20 September · doors open at 11:00 · Labor, Oerlikon, Zürich
LUMA is a festival of quiet practices, a day built around stillness, breath, and the nervous system's own slow way of coming home. We believe deeply in what quiet does for a body and a mind: it isn't the absence of something, it's a practice in its own right. And like any practice worth returning to, it deserves a space of its own.
Why a Festival of Quiet
The word festival usually calls to mind something loud: crowds, noise, a stage turned up too high. But at its root, a festival is a way of marking something as important. A gathering in honor of what matters. So we asked ourselves: what if we honored stillness the way we usually honor celebration? What if quiet practices, the ones that regulate a nervous system rather than overstimulate it, were given the same devotion, the same day-long gathering, the same sense of occasion?
LUMA is our answer: a festival, in the truest sense of the word, a day of honoring, together, what quiet can do. Not a retreat from the world, but a different way of meeting it. And this space is for everyone: however you arrive, whatever quiet means to you, there is a place for you here.
Why Labor?
Our first Yoga Nest studio opened its doors in Oerlikon, and Labor has been our neighbour. Labor is a space for projects and events built around sustainability, culture, and community - a former copper smithy turned meeting place, where people come to make music, repair things, share meals, learn, or simply be. We have long admired what they do for the people around them: the way they hold space without asking anything in return, the way their doors stay open to whoever walks through them.
Two spaces, close in distance and closer still in what we believe about COMMUNITY, coming together for one day.
About Yoga Nest
If this is your first time here - welcome. Yoga Nest opened its doors for the first time in May 2024, in Oerlikon. Since then, we've been sharing yoga, meditation, and aerial yin practices with our community, and last year we opened a second studio in the city center: Yoga Nest Zentrum.
Our mantra is where roots become wings, the belief that grounding and freedom aren't opposites, but two parts of the same practice. You root down first. The wings come after, and they come more easily than you'd expect. That belief is really the heart of everything we do: community sits at the very center of it, the same way it sits at the center of what Labor does. We don't think growth happens alone, and we've built both of our studios, and now this festival, around that.
The Day
On 20 September, we invite you to spend the day with us at Laboer. Doors open at 11:00, with a full lineup of offerings [lineup tbc] led by beautiful people, for beautiful people: practitioners we love and trust, sharing the practices that mean the most to them. There will be space to move, space to sit, and space to do neither.
We don't know exactly how to describe it yet, because it's the first time we're doing this. What we do know is that it's going to be different, and it's going to be beautiful, and we would love nothing more than to spend the day with you.
We hope you'll join us for something QUIET.
LUMA: 20 September, from 11:00, at Laboer, Oerlikon.