Your one-week yoga adventure is waiting for you
The yunion Yoga Festival in Bad Hofgastein is Austria’s most comprehensive yoga festival. Imagine the largest and most diverse yoga retreat at the end of August, where you can participate in every conceivable yoga workshop. From August 23 to 29, 2027 (pre-festival / arrival: August 22, 2027), everyone from yoga beginners to teachers will gather in the Salzburg region to take part in over 100 workshops and seminars.
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Why this particular event?
Welcome, beginners, flow lovers, and teachers!
Jeder ist bei den yunion Events willkommen. Das ist Teil unserer Vision. Wir wünschen uns nicht mehr als Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene und Lehrerinnen zugleich zufrieden zu stellen.
Experience the whole world of yoga
Inside Flow, Yin Yoga, Alignment based Yoga und viele weitere Workshops gibt es in unserem Programm.
The Best Yoga Instructors
Die Headliner des diesjährigen yunion Yoga Festivals bestehen aus Matt Giordano, Mathieu Boldron, Celest Pereira und Adell Bridges. Yogalehrer auf Weltklasseniveau.
240 participants in 2025
yunion hat jahrelange Erfahrungen als Veranstalter, Festivallehrer und Teilnehmer. Beim letztjährigen Festival fanden sich 240 Teilnehmer in Bad Hofgastein zusammen.
A video is worth more than 1,000 pictures
Lineup
The best internationally renowned yoga teachers are at the yunion Yoga Festival. Not only do the headliners have a combined total of 1 million followers on Instagram, but they are also world-class teachers.
Program
There will be 108 workshops offered during the festival. The selection is so vast that you can create your perfect week. Here's a look at Wednesday's schedule for the Yoga Festival.
| Time | Flow Stage | Shavasana Shala | Hall of Bliss | Special Venue |
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| Morning Class | 8:00 - 9:00 Bea Horvath Inside Flow 🇩🇪 | 8:30 - 9:30 Conny Sturm Make Space Through the Side Body | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Matt Giordano Arm Balances: Flying Hip Openers | Robert Steinbacher HeartMath Meditation | Rebecca Jean Wong The Human Sphere and the Vitruvian Man | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Ditya Sari Inside Flow | Matt Giordano Shoulders: Boundless Freedom | Mathieu Boldron Move From Passion – An Embodied Vinyasa Journey | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Robert Steinbacher Breath Journey | Celest Pereira Stability Flow | Mathieu Boldron Trust the Unknown – Arm Balances & Inversions | |
| Evening Class | 17:00 - 19:00 Anna Herz Inside Flow: Behind the Scenes | 17:00-18:30 Celest Pereira Thoracic Spine Challenge | 17:00 - 18:00 Dachterrasse Hotel Blü Ditya Sari Restorative Spine & Vertical Devotion | |
| 21:45 - 22:30 | Mathieu Boldron Kirtan |
Location
The yunion Yoga Festival takes place at the Bad Hofgastein Convention Center, the Kursaal, the Gastein Alm, and outdoors. Be a part of it as we, dressed in yoga pants and armed with our mats, transform the Gastein Valley into a little yoga village.
5 Reasons to Go to the Festival
1. 240 participants in 2025
Österreichs größtes Yoga Retreat
Stell dir vor, es kommen 240 Teilnehmer zu einem Retreat und all' deine liebsten Yoga-Freunde sind dabei. Mittags über die Kurswahl zu ratschen und abends von den Workshops zu erzählen ist eine der schönsten Beschäftigungen des Festivals.
2. The Selection
108 Workshops über 7 Tage
Du findest deine deine perfekte Woche. Das Angebot ist so üppig, dass man sogar flexibel in seiner Pausengestaltung ist.
Ein Highlight in 2023: Das Gute Nacht Yoga mit Nicki Vellick
3. Social Life
Jeder ist Willkommen
Bester Ort zum socialn: Der Kaffeewagen von Daniel Nekola. Lerne genauso Yogabegeisterte wie dich kennen.
Beste Orte zum quatschen: Das Restaurant in der Gastein Alm oder die Kaffee Station von Baristas United
Beste Person zum quatschen: Hie's Mama
4. Learn from the best
yunion Steht für Qualität
Egal ob du die Namen kennst oder nicht: Alle Lehrer sind absolute Spitze. Das yunion Yoga Festival vertritt vor allem zwei Werte: Qualität und Toleranz.
Matt Giordano, Celest Pereira, Rebecca Rasmussen, Adell Bridges & Mathieu Boldron sind die diesjährigen Headliner des Festivals.
5. Social Media
Halte unvergessliche Erlebnisse fest
Wir haben Fotografen und Instagram-Beauftragte Helferinnen die das größte yunion Event mit (bewegt-) Bildern festhalten. Zeig deiner Community, dass am Puls der modernen Yogaszene bist.
Fahr einen Nachmittag auf die Schloßalm und mach ein paar Bilder wie Anna hier.
Es werden viele Bilder veröffentlicht noch während das Festival stattfindet.
All the Details at a Glance
When: August 23–29, 2027 (Pre-Festival / Arrival: August 22, 2027)
Where: Bad Hofgastein Convention Center, Tauernpl. 1, 5630, Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg Region, Austria
Other locations: Festalm and Kursaal in Bad Hofgastein, Austria
What: Up to 17 workshops daily across 6 time slots. A party/bar night with DJ Alessio three times a week. Massages, photo shoots, and coaching sessions are also available for booking.
Lineup: Hie Kim, Anna Herz, and many more.
Who’s it for: The yunion Yoga Festival is for everyone! Whether you’re a yoga beginner or a yoga teacher—everyone will have an unforgettable time here. Yunion stands for inclusion and tolerance. Our class schedule always indicates how challenging and physically demanding each class is, so you can determine the intensity of your yoga day yourself and create the perfect festival day just for you.
Services: Your event booking covers only the event itself. Hotel accommodations and meals are not included in the festival ticket. You can find exclusive special offers on accommodations at www.gastein.com
The organizer reserves the right to modify the offer at any time.
Yours, Host
The Bad Hofgastein Spa and Tourism Association is here to provide us—and you—with advice and support. Click here to access the Gastein.com booking portal. We ask that you refrain from using any other hotel booking portals, as this harms the small local hotels. By using the Gastein.com booking portal or booking directly with the hotels, you can be sure that you’re supporting the local hotels while also taking advantage of the discounted festival rates offered by the tourism association.
yunion—that’s Hie Kim and Anna Herz. The yunion brand brings together everything these two yoga teachers and authors love—yoga events, thoughtful design, exciting stories, and unique (yoga) moments with the best teachers. Because when it all comes together, the experience is always greater than the sum of its parts.
We are very excited to welcome you to this year's yunion Yoga Festival.
