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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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Bhakti Yoga: The Flow of Devotion

Bhakti means devotion, a deep yearning to experience love in its purest form. According to Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, Bhakti is identical to Yoga as a basic ethical theory that originated in South Asia. Although it is often confused with Theism, a decolonized view of Yoga or Bhakti does not require any beliefs.

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A Letter from Sunny & Steph: AYC Transition Update!

  Dearest Asheville Yoga Family, As you may have heard by now, we are in the process of selling Asheville Yoga Center and the buildings to the non-profit Ayurvedic Institute (ayurveda.com) and its sister organization Ayurprana (liveayurprana.com).  Many of you will know of Dr. Vasant Lad who is the Founder

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December Blog: Giving Back Through Yoga

Giving Back with Yoga  “Giving” is a funny thing.  It is like an endless well that just keeps on flowing and filling no matter how much it is used.  The word “purna” in Sanskrit means full. But more than full.  My teacher describes “purna” as holding a glass under the

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Benefits of Bringing a Friend to Yoga Class

One of the first yoga classes I ever attended was because a friend convinced me to go with her to help me deal with stress after a difficult day.  How many of us have tagged along with a friend to a yoga class and walked away grateful for the experience?

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Welcome New Instructor: Grace Keller

What is your favorite part about teaching yoga? My power class is a fun mix between Masculine and feminine energy. A celebration of the self through strong movement, community  and fun music. We will do some flows to build heat and strength by activating  the core with powerful poses, twists,

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

– Mary Oliver

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