Festival Philosophy
What is Heart Festival?
Heart Festival is a uniquely heart-centred, family-friendly, retreat-style Yoga and Sacred Arts festival, that started in 2023. With world-class kirtan artists, musicians and DJs as well as beautiful yoga teachers, uplifting workshops, a whole Kid’s Area with its own programme and delicious veggie food cooked on site with pure love.
The Festival is not-for-profit with proceeds going to UK charity Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation who work with some of the poorest children and their families in Sri Lanka, Brazil, India, the USA & UK. The Heart of Living Yoga Foundation is a UK registered charity and yoga teacher training facility based in the UK with a world wide reach, founded by Padma Devi Sumananda. Heart Of Living Yoga is an interfaith tradition, honouring those of all faiths and paths.
Every body is welcome at Heart Festival!
We are a conscious festival dedicated to the path of the heart and peaceful living. Drug-free and child-friendly.
Our Values
Celebrating Unity In Diversity
We are open to diverse cultures and faiths.
We embrace everyone with compassion, respect, kindness and dignity — valuing all as unique expressions of the divine.
We value & support mutual relationships between people, animals and our whole planet to help build community as a real and sustainable human experience.
We honour the divine light within all hearts and act with compassion, honesty, integrity and love to inspire and enable each of us to shine.
We believe that…
One Light shines through all faiths.
One Light shines through all beings.
One Light shines through the entire Universe.
That Light is here as us.
That Light unites us as one family.
We are One.
One Heart, One Love, All One
You’re invited to join this loving community
grounded in Yoga and the Sacred Arts,
celebrating the Path of the Heart & the Joy of Life.
Embracing child-like delight and joyous celebration,
in heart to heart connection,
singing, dancing & playing
inspiring and uplifting each other
honouring our unique gifts
and living in harmony together.
May this Heart Festival be a microcosm
of the possible world
the world of peace and love,
the world of joy and light
the world in our hearts.
This world is alive
breathing within us all.
Let it be.