Love Shine Play Festival 2026: Full Schedule

Welcome to the beautiful Appalachian Mountains!

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

Move What You Want to Manifest

LIMITED

Friday July 24, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT

The Venue (Balcony)

Limited Capacity seats available

Most people try to think their way into their next chapter. This workshop starts in the body instead. Participants use guided movement and dance to physically embody the version of themselves they're working toward, not as visualization but as direct somatic rehearsal. The coaching framework grounds the experience: identifying what they actually want, locating where resistance lives in the body, and using movement to shift it. Ends as a full dance party where the room collectively holds its intentions in motion.

Presenters

Lisa Zahiya

Master Coach, NLP Practitioner

Lisa Zahiya is an international business coach, speaker, and movement teacher who helps people build lives and businesses with more clarity, courage, and impact. With a background that spans entrepreneurship, coaching, and embodied practice, she brings a grounded, energizing approach... Read More →

Friday July 24, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
The Venue (Balcony)

Movement/Fitness/Dance, Somatic Movement

Music Active (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

Faith Hunter

Founder, Spiritually Fly™

Friday July 24, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Active (Recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

8:00am EDT

Blissed Out: Ecstatic Dance + Meditation

LIMITED

Saturday July 25, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT

Masonic Temple (Theater)

Limited Capacity seats available

Shake, move, and meditate like never before. Allow your full self to be expressed through this four-part movement and meditation process infused with powerful beats. Dive deep into the multi-dimensional being, open up the energy channels, and release any blockages that keep you feeling stuck. Indulge in this conscious movement and meditation practice and embody bliss!

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 →

Saturday July 25, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Masonic Temple (Theater) 80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Active (Live)
LEVEL All Levels

10:00am EDT

Your Hips Don't Lie - Your Head Does; Bellydance as a tool for presence and somatic intelligence

LIMITED

Saturday July 25, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT

Masonic Temple (Theater)

Limited Capacity seats available

Bellydance is one of the oldest forms of somatic intelligence. This workshop strips it of performance and uses it as a precision mindfulness tool, specifically for presence and accessing non-linear thinking. The isolation work requires the kind of focused attention that interrupts rumination. Participants leave with a short personal movement sequence they can use as a reset practice. Coaching integration: how the body's wisdom shows up when the analytical mind is occupied with movement.

Presenters

Lisa Zahiya

Master Coach, NLP Practitioner

Saturday July 25, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Masonic Temple (Theater) 80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Active (Recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

12:00pm EDT

Reclaim Your Fire: A Women’s Practice on Desires, Boundaries, and Embodied Truth

LIMITED

Saturday July 25, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

The Venue (Mezzanine)

Limited Capacity seats available

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.

Presenters

Faith Hunter

Founder, Spiritually Fly™

Saturday July 25, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
The Venue (Mezzanine)

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL All Levels

2:00pm EDT

Mountain Mobility Flow: Get Unstuck

LIMITED

Saturday July 25, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

The Venue (Balcony)

Limited Capacity seats available

Unlock your body and find true freedom of movement in this dynamic "Mobility Flow" class. Designed for festival-goers, hikers, and active movers, this session blends the breath-centered, creative movement of vinyasa with innovative, science-backed mobility drills to strengthen and release your joints.
We will move beyond simple flexibility to focus on functional range of motion—targeting notorious "stuck" areas like the hips, shoulders, and ankles—allowing you to move with more ease on and off the mat. Starting with gentle activation to build heat, we will transition into a fluid sequence that increases strength and body awareness, finishing with deep, restorative stretches to help you recover and reset for your next mountain adventure.

Presenters

Rosie Mulford

E-RYT500

Rosie took her first yoga class in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 14. Her instructor was Eve Diskin-then the Director of the American Institute of Yoga. Following her training from Ms. Diskin, Rosie started teaching the lower school students as part of her own high school... Read More →

Sponsors

Ayurvedic Institute

AyurPrana provides a modern approach to personal wellness. Inspired by the ancient sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga, we offer practices specific to your mind/body type and in support of your personal health - so you can flourish into your full self-expression!
This is how we raise co... Read More →

Saturday July 25, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
The Venue (Balcony)

Yoga Class, Vinyasa | Movement/Fitness/Dance, Vinyasa

Music Gentle (Live)
LEVEL Intermediate

4:00pm EDT

Earth Root Reggae Flow

LIMITED

Saturday July 25, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Ella

Limited Capacity seats available

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.

Presenters

Gota Cebrero

E-RYT 500 , Shiatsu practitioner

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
Ella 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Movement/Fitness/Dance

Music Gentle (recorded)
LEVEL Intermediate

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

2:00pm EDT

Reset the System: Vagus nerve activation through movement, breath, and rhythm

LIMITED

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

The Venue (Balcony)

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants learn exactly how the vagus nerve regulates their stress response and then use specific movement sequences, breath patterns, and rhythmic dance to directly activate it. The coaching layer addresses what becomes possible in decision-making, creativity, and relationships when the nervous system is no longer running threat responses. Participants leave with a concrete 10-minute daily movement protocol.

Presenters