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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!

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The Power of Slow-Flow Yoga: Listening to Your Body

Slow-flow yoga invites intentional movement, deep listening, and nervous system awareness. It helps you slow down, build self-trust, and connect with your body’s wisdom. On and off the mat, it’s a practice of presence, balance, and honoring your inner rhythms.

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Maeve Hendrix_teacherfeature

The Power of Slow-Flow Yoga: Listening to Your Body

Slow-flow yoga invites intentional movement, deep listening, and nervous system awareness. It helps you slow down, build self-trust, and connect with your body’s wisdom. On and off the mat, it’s a practice of presence, balance, and honoring your inner rhythms.

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Is Yoga Enough?

How Ayurveda Compliments Your Yoga Practice By Stephanie Keach Hatha Yoga does an amazing job at strengthening, stretching and detoxifying the body, while helping to replenish and rejuvenate all the internal glands and organs. Yet for some, it may not be enough for full wellbeing. Yoga has a sister, her

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What Is the Difference Between Power Flow yoga and Slow Flow Yoga

One of the most beautiful aspects of yoga, is that it invites practitioners from all backgrounds, ability levels, and personal goals to share in the benefits of yoga and hopefully even transform the world towards peace and goodwill. The most popular style of yoga at the Asheville Yoga Center is Flow Yoga,

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5 Yoga Tips for Aging Gracefully

1. Pelvic Floor Usually we think anti-sagging, anti-wrinkling, anti-balding when we see “Aging Gracefully”, but honestly those things don’t make us graceful. How about not having to wear a big, bulky diaper? Yup, GBK (Go Beyond Kegels) I say. My students will tell you I am not shy to drop

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Yoga Tips for Stress Relief

Do you feel great? Alive and vital? If not, consider the role that stress might be playing in your life.Stress can greatly diminish our energy. Stress quite literally robs us of our vitality. We live in anincreasingly stressful world and the potential for the experience of stress comes at us

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The 5 Tenents of Jivamukti Yoga

  The 5 Tenents of Jivamukti Yoga Hot, hip, and holy. Created in 1984 by Sharon Gannon and David Life, Jivamukti yoga strives to help us fulfill our true potential, liberation in this life! It is a practice that allows us to access the underlying, subtle, and esoteric teachings of yoga. Through the

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Instructor of the Month: Rich Fabio

Why do you teach yoga? It agrees with me.  Every other line of work I tried I wasn’t very good at.  I used to work so I could be a yogi in my off time.  Now, I see work as a contribution to society and my community. It is an

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– Mary Oliver

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