Your Yoga Blog

Stay up-to-date on the latest from Asheville Yoga Center with our blog! Meet our teachers and hear them share more about their lives and yoga practice. Read tips on how to integrate yoga more deeply into your life off the mat. Learn more about inspirational teacher training programs, and discover new ways to deepen your practice!

20 Inspirational Mantras

How Yoga Supports Mental Resilience and Emotional Strength

Whether we feel the intense heat and muscle strain of a deep, long-held warrior pose, or the blissful sensations after a cleansing round of Kapalbhati pranayama, mental resilience and emotional strength are fortified when we let go of our preferences and do our dharma simply because it needs to be done.

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20 Inspirational Mantras

How Yoga Supports Mental Resilience and Emotional Strength

Whether we feel the intense heat and muscle strain of a deep, long-held warrior pose, or the blissful sensations after a cleansing round of Kapalbhati pranayama, mental resilience and emotional strength are fortified when we let go of our preferences and do our dharma simply because it needs to be done.

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Incorporating Inclusivity from Yoga into Your Life

Asheville Yoga Center Supports Building Bridges One of the most inspiring aspects of a yoga practice is that it encompasses all human beings regardless of background, race, gender or opinion. Your practice is a safe place to let go of all the things that do not serve you in order

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Get Back in Balance

Realign Your Sacral Chakra & Enhance Your Creativity Imagine that you’re standing in front of a blank canvas with a paintbrush. You have a color pallet in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. Let your imagination flow freely through every bristle. Each stroke of the brush and every

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What is the 200-Hour Training Experience You Need?

Find the Program Option to Fit Your Schedule Are you ready to dive into 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training? This in-depth curriculum will give you the confidence and experience you need to start educating and sharing the love of yoga with others while providing a deeper understanding of yourself through the

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Open Your Heart

Tips and Poses to Feel Your Best A yoga practice provides countless benefits to your overall health. By dedicating a few hours a week to your practice, you will feel calmer and more balanced both physically and mentally. A synopsis of yoga and cardiovascular disease, published in the European Journal

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Showing Love to Those in Need

Asheville Yoga Center Supports Veterans Services of the Carolinas in February In the dark of winter, we are embraced with a month centered around the warmth of love. With Valentine’s Day as one of the focal points of February, we are reminded to show love to those who mean the

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Know Your Boundaries

Consent in the Classroom In a recent article written for the New York Times, journalist Katherine Rosman found herself face-to-face with the issue of consent and hands-on assists during Asheville Yoga Festival this past summer. During a four-hour workshop titled “Inversions and Adjustments” with Jonny Kest, she found herself in

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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

– Mary Oliver

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