Moonlight Yoga Festival
- Dates
- Next edition to be announced
- Status
- No word yet
- Venue
- Death Valley Starcamp, Eastern Sierra Observatory's Panamint Valley event space
- Price
- Not announced
- Camping
- Available
- Last checked
- Sep 3, 2026
Moonlight Yoga Festival in Panamint Valley, CA is not currently confirmed to be running. Froligo tracks its status, history and similar festivals still happening.
What happened to Moonlight Yoga Festival?
The Moonlight Yoga Festival ran its second edition on March 26 to 29, 2026 at the Eastern Sierra Observatory's Panamint Valley site, on Death Valley's doorstep. No next edition has been announced. The organizer's own events page publishes a 2027 calendar listing the Great Orion Dark Sky Festival on March 4 to 7, the Perseids Meteor Shower Festival on August 12 to 15 and the California Dark Sky Festival on October 28 to 31, and the Moonlight Yoga Festival is not among them. The Ticket Tailor box office for the festival returns no listed events. The festival page itself has not been updated since the 2026 edition and still advertises last chance tickets.
It ran from 2025 to 2026, 2 editions in all.
Similar festivals that are still going ahead are listed further down this page.
What it stands for
The festival names three principles: self reliance, conservation and the nurturing cosmos. Self reliance means bringing your own camp setup, food and water, and packing out everything you bring in. Conservation is argued concretely: the organizer points out that an average ten minute low flow shower uses 20 gallons, suggests filling a solar bag with one to two gallons instead, and says carrying your own shower water shows you how little you actually need in an arid area shared with millions of people. The nurturing cosmos is the dark sky itself, with the hosted telescope offered as a way to look closely at what the organizer calls our celestial neighbours. The stated aim is an immersion in nature through a primitive desert setting
The experience
What's special
A small four day yoga gathering on 80 acres of private desert on the doorstep of Death Valley, built around the moon as much as the mat. Classes run at twilight, sunrise, sunset and under moonlight, with sound baths, nidra, breathwork and guided meditation between them, and a hosted telescope trained on the moon, Jupiter and Saturn each night. Optional add-ons are aerial silks and lyra workshops and sauna and cold plunge sessions from Mammoth Sauna Company. There is a SHIFTPOD Moon Temple, an elixir bar, market booths, desert art installations and a food truck on at least one evening. Camping on the land is included in the ticket, the middle of each day is left open for trips to Death Valley, the Trona Pinnacles and Darwin Falls, and there is no water or power on site
The practice
Who it's for. No level guidance is published for the classes themselves. The organizer is direct about the setting rather than the practice: attendees should be prepared to be one with nature and to rough it a bit in a primitive desert with no water and no electricity. Aerial silks and lyra workshops are described as beginner add-ons
Guided lying-down meditation on the edge of sleep. No movement at all.
Slow, exploratory movement focused on how it feels rather than how it looks.
Beyond the mat
- meditation
- guided meditation
- twilight meditation
- sound bath
- nidra
- breathwork
- aerial silks
- lyra
- sauna and cold plunge
- telescope viewing and stargazing
- desert art installations
Styles named as the festival itself describes them.
Programme
Programme is the tentative schedule published for the March 2026 edition
12 sessions across the weekend. Open any strand.
Special events & ceremoniesopen
- Hosted telescope viewing of the moon, Jupiter and SaturnAstronomy
- SHIFTPOD XL Moon Temple
Classes & workshopsopen
- Sunset rising moon yoga sessionYoga
- Evening soundbathSound healing
- Twilight meditationMeditation
- Sunrise yoga sessionYoga
- Morning yoga sessionYoga
- Evening yoga and sound bathYoga / sound healing
- Sauna & cold plunge session by Mammoth Sauna Company (optional add-on)Contrast therapy
- Beginner aerial silks and lyra workshop (optional add-on)Aerial silks and lyra · M Hundley
- Elixir Bar
- Market booths
Accessibility & comfort
What the organiser or venue publishes about getting around, and what they do not.
The Eastern Sierra Observatory, which runs this festival, publishes no accessibility statement, no ADA page and no companion or carer ticket policy anywhere on its site; the words accessible, wheelchair, ADA and mobility do not appear on the festival page, the venue page or the site FAQ.
Read the full notes
What it does publish is a detailed set of facts that are themselves decisive access constraints, and they all point the same way. Getting there: the organiser writes, "The last 8 miles to get to the location are on a county maintained dirt road which any vehicle can navigate." Facilities on site: the organiser writes, "There is no water or electricity onsite.
The restrooms consist of several clean porta-potties along with hand sanitizer. There will be multiple tent-shower stations onsite which one can utilize with a simple solar heated shower bag or any other favorite camp-shower methods." Nothing is published about whether any porta-potty is an accessible unit, and nothing is published about accessible parking, drop off, or a step free route to any practice area.
Surface, which for a yoga festival is the whole question: the organiser writes, "You should bring a yoga mat that you’re comfortable with setting on the bare desert ground (hard/medium packed sandy surface)." and, separately, "The landscape varies between a hard and softer sandy surface." Practice is therefore on bare desert, outdoors, with camping dispersed across 80 acres of private land in your own tent, van or RV, and the organiser states there are no RV hookups.
There is no shuttle; you drive yourself in. Nothing is published about chair yoga, adaptive practice, teacher modifications, ASL or any quiet or low sensory space. A disabled reader should treat every access question here as unanswered and ask the organiser directly before committing, because the published picture is a primitive off grid desert camp reached by 8 miles of dirt road
Checked the festival page in full, the site sitemap.xml (no /accessibility, /ada, /info, /plan-your-visit or equivalent exists), the Death Valley Starcamp venue page, the site FAQ (which states it covers only the Bishop observatory, not the Panamint Valley site), and the SHIFTPOD page. Ran a web search for the festival name plus accessibility, which surfaced nothing beyond the organiser's own page. Contact route to ask: [email protected] or 760-387-3005. It previously recorded that a SHIFTPOD XL Moon Temple is set up on site. The festival page does list a SHIFTPOD Moon Temple, but only as one bullet in a run of features alongside the elixir bar, food truck and market booths; the words quiet and sensory do not appear anywhere on the page, and no siting or function is published. Because that field renders under a Quiet and support heading in the accessibility block, the entry implied a low sensory refuge that nothing published supports
Confirm your specific needs with the organiser's access team before you travel.
Checked 2026-09-03 · source
What it costs
Stay packages
Included for all attendees. Bring your own tent, RV, camper van or camp setup. No hookups..
Festival passes (Festival ticket) are sold through the official checkout, where the current prices are shown.
What to bring
A full weekend of practice is easier with your own kit. What earns its place in the bag:
Your own matRentals sell out and shared mats are thin. Bring a grippy, cushioned mat you trust for a full weekend of practice.
Shop options
Water and electrolytes
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Teachers & presenters
Instructor list from the March 2026 edition, published with a 'More coming soon!' line. No roster exists for a future edition
Market booths
Market booths featuring handmade jewelry and wellness products. The organizer invites new booth enquiries by email
- Lucid Empires
- Mammoth Sauna Company
Getting there
Nearest airport Las Vegas Harry Reid (LAS) or Los Angeles area airports; both are long drives. The nearest towns of any size are Ridgecrest and Lone Pine..
How do I get to Moonlight Yoga Festival?
By car
Most people drive to Moonlight Yoga Festival. The nearest major airport is Las Vegas Harry Reid (LAS) or Los Angeles area airports; both are long drives. The nearest towns of any size are Ridgecrest and Lone Pine., and from there it is a straightforward drive to the venue. Check current road and traffic conditions before you set off, and see parking below.
By train
No direct passenger rail to the venue was found. Drive, fly in, or use a shuttle instead.
By bus & public transit
No scheduled intercity bus or public transit route to the venue was found. Drive, fly in, or use a shuttle instead.
Taxi & rideshare
Taxis and rideshare such as Uber and Lyft can be limited near the venue, especially late at night or in rural areas. Agree a pickup point and time in advance and keep a backup plan.
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Where
Venue
Death Valley Starcamp, Eastern Sierra Observatory's Panamint Valley event space
Camping & Accommodation
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