Jump-Start Your Journey to Healthier Living in Sun Valley
March 2015
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Jump-start Your Journey to Healthier Living in Sun Valley
18th Sun Valley Wellness Festival features top speakers, workshops, music and more
May 22-25, 2015
Sun Valley, ID…..Jump-start your journey to healthier living at the 18th annual Sun Valley Wellness Festival, one of the premiere wellness events in the US. The four day conference, held at the famous Sun Valley Resort on May 22-25, 2015, features the country’s top wellness speakers with more than 30 presentations and workshops addressing diverseaspects of body, mind, spirit and environmental wellness. The festival also offers Movement Classes, a Wellness Experience Hall, music, film and more. The 2015 keynote speakers are Elisabeth Gilbert, internationally-acclaimed best-selling author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, spiritual visionary Panache Desai, and Mark Nepo, highly-regarded spiritual writer, poet and philosopher.
Leading off the long list of impressive, nationally-renowned speakers is the featured keynote Elizabeth Gilbert, best known for her memoir Eat, Pray, Love. The book was an international bestseller, with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. Gilbert delivers the headline keynote address on Friday, May 22nd entitled“Big Magic: Thoughts on Creative Living”. The beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her own wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. She offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives.
Other keynote speakers include Panache Desai and Mark Nepo. Desai, a contemporary thought leader and author delivers the Saturdayevening keynote address, “Living A Soulful Life - Practical Tools for Mastering the Material World”. Following his address Desai will headline an evening of music and dancing with festival speaker and Comedian Kyle Cease as MC and performance by hip-hop artist, poet, and festival speaker J. Ivy.
Mark Nepo, esteemed poet, teacher, and storyteller, delivers the Sunday, March 24thevening keynote address entitled “Heartwork - Being A Spirit in the World”. Nepo’s keynote will explore the difficult and rewarding aspects of being human, including how to restore our trust in life, when suffering makes us lose our way; how to begin the work of saying yes to life, so it can enlighten us; and how to make our inwardness a resource and not a refuge.
Other top 2014 Sun Valley Wellness Festival speakers include:Glennon Doyle Melton, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Carry On, Warrior and founder of the on-line community Momastery.com, plant-powered wellness advocate, bestselling author, and ultra-athlete Rich Roll, author, speaker and Huffington Post regular Agapi Stassinopoulos, neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander, bio-energetic medicine and quantum field visionary zero waste life style leader Bea Johnson, author and un-schooling advocate Ben Hewittand many more.
Movement Studio Experience Hall: In addition to the exceptional line up of speakers and workshops, the Sun Valley Wellness Festival will offer a Movement Studio with a variety of ongoing classes with a focus on various types of movement and yogapracticestaught by outstanding teachers, TheExperience Hallruns all weekend and features wellness products and hands on experiences with wellness practitioners. Attendees can get a massage, reflexology, have an intuitive reading, or try a henna tattoo. The Experience Hall is free and open to the public throughout the festival.
Workshops:
Over 30 different workshops will be offered by Festival speakers and other experts throughout the day on Friday and Monday, covering a wide range of topics on Mind, Body and Spirit Wellness.
Other Festival Events:
The Festival will also feature aspecial film screening on Thursday; The Power of the Heart. From the director of The Secret,comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your heart. Featuring some of the most inspiring and influential icons of our age including festival keynote speaker Mark Nepo, Paulo Coelho, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende, and Eckhart Tolle. Producer Baptist de Pape will be present for a question and answer following the film. Baptist de Pape is also one the Sun Valley Wellness Festival speakers.
New this year the festival will feature a dance and music party. The event will follow the Saturday night keynote Panache Desai, and will take place at the Boiler Room. Following his address Desai will headline an evening of music and dancing with festival speaker and Comedian Kyle Cease as MC and performance by hip-hop artist, poet, and festival speaker J. Ivy. Cost of admission is included in the keynote ticket. Entry without a keynote ticket is $10 at the door.
For those who want to mix in some outdoor fun, the Sun Valley area, located amidst the spectacular Idaho Rockies, is full of opportunities for outdoor recreating including hiking, biking, fishing, rafting, golf and more. The community also has a vibrant arts and cultural scene that is world-class.
Tickets/Events Schedule: Passes and ticketsfor the Sun Valley Wellness Festivalcan be purchased online at where a complete schedule of events is available. Special Wellness Festival lodging rates at the Sun Valley Resort start atjust $135.To make lodging reservations call 1-800-786-8259 and ask for the Wellness Festival rates.
About the Sun Valley Wellness Institute:
The Sun Valley Wellness Festival is produced by the non-profit Sun Valley Wellness Institute, which promotes year-round programs on health and wellness through its online wellness directory and calendar of events.
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Media Contact: Carol Waller, CW Communications, , 208-720-3965