Sun Valley Wellness Festival Celebrates 25 years Of Pioneering Wellness Programs
25th anniversary event to take place June 10-13, 2022
Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho……. The Sun Valley Wellness Festival (SVWF) has been on the forefront of the wellness movement for decades and its pioneering wellness programs have made a positive impact on thousands of individuals as well as the global and local community. The Festival will celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary June 10-13, 2022, in Ketchum, Idaho, with a theme of “Coming Home”, to explore how social health and well-being define the foundation of our collective wellness, illuminating what it really means to be a community.
Building on its history of highlighting inspired thought leaders, the 2022 Sun Valley Wellness Festival will feature over 30 pioneering presentations and workshops from leading wellness experts in fields including psychotherapy, plant-based medicine and nutrition, anxiety and mental health, yoga, mindfulness and more. The Festival will also offer a free outdoor Experience Park featuring vendors, music, food, and movement and yoga classes, as well as unique guided outdoor wellness adventures such as holistic hiking and mountain meditations.
According to Geneal Thompson, Sun Valley Wellness Board President, “Our 25th anniversary event will honor both the past and the future while grounded in the present moment. The lineup of our speakers is exceptional, and these renowned experts will address a variety of timely, leading-edge topics. Many new elements have been added to the event this year, including topical dinners, receptions, and gatherings with our speakers for Festival passholders to foster increased community and connection. We are excited to present a weekend that will be an invigorating and inspiring celebration of health and wellness for all.”
Festival Passes, for both in-person attendance and ‘Virtual SVWF Experience’ options, are available at www.sunvalleywellness.org. Passholders will have full access to all online session content through July 31, 2022. Individual tickets for the Sun Valley Wellness Festival speaker presentations will be offered if space is available. Special lodging rates are being offered by the Limelight Hotel in Ketchum, the 2022 SVWF Headquarters.
2022 Wellness Program Content
The Sun Valley Wellness Festival has long been known for bringing the best minds together to address leading-edge wellness topics and this year is no exception. The 2022 SVWF speakers will each address important current wellness research within their area of expertise including anxiety and mental health, psychedelic assisted therapy, meditation, and mindfulness, curing chronic illness through detox gut repair, plant-based healing, shame and recovery, financial wellness, intimacy, trauma therapy, astrological insights, and spiritual transformation. Speaker sessions will be held at the Argyros Performing Arts Center and the Limelight Hotel in downtown Ketchum.
2022 Sun Valley Wellness Festival featured speakers include:
Rich Doblin, PhD, Harvard-trained researcher and the founder of MAPS—the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
J Ivy, Award-winning poet, recording artist, songwriter, author, 2022 Grammy nominee for Best Spoken Word album
Steven Gundry MD, New York Times best-selling author of The Plant Paradox and The Longevity Paradox
Nora McInerny, writer, and host of the award-winning podcast, “Terrible, Thanks for Asking,” which shares ideas on navigating the most difficult parts of life and living life fully in the face of loss
Finian Makepeace, thought leader in the field of regenerative agriculture and soil health
Ellen Vora MD, a holistic psychiatrist and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety
Alejandro Junger MD, Cardiologist, founder of the CLEAN program, New York Times best-selling author
Preetthaji Krishna, philosopher, mystic, transformational leader, and co-founder of the O&O Academy
Gary Quinn, speaker, coach strategist, intuitive, author and educator on financial wellness
Darshana Avila, Somatic sex and intimacy coach, featured expert on Netflix’s Sex, Love and Goop
Austyn Wells, author, spiritual medium, and soul gardener
David Pond, astrologist, author, speaker, and international workshop leader
Alan Pesky, co-founder of the Lee Pesky Learning Center and author
Pirie Jones Grossman, author, speaker, podcast host, life empowerment coach
Britt Frank MSW, trauma specialist, therapist, and author
Claudia Alum, writer, co-author of More to Life than More; A Memoir of Misunderstanding, Loss, and Learning
Rod Stryker, world-renowned meditation teacher, yoga educator, author, and founder of Parayoga
Susan Springer, Episcopal priest, mystical theologist, writer, poet, and speaker
Wellness Experience Park and Outdoor Wellness Adventures
This free public experience, held outdoors in Festival Meadows in Sun Valley, has a chill vibe and features Festival Opening and Closing ceremonies, movement & mindfulness classes, music, a variety of carefully curated wellness products, hands-on wellness practitioners, healthy food vendors and a large, custom designed labyrinth that the public can use for mediation and reflection.
The Festival will also offer several guided small group outdoor wellness adventures in the beautiful natural mountain environment of the Sun Valley area including holistic hiking and mountain meditations.
About Sun Valley Wellness – Sun Valley Wellness Festival
Sun Valley Wellness is a non-profit wellness organization that brings together globally recognized, cutting-edge programming, speakers and experiences that inspire transformation via the four wellness pillars of Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment. Its flagship event is the Sun Valley Wellness Festival & Conference, held annually in Sun Valley/Ketchum, Idaho.
The Sun Valley Wellness Festival is recognized as one of the longest-running wellness festival in the world. The event started in the resort community of Sun Valley, Idaho in 1997, just as wellness was beginning as a movement. Created by a passionate group of local wellness experts and advocates, the goal was to provide a platform for inspiration and education on innovative wellness topics. The Festival was produced and managed by the Sun Valley/Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau until 2005 when the non-profit Sun Valley Wellness organization was created to assume responsibility of the event.
The Festival's ongoing commitment to excellence has led to steady growth of the event over the past two and a half decades and fostered Sun Valley’s reputation as a major wellness destination. The Festival's ability to attract top wellness speakers each year is a testament to its influence in the world of wellness. Past speakers include Elisabeth Gilbert, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Gregg Braden, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Vandana Shiva, Dr. James Doty, Glennon Doyle, J. Ivy, Dr. Abraham Verghese, Seth Cohen, MD, MSc, MC Yogi, Byron Katie, Rich Roll, Sharon Salzberg, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Colleen McCann, Dr. Zach Bush, Mark Nepo, Preetthaji, Kris Carr, Rebecca Rusch, Dr. Masaru Emoto, Toni Childs, Dr. Eben Alexander, Baptist De Pepe, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, Bea Johnson, Diana Nyad, Dr. Devra Davis, Dan Millman, Austyn Wells, Roshi Joan Halifax, Marianne Williamson, Robert Thurman, Arianna Huffington, Dr. John Medina and many others.
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