About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
AWAKE Festival is all about leading you back to the truth of who you are in connective, joyful and uplifting spaces. Here you’ll find crystal clear teachings and practices of yoga, meditation wellness. You’ll discover like-minded community. Before the festival, we host lead up events with partner wellness outlets, one day mindfulness retreats and so much more. For the annual festival you’ll get to explore the music, dancing, yoga and wellness practices available right here in Colorado. Meet our incredible teachers and musicians, explore our vendors, food options, places to stay/camp and so much more. You are loved and welcomed here at AWAKE and we can’t wait to practice with you!
Meet The Team
Erik Vinneau
Erik is the founder of AWAKE Mindful Living. He offers Wisdom-
Tradition Therapy sessions in beautiful Evergreen, CO. Erik has more than 20 years of mindful living practice and is a graduate of Naropa University 's unique and highly sought-after Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling Program. Erik is dedicated to meeting you where you are along the path of wellness to offer you guidance and support to create a more peaceful and health filled life.
Erik's passion for Buddhist Studies, meditation, yoga and a healthy lifesyle helps him to re-discover his own peaceful nature each day and fuels his ability to share counseling and meditation practices with others. The driving force behind Erik's life is to show others they are pure potential and not the self-limiting thoughts that our minds often generate.
Erik started the AWAKE Festival in 2021 to help inspire mindfulness in others.
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Lauren Adamo
Lauren has been working to co-create the AWAKE Festival since its inception. For over 25 years, yoga has been a practice in Lauren’s life. When she started “doing” yoga, it seemed like it was the only form of exercise that worked for her. Lauren has come to realize the deep importance of yoga in her own life as a spiritual, emotional, and physical system to connect body, mind and spirit, and she joined the festival team to help bring that to others.
She completed Saul David Raye’s Atma Yoga teacher training in 2017. Lauren is known for her heart centered, body-aligned teaching style. She applies ancient wisdom to our contemporary western world in a useful way. Lauren weaves thought-provoking meditations and pranayama throughout her classes. She will be teaching at the festival, in addition to handling all things logistics.
Nancy Harrington
Nancy, a native of Colorado with roots in Southern Colorado, She describes herself as a "recovering corporate ladder climber" who, after 13 years in the stressful retail management industry, sought a more fulfilling way of life.
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Her journey began with CorePower Yoga in Chicago, and since then, Nancy has pursued various training programs both in the United States and abroad. She's delved into disciplines such as Sivananda Yoga, Iyengar Style Yoga, Real Evolution Yoga, Ayurveda, Yoga Barre, Vipassana Meditation, Trauma-Informed Healing, Thai Massage, Restorative Breathwork, Reiki, Ecstatic Dance, Life Coaching Certification, and Assisted Stretch Certificate.
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With her business and project management background, coupled with her knowledge of wellness, Nancy has found a unique niche as a Yoga Business Consultant. For us, she is our Sales and Marketing Director and will also be teaching at the festival.
Genesis Larsen
Genesis is a Colorado native, mother and student with a passion for knowledge. She is currently studying clinical psychology with a focus on mindfulness and psychedelic therapy. She has an immense passion in teaching others about mindfulness and helping them be their best selves. She has studied Tantra in Ecuador for two months and traveled to Peru to study plant medicine. Genesis is all about new experiences so she can better assist others. She would like to open up her own plant medicine therapy practice in Costa Rica someday.
She's been teaching yoga for six years and has a background in Management and and Marketing. She is our Social Media Intern for 2024.
