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!

Paige Gilchrest, Asheville Yoga Center Instructor

Teacher Feature: Paige Gilchrist

Discover the inspiring journey of yoga teacher Paige Gilchrist, from her humble beginnings in a drafty college ballroom to leading retreats, teaching in diverse settings, and weaving sound, Zen wisdom, and community into her classes.

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Paige Gilchrest, Asheville Yoga Center Instructor

Teacher Feature: Paige Gilchrist

Discover the inspiring journey of yoga teacher Paige Gilchrist, from her humble beginnings in a drafty college ballroom to leading retreats, teaching in diverse settings, and weaving sound, Zen wisdom, and community into her classes.

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Benefits of Kundalini Yoga for Women

Women’s Importance Through Yoga’s History Written by AYC Instructor, Sierra Hollister We all know that a regular yoga practice offers multiple benefits for the body, mind and spirit. These benefits include increased flexibility, enhanced physical strength, clarity and calm for the mind, better circulation and so much more. For women

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March Charity of the Month: Pisgah Legal Services

Asheville Yoga Center Raises Donations for Pisgah Legal Services All Month 10% of Drop-In and Community Class Sales on Thursday, March 28 Donated Asheville Yoga Center prepares for a full month of fundraising for Pisgah Legal Services as its Charity of the Month partner. The organization strives to pursue justice

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Spreading Love Through Our Community

Giving Back to Those in Need One of the most humbling and beautiful principles of yoga is “seva,” the Sanskrit word meaning “service-mindedness.” In ancient India, seva (pronounced seh-va) was thought to improve an individual’s spiritual growth through acts of selfless community service. It is the essence of giving without

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Understanding Active Streching and Passive Stretching in Yoga

Understanding Different Stretching Techniques Written by AYC Instructor, Forrest Campbell The practice of yoga can be described as boundless, with boundless subjects tied into it. Memorizing every single muscle, bone, node and valve in the body is not necessary to experience the beauty of asana. However, it is nice to

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The Importance of Inversions

Why You Should Practice Inversions Written by AYC Instructor, Tucker Waldron Inversions are powerful postures in the practice of yoga. They can benefit us physically, mentally and even spiritually. In hatha yoga, the primary branch of yoga as practiced in western cultures, the goal of the practice is to raise

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Becoming a Better You This Year Through Yoga

Discover a New You With the beginning of a new year comes new goals and resolutions. We all know this to be true. January takes the prize when it comes to crowded workout facilities. People flock to the gym to spend countless hours putting their bodies through intense workouts to

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

– Mary Oliver

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