UPCOMING
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Community Kirtan
@ Asheville Yoga Center
3rd Wednesday of every month
7:00 - 8:30pm
Join us for an evening of inspiring Kīrtan and community with Michael Johnson and friends!
Open your heart with Bhakti devotion to enjoy the presence of community and celebrate the divine energy within. With music and devotion, we will create a space for sangha (community) with one another.
Everyone is welcome, no previous experience required.
All Donations will benefit the Asheville Yoga Center Teacher Training Scholarship Fund
Gardener of the Mind Immersion: Developing a Skillful Meditation Practice (HYBRID)
Online and In Person @ Asheville Yoga Center
March 3-7, 2025
This immersion is available for anyone looking to evolve as a yoga teacher and practitioner. This immersion is one of the modules in Asheville Yoga Center's 300-hour 'Kindling the Flame' yoga teacher training program and is also open to anyone who wishes to participate.
The last three limbs of Yoga combined are known as Saṃyama, often translated as 'Self-control' or 'Beginner's Mind.' When combined with the first five limbs, they help make the practice of Yoga accessible to people of all kinds. In this team-led immersion, you’ll learn a variety of approaches to meditation from a team of inspirational teachers, sharing their knowledge and expertise. You’ll be given the opportunity to develop a daily meditation practice that can eventually become self-guided to meet your unique needs.
Topics Included:
- Meditation as a natural, humble, instinctive human skill to honor and trust
- The role of meditation within the context of Yoga Philosophy
- How to cultivate Śamatha (automatically stable, clear and calm attention)
- Vipaśyanā (Insight) to become a master gardener of the mind
- Maitrī (Kindness) to optimally navigate space, time, and other people
- Vicāra (Inquiry) a method for explicating any object one chooses
- Access to a library of pre-recorded lectures on the origins, obstacles and antidotes for each technique
- Optional daily live-stream guided meditations (recordings will be sent out the next day)
- Completion of all the materials comes with a 100-hour Meditation Certificate
The Craft of Practicing & Teaching Inversions (HYBRID)
Online and In-Person @ Asheville Yoga Center
February 14-16, 2025
Love of Wisdom Immersion: Exploring the Roots of Yoga Philosophy (HYBRID)
Online and In-Person @ Asheville Yoga Center
July 7-11, 2025
Immerse yourself in the philosophy and practice of Yoga by learning about the root texts and traditions from which it emerged. Yoga is an outlier among philosophical traditions on many fronts: it does not require any beliefs or dogma to practice, it is non-sectarian, it is already trauma informed and offers a unique method to recover from trauma so one can abide in the form of their choosing.
This course is open to all levels, and is not exclusive to those who are seeking Yoga Alliance credit.