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
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.
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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
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.
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 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
In the yogic tradition, the Divine Mother expresses herself through many forms, each revealing a different aspect of life's unfolding cycles. In this immersive workshop, we explore the sacred mantras of three beloved goddesses — Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Durga — whose archetypal energies illuminate a powerful rhythm of creation, nourishment, and transformation. This mirrors the cycles present in nature, our bodies, and our spiritual lives. Through mantra chanting, mudra, and guided meditation, we connect with Saraswati's clarity and creative wisdom, Lakshmi's flowing abundance, and Durga's fierce courage to release what no longer serves. Open to all levels. Expect teaching, mantra chanting, somatic awareness, and meditation that leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and deeply supported by the sacred cycles of life.
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 →
Saturday July 25, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Wild Waters is an invitation to come home to the body — raw, fluid, and unapologetically alive. Inspired by the untamed nature of water and the primal intelligence that lives within each of us, this sensual, rhythmic flow reconnects you with the sacred wisdom of embodied experience. Through spirals, circles, hip-led movement, wave-like transitions, and grounded breathwork, we explore instinct, pleasure, power, and presence. The practice emphasizes organic expression and intuitive movement, dissolving rigidity and inviting freedom, softness, and vitality.
Expect fluid shapes, sacral activation, and moments of stillness that allow sensation and inner knowing to rise to the surface. Breath, sweat, and movement become a language of self-trust — an intimate dialogue with the body that awakens joy and aliveness.
This offering is intentionally sultry, playful, and deeply grounding — a space to reconnect with the sensual experience of being human and to move from a place that feels untamed, authentic, and profoundly alive.
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
Many ancient cultures know that cacao (the pure essence of chocolate) opens the emotional center of our body - our heart chakra. In this session, we will merge the medicine of cacao and the wisdom of yoga practices to explore and empower our relationship to our heart. Through a simple cacao ceremony, gentle asana, chanting, meditation, and live music, you will be sweetly surprised how you may easily find and feel JOY. When the heart, the voice, and the people around us are open and relaxed, healing and magic happen.
I am an SEP (Somatic Experience Practitioner), a yoga teacher, and have a BA degree in Community Studies. I am a musician, an international recording artist, and an activist for conscious and empowered community collaboration. Over the last two decades, I have lead a variety of... Read More →
Saturday July 25, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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
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.
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
“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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
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 →
Sunday July 26, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
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.
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 Ella49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
