Love Shine Play Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

The Morning Practice: Breath, Stillness, and Clean Energy

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Greet the day with embodied presence and intention. This morning session blends gentle movement, intuitive breathwork, and guided meditation to set the tone for clarity, grounded energy, and a calmer inner pace. Breath weaves through the practice, helping you stabilize your focus and open a clean channel for intuition. You’ll land in a guided meditation that anchors you in balance and gentle expansion. Walk into the day steady, refreshed, and trusting the quiet confidence already inside you.

Presenters

Faith Hunter

Founder, Spiritually Fly™

Faith Hunter is a global yoga and meditation instructor, wellness philanthropist, movement motivator, healing guide, and music head. She is the architect of Spiritually Fly™, a life philosophy that awakens the brilliance within the soul, and uses the ancient technologies of breath... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

8:00am EDT

Exploring the Architecture of Divinity

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT

Masonic Temple (Theater)

Limited Capacity seats available

Remembering, together, that our body is a living temple, our breath is a sacred gift perpetually inviting us to both witness and experience the holy now.
Just as architecture relies on a considered foundation, balance, integrity, and intentional design ~ so too does our practice. Weaving grounding postures into vinyasa flow, allowing feeling to express with ease as we warm and open our bodies, preparing for a kriya to experience the divinity within. Moments of stillness and reflection are woven throughout, encouraging presence at the edges where intention takes form.
This is physical and spiritual, this is structural support and ever-expanding joy ~ this is the reminder that the treasure we seek is within.

Presenters

Sierra Hollister

E-RYT500, YA CE Provider, Author

Teaching since 1992, Sierra delights in the physical: yoga, running, digging into the soil, traversing curvatures, and chanting mantra. Here, she finds perpetual awakening, in love-struck wonder, to the deep interconnectedness of all life. "Interbeing," as Thich Naht Hahn would s... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Masonic Temple (Theater) 80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801

Yoga Class, Kundalini

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

8:00am EDT

Build to Last

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

The Solarium at Restoration

Limited Capacity seats available

Strong is good. Sustainable is better.

This class is about building a body that actually holds up. We’ll focus on strength, mobility, and joint integrity, slowing things down where it matters so you can move better, not just more.

Instead of chasing intensity, we’ll refine the fundamentals that support everything else you do, whether that’s yoga, lifting, or daily life.

This is the work most people skip… and the reason things eventually break down.
You’ll leave feeling more connected, more capable, and with a clearer understanding of how to train your body for the long game.

Presenters

Danni Pomplun

Danni is a Yoga Educator and Mentor. He is the fearless owner of Haum SF, an LGBTQ+ owned Yoga Studio in San Francisco, California. He has worked with One Love which raises funds for underserved youth populations. Danni has also been an inspiration for both mental health and HIV advocacy... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
The Solarium at Restoration 68 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Somatic Movement

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

8:00am EDT

Gospel of the Breath- Super Soulful Vinyasa Flow

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

The Venue (Mezzanine)

Limited Capacity seats available

Gospel of the Breath
A Super Soulful Vinyasa Experience
Wake up your body, lift your spirit, and let the breath lead the way.
Gospel of the Breath is a powerful morning Vinyasa flow infused with rhythm, mantra, and heart. This soulful practice blends intentional breath, fluid movement, and uplifting music to create an experience that feels more like a celebration than a class.
Expect dynamic, breath-driven sequences that build heat and freedom in the body, woven together with moments of chanting and collective energy that elevate the room. Spirit-filled beats and soulful soundscapes guide the flow as we move, breathe, and rise together.
Rooted in the power of **prana—the life force carried through the breath—**this practice invites you to tap into something deeper: joy, vitality, and connection.
Come ready to move, chant, sweat, and awaken your inner light.
Leave feeling charged, inspired, and radiant for the weekend ahead.
All levels welcome. Just bring your breath and your beautiful spirit.

Presenters

Tymi Howard Bender

International Yoga Teacher, 500 E-RYT & Holistic Health Coach

Sol Rising

Friday July 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
The Venue (Mezzanine)

Yoga Class, Bhakti

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL Intermediate

2:00pm EDT

Kripalu Vinyasa: Breathe, Feel, Flow

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT

The Solarium at Restoration

Limited Capacity seats available

Join Coby Kozlowski, creator of Kripalu Vinyasa, in this heartfelt and compassionate meditation in motion (with no chaturanga). This slow-flowing class is infused with intention, breath awareness, and creative sequencing that honors the intelligence of consciousness. Kripalu Vinyasa offers the opportunity for you to listen and respond to your body’s inherent wisdom with kindness and curiosity.

Presenters

Coby Kozlowski

Coby Kozlowski, M.A., is a senior faculty member and presenter at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and a longtime presenter at Esalen Institute. She is a TEDx speaker, contemporary yoga and meditation educator, and the author of One Degree Revolution: How the Wisdom of Yoga Inspires... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
The Solarium at Restoration 68 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Kripalu

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels
STYLE Kripalu

2:00pm EDT

Free your Hips and Hamstrings

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

Tight hips and hamstrings are among the most common complaints in the human body — and among the most misunderstood. What we experience as stiffness or discomfort is often the result of years of accumulated tension, postural imbalance, and unaddressed trigger points that no amount of stretching alone will resolve. This is why your yoga sometimes doesn't help, like at all.

This hands-on, results-oriented workshop teaches you how to actually get into the tissue — using self-myofascial release and targeted trigger point techniques — so that the yoga that follows can land somewhere new.

We'll work systematically through the hip flexors, glutes, hamstrings, and surrounding structures to address:

Hip flexor pain and chronic tension — the hidden driver behind low back pain
Common hip and glute complaints — including piriformis tension
Pelvic stability and balance — because a well-released pelvis is a well-supported pelvis, and that foundation changes everything above and below it

We'll close with a yoga sequence designed to integrate and deepen the release work, so your body can actually receive and hold the openness you've created.
You will leave with a clear self-care protocol you can use at home — and very likely, hips that feel like they belong to a different body.

Presenters

Cat Matlock

Cat Matlock expertly guides her students and clients through simple practices to regain control of their nervous systems, get out of pain, and take their lives back. For 30 years, Cat has worked in the field of healing chronic pain and suffering as a Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist... Read More →

DJ Tigress

Tigress is an Asheville-based DJ, licensed massage therapist, and founder of Trillium Dance Company. Her work is a natural progression from a lifetime in movement—beginning as a dancer at age three and evolving through choreographer and event production into DJ.Blending tribal rhythms... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Somatic Movement

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

4:00pm EDT

Begin AGAIN

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Masonic Temple (Ballroom)

Limited Capacity seats available

How to start where we are. Begin now. Now. And now, again. A journey into stepping into presence so we may see the moment clearly and slough off old patterns, habits, thought loops, and greet what is exactly here in front of us.

Presenters

Janet Stone

BHAKTI • FLOW • BREATH

Janet Stone teaches yoga as a way of staying human in complex times. Her work blends strong, intelligent movement with bhakti, mythology, music, and reflection—inviting students to meet real life with steadiness, courage, and heart.

@janetstoneyoga

Friday July 24, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Masonic Temple (Ballroom) 80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801

Yoga Class, Bhakti Vinyasa