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August 14–16, 2026

Three Days. Two Nights.
One Question:

What do you want to awaken?

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Contemplation at the Nest Ira Schepetin Tom Luciano at Awakening Talks Krishna Das performing

WOCA welcomes you to our fourth-annual Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening, Friday through Sunday, August 14–16. Once again, ceremonies, performances, workshops, talks, readings and more will occur throughout the town of Woodstock and beyond, including all-day gatherings at the Bearsville on Saturday and Sunday.

This year Krishna Das and company on Saturday will headline our Kirtan marathon; there will be a dance gathering in the Bearsville Theater on that Saturday night; and we are introducing this year the Awakening Art Project, with installations of contemporary art in the Grove, where on August 16 we will feature a series of dance, literary and experimental music, live performances.

There will be dawn and dusk meditations, yoga, instruction and practice in various awakening schools, progressive causes, lots of good food and gatherings, great music (Kirtan, rock & more), plus other performance and other arts—and through it all the collective aspiration to awaken.

If you have a practice, product or art that rings with "awakening"—or want to volunteer or contribute to this fully accessible event—we welcome you to connect with the Festival. To find out more, see the lineups and images from Past Festivals.

How to Attend

Much of the Festival is free and by donation.

Festival Tickets

Early-Bird Full Festival Pass (200 passes available until June 15 or sold out)$95
General Admission, Saturday$50
Bearsville Theatre, Saturday$40
General Admission, Sunday$25

Prices do not include online ticketing service fees. The spirit is willing but the intermediaries take their cut.

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Three Days & Two Nights

This is a working schedule. Confirmed events are listed below; details will be added as artists and speakers are confirmed. Check back often. Click each day to see the schedule.

Friday, August 14

Opening: Consecration, Ceremony, Song & Dance

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5:30 – 8:00 PM
Gathering and Communal BreakBread Community Potluck
The Bearsville Park · $10 suggested donation
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Opening Ceremony and Altar Empowerment
The Bearsville Park · $10 suggested donation
Music, movement, and a fire and wishing ceremony.
9:00 – 11:00 PM
Ecstatic Dance with Mama India
Tinker Street Tavern · $10 suggested donation

Saturday, August 15

Bearsville Awakening: Krishna Das · Music Walk · Tribe of Love

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5:45 AM
Sunrise Chanting & Singing within Sacred Sound Chamber
Lenny’s Bee Happy Farm, 395 Wittenberg Road · donation
9:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Qi Gong, Chanting & More
Mothership Gallery · $10 suggested donation
Details TBD.
10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Awakening Panel/Talk
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 85 Tinker Street · $5 suggested donation
Details TBD.
12:00 – 7:00 PM (gates open 11:30)
Bearsville Awakening
The Bearsville Park & Grove, 291 Tinker Street · $55 day-of gate fee (contact WOCA for discounted entrance)
The heart of the Festival, all afternoon at the Bearsville:
  • Sacred Chant / Kirtan & Music — 12:00 – 7:00 PM (including Krishna Das & Nina Rao & more)
  • Awakening Talks — 12:00 – 5:00 PM (4 talks, TBD)
  • Movement by the Stream — 12:00 – 5:00 PM (Shakti Yoga, Qi Gong, Euphoria Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Meditation Movement & more)
  • Children’s Yoga — 12:15 – 7:00 PM (All-Ages Yoga, Movement for Union, Giggles and Ganesha, Krystal Kids, Eco-Yoga & more)
  • Healing Garden Market — 12:00 – 7:30 PM (tents, tables & sundry booths of people & groups at the forefront of wellness, healing & spiritual & community inquiry)
  • Awakening Art in the Grove — 12:00 – 7:00 PM (a relational art installation with 10 artists making outdoor works along a woodland path in conversation with the forest, each other, and the people who pass through)
  • Awakening Walks — 2:00 & 3:00 PM (The Grove)
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Woodstock Music Walk
From the bottom to the top of the town into the ether · suggested donation
8:00 – 10:30 PM (gates open 7:00)
Tribe of Love & Awakening Dance
Bearsville Theater
Dance gathering with Tribe of Love & others. Details TBD.

Sunday, August 16

Day of Wisdom, Medicine & Awakening Vision

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5:45 AM
Sunrise Chanting & Singing within Sacred Sound Chamber
Lenny’s Bee Happy Farm · donation
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (gates open 10:30)
Bearsville: Day of Wisdom, Medicine & Awakening Vision
The Bearsville, 291 Tinker Street · $30 day-of gate fee (contact WOCA for discounted entrance)
A full day at the Bearsville:
  • Sacred Sounds & Music — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (from choir to local music, Kirtan to chanting)
  • Awakening Talks — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (5 talks, TBD)
  • Healing Garden Market — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
  • Performances at Awakening Art in the Grove — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (a series of four performances integrating poetry, music, dance, and storytelling)
  • Movement by the Stream — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Shakti Yoga, Qi Gong, Euphoria Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Meditation Movement & more)
  • Awakening Ritual & Wisdom — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (blending Indigenous teachings, poetry, and storytelling)
  • Children’s Yoga — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (All-Ages Yoga, Movement for Union, Giggles and Ganesha, Krystal Kids, Eco-Yoga & more)
  • Awakening Walks — 1:00 & 3:00 PM (The Grove)
3:45 PM
Final Evocations and Closing Ceremony
Ritual de-consecration and releasing of altar and last propitiations.