traditional costumes inside a room decorated with crafts and textiles.