Krishna Festivals

Krishna’s Birthday Festival is bringing Krishna to the heart of Brisbane. This year the festival is being held at the beautiful Roma St Parklands, right in the heart of the Brisbane CBD.

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Access by Train

The Roma Street Train Station is located directly beside the Parkland. All suburban trains stop here providing easy access to the Parkland by using the Platform 10 exit.

For further information about train timetables, please phone TransLink on 13 12 30 or visit the TransLink website at www.transinfo.qld.gov.au.

Parking

There are over 300 car parks within Roma Street Parkland including the Parklands undercover public car park. There are also more than 2,000 car parks within close proximity which includes street parking and undercover public car parks.

Brisbane City Council carries out regular parking patrols of kerb side parking and car parks within the area so make sure you purchase your parking ticket from the pay and display machines!

More information is available at the Roma St Parklands website.

Acclaimed kirtan artist and yoga teacher Carmella Baynie will be appearing at the Krishna’s Birthday Festival this year. She will be performing on the main stage, and will also be leading a Voice in Yoga workshop.

Carmella is a gifted singer and inspirational award winning composer. She has performed and studied sacred music throughout Australasia from an early age.

From renaissance, church music and choral singing, to traditional Indian, African and contempory devotional music, her voice traverses all musical genres. She sings in cathedrals and temples and has performed with indigenous musicians of Australia, Papua New Guinea and North America.

Carmella’s contribution to sacred music includes the award winning international release of ‘Song to the Earth,’ her much loved ‘lullabies’ and pre-natal sound meditation CD ‘Babybreath.”  Her latest release ‘Ashraya’ is the exquisite crescendo of her musical journey to date.

Carmella has dedicated her life to facilitating sound as a healing force, as a vehicle for transformation and vibrational healing, for creating harmony with the whole of nature and ultimately for union with the Divine.

A devoted yoga practitioner for over twenty years and accredited voice and yoga teacher.

Her unique personal style weaves the sacred Indian traditions of sound yoga with other cultural explorations of sacred music and song which awakens the heart, uplifts the spirit and opens the channels of inspiration.

More information about Carmella is available at her website at www.carmellavoice.com

Byron Yoga Centre will be offering free yoga classes from 12 to 6pm at Krishna’s Birthday “Spiritual India” Event at Roma Street Parklands. Founder and director of Byron Yoga, John Ogilvie, has developed the Purna style of yoga, meaning ‘complete’, ‘integrated’ or ‘full’. Purna yoga represents a holistic approach to yoga integrating not just the physical postures but also pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation and philosophy.  John’s classes are a celebration of life - fun and dynamic, bringing out our inner joy. The classes are open to all levels. Just bring your mat and a smile. Byron Yoga Centre specialises in yoga teacher training and offers retreats in Byron Bay and India. For more information please visit www.byronyoga.com.

This year will see the first ever “Krishna’s Birthday” festival in Brisbane, Australia.

It will be held in the Roma Street Parklands on Sunday August 23 from midday to 6pm.

To get an idea of what it will be like, think Buddha’s Birthday meets the Brisbane Multicultural Festival.

There will be yummy Krishna food, free yoga classes, music, dance, multimedia presentations, a jumping castle for the kids, and much more…

We’ve held two festivals prior to this one, but nothing on this scale. The other two were in 2006 and 2008, and had around 1000 people attending. This year we are expecting 4000 to attend. I’ll be featuring performers and participants, and sponsors of the festival on this blog in the weeks leading up to the festiva, so that you can get an idea of what to expect.