Zonte Yoga Festival Schedule & Registration

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Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:30pm CST

Garten Hotel

Tuqui Mancia
Twelve years ago, Tuqui found yoga and it quickly became her new lifestyle. Yoga was a tool she used to heal from lost connections, grief, and insecurities. This power of healing and connection is what still brings her to the mat every day. Tuqui is a 500-hour certified Yoga teacher and a Rocket Vinyasa teacher (level 2). She empowers her students to dig deeper in asana practice and physical body to discover their strengths. Her goal is for her students to face their fears and traumas, push through the discomfort, and then to find acceptance and comfort in the process.

She sticks to a daily routine of Ashtanga, Rocket or handstand practice and combines it with meditation, breath work and journaling. Besides her love of yoga and teaching, Tuqui loves to travel the world, exploring new places and people.
Learn more about Tuqui on instagram @tuquim

Rocket Blast Off
with Tuqui Mancia

Rocket Yoga is a dynamic Vinyasa class that allows people to move at their own rhythm. It gives practitioners a space for creativity while maintaining the traditional aspects of breath, drishti, alignment, and bandhas. Rocket allows you to have fun, allows you to challenge yourself , and allows you to modify each pose to suit your needs.

Come play!

Thursday, 5:30 - 7:30pm CST

Hotel Michanti

Nelson BalaréPassionate about dance since 2002, Nelson has shared the stage with the national dance company and the San Salvador Ballet, he is currently the director of the Balaré dance academy with which they have obtained various international and… — Nelson Balaré
Passionate about dance since 2002, Nelson has shared the stage with the national dance company and the San Salvador Ballet, he is currently the director of the Balaré dance academy with which they have obtained various international and national awards.
Learn more about Nelson on Instagram @balare_academy

Bachata/Salsa Workshop
with Nelson Balaré

In this 2 part footwork workshop, you will learn the fundamentals, explore movements of the body and the expression of emotion. The first hour is Dominican bachata The second hour is cuban salsa.

Let's have fun and dance!!

Friday, 7:00 - 8:30am CST

Palo Verde Hotel

Kimberly Ariella
A diaspora Salvadoran born in California, Kimberly Ariella is a global builder of communities and a believer in growth. She is a Wellbeing Guide and Yoga Teacher who believes that wellness can be a restorative force of healing and connection in our world. Teaching in school classrooms, community gatherings and retreats since 2016, she is passionate about embodied practice and experiential learning, Kimberly Ariella integrates ancient teachings with modern psychology to reimagine wellbeing. She holds a 200 hr certification in Yoga Education from The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India, and a certificate in Mindfulness and Wellbeing Strategy. In recent years, Kimberly Ariella sought to address the growing need for mental health support and healing and began facilitating mindfulness education spaces to help people develop closer relationships to themselves and their bodies. Happy to be back home in El Salvador, she is thrilled to expand her wellness community familia! In her classes, Kimberly Ariella offers opportunities to deepen awareness of yourself and the world around you through breathing practices and intentional movement.
Learn more about Kimberly on instagram @kimberlyariella

Mindful Movement & Memory
with Kimberly Ariella

So much of who we are is a reflection of the ancestors we came from whom are alive within us at any given moment. Connecting to our bodies is a way to access our personal and collective histories. There we can discover our gifts as well as build an awareness around what is important to us or what needs healing. This special class will be dedicated to these connection points through intentional yoga movement, visualization meditation and breathing practices. See you on the mat for an embodied journey through time!

Friday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm CST

Garten Hotel

Katrin Schiskin
Swedish-Venezuelan Katrin is a RYT 500 yoga teacher that went to India to get her certifications and soak up the essence of everything that yoga has to offer. Having grown up as a gymnast she has accumulated extensive experience in both strengthening and stretching poses; often using yoga as a complement to drive results in other sports students are engaged in. She has been teaching since 2016. In her yin or restorative classes, you get to relax to the max in stretchy poses that we hold to the tunes of relaxing music getting you ready for an awesome night’s sleep. Katrin’s vinyasa style include playful transitions while always keeping focus on alignment to ensure a safe and beneficial practice. Connecting with your breath and reaping the benefits of it is also of essence in Katrin’s teaching.
Learn more about Katrin on instagram @katrin_yoginomad

Playful Creative Flow
with Katrin Schiskin

Loosen up your hips in this playful flow where we will go through creative transitions and explore all corners of the mat. By changing perspectives, we let creativity flow and open our minds to new paths in life! This class is for those who have practiced some yoga previously to the seasoned yogi.

Friday, 7:30 - 9:00 pm CST

Balancé (El Tunco)

Lindsay Gonzalez
Lindsay Gonzalez, E-RYT 500 is known for her keen understanding of breathwork practices, body alignment and her ability to empower her students to live fully. Lindsay manages Balancé Yoga Retreat Center in El Salvador. She is a teacher trainer, an intuitive guide, Reiki practitioner and a lifelong student of Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda. She facilitates private and group Transformational Breathwork meditations and ceremonies to release physical and mental blockages.
Learn more about Lindsay on Instagram @lindsaygonzalezyoga

Somatic Integration Restorative Yoga
with Lindsay Gonzolez

Somatic Integration Restorative Yoga is all about developing a relationship with your body and learning to listen to what it's communicating to you. We will follow the method of positioning, pausing and breathwork. From an Ayurvedic perspective, this practice will bring you back to your Prakriti. The goal is to move through what may feel “stuck” or stagnant. This practice is great for pregnancy!

Saturday, 7:00 - 8:30 am CST

Esencia Nativa

Ligia Jimenez
Ligia Jimenez (RYT 500) finds in yoga an understanding of balance and she wishes to share this through her guided classes. Her personal practice is rooted in Ashtanga yoga and she explores movement in this practice to flow and create. Being a DJ and sound healer, she chooses to include sound as a channel for overall balance: physical and energetic.
Learn more about Ligia on instagram @ligykun

Meditation and Soundbath
with Ligia Jimenez

Immersing into the vibrations of Tibetan Singing Bowls, receiving and allowing yourself to enter a meditative healing state. Returning from the soundbath through a sitting meditation to allow the downloads to process.

Saturday, 10:30am - 12:00 pm CST

Puro Surf Hotel

Fiona Joyce
Fiona's passion for mental and physical wealth has been a constant throughout her life. Through fitness she supported people with their physical wealth, through life coaching their mental wealth and through yoga the opportunity to bring it all together. Now a 500 RYT with the Yoga Alliance, Fiona first came across yoga over 20 years ago but preferred the intensity of weight training, HIIT and spin classes which she taught and practiced. Rather than arriving in yoga in a zen-like haze, she slid in sideways somewhat broken from all that intensity and needing to heal! Fast forward 10 years and Fiona's training now includes Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini and Restorative yoga styles. Her background in fitness and coaching allows her to design sequences that challenge, restore or heal as required, weaving in pranayama and meditation to build maximum impact.
Learn more about Fiona on instagram @elyogasv

Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
with Fiona Joyce

Masculine and Feminine energies flow through the practice of yoga, with some areas being more masculine in nature, whilst others more feminine. This workshop explores the 3 main energy lines through the body and shows how we can use different mantra, pranayama, asana and meditation to balance them. We will also take a look at how these energies impact the nervous system and therefore, our everyday lives.

Saturday, 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST

Garten Villas

Katrin Schiskin
Swedish-Venezuelan Katrin is a RYT 500 yoga teacher that went to India to get her certifications and soak up the essence of everything that yoga has to offer. Having grown up as a gymnast she has accumulated extensive experience in both strengthening and stretching poses; often using yoga as a complement to drive results in other sports students are engaged in. She has been teaching since 2016. In her yin or restorative classes, you get to relax to the max in stretchy poses that we hold to the tunes of relaxing music getting you ready for an awesome night’s sleep. Katrin’s vinyasa style include playful transitions while always keeping focus on alignment to ensure a safe and beneficial practice. Connecting with your breath and reaping the benefits of it is also of essence in Katrin’s teaching.
Learn more about Katrin on instagram @katrin_yoginomad

Flow your way upside down
with Katrin Schiskin

In this flow we will work our way up through our inversions. Building up with some core and shoulder strengthening exercises we will end up exploring a wide range of inversions like headstand, funky pincha, and handstand. At times we will pause to get some more time to practice the poses.

Saturday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm CST

Garten Hotel

Fátima Domínguez
Yoga came to my life during my early 20's, years that I struggled with self confidence. Through my practice I became more accepting and grateful with myself. In 2018 I got certified in Rishikesh (200hr Ashtanga and Hatha), since then I've been teaching full time. I want to share my practice to promote confidence, self love and empowerment.
Learn more about Fátima on instagram @fatima.dominguez.yoga

All You Need is (Self) Love
with Fátima Domínguez

In this chest opening sequence we will be inviting love and healing. We will work on strengthening, lengthening and releasing the shoulders. This practice will be adapted to the student’s levels, followed by guided meditation, will use words to promote self love.

Saturday, 7:30 - 9:30pm CST

Balancé (El Tunco)

Lindsay Gonzalez
Practice with Lindsay: Lindsay is known for her keen understanding of Breathwork practices, Ayurvedic studies, body alignment, sense of humor and ability to empower her students to live fully. With over two decades of experience in her field she is the founder of OJAS Collective Yoga School guiding 200 & 300 teacher training programs. You will find Lindsay guiding in person classes and events at Balancé Surf & Yoga in El Salvador.
On the subtle side, Lindsay is an intuitive guide and a student of Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy. She studies the healing modality of Transformational Breathwork and leads group and private Breathwork experiences.
Learn more about Lindsay on instagram @lindsaygonzalezyoga

Transformational Breathwork Journey
with Lindsay Gonzalez

Our breath is our most under-estimated gift that offers us the potential to RADICALLY TRANSFORM OUR LIFE.
A Breathwork Journey can help to boost your immune system, balance hormones, release subconscious anxiety patterns, release stress and trauma from a cellular level, move through grief and so much more!

Sunday, 7:30 - 8:30am CST

Esencia Nativa

Katrin Schiskin
Swedish-Venezuelan Katrin is a RYT 500 yoga teacher that went to India to get her certifications and soak up the essence of everything that yoga has to offer. Having grown up as a gymnast she has accumulated extensive experience in both strengthening and stretching poses; often using yoga as a complement to drive results in other sports students are engaged in. She has been teaching since 2016. In her yin or restorative classes, you get to relax to the max in stretchy poses that we hold to the tunes of relaxing music getting you ready for an awesome night’s sleep. Katrin’s vinyasa style include playful transitions while always keeping focus on alignment to ensure a safe and beneficial practice. Connecting with your breath and reaping the benefits of it is also of essence in Katrin’s teaching.
Learn more about Katrin on instagram @katrin_yoginomad

Empowering Rise and Shine Meditation
with Katrin Schiskin

Attend this rise and shine meditation to clear your mind and create a sense of empowerment for the classes at the festival and the day to come. Sometimes we just need that little nudge to make ourselves realize the power we have within. In this meditation we will unlock your full potential and make sure you shine!

Sunday, 9:00 - 10:30am CST

Puro Surf Hotel

Noémie Tremblay
Noémie from Canada, certified fitness trainer since 2020 and U.Natural instructor since 2022, started traveling a couple of years ago and felt in love with the tropical and surf lifestyle. For me, it's a way of living that promotes health and movement in a beautiful environment, something I strongly believe in. I love to train because it makes me feel strong both physically and mentally. My goal is to share that with other people. I think movement is an essentail pilar to living a happy life.
Learn more about Noémie on instagram @noemie_tremblay

Body Weight Workout
with Noémie Tremblay

This will be a high intensity full body sweaty workout, with a mix of cardio strength and functional movements. We will explore some natural movement, to improve mobility, flexibility and coordination. No equipment needed, just your body and your good vibes!

Sunday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CST

Puro Surf Hotel

Melissa Salazar
Melissa is a sports, health and fitness enthusiast, and is very fond of practices that improve one´s overall physical and inner wellbeing. she obtained her 200-hour YTT certification through The Light Warriors United program with focus on Vinyasa style. She sought out yoga teacher training to learn more, and not with the specific intention to instruct. But, when she realized that the yoga experience can be so rich and profound in one´s life, she felt inspired to share this goodness with the rest of the world. She enjoy’s being on the mat and loves to experience yoga through the lens of both the teacher and the student. Melissa’s classes are designed to be accessible for everybody and she likes to teach with flow sequences that bring awareness to your breath and body.
Learn more about Melissa on instagram @soul2soulyoga

Hips Don’t Lie
with Melissa Salazar

Cultivate flexibility in your hips and release any stuck energy from your body. The hips are the storage drawer of unprocessed emotions and memories. Clean out those drawers by opening the hips and ground into strong legs. This vinyasa practice will focus on warming the body through flow and breath. It will begin in fundamental postures that bring space and ease into the hips, before moving into a hip-opening sequence that works up to postures like lizard, pigeon and crow.

Sunday, 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST

Bambu Studio

Andi Jane Adams
Andi Jane has artfully bridged the SAL (standard American life) to a heart-centered life. She attributes her opening and transformation to potent somatic practices. Her primary modalities are energy work and Dance as Medicine. Andi Jane is a Reiki Master and has held containers for meditation, lunar rituals, and energetic clearings. Andi Jane has a masters in Organizational Behavior and is currently completing her masters in Transpersonal Psychology where she intends to establish a counseling practice guiding others back to their bare essence.
Learn more about Andi on instargram @andiiijane

Elemental Awareness Through Dance and Movement
with Andi Jane Adams

The elements are a power guide. Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Ether

In this class, we will learn how to identify our element makeup and how we can harness it to navigate our internal terrain. Utilizing guided somatic practices, breath, and music, we will move with each element paying attention to where we move with ease and where we get stuck.

Sunday, 5:00 - 7:00 pm CST

Looking 2 Good Hotel

Sunset Session
with Zonte Yoga Community

After a week full of stretching, laughing, breathing and sharing together, let’s celebrate together as the sun goes down.

Bring your friends.

Zonte Yoga Festival FAQs

Where are the classes being held?
- You can see all of the festival locations at the map found here. Please note: Balancé Yoga is located in El Tunco.
How do I pay?
- After you sign up via the form above, you’ll receive an email with payment instructions. Your registration is confirmed once we receive payment. Payment can be made via Paypal, bank transfer or cash pre-payment. We will not be accepting payment at the festival classes.
When should I arrive for my class?
- We greatly value the experience of our guests and instructors. As such, we ask that you arrive a few minutes before each class. We know, life happens. If you happen to be a little late, you can quietly join at the back of the session. Unfortunately we can’t let you into the class if you are more than 10 minutes late.
What should I bring to my class?
- Please bring your yoga mat and any additional needed props you like to use (i.e. meditation cushion, mat towel, block(s), strap(s), blanket(s), etc...). Make sure you bring a water bottle to hydrate. We will have some mats available if you do not have your own.
What is the Refund Policy?
- All ticket sales are final and non refundable. No refunds will be issued for any reason including, but not limited to; weather, epidemic, fire, action of the elements, governmental order or order of any other legally constituted authority, act of God or the public enemy, war, riot or any other reason beyond Zonte Yoga Festival’s control (collectively ‘Force Majeure’).
Still have questions? Please contact zonte.yoga@gmail.com and we’ll respond as soon as possible.