Love♡Shine♡Play Festival 2024

Join celebrated teacher, author and musician MC YOGI for a unique yoga and music immersion. This experience will include a joyful vinyasa practice, deep meditation and guided relaxation. After the class, enjoy an intimate performance featuring the lyrically gifted and spiritually uplifting music of MC YOGI & DJ DREZ. Guaranteed to be an inspiring, engaging and transformative way to start the festival together!  

It could not be a more fitting time to focus on building our resilience.

We will delve deep into the art of building a strong pranic (energy) body and cultivating resilience. Through practice, devotion, and commitment, we'll explore how yoga can help us find balance and inner strength, for whatever life's challenges come our way.

Throughout this immersive experience, we'll focus on nine key themes that actively support resilience in our entire being:

• Gratitude
• Conscious Consumption
• Nature
• New Pathways
• Curiosity
• Purpose & Meaning
• Relationship
• Service
• Doing Hard Sh*t

Through a combination of yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and introspective exercises, you'll learn how to harness the power of these themes to enhance your resilience and overall well-being. Whether you're new to yoga or an experienced practitioner or teacher, this workshop offers a supportive environment for your journey to return to your strength, flexibility, and inner balance.

This Vinyasa Flow class is a creative blend of classical and modern yoga philosophies. Elements of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Dharma, and Bhakti are uniquely fused together to create a transformative yoga practice that is challenging, healing, and fun. We will use pranayama, postures, music and meditation to create balance, strength, and flexibility in the body and mind. This specific sequence will maximize consciousness along the spinal column to enhance awareness of the nervous system. The body will feel strong, the mind calm, and the emotional system balanced; and with that, a sense of peace and JOY EMBODIED.

Join Janet and DJ Drez for a joyful, groovy, and immersive practice. We’ll move with a backdrop of beats, to celebrate the expansiveness of summer and our collective aliveness. Our practice will open our hearts wide. This connection to hridayam (spiritual heart) invites us to glimpse behind the illusion of separation and melt into the community of living beings, all longing for joy, connection, and love.

Shiva, whose mythical abode is the steep, mystic mountains, is regarded as the creator of yoga, and represents the power of transformation. Many asanas are associated with Shiva including Virabhadrasana (Warrior), Natarajasana (Dancer), and Savasana (Corpse). In this enchanting bhakti flow class, we'll tap into the mystic mountain energy of Asheville and invoke the potent transformational power within us that Shiva symbolizes through storytelling, chanting, and an imaginative vinyasa practice accompanied by a live soundtrack from The Wild Lotus Band (Alvin Young, Gwendolyn Colman, Narada Wise & Chris Rosser)

In this slow, deep, relaxing yoga practice MC YOGI alongside DJ Taz will guide us through a healing practice of melting stress, letting go of tension and relieving pressure, so we can drop into a deeper space of ease, grace and radiant beautiful bliss, all levels welcome.

Drop into the healing meditation of the sound and body. We will create a space between effort and surrender, allowing the release and healing of our over exhausted system. Using the integrative power of sound, mantra, and postures designed to reset the nervous system and relax the places that hold tension and old hurts. We are all in need of individual and collective healing.

"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." — Rumi. Bhakti is a Sanskrit word and a path of yoga that points to the universal human experience of connecting to the mystery of life through the depths of the heart. Many of Bhakti's practices are devotional folk arts like singing, dancing, storytelling, poetry, and ritual that are meant to be accessible for all. In this special workshop— we’ll explore ways to cultivate more depth, imagination, and feeling in our life and yoga practice through a Bhakti-inspired journey integrating chanting, poetic language, self-inquiry, and an all-levels asana practice accompanied live by The Wild Lotus Band (Alvin Young, Gwendolyn Colman, Narada Wise & Chris Ross)

Discover the profound power of your own voice as a healing modality and surrender into a blissful state of peace in a reiki-infused crystal alchemy sound bath.

It’s very easy to find yourself running on autopilot in day-to-day life. Feeling stuck in an anxious and reactive state that keeps you playing small, disempowered in your sense of Self. When you lose that connection with the sacred spirit of Self, it can be difficult to speak your needs and wants to others, or even admit what you truly desire to yourself.
By activating your own voice with intention in a ceremonial space, your spirit wakes up within the physical body, creating a portal for your unlimited human potential to shine through.

In this 90-minute ceremonial workshop, you’ll be guided through a journey of vocalization for opening up your energy channels to increase vitality and magnetism while deepening your understanding of your innate authentic power.

This one-of-a kind ceremony will include:

· An overview of the science behind vocalization and sacred sounds, and how these frequencies affect your brain and nervous system
· Light breathwork into an intention-setting meditation
· Vocal toning to clear the energy centers and activate the energetic channels in the body
· A guided melody meditation designed to raise the frequency of your intentions and amplify your personal power
· A reiki-infused crystal alchemy sound bath to relax, rejuvenate, and anchor your newly energetic state in the body as you go back out in the world

The resonance of your own voice is the most powerful healing sound in the universe. Come experience the wonder and expansiveness on a sonic journey that guides you home to the sanctuary within.

Let's show our knees some love! In this specialized workshop, we'll dive deep into nurturing and strengthening the often-overlooked joints of the knees. Whether you're recovering from an injury, seeking preventative measures, or simply want to enhance your overall knee health, this session is for you. Through a blend of gentle movement, targeted exercises, and mindful awareness, we'll explore techniques to alleviate pain, increase flexibility, and build resilience in our knees. Join me in creating a supportive space for our knees to thrive!

As much as the constant use of technology has made our life easier—it has also offered us some new problems. Since it is not going away any time soon, let’s upgrade our knowledge about how we care for our bodies. The stress and tension we often experience with the constant use of these hi-tech tools does not have to cause our neck and shoulders any more suffering. Please bring one yoga strap.

Let’s awaken to our splendid inner world, sit with the fullness of our mind, body, spirit and return back to the world with clearer seeing, actions, and grounded from the inside out.

Bhakti—yoga of the heart—is a reminder to feel deeply into the powerful rhythm that moves through everything we do, that sets the tempo of our every action. Chanting is like a love letter to our life. We’ll gather in community to fortify the nervous system through the vibration of chanting. We’ll activate our voices, and Bring alive and learn the ancient mantras, purāṇas (myths),and deities all while chanting from the heart.

Let’s enjoy the last day of the festival together with a fun, relaxing and uplifting class creating amazing memories as we send each other off on a wave of love, joy and good vibes! This class is a great way to decompress and rest before heading back home.

Got some chronic neck tension? Shoulder pain or dysfunction? Maybe some radiating numbness or tingling down the arms into the hands? Rotator cuff issue? Well let’s fix it! In this workshop you will learn about the muscles that Cat calls “The Big 3” and why they MUST be released before attending any other parts of the neck and shoulders.

After a short anatomy presentation, we’ll do some therapeutic rolling with Cat’s signature Self Trigger Point Release to soften the fascia and release tension in muscles that cause neck and shoulder pain. (Neck pain almost never comes from neck muscles!) You’ll gain the skills needed to liberate this area of the body. You’ll leave with greater pain free mobility and the confidence to continue this work yourself. Balls provided and available for purchase, or bring your own! Videos to follow after the workshop will be available for free to all participants.

Indulge yourself, relax, recharge, with this slow, spacious, all levels practice. This session includes calming seated and reclining poses, peaceful chants and serene lullabies to support deep rest, sweet closure, and integration to your festival experience. Accompanied by the soothing live sounds of The Wild Lotus Band (Alvin Young, Gwendolyn Colman, Narada Wise & Chris Ross)