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

10:00am EDT

The Serpentine Spine

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

Serpentine movements help us move in whole body patterns so that every section of the body awakens in relation to the central axis. In this class, we will follow a consistent natural flow of postures working with wave patterns of movement, breath, and mind to facilitate a feeling of openness, elongation, and strength in the entire spine as a means of awakening internal energy and organic rhythms of intelligence that keep movements integrated, free, and joyful.

Presenters

Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor

Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968. He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga āsana, prāṇāyāma, Sufism, Sanskrit language, and Indian philosophy. He has studied asana with B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois and has worked with numerous Buddhist teachers to... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Ashtanga

Music none
LEVEL All Levels

12:00pm EDT

Slow Burn, Power Flow

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

A powerful vinyasa experience that ebbs and flows - melting into slow, gooey movement before rising into rhythmic heat, and power. Expect a blend of strength and softness, challenge and ease, all woven together in a balanced flow that honors sthira sukham asanam - steadiness and ease in each posture.

Presenters

Kirra Michel

Kirra Michel is a yoga and meditation instructor known for her high-energy, yet grounding classes that blend yogic philosophy with modern psychology. Kirra is an Aussie, based in New York City and teaching at Peloton. She helps students move with intention, dive deep, and connect... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Vinyasa

Music Active (Recorded)
LEVEL Intermediate

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

Rhythm and Release: A Somatic Hip Awakening

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

Activate your second chakra and free your body through the power of rhythm, bass, and movement. This dancehall reggae, salsa, and Afrobeats-infused session blends somatic healing, hip-opening sequences, and culture-inspired movement that syncs with the beat of your soul. You’ll move intuitively, unlock emotional blockages, and reconnect with the primal pulse of your being through music, breath, and embodied freedom. Sound, movement, and deep release merge into something liberating, heightening self-expression, stimulating creativity, and deepening your connection to the wisdom held within your hips. “Wine yuh body” and leave feeling lighter, more open, and joyfully alive.

Presenters