Pioneering Wellness Programs take place June 10-13, 2022
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 ValleyWellness 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 Sun Valley Wellness Festival Celebrates 25 Years 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 25thanniversary 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.
Sun Valley Wellness Festival: 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 Paradoxand 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.
Submitted by CW Communications
