Your story, in your words
A full biography, a tagline, the things that shaped you — written by you, or drafted for you and edited until it sounds right.
For Artists, Venues & Organizers
Be found by
Somebody is looking for exactly what you do — a kirtan on a Thursday, a teacher who works with breath, a room that holds forty people and feels like a temple. Make sure they find you.
You may already be here. Search your name.
Free, always. AI-assisted, so it takes minutes — no card, no contract.
The ecosystem was already here. It just had nowhere to live.
Seekers, teachers, musicians, organizers, venues — this world has been weaving itself together for generations, one gathering at a time, scattered across a dozen tools that never spoke to each other. BrightStar is the ground underneath it. Your page is how you step onto that ground — and once you do, you can see everyone else on it, follow them, message them, and build the next thing together.
Read what the ecosystem actually isYou don't start from a blank box.
Type your name. We find what is already written about you across the web, draft the page from it, and hand it to you to correct — because you are the only one who knows what is actually true.
Step one
Find yourself
With tens of thousands of artists, teachers and spaces already here, the first screen is a search, not a form. Most people find themselves and take the page that already exists.
Most people are already listed
Your name or stage name…Is this you?
Sam GarrettMusicianClaim →
Esalen InstituteRetreat Center · Big SurClaim →
Tara BrachMeditation TeacherClaim →
Jai UttalKirtan ArtistClaim →
Plum VillageRetreat Center · ThénacClaim →I'm not listed yet — start freshStep two
The draft writes itself
Your biography, your tags, the questions you are always asked — drafted from what is already published about you, then handed over for you to correct. You are the only one who knows what is actually true.
Written for you, edited by you Drafted for youTaglineYour storyWhat you practiseQuestions you're always askedDo you travel to teach?Answer draftedCan I book a private circle?Answer draftedLinks we foundSpotifyYouTubeInstagramWebsiteSave — your page goes liveStep three
Save, and it's live
No review queue, no waiting on us. The page publishes the moment you save it, and you can keep shaping it forever after — add your dates, your music, your gallery, whenever you like.
Live in minutes, not an afternoonSam GarrettSam Garrett is a British singer and guitarist whose devotional folk moves between kirtan circles and festival fields on the same unhurried voice.Read more ⌄ FollowWhat's happeningComing Up
Concert Sat, Oct 10 Le Morne, Rivière Noire DistrictLiveNo blank pages, no staring at a cursor. Save and it is live — you can keep shaping it forever after.
What your page carries.
Not a directory listing with a phone number. A real home for the work — your music, your video, your writing, and a way to reach everyone else standing on the same ground.
Every event you hold, listed free
Your dates live on your page and across the directory — free, whether you sell tickets here or not. Point them at Eventbrite, your own checkout, a WhatsApp number, or nothing at all. Listing is not a sales channel you have to join.
Every link you own, in one place
Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, TikTok, your site, your mailing list — the whole set, on a page that also holds your story, your dates and your tickets. A link hub that is actually somewhere worth landing.
An address of your own
A permanent link with your name in it, to put on a poster, in a bio, at the end of a set. It does not expire, it is not rented from a platform that might change its mind, and it goes on working long after the gig.
A gallery worth looking at
Photographs of you and the work, presented the way a record label would present them, not squeezed into a thumbnail.
Your music, from Spotify
Your discography and a player pulled straight from Spotify, so somebody can hear you on the page they landed on instead of being sent elsewhere to decide.
Your videos, in one place
Talks, sets and sessions from YouTube, gathered and ordered by you — the ones you'd actually want a stranger to watch first.
Your channel — writing, video, podcast
Long-form pieces, episodes and interviews live on your own channel here, each one built to be found by people who have never heard your name. Podcast and video posts carry their transcripts, which is what AI search actually reads.
Press, awards, and what people say
The festival that booked you, the record that got reviewed, the words a student wrote afterwards. Proof, in the places people look for it.
People who follow you
Seekers can follow your page and hear when you announce something. The audience stays yours — we are the ground, not the owner.
Kindred spirits
The artists and teachers you stand beside, shown on your page and yours on theirs. Discovery runs in both directions.
Talk to each other
Message another artist, venue or organizer directly. The booking that starts a tour, the room that says yes — no agent, no intermediary, no email address to hunt down.
The people you create with
Name your regular collaborators and your pages point at each other. Invite one who isn't here yet and you earn a share of what BrightStar makes on them, for as long as they stay.
Your lineage, made visible
The teachers, traditions and practices that shaped you — each one linked to everyone else who names it.
The questions you're always asked
What to bring, what a session is like, whether beginners are welcome. Answered once on your page — and structured so search engines quote them back.
Readable by the machines
Structured so Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read and cite your page. That is increasingly where somebody starts looking for a teacher — and a page they cannot read is a page they will not mention.
Meeting us for the first time?
BrightStar has carried conscious gatherings — kirtan and retreats, sound healing and ceremony — for more than twenty years. The tools are new. The trust isn't.
See who you're joining.
Real pages, live right now — musicians and meditation teachers, yoga and breathwork guides, retreat centres and ashrams. Open one and look at what it does, then picture yours.
Sam GarrettMusicianOpen the page Esalen InstituteRetreat Center · Big SurOpen the page Tara BrachMeditation TeacherOpen the page Jai UttalKirtan ArtistOpen the page Plum VillageRetreat Center · ThénacOpen the page 
SadhguruYogi & MysticOpen the page 
Donna De LoryMusicianOpen the page 
Kripalu Center for Yoga & HealthRetreat Center · StockbridgeOpen the page 
Dalai LamaSpiritual TeacherOpen the page 
Wim HofBreathworkOpen the page 
Findhorn FoundationRetreat Center · ForresOpen the page 
MoojiSatsangOpen the page Every one of these started the same way yours will: a name, a photograph, and a few minutes.
Three doors, one ground.
Whatever you carry into a room, there is a page shaped for it.
Artists & teachers
Musicians, kirtan artists, facilitators, healers, guides — anyone whose name is the reason people come.
For artistsVenues & spaces
Temples, studios, retreat centres, land. The rooms that hold what everyone else brings.
For venuesOrganizers & producers
The people who make a gathering happen — festivals, retreats, weekly sits, one glorious night.
For organizersWhat it costs
Nothing. Genuinely nothing.
A page costs nothing to make and nothing to keep. There is no trial that ends, no tier that unlocks your own biography, no invoice in ninety days. Being in the directory is free because a directory with gaps in it is worth less to everyone standing in it — including us.
List your events free whether you sell tickets here or anywhere else — the listing never depends on it. If you ever do want to sell through BrightStar, that is a separate decision, made later.
Was unsere Gemeinschaft sagt
Stimmen von Künstlern, Veranstaltern und spirituellen Lehrern, die BrightStar ihre Events anvertraut haben.
Eric Forbis
Gründer, BuddhaFest (Kunde seit 2012)
★★★★★
"Wir sind sehr glücklich über den herausragenden Service, den wir in der Zusammenarbeit mit BrightStar erfahren haben, und es tut gut, ein Unternehmen zu unterstützen, das sich aufrichtig den Idealen eines höheren Bewusstseins verschrieben hat."
Philip Hellmich
Director of Peace, The Shift Network (Kunde seit 2012)
★★★★★
"BrightStar ist ein enger Freund und Verbündeter von The Shift Network und war für die Sichtbarkeit unserer Programme von unschätzbarem Wert. Uns verbinden spirituelle Werte, die den Menschen aufrichten wollen. BrightStar vereint professionelles Marketing-Können mit einem Service, der vom Herzen kommt."
Snatam Kaur
Grammy-Nominierte (Kundin seit 2005)
★★★★★
"BrightStar begleitet meine Konzerte seit dem allerersten Anfang meiner Karriere und hat entscheidend dazu beigetragen, mein Publikum wachsen zu lassen. Die Treue und Hingabe gegenüber Künstlern wie Veranstaltern ist ebenso vorbildlich wie die Professionalität."
Peter Kater
Zweifacher Grammy-Gewinner (Kunde seit 2014)
★★★★★
"BrightStar bietet nicht nur eine starke Software-Plattform, die für meine Events sehr gut funktioniert hat — der Kundensupport ist der beste. Die Kommunikation ist persönlich, herzlich und immer aufmerksam."
Jai Uttal
Grammy-Nominierter (Kunde seit 2014)
★★★★★
"Seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten stellt Akal (Inhaber von BrightStar) sein Können in den Dienst der Bhakti-Bewegung. Seine Plattform dient unserer Bewegung auf einzigartige Weise — mit Echtheit und Herz. Und die Technik rockt auch!"
What the page becomes.
Everything above is live today. These two are what the groundwork is for — and why a page now is worth more than a page later.
Coming soon
A booking agent that never sleeps
A retreat centre posts the weeks it has open and what it needs to charge. An organizer posts the night they want to fill. An artist posts the weeks they can travel and the budget they need. BrightStar puts them together and hands over a clean way to agree the terms — no six-week email thread, no chasing a phone number through three inboxes.
The ecosystem already exists. Which one are you?
Choose your place above — or light the whole thing — to see how it connects.
The page you make today is the listing that gets matched tomorrow.
Coming soon
A feed that fills itself
Every event announced, every page published, every story written — flowing into one living feed of the whole movement. Not another account to feed: it draws from what you have already put on your page. Shape a post when you want to; ignore it entirely and it still works.
Nothing extra to manage. That is the point.
Deva Premal & Miten Concert RomeTour announced · Roma, LazioSep 24Eleven nights, and then home.Priya Please come to Austin 🙏Marcus Got mine for opening night
Govinda Jaya Jaya: A Sacred Chant ReimaginedFrom the journal · Dave StringerNew this morning.Noor Sending this to my teacherEsalen InstituteDates open · Retreat Center · Big SurThree weeks open in February — 30% off our winter rate for the right gathering.Ananda Yoga Messaging you nowTova Is the kitchen included?
Snatam Kaur Concert Santa Cruz, CA - Rio TheatreOn sale · Santa Cruz, CASep 25Doors at seven. Bring a cushion.Anouk Third year running
Ganesha as Vighneshwara: Intelligence Over FeastFrom the journal · SadhguruWorth twenty minutes.Ravi This landedPlum VillageNew page · Retreat Center · ThénacWe just joined BrightStar.Devi Been waiting for thisSam FollowingNo date, no waitlist, no badge to buy. Claim your page and you are already standing where both of these begin.
The room is already full. Walk in.
Take the page that has your name on it, or start a new one. Either way you'll be found by evening.
Free forever · No card · Live the moment you save
Before you start.
Yes. Creating and keeping a profile costs nothing, and there is no card to enter. Ticketing is priced separately if you ever choose to use it, and a free tier exists there too.
Quite likely — a great many artists, teachers and venues are already in the directory from our own research. The first screen searches for your name so you can take ownership of the page that exists, rather than creating a second one. Everything on it becomes yours to edit or remove.
Artists and musicians, teachers and facilitators, healers and guides, venues and retreat centres, festival producers and organizers — anyone whose work gathers people. You do not need a following, a label or a booking agent.
No. A page stands on its own — your story, your work, your lineage. Add gatherings when you have them, and leave it quiet when you don't.
Three ways: people browsing the directory by practice, place or tradition; search engines and AI assistants, which your page is built to be read by; and the network itself — appearing beside the artists and venues you are connected to.
You do. Your words, your photographs, your audience. Take it down whenever you like, and nothing follows you out the door.
Not at all. Listing your events is free either way, and plenty of pages point out to wherever tickets already live — Eventbrite, your own site, a message. If you do decide to sell here, the free tier takes no platform fee.
Minutes to have something live — it publishes the moment you save. Everything after that is optional, and it saves itself as you go, so you can leave and come back.
Warum BrightStar
Why anyone builds here.
BrightStar ist der weltweit erste kuratierte Ort für die globale Bewusstseinsbewegung — die besten Künstler, Lehrer, Events, Orte, Retreats und redaktionellen Inhalte der ganzen bewussten Gemeinschaft, versammelt auf einer einzigen Plattform. So etwas gab es noch nie. Bis jetzt lebte die Bewegung verstreut über tausende persönliche Websites, Eventbrite-Listings, Facebook-Events und Mundpropaganda. Wir haben über zwei Jahrzehnte damit verbracht, all das zusammenzuführen. Wir sind eine Ticketplattform für spirituelle Events und ein Marktplatz für bewusste Zusammenkünfte, gegründet vom Vater-Sohn-Team GuruGanesha Singh und Akal Sahai Khalsa, geboren aus der gemeinsamen Liebe zu heiliger Musik, Gemeinschaft und Dienst. Akal begann diese Reise im Dienst der Bewegung als Tourmanager von Snatam Kaur, und diese unmittelbare Nähe zu den Künstlern und zur Praxis prägt alles, was seither entstanden ist. In mehr als 20 Jahren haben wir zehntausende Events ermöglicht, über eine Million Teilnehmer erreicht und weltweit mehr als 100 Millionen US-Dollar an Ticketverkäufen abgewickelt.
Unter diesem Ort liegt eine verbindende Infrastruktur: BrightStar bringt die Menschen zusammen, die diese Bewegung tragen — Künstler und Lehrer, Orte und Retreat-Zentren, Veranstalter und Promoter und die Suchenden, die für sie erscheinen. Zwei Motoren treiben diese Verbindungen an. Auf der Ticketseite sind Checkout, Scanner, Teilnehmerverwaltung und Auswertung für transformierende Zusammenkünfte gebaut — vom wöchentlichen Meditationskreis bis zur Kirtan-Tour durch viele Städte. Auf der Marketingseite laufen drei Programme im Zusammenspiel: eine eingebaute Affiliate-Engine, über die Promoter Provision verdienen, wenn sie dein Event teilen; ein Brand-Ambassador-Programm, in dem jeder Ticketkäufer automatisch zur Empfehlungsquelle wird; und Amplify — unser bezahlter Marketing-Service mit gezielten Meta-Anzeigen, E-Mail-Kampagnen an unsere über 350.000 Abonnenten und individueller Kreativproduktion für Events, die professionell wachsen wollen.
Über unsWhere to next
Keep looking around.
The page is one piece of it. Here is the rest.
The ecosystem
What this network is, who it holds, and why being in it makes everyone in it stronger.
See how it works →See who's here
Browse the artists, teachers, venues and gatherings already on the ground you're joining.
Explore the directory →Hold a gathering
When you're ready to sell tickets, the tools are here and the free tier takes no platform fee.
For organizers →