I am inviting you to join me in a 40 day practice of the Ganapati Kriya Meditation. We are beginning on Tuesday, March 20th, the Spring Equinox. Spring Equinox is a time of new beginnings, a time for us to reseed our hopes, dreams and highest aspirations. It is also a wonderful time to begin a meditation or new practice.
If you are unable to begin with ...
Continue Reading ? ShareIntroducing KaphaGirl! We are very excited to have Angela sharing her insight and brilliant sense of humor on The Asheville Yoga Center blog starting with this book review of Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Jai!
Those of you who remember me from the early days of Twitter and Facebook know that reading is one of my passions. Yes, I’ll admit, I do have a bit of a ...
What: Community Meditation led by Sierra Hollister
When: Sunday, March 18, 7:00pm
Where: Asheville Yoga Center
Cost: FREE
Asheville Yoga Center would like to invite you to join us in awakening the heart and the mind together in a community meditation. Sitting together in meditation has a history that reaches back more than 2,500 years in both Yogic and Buddhist traditions. A community ...
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This moment contains all that we need for peace and serenity. When we can become aware of the many ways in which our minds are continually resisting being present, we can experience the moment, experience the peace of the moment. We can awaken.
Truly, we can realize that as far as being present, we are in possession of all that we need for peace, for being love.
Meditation is one of ...
When the components of yoga are practiced, impurities dwindle; then, the light of understanding can shine forth, illuminating the way to discriminative awareness.
Then the veil lifts from the mind’s luminosity.
And the mind’s potential for concentration is realized.
Then the senses reside utterly in the service of realization.
(Yoga Sutras, Chip Hartranft’s translation)
Pratyahara, the withdrawal of the senses from the external ...
Continue Reading ? ShareSo- first, I must admit, no one could be more surprised than I at this posting. Not my usual realm of contemplation, not even close.
It went down like this- the other night my husband was online and what drew me over to look at his screen with him was the music. What kept me looking was the yoga. I’m talking about the recent Equinox video with Briohny Smyth – you can view it here.
I was mesmerized and ...
Continue Reading ? ShareThis new space is just a few doors down from our old location at 239 S. Liberty St. We have kept the 239 S. Liberty St. location and turned it into a donation based yoga studio with all new classes.
Click here to learn more about our new building.
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Winter Solstice has always seemed like a time to draw in closer to the hearth, closer to the family as well as closer to our most inner self. The year has been spent, for better or worse, we have sowed and reaped. Now feels like a time of caring for our deepest selves, our soul selves. It is nice to put some portion of the day ...
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