ST. GEORGE —An open heart and a willingness to receive are the only spiritual requirements to attend this energy-healing festival.
“In four days and three nights, people get to have exposure to more healing modalities than most people would be exposed to in a decade, or even their life,” Yin on Fire CEO Angel Lyn said.
Yin on Fire, A Collective Healing Festival Experience, will feature over 100 workshops and classes focused on healing the mind, body, heart and spirit. Yoga and dance instructors will teach attendees how to move their bodies for healing. Meditation, sound healing and fire dancing will take place, along with a vendor marketplace featuring art, drums, rattles and more by local artisans.
The festival will be staged on 65 acres of private land in Cedar City called Three Peaks Oasis. The land has been developed as a venue for concerts and festivals and features a man-made lake with a 200-foot water slide and a labyrinth.
“So we’re going to play, heal and grow,” Lyn said. “Our world is so stressed out and in so much fear, and when you play like a child, it opens your heart. Play is a big part of healing.”
While many may initially think of Yin on Fire as a “hippie drug fest” or a Burning Man environment, COO David Hatch said it’s quite the opposite. The goal is to be open-hearted, present and of sound mind. Anything that interrupts healing such as drugs and alcohol is strongly discouraged. No alcohol will be sold at the event.
“It’s a very elevating, wholesome environment where people can feel safe,” Hatch said. “Everybody’s healing journey is going to be different. But everybody’s on one whether they know it or not.”
The festival name – Yin on Fire – comes from the yin-yang symbol, which represents the male and female energy balance. While Lyn said everyone has both, feminine energy in both sexes has been suppressed, abused and wounded. The event aims to harmonize and unify the yin and the yang energies.
“The goal is to first identify and burn down old programming around what femininity is in both of us,” Lyn said. “Then to light it up, light on fire, light the passion so that men and women feel free to express and be in their feminine energy in whatever setting they’re in instead of masking or diminishing it.”
Behind Yin on Fire
Born and raised in St. George, Lyn said it wasn’t until she began to travel and live in other parts of the world that she discovered practices, beliefs and traditions she never knew existed.
“I just met healthy people,” she said. “Then coming back to America, I was perplexed. We have so much abundance, but we are not well.”
As a clinical therapist, she found herself drawn to holistic approaches. The more she learned, the more she wanted to know, and she left the clinical field to pursue meetings with global facilitators of healing. Wanting to share the magic of healing, an idea began to form.
“I had a vision – I guess you could say a dream – of all these people gathering in an outdoor area to teach modalities of healing for the mind, body, heart and spirit,” she said. “Coming from ancient and historical practices that have been working for peoples around the world for generations that we don’t know about in the Western world.”
She was blown away when she discovered those world-class educators and healing practitioners she sought lived in Southern Utah. She later learned that her vision for the Yin on Fire event was the same as the “transformational festivals” that have been taking place around the globe.
“I want a conscious, soul-sibling family reunion,” Lyn said. “And to me, that’s what it is. It’s the ultimate family reunion. But not by blood, it’s by the heart and soul. Where you can come and be accepted and be seen.”
Hatch, who comes from a corporate background, said it wasn’t until he and his wife experienced a health crisis that his world changed for the better. After traditional medicine failed, he began a journey into alternative forms of healing. Starting with hyperbaric therapy, which led to plant medicine, he began peeling off his own layers.
“We all need healing,” Hatch said. “This life creates all sorts of experiences that are both positive and that we need to heal from.”
Hatch and Lyn first connected through Saving Hearts Together, a Costa Rica organization that helps survivors of female trafficking to heal. When they met, he said it was a “cosmic conversation,” and the pair have been working together ever since.
Yin on Fire, A Collective Healing Festival Experience, will take place Sep. 14-17 at Three Peaks Oasis on Lund Highway in Cedar City. The event is open to women and men ages 18 and up. Day passes, General Admission and VIP passes are available. Dry camping is included and tents, RVs and trailers are welcomed. A list of participating nearby hotels offering discounts can be found here.
For details and tickets to Yin on Fire, visit their website. Follow @yinonfirefestival on Instagram and Facebook.
“It’s amazing,” Lyn said. “World-class knowledge that gets to be celebrated and we’re forming a network and a connection to continue. This is not just a one-time event. I believe it’s a launch of relationships of a new kind of reciprocity.”
Yin on Fire is sponsored by Fusion Pharmacy, Dixie Rocks & Fossils, Zion Massage College, Allies, Fulfill Life Yourself, One River Chiropractic and Desert Bloom Healthcare.
Photo Gallery
(L-R) Chief Visionary Officer Wendy Bunnell, Founder/CEO Angel Lyn, Director of Comunications Aubren Love, COO David Hatch and Brianna Anderson, Director of Social Media Marketing for Yin on Fire pose for a photo, location and date unspecified | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
The site of the Yin on fire features a man-made lake and a 200-foot water slide, Cedar City, Utah, date unspecified | Photo courtesy of threeeaksasis.com, St. George News
A labrynth is built at Three Peaks Oasis for the upcoming Yin on Fire festival in Cedar City, Utah, date unspecified | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
A girl enjoys an outdoor event at Three Peaks Oasis in Cedar City Utah, date unspecified | Photo courtesy of the Three Peaks Oasis Facebook page, St. George News
The Yin on Fire class workshop schedule for Friday, Sep. 15 is pictured | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
The Yin on Fire class workshop schedule for Friday, Sep. 15 is pictured | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
The Yin on Fire class workshop schedule for Saturday, Sep. 16 is pictured | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
The Yin on Fire class workshop schedule for Saturday, Sep. 16 is pictured | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
A flyer provides details about the upcoming Yin on Fire festival | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
Yin on Fire Founder and CEO Angel Lyn and COO David Hatch smile for a photo in St. George, Utah, Aug. 24, 2023 | Photo by Jessi Bang, St. George News
(L-R) Chief Visionary Officer Wendy Bunnell, Founder/CEO Angel Lyn, Director of Comunications Aubren Love, COO David Hatch and Brianna Anderson, Director of Social Media Marketing for Yin on Fire pose for a photo, location and date unspecified | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
A Yin on Fire festival map shows the location of various activities that will take place at Three Peaks Oasis in Cedar City, Utah | Photo courtesy of David Hatch, St. George News
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