Set Your Intention for 2014

SET YOUR INTENTION

New Years Day, 2014

One Center Yoga

11am-1pm $25

Join Camille Kingsolver and Kim Drye for an opportunity to reflect on a year past and set the tone for 2014. The first half of class will be invigorating asana, the second half will be restorative. 

This popular class filled up fast last year, so sign up early by calling One Center at 828-225-1904

Thanks for Your Support of the Ecuadorian Rainforest

Thanks to everyone who made it to the "Fall into Love with a Breath of Fresh Air Yoga Practice: Benefit for the Ecuadorian Rain-forest" last weekend.  We were thrilled by the turnout and the generous donations to the Off the Mat and The Virabrations Project.  Thanks also to The French Broad Chocolate Lounge for their donation of truffles and chocolate bars to the event (YUM!) and to Amazon Andes Sky for their talk after the yoga practice about the challenges facing the rain forest and for the fabulous raffle prizes they provided. This was such a successful event!  

Raffle prizes provided by Amazon Andes Sky

Holiday Break: Special Priced Salty Yoga Session

Holiday Break:

 Restorative Yoga & Breathwork 
in the Salt Cave 

December 1, 2pm 
$30/person (SPECIAL HOLIDAY SEASON PRICE, usually $40)

 Come stretch the body and expand the breath, taking in all the soothing benefits of the negative ions in Asheville's Therapeutic Salt Cave. The salt air calms the nervous system and reduces inflammation. Coupled with gentle yoga and an emphasis on pranayama (breathwork), you're in for a truly blissful experience.  Call 828.236.5999 to reserve a spot, space is limited.

10 Eagle Street, Asheville, NC 
www.ashevillesaltcave.com

Fall into Love with A Breath of Fresh Air Yoga Practice: Benefit for the Ecuadorian Rain Forest

Fall into Love with A Breath of Fresh Air Yoga Practice:

 Benefit for the Ecuadorian Rain Forest

November 16th 6-8pm 

@West Asheville Yoga Studio

Vata is the energy that dominates the fall season according to yoga's sister science of Ayurveda and when it gets out of balance we can easily become unfocused, inefficient, and depleted. If you feel like you're busier than ever, but you're getting less done--yoga can help you find the time and tools to nurture and love yourself back into balance. 

Join Kimberly and Mado for a special yoga practice that will help you soothe and balance vata with grounding & warming yoga sequences, calming restorative poses, refreshing pranayama, and blissful self-massage.

After the yoga practice there will be a short presentation about the challenges facing the Ecuadorian rainforest and how you can get involved to help. All donations will go to the Off The Mat Into the World Ecuadoran Rainforest Initiative. Hot tea and snacks provided (including chocolate from the French Broad Chocolate Lounge!)

Learn more about Mado @ trueselfyoga.com

Learn more about Kim @ herenowyoga.com

About Off the Mat: http://offthematintotheworld.org/

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Heart Opening Workshop @ WWC

Heart Opening Workshop 

with Kim Drye

Sunday, Sept. 29th 10-11:30am

Warren Wilson College Pavilion

*Free to WWC students, suggested $10 donation for non-students*

Learn to progress safely in your back bending practice.

Come soul searching with me in the Andes

*This picture from a recent retreat with local teacher Alex Moody. See more pictures from the AAS facebook page.

Come soul searching with me in the Andes January 11-19th, 2014.  I couldn't be more thrilled to be leading this international retreat with Amazon Andes Sky.  Check out the deets, including cost and itinerary from the AAS website: HERE NOW.  It will most certainly be an adventure we won't forget-- with zip-lining, horseback riding, active volcanoes, the tropical cloud forest, chocolate tastings, and daily yoga to remind ourselves to take some deep breathes and soak it all up.

Please contact me if you are interested or would like more information.

From the Amazon Andes Sky website:

For Kim, leading yoga and adventure trips is a dream come true. She hopes all her students learn, most of all, to let yoga practice move off of their mats and spill into their everyday lives–combining yoga and travel makes perfect sense!

We all know that vacations can be surprisingly stressful and quick. Kim hopes that she can help you relax into your adventure and guide you to embrace and live each moment fully. On a retreat with Kim, there will be a consistent emphasis on “finding your center” by taking the time to look inside yourself, find your breath, stay focused, and seek calm. She will also make sure the daily asana practice prepares you for the many other adventures on your trip by keeping you strong and flexible.

Kim is a 500-hour certified yoga instructor in the Asheville, NC area and leads her own series of experiential classes including Yoga on the Mountain and Yoga at Sola Salt Cave. Her journey to expand as a student and teacher has taken her through such varied and interesting  workshops as yoga for back care, yoga for multiple sclerosis, the physiology of relaxation and sleep, the physiology of inversions, yoga for sacral imbalances, yoga for scoliosis, yoga for the asymmetric body, the art of sequencing, the history of yoga, pranayama, meditation techniques,  yoga for seniors, chair yoga, yoga sutras and philosophy, the energetics of yoga (chakras,  bandhas, koshas), and cranial-sacral rhythm in yoga (somatic release through asana).

Bringing with her this vast and varied foundation of knowledge, she is very much excited and looking forward to leading this Finding Your  Center Retreat in Ecuador, September 2013.  So…roll up that yoga mat, stick it in your backpack and join Kim on this epic adventure toward your center!
Read more in her blog at herenowyoga.com, where she regularly posts yoga sequences, news, and musings.

Ready to join Kim for the experience of a lifetime?  Book Now

Sun Dance

Still currently planning to have the outdoor yoga class "Flow n Grow" in the Botanical Gardens of UNCA tonight at 6:30. There's a chance of rain, so if it's raining at 6:00 I will cancel class.

♥ ♥ ♥ Do a sun dance in the mean time and see you there!

Call/Text or Email me with questions! 

kymdrye@gmail.com

8028816050

Flow n Grow in the Garden: Three Week Series of Outdoor Yoga Classes

 Three Week Series of Outdoor Yoga Classes in July!

Three week series of FLOW YOGA classes (all levels) in the Botanical Gardens. 
Thursday nights 6:30-7:45pm
July 11th, 18th, 25th
Come flow and grow your yoga practice among the flowers at the Botanical Gardens with some beautiful people and kindred souls. Bring your mat, a towel, and water bottle. All levels are welcome, so don't be shy.
Classes led by Kimberly Drye of Asheville Yoga Center and One Center Yoga.
All three classes : $25Drop-in: $10
Pay ahead using the link below:

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Flow n Grow Series (3 weeks) $25.00 USD Flow n Grow Class $10.00 USD

Baby Grasshopper

Olive Ardizoni and I both are loving this pose, baby grasshopper. Maybe one day we'll grow up into adult grasshoppers.  No rush.

Flow Like a River

"...May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back...

-Rilke

Photos by Taz Johnson

Thanks for YOTM at Blue Ridge Pastures

I want to thank Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy and all of you who came to Yoga on the Mountain last Sunday (May 26th) at Blue Ridge Pastures in Fairview, NC.  It was such a fantastically beautiful day.  Here are a bunch of pictures from the event taken by Chris Pappalardo (Thanks, Chris!). Keep checking in for more information about the next Yoga on the Mountain event. 

UPDATE: YOGA ON THE MOUNTAIN THIS SUNDAY!

Time to get our YOGA ADVENTURE ON!

Here's where:

I hope everyone is doing well and getting excited about Yoga on the Mountain this Sunday (May 26th) at 11 am! Plan to meet at Sherrils Inn. From there the group will carpool out to the trail head and begin the hike up the mountain. The hike is approximately 2-3 miles round-trip and has significant elevation gain on the way up. 

Please remember to bring plenty of water, a light lunch or snack, comfortable clothes, rain jacket, sunscreen, camera, a yoga mat, blanket or sheet to put under the mat, and a towel to put over the the mat if it's hot. The cost for the hike is as FREE for SAHC members and $10 for non-SAHC members. We will need a few four wheel drive vehicles to help carpool folks to the trail-head.
Directions and Carpool Information: 
There will be a carpool meeting at the Earth Fare parking lot at West Gate Shopping Center at 10:15 AM. If you would like to carpool please let Michelle know so that she will wait for you. Her email is michelle@appalachian.org.
To get to Sherril's Inn: hop on 240 East and take the US 74A exit. Head on US 74A for about 10 miles. Sherrill’s Inn is on the right just after you pass Sugar Hollow Lane (on your left). You will see a big white house and a sign for Sherrill’s Inn. Directly before Sherrill's Inn, you will see a big pasture where you can park. If you get lost or need to contact someone the morning of the hike call Michelle (if you're not on the email list and didn't get her cell number, message her now). Let me know if you have any questions or concerns in the meantime.

Looking forward to a great day on the mountain! Woot!

May Force

#Maytheforcebewithyogis challenge continues.  I failed at Day 22's Flying Lizard pose, but check out my friend and fellow teacher at One Center Yoga, Ryan Conrad, giving me some pointers:

Check out Ryan's Tuesday4-5:30 level 2-3 class at One Center and he might give you some pointers on the same pose, or check out his Sunday 10 am class.

Alex Moody of Align Yoga and Wellness and I worked on today's challenge, a handstand variation, at her new studio space at 59 Charlotte St.  The new space is inviting and open for booking private sessions, so sign up now!

Check out Alex's Yoga for Awesomeness 7pm Friday class at Asheville Yoga Center and I'm sure she'll throw in some handstand action for you.  :)

Bound Triangle

I've decided to join in on this yoga challenge popular on twitter: #maytheforcebewithyogis.  Today's challenge pose was bound triangle. 

Beach Bummin'

Krum and I are with some old friends at the Pappalardo beach house, the "Pappa's Pamlico Perch", this week.  While I miss my regular yoga class teaching schedule in Asheville, I'm having a blast soaking up some sun and playing in the surf with my pup and my sister.  

Camille Kingsolver will be subbing my class tomorrow, Friday May 17th at One Center Yoga 5-6 pm.  Go check her out she's an amazing teacher!

Here are some pics from today's bliss-filled vacation day with of course a little bit of beach time yoga-play: