Podcasts about asheville yoga center

Send us a Text Message.Michael Johnson is a prominent yoga and philosophy instructor based in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the founder of Clear Light Yoga and a respected teacher at both the Asheville Yoga Center and the Ayurvedic Institute. With over 20 years of experience, Michael specializes in yoga philosophy, Sanskrit, and meditation. Through his 200-hour yoga philosophy teacher training program, Michael inspires students to delve deep into the ancient texts and principles of yoga, making these complex ideas accessible and applicable to modern life.Visit Michael on his website: https://www.clearlightyoga.com/Key Takeaways:The Essence of Yoga: Yoga is about controlling the mental activities to avoid being controlled by them. This is a path to self-control and understanding one's true nature.Philosophical Integration: Understanding Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutras is crucial to grasping yoga philosophy. Different translations can lead to varied interpretations and levels of understanding.Non-Theistic Bhakti: Bhakti Yoga, traditionally theistic, can also be practiced in a non-theistic manner, focusing on devotion to ideals rather than deities.Practical Application: Michael shares real-life applications of yoga philosophy, from daily interpersonal interactions to handling extreme situations like cyber threats.Thanks for listening to this episode. Check out:

In this episode, we talk with Izzy Shurte, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Yoga teacher, about the Yoga Sutras, Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Therapy, and how these modalities can support mental health.Izzy Shares the ways that primary source yoga texts can coincide and differ from counseling practices and approaches. We even workshop yoga sutra 2.16 together and share how it is applicable to daily life. Introducing Izzy Shurte [02:38]What is the difference between yoga, mindful movement, and the yoga sutras [04:00]Skillful living: how Yoga relates to Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Therapy [15:10]Intuition or avoidance?[26:16]Parallels between Eastern philosophy and Western therapy [29:03]Yoga Sutra 2.16 as it applies to daily life [39:31]Instagram: @bhaktiflowrvaIzzy Shurte is a Licensed Professional Counselor and E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher based in Richmond, VA.  Having completed her 200 and 300HR yoga trainings at Asheville Yoga Center she studied closely under Michael and Stephanie Johnson.  As a counselor, she specializes in Mindfulness and Acceptance based therapies treating Eating Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and Emotion Regulation Concerns.  In recent years Izzy has studied meditation with Vince and Emily Horn of Buddhist Geeks and Shadow Yoga under the direction of Andy Matinog.  Her greatest passion in life, aside from her daughter Mariel, is sharing the healing potential of mindful movement and the wisdom of primary source yoga texts with students, clients, and anyone willing to listen.Join the ~*Dream Team*~ and get a shout-out on our next episode as you help make dreams come true!Follow Holly on Instagram and check out her offerings online.Episode sponsored by Connect Wellness. Connect Wellness empowers people with tools to connect with themselves, others, and the present moment.Be wise-- sign up to be the first to know what's next!

Episode page: https://markgraban.com/mistake166 My guest for Episode #166 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Alisha Wielfaert, a leadership, creativity, transitions and resiliency coach for women. She started her career at an over one-hundred-year-old insurance company. She moved on from that. Along the way, she started studying yoga at the Asheville Yoga Center not just as a physical practice but as a spiritual path. She opened a yoga studio… and then sold it… Alisha is also the author of a book that's just been released, titled Little Failures: Learning to Build Resilience Through Everyday Setbacks, Challenges, and Obstacles. Enter to win a signed copy!! She is the host of a podcast, The Yoke and Abundance: Wise Women Podcast and her company is called Yoke and Abundance. In this episode, Alisha shares her “favorite mistake” story about opening a yoga studio that “did nothing but lose money” as it went into bankruptcy. Why was this her “greatest learning experience” but also the “most shameful” that has happened to her? Why did the business fail and what lessons did Alisha learn that she has (and will) apply to other businesses? We also talk about questions and topics including: Passion plus seeking for purpose in life Bootstrapping was a problem – couldn't fully commit Lessons for when you became a coach? Do the failures help you be a better coach? The Dropout? Elizabeth Holmes Other thoughts or tips on how to analyze or process our failures? People who are successful after failures do what things? How to not get stuck in the grieving and processing time? Fear of mistakes — Atelophobia is an obsessive fear of imperfection Do you see a difference between “mistakes” and “failures”? Let's explore that… “Planning for failures” in the writing and release of the book? You write about the idea of “Failing out loud” — the implications for women and minorities? TEDx talk – founder of Girls Who Code (Reshma Saujani) Tell us the story behind the name of your company, Yoke and Abundance? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support

Katie is a KCMO area yoga instructor with a passion for astrology, philosophy, and all things meta-physical. She learned to love her body again through yoga after a challenging two year stint in the world of competitive fitness. Her passion for yoga led her to self-study on a three week solo-adventure to Bali and eventually to Asheville, North Carolina where she received her 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification in 2017 at the Asheville Yoga Center. With a background in body-building and physical fitness she understands both the anatomy of the body and the societal pressures put on it. She teaches both vinyasa style yoga, infusing the energetics of astrology into each class, as well as the more passive “yin yoga” in which she received additional certification in 2019. She teaches a style of yoga that focuses on cultivating a loving and compassionate conversation with the body. The goal in every class, whether active or passive, is to become present with the breath. She believes that it is with the breath that we connect through the body and to the spirit.  You can find Katie teaching mostly online these days with offerings such as yin yoga, astrology-themed flows and seasonal yoga malas through True Love Yoga and Hagoyah. You can find her in person one day a week, socially distanced and masked on the mat on Saturday mornings at Hagoyah! She also offers a once monthly “Restore and Release,” a monthly self-care reset, via her own platform! To learn more about Katie and her offerings you can connect with her on social media @kbkcyoga or through her website kbkc.yoga So you know she's legit: Katie Brown is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).  

Rachael Kinsey's passion for art began as a young child evolving into a career after graduating Art School. She has spent the past 9 years in Hawaii and San Francisco pursuing careers in visual merchandising, event + floral design, interior design and running her own jewelry company, Rachael Kinsey Designs. After immersing herself in yoga 14 years ago, yoga became a guide in her creative process. She believes we are able to foster our creative skills by connecting our mind, body and spirit. Rachael recently moved back to North Carolina and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Asheville Yoga Center. She just recently launched a DIY + Wellness Workshops business, Project Social- a community driven organization for adults and children to hold space for creative exploration through the DIY experience. She partners with local artist and wellness instructors throughout the Wilmington community to foster a healthy space for adults and children to tap into their own magic as a collective through art, yoga, and meditation.J O U R N A L  P R O M P T : Look around you at this moment. List all the beautiful things you can see and hear. Remember the beauty that exists in the simple and everyday things. It's all around us. L I N K S : Rachael Kinsey Designsdeep gratitude to Jared Sales + ALLIN. for the intro/outro musicSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elixirpodcast)

I am joined today by fellow yoga teacher, wanderluster and all around passionate nature lover - Miranda Peterson. She is the Owner & Founder of Namaste in Nature in the Mountains of North Carolina as well as a Yin and Yoga Nidra Yoga Instructor at Asheville Yoga Center. We unpack the theme of balance and healing through hiking, practicing yoga and living in tune with nature.

Today, we will do a short, flowing sequence of yoga poses to offer support for the body by strengthening the core and stretching the body. Appropriate for those new to yoga, Clara first walks you through the poses. Then you will be guided through flowing the poses, linking the breath and the movement of the body, three times. See a video and photos, as well as all the resources for this month's theme: Reinforce at http://clara-harris.com/august2019 Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga There are still a few spots this fall for Workplace Yoga for your workplace or organization. See more at http://clara-harris.com/workplace-yoga Upcoming Sessions: Sweatpants Yoga September 22, 10 AM - Noon Yoga & CreatiTEA September 21, 9 AM - 12:30 PM Sign up for the Yoga with Clara Newsletter at http://bit.ly/yogawithclaranewsletter I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you. An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.

For the month of August, we are going to be working with the theme of Reinforce. Today's episode asks you to take a moment of reflection to consider where, in your life, you need reinforcement, support, to shore up something - spiritually, physically, or emotionally. See http://clara-harris.com/august2019 for the referred to reflection tool. View the Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga Workshops this fall will be held at the Farmhouse at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian. https://goo.gl/maps/hZYsLWnmnUC171NA6 Connect with me on Facebook & Instagram! I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you. An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.

Today is the halfway point of the Happy Hips Challenge. Sign up at http://clara-harris.com/happyhipschallenge. In today's practice, I offer a practice to support happier, more supple hips. Check out helpful photos & GIFs of today's practice at http://clara-harris/podcastpictures17 Practice with the Happy Hips Playlist on Spotify or Amazon Music. Workshops this fall will be held at the Farmhouse at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian. https://goo.gl/maps/hZYsLWnmnUC171NA6 Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops Upcoming Sessions: Sweatpants Yoga August 9, 2019 Yoga & CreatiTEA August 11, 2019 I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you. An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.

On this week when we, in the United States, are celebrating Independence Day - while simultaneously seeming anything but united in our political discourse - I considered what my role, as a yoga and meditation teacher, could be during this time of conversational crisis. This is a metta-style meditation practice that I have found very supportive of how I want to engage with people in my own life.  Check out Pantsuit Politics for "grace-filled political conversations." You can study with me in a private or semi-private session at my home studio in Louisville, KY.  I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a more spacious, more peaceful, more creative life. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you. An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.

  Today's guests, Dennis and Kathy, are teachers of yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices with E-RYT500 certifications from the Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC and are lifelong students and practitioners. They are also YACEP certified (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) and bring a different perspective to yoga instruction by co-teaching… a blend of Yin and Yang energies. Their abundance of knowledge, practice, and experience draws from their studies and attendance of many national workshops across the country. In this episode, we learn how a corporate couple changed their lives forever to become yoga teachers. Dennis and Kathy explain the most significant obstacles they needed to overcome on their journey and why men have a more difficult time letting go of their corporate identities. Later, the two tell us why one of their biggest focuses is bringing messages and richness to each one of their classes. Every moment, we are practicing something mentally. Check in with yourself throughout the day and pay attention to those thoughts. Our internal monologue is the only thing we are entirely in control of.  All of our ideas will affect the world, positively or negatively is up to us. Enjoy the show! Show Notes: [ 02:45 ] About Dennis & Kathy [ 10:00 ] The moment Dennis & Kathy's lives changed [ 14:25 ] The biggest obstacles to overcome in their journey [ 17:45 ] We are always practicing something [ 23:45 ] Real yoga teachers include richness in their classes [ 30:40 ] What do our internal thoughts tell us? [ 36:50 ] Creating inspired actions for the lives we desire [ 40:45 ] Everything Matters Resources: Yoga with Dennis and Kathy Dennis and Kathy on Soundcloud InsightTimer Everything Matters: How a Corporate Over-Achieving Couple Found Real Truth and How You Can Too (and it's not what you think) Quotes: “Yoga and meditation became so interesting to me because at that time in my corporate life I was on a downward spiral.” “In every moment we are alive, we are practicing something.” “These ancient principles apply very naturally in today's world.” “I can only control my internal choices. Each human being on this planet wants it their way.” “How can we live our lives in a way that will uplift the moment, create positive energy that will radiate outward, and have a positive impact on the world around us?” The post Everything Matters with Dennis and Kathy Lang appeared first on Jennifer Mons Coaching.

The story behind choosing Asheville Yoga Center for Yoga Teacher Training

This episode is brought to you by Canyon Voyages in Moab, Utah and all my other fabulous supporters on Patreon! Today I get the great pleasure of chatting with my good friend Evan Barbee about her work, her life, and being an Enneagram 9.  Here's more about Evan: Evan is a trained educator and devoted student of the Enneagram, having studied under of some of the foremost teachers in the field. In 2010 she discovered Russ Hudson and Don Riso's work with the Enneagram Institute in New York and followed their teaching closely. In 2018 she completed her teacher training in Menlo Park with Helen Palmer and the senior faculty of the Narrative Enneagram. She founded Narrative Enneagram Nashville and offers monthly panel discussions to her community in the method of the Narrative Tradition. Evan is pursuing a 500-hr yoga certification with Asheville Yoga Center with a focus on trauma-informed yoga.  She has taken these skills into the prison system and is dedicated to offering resources to low-income areas, to resource poor populations and to individuals who may not otherwise have access to them.  Evan holds teaching and training certifications through Yoga Alliance, ISSA, Radiant Coaching and the Narrative Enneagram Worldwide. Sign up for Enneagram and Coffee’s Enneagram Summit! https://sarajane-case.mykajabi.com/a/12234/mMP6FNjT If you're wanting to sign up for any of my workshops coming up click here: www.consciousenneagram.com/events If you're enjoying this podcast and the work I'm doing on my social media outlets, consider becoming a sustaining partner. It's fast, easy, and you can help out with as little as $1 a month! Sign up here: www.patreon.com/consciousconstruction You can also give a one-time gift at www.consciousenneagram.com/support  If you want to learn more about me or yoga, check out my yoga website here: www.abirobinsyoga.com. Be sure to connect with me on the social medias! Facebook Instagram  Twitter    

Matthew 'Sudama' Ceuvorst was born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, and took interest in the human condition from a young age, leading him to Penn State University where he received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. He traveled to Plum Village in France, to practice meditation and mindful living under Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. From there, his journeys led him to India, where he was introduced to the 4 Paths of Yoga. He returned to India two years later to earn his hatha yoga instructor certification from the Vinyasa Yoga School in Rishikesh.  It was these adventure and inquiries that gradually, but inevitably led Matthew to Ram Dass and the wisdom teachings of Neem Karoli Baba. Matthew’s journey from psychology, into psychedelics, Buddhism, and eventually Bhakti, awakened in him a yearning for a life of service, devotion, and satsang.  Matthew currently serves as a caretaker for his teacher, Ram Dass and facilitates biannual pilgrimages to India, the Himalayan Yoga Yatra. When he is not traveling, Matthew resides in the expansive mountains of Asheville, NC, where he has spent the last year managing the Asheville Yoga Center, teaching yoga and mindfulness to incarcerated individuals, and deepening his relationship with satsang. All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina, and her classes use high energy vinyasa flow as a way to move past mental and emotional barriers. Her classes provide a body positive approach to yoga which celebrates students' bodies and encourages them to ask “How Do I Feel?” rather than “How Do I Look?” when practicing yoga. Jessamyn studied with Kimberley Puryear and Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center's Teacher Training Program and her eponymous yoga lifestyle blog and Instagram attract thousands of followers daily, offering tips and advice for other yoga practitioners while documenting her home yoga practice.

Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina, and her classes use high energy vinyasa flow as a way to move past mental and emotional barriers. Her classes provide a body positive approach to yoga which celebrates students’ bodies and encourages them to ask “How Do I Feel?” rather than “How Do I Look?” when practicing yoga. Jessamyn studied with Kimberley Puryear and Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center’s Teacher Training Program and her eponymous yoga lifestyle blog and Instagram attract thousands of followers daily, offering tips and advice for other yoga practitioners while documenting her home yoga practice.

Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina, and her classes use high energy vinyasa flow as a way to move past mental and emotional barriers. Her classes provide a body positive approach to yoga which celebrates students' bodies and encourages them to ask “How Do I Feel?” rather than “How Do I Look?” when practicing yoga. Jessamyn studied with Kimberley Puryear and Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center's Teacher Training Program and her eponymous yoga lifestyle blog and Instagram attract thousands of followers daily, offering tips and advice for other yoga practitioners while documenting her home yoga practice.

A TIME TO HEAL!!! Life Coach Ade is joined by Elika Aird for  "Spirit, Mind and Body Image" on Ask Life Coach Ade Radio Show. Spirituality is an active force that brings about transformation when it is embodied and acted upon. A force that is seeking expression in such a clear and real way.  Now is the perfect time to activate your soul power and be a balm for the healing of the soul of humanity. Yoga is a practice that brings about unity with one self – the union of Spirit, Mind and Body. When you are united within yourself, you become a force to be reckoned with. Call in 347 426 3346 or post your questions on "Ask Life Coach Ade Radio Show" fan (LIKE) page on Facebook. Elika Aird, Owner of BlissfulBodies Yoga and Birth Services, has been surrounded by fitness, dance and wellness from a very young age. Before teaching yoga, she taught various fitness classes and salsa dancing throughout Northern California and Atlanta. Elika incorporates her studies of various styles of yoga with the fluidity of the vinyasa system, to create an environment that allows each student freedom in each pose, while still emphasizing intelligence and the therapeutic benefits of alignment. Her classes blend the strength of a flowing dance along with insightful postures to restore and revitalize the entire body from the outer to the innermost levels. In 2005, Elika completed both her 200-hr certification at Peachtree Yoga Center and her Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center.  For more information check out http://www.blissfulbodiesyoga.com/ For more information about Life Conversations Radio visit www.LifeConversationsMedia.com