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.
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
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 →
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.
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 →
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.
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.
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 →
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.
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 →
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
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.
You’re not broken. You’re not depleted. You’re angry. You’ve been making yourself smaller, quieter, more palatable, and the cost has been your fire. This immersion is for the woman who is done negotiating with her own life. We’ll begin with breathwork designed to regulate and activate, calming the nervous system first, then building energy through rhythmic breath patterns that wake up what has gone dormant. From there, Faith guides you through a fierce and honest reflective practice: where have you been leaking power? What boundary have you been afraid to set? What desire have you been calling “selfish” instead of calling it yours? The middle of this session moves into embodied expression, somatic movement, sound, rhythm, letting the body say what the mind has been censoring. We close with intention, boundary-setting, and a grounding meditation that doesn’t soften you back down. You’ll leave with fire you can actually use.
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 →
Yoga as Water for a World on Fire: Centering the great and universal vows of the beginning path of yoga is at the heart of the practice as well as the heart shape of this offering. Because the world is on fire. This is not a bypass, this is not feel-good glitter - this is an unflinching look at the reality of now. And, in response, how our devotion, our love, and our yoga are the medicine, the panacea, and the path. Water offers the wisdom of ultimate adaptability, of cooling, flowing, giving life. Water teaches us to soften without collapsing, to recognize the vessel of now and respond with intention rather than urgency. Flowing like water, we meet resistance with patience, and we carve space through repetition. Rather than an escape or an avoidance of what is burning all around us, this is how we carry water, literally and metaphorically, to all life, including ourselves. To refresh, replenish, and especially to re-source – this is an act of care, not only for ourselves but for the world we inhabit.
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 →
Saturday July 25, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Join Tymi Howard Bender for a deeply immersive journey into MYT — Meridian Yoga Therapy, where yoga, breath, and subtle energy practices come together to awaken the body’s natural healing intelligence. Rooted in the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the transformative practices of yoga, this class explores how movement, breath, and intentional touch can stimulate the body’s 12 primary meridian pathways—the energetic rivers that influence our organs, emotions, vitality, and overall well-being. Through intelligently sequenced asana, pranayama, meridian-based cueing, and guided energy awareness, you’ll experience how yoga can be used as a powerful tool for balancing the nervous system, releasing stagnant energy, and restoring harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Expect a dynamic yet grounding practice that weaves together: • Meridian-inspired yoga sequencing • Breathwork to regulate and energize the nervous system • Self-acupressure and acupressure point activation • Hands-on assists and energetic awareness • A guided Meridian Circuit body scan • Healing mantra to support clarity and self-realization This class is designed to be both educational and experiential, offering insights into the energetic anatomy of the body while leaving you feeling open, balanced, and deeply restored. Perfect for yoga practitioners, teachers, healers, and curious seekers who want to experience yoga as movement, meditation, and energy medicine all in one practice. Come explore the place where ancient wisdom meets modern embodiment—and leave feeling energized, centered, and connected from the inside out.
Breathe in the sky, soar with your wings over dancing palm trees, dive into waves that flow in and out of your inner shores. Feel the pulse of your heart’s vibration like a sacred drum awakening your body’s rhythm; this is Earth Root Reggae Flow. Allow your bare feet to root deep into the Mother Earth and rise like a mountain of energy, touching the very stars. Sway like the rhythmic flow of waves rising and splashing on the shores of your heart. Bathe in the rays of the sun that permeate with the light of consciousness glowing from within to all the stars that adorn your dreams. Flow into an earthly celebration of dance with body, breath, and beat like an inner fire of transformation and joy. Then soften into stillness like a sunset over warm sand as you become your breath, your roots, your heart, flowing like a vast, beautiful ocean, becoming the still, quiet moon.
Born in Argentina and shaped by a deep love for exploration, Gota’s yoga journey has taken him across more than 25 countries since his early twenties. Each culture, teacher, and landscape has expanded his understanding of the subtle body and the energetic currents that connect us... Read More →
Saturday July 25, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Enter a space of beauty, reverence, and deep rest.
In this nourishing restorative practice, Amanda & Danni will be your guides on a journey into a yogic ritual designed to create the conditions for profound rest and deep healing. Supported by blankets, bolsters, and long-held postures, the body softens while the mind settles.
Together, we will cultivate a sanctuary of presence where beauty and care become medicine and time and space where you can release what is heavy and invite clarity, renewal, and lightness of being.
Like a sacred pause in the rhythm of the festival, Ritual Rest is an invitation to slow down, receive, and remember the healing power of stillness.
Leave feeling held, nourished, and quietly restored. 🌿✨
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 →
Saturday July 25, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT The Solarium at Restoration68 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
The Resonating Body is a guided, experiential workshop exploring sound, movement, breath, and subtle energy practices as tools for grounding, nervous system regulation, and embodied vitality. Through fluid movement, vocal toning, qigong-inspired practices, and somatic tracking, participants learn to listen deeply to their bodies, release held tension, and cultivate a felt sense of ease and presence. Drawing from Body Dialogue, Alexander Technique principles, Breathing Coordination, and polyvagal awareness, we explore how voice and vibration support self-regulation, emotional flow, and authentic expression. The living voice becomes a companion to movement — supporting grounding, truth-telling, and inner listening. Insights on supportive herbs and flower essences for nervous system balance and resilience. Practices are accessible, adaptable, and easily woven into daily life. No prior experience is needed.
Blending musical performance, education, somatic healing, and herbal medicine, I offer a holistic approach where music carries healing energy, and healing treatments harmonize the body's vibrations.
From a still glowing bead of dew to a floating blossoming white moon steeping quietly in the serene landscape of your heart, our body softens into Akash, spaciousness as we become our breath, that flows like a calm river through your body as you steep slowly, softening until the joints become quiet portals, melting any hidden tension while held by the earth. In the stillness of yin, the mind and body unfold naturally like petals opening to the morning light.
Born in Argentina and shaped by a deep love for exploration, Gota’s yoga journey has taken him across more than 25 countries since his early twenties. Each culture, teacher, and landscape has expanded his understanding of the subtle body and the energetic currents that connect us... Read More →
A journey inward through long-held, floor-based postures and slow, steady breath. This practice is an invitation to dissolve layers, awaken inner currents, and enter the quiet mystery that lives beneath the surface of it all.
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.
