Love Shine Play Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Sunday July 26, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Let go of everything you think yoga is and experience a movement class that’s challenging yet fun, fluid yet deeply educational.

Based on Eoin Finn’s groundbreaking new book Yoga Optimized, this Blissology session blends strong, feel-good movement with science-backed techniques to help you feel looser, stronger, and more alive not just today, but for decades to come.

Our motto is “yoga is a feeling, not a shape,” so expect to sweat, smile, and learn powerful tools that improve your body intelligence and expand your “movement span,” the number of years you can move with power, grace, and zero pain.

Come ready to flow, let go of emotional baggage, and experience yoga that heals, transforms, and makes you feel incredible from the inside out.

Presenters

Eoin Finn

Blissology, Blissology

Eoin Finn, globally celebrated yogi, surfer, thought leader, and founder of Blissology, has been carving his unique path through the worlds of yoga, philosophy, physiology, and movement since 1989. Known for blending soulful science with yogic wisdom, Eoin’s teachings are deeply... Read More →

Sunday July 26, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Blissology Vinyasa

Music none
LEVEL All Levels

10:00am EDT

The Sacred Pause: Yin, Breath & Mindfulness for the Nervous System

LIMITED

Sunday July 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

Inspired by Buddhist mindfulness and nervous system regulation techniques, this session offers a deep reset for body and mind. Using Yin Yoga, breathwork, and meditation, we’ll cultivate the art of pausing—learning to move through life with more presence, creativity, and joy. Perfect for those craving stillness and a reset from life’s constant movement.

Presenters

🕉️ Kali Basman

“Kali is a teacher you only come across once in a lifetime.”

Kali Basman, founder of Kali Durga Yoga, is an internationally acclaimed teacher of teachers, Internal Family Systems–informed therapist, and death doula whose work interweaves yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Zen Buddhism into a living contemplative methodology she calls... Read More →

Sunday July 26, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class, Yin

Music Active (Recorded)
LEVEL All Levels
STYLE Yin

12:00pm EDT

Unclench: Somatic Myofascial Release for Anxious Times

LIMITED

Sunday July 26, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

We live in a world that keeps us braced. The butt tightens, the hips grip, the shoulders creep toward the ears — and after a while, we stop noticing. The body simply becomes the place where the weight of uncertain times takes up permanent residence.
This workshop offers a systematic, deeply satisfying path back to greater ease. Drawing on somatic awareness, myofascial release, and nervous system science, we'll work through the body's most common stress-holding sites using tools that are accessible, effective, and immediately repeatable at home.

Together we will explore:

Therapeutic shaking and tremoring — one of the body's oldest and most underutilized self-regulation tools, used to discharge held bracing and reset the nervous system at its roots

Soft foam rolling for the hip flexors and glutes — the body's emotional core, chronically contracted in anxiety and stress, and profoundly responsive to patient, intentional release

Breathing practices for self-regulation — targeted breathwork that speaks directly to the autonomic nervous system, shifting us out of fight-or-flight and into a felt sense of safety

We'll close with a grounding yoga sequence to integrate everything the body has just released, helping you arrive back in yourself as a place you actually want to be.

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 →

Sunday July 26, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga Class

Music Gentle (Live)
LEVEL All Levels

2:00pm EDT

Fire Power Flow

LIMITED

Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

Leave feeling strong, clear, and fully in your body.

Fire Power Flow is about building heat with intention and letting that energy move through you.

You’ll move through a dynamic sequence that blends alignment, strength, and fluid transitions. It’s not just about getting through poses. It’s about understanding them, feeling where you’re working, and then letting that structure turn into flow.

We’ll focus on technique. How you place your hands. How you stack your joints. Where your energy leaks and how to bring it back online. Then we layer in rhythm and breath so the practice starts to carry you instead of the other way around.

Music is upbeat and driving. Expect to sweat. Expect to drop in. There’s a moment where it clicks, and everything starts to feel connected.

You’ll leave grounded, energized, and a little more tapped into your own power.

Adi Westerman has been teaching for over two decades and brings a mix of precision and play to her classes. She is the owner/founder of Hot Yoga Asheville and a retreat center (El Nido Uvita) in Costa Rica, where she hosts trainings, retreats, and creative gatherings, as well as helps others to create meaningful transformational experiences.

Presenters

Adi Westerman

Adi Westerman is a yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, and retreat leader based in Costa Rica, where she lives full-time while continuing to run Hot Yoga Asheville, now in its 18th year.
She is also the creator of El Nido Uvita, a boutique jungle retreat center where she hosts h... Read More →

Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Movement/Fitness/Dance, Vinyasa

Love Shine Play Festival 2026

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Love Shine Play Festival 2026

8:00am EDT

Eoin Finn

10:00am EDT

🕉️ Kali Basman

12:00pm EDT

Cat Matlock

DJ Tigress

2:00pm EDT

Adi Westerman

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