Events
Upcoming Events and Series
Mama Baby Fitness 3 week series with Lizzy
Mama Baby Fitness with Lizzy
Dates: Saturdays, April 5, 12, & 19
Time: 3-4:30pm
Cost: Drop in $15 Series sliding scale $30-$45
Many working mamas have asked us to offer some mama and baby classes on the weekends for them so here it is! Lizzy will offer her fabulous Mama and Baby Fitness class as a 3 week series. If you can’t make the whole thing you can just drop in to any one of the classes being offered. These weekend offerings are 90 minutes long instead of the hour classes during the week. Each portion of the class will be longer and give more time at the end for connecting and bring together. Here is the description:
Come connect to community and reclaim your body in this fun, challenging, and rejuvenating fitness class designed especially for mamas and their ‘wearable’ babies. Together, we will raise our heart rates, strengthen all major muscle groups, stretch, relax, and circle in this uplifting and inspiring class. Please wear fitness shoes and your favorite baby carrier and bring a water bottle and a few baby toys. We will spend the first 20 minutes wearing our babies for the aerobic portion of class and will then move to the floor for strengthening, stretching, relaxation, play and connection.
Monthly Kundalini Yoga and Gong Bath Meditation
Monthly Gong Bath Meditation with Bob and Jaime
Dates: One evening per month Next date Friday, April 11
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: $15
Join Bob Bauer and Jaime Moshe for an experience of healing and transformation as we share Kundalini Meditation and Gong Bath once a month at West Asheville Yoga. Each evening begins with some gentle Kundalini Yoga warm ups to open to body and loosen the spine to prepare for the energy of the gong and ease of sitting.
“The Gong is the first and the last instrument for the human mind. There is only one thing that can supersede and command the human mind–the sound of the Gong. It is the first sound in the universe, the sound that created this universe. It is the mind, the sound of the gong is like a mother and father that gave It birth. The mind has no power to resist a gong that is well played.”
Yogi Bhajan
Benefits of the Gong Sound Bath:
Creates a state of relaxation and release of tension
Stimulates the circulatory and glandular systems
Rebalances the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies
Helps clear energetic and emotional blockages
Regenerates the parasympathetic nervous system
Awakens higher states of consciousness
Overall healing and transformation
Induces a state of meditation by calming the mind
Reduces the internal dialogue
Bathes you in a cascade of healing sound — to shift the brain from Beta (waking state) to Theta or Delta (meditation) through the vibrations of the instrument.
Monthly Kirtan Returns! This month with Mela and Ananda Taranga
Kirtan with Mela and Ananda Taranga
Date: Saturday, April 12
Time: 7:30-9pm
Cost: By donation, suggested $10-$20
Join us as we bring back our popular monthly kirtan offerings, inviting groups from the Asheville area and luckily hosting some of the absolute best sacred musicians from around the country. Kirtan is a devotional practice of chanting mantra. In a call and response fashion, a leader calls out a mantra and the group chants the mantra back in response. Kirtan is devotional yoga, or Bhakti. ‘Mela’ (Melanie) is a singer and kirtan wallah, yoga teacher, harmonium instructor, and more. In Melanie’s words, “The ‘point’ of chanting mantra is to bring the sense of oneness or fullness or wholeness, or “UNION”, or Yoga. I choose mantras based on the way that I feel when I chant them, and sometimes mantras choose me in different ways in my life.” Ananda Taranga translates as “Waves of Bliss”. This group is comprised of Melanie Leenhouts on vocals and harmonium, Sadhvi Velasquez on the mridanga drum, and Nate Oxenfeld on sitar, vocals, and guitar.
Roll Away the Blues: Self Massage and Yoga for Hip, Low Back, and Sciatica Pain with Cat Matlock
Cat Matlock, Founder
Self Care for your Hips, Low Back, and Sciatica with Cat
Saturday, April 26 2-5pm
3 CE Hours $45
In this 3 hour workshop we will go over the anatomy of the hip and low back and you will gain understanding of how the tensional relationships of the muscles in this area can cause hip pain, back pain, and sciatica. You will learn how to strengthen each muscle group, effectively roll out the trigger points in the muscles, and stretch to return resting length to the muscles to ease hip, back, and sciatica-types of pain. This class is open to all.
Continuing Education Classes for Massage Therapists with Cat Matlock
Roll Away the Blues: Self care with Foam Rollers, Therapy Balls, and Stretching- Releasing Hip Pain, Low Back Pain and Sciatica
Saturday, April 26 2-5pm
3 CE Hours $45
In this 3 hour workshop we will go over the anatomy of the hip and low back and you will gain understanding of how the tensional relationships of the muscles in this area can cause hip pain, back pain, and sciatica. You will learn how to strengthen each muscle group, effectively roll out the trigger points in the muscles, and stretch to return resting length to the muscles to ease hip, back, and sciatica-types of pain. This class is open to all.
Trigger Point Therapy Release Techniques for the Neck
Sunday, April 27, 11:30am-7pm
7 CE Hours $140
In this class you will learn how to recognize the pain and symptom referral patterns of the neck muscles we are working with and then how to correctly and efficiently release the trigger points within them. The muscles we will cover are the scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, suboccipitals, and trapezius. After releasing the muscles, we will go over some stretching techniques to return a more comfortable resting length to the tissue.
Trigger Point Therapy for Sciatica
Friday, May 16 1pm-8pm
7 CE Hours $140, save $20 if register for Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Girdle course at same time
In this class you will learn how to identify the tensional patterns and imbalances that tend to cause sciatica-like symptoms and learn how to treat them. We will discuss the sideways tilt of the pelvis and the adductor-abductor relationship in sciatica-like symptoms. During my 20 years of practice I have learned that most “sciatica” is actually false sciatica and not true nerve impingement at the spine. You will learn how to address the adductors, abductors, hamstrings, and piriformis muscle. All of my courses include practice in self treatment.
Trigger Point Therapy for the Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Girdle
Saturday and Sunday, May 17 & 18
Saturday class 1-8pm Sunday class 9am-4pm
13 CE Hours $260, save $20 if register for Sciatica class at same time
In this class you will study the anatomy of the shoulder girdle and the relationships of the muscles which act on the shoulder joint. You will learn the common pain referral patterns of this area which can include numbness, tingling, pain, limited ROM, and more, and which points specifically cause these symptoms to arise. You will learn how to locate and effectively treat trigger points in the following muscles: pectoralis major and minor, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres major and teres minor, subscapularis, trapezius, and the latissimus dorsi.
Sweet Release: A Yin Yoga and Restorative Workshop with Stephanie
Sweet Release: Yin and Restorative Yoga with Stephanie Johnson
Date: Saturday, May 10
Time: 1:30-4pm
Cost: $25
Join Stephanie for an afternoon practice carefully designed to promote balanced ease and rejuvenation. We’ll begin with a short all-levels slow flow to unwind and recirculate. We will then move into the slower and more supported postures of Yin and Restorative Yoga to unwind and release. A guided meditation will be offered throughout the class, inviting you to relax, refresh, re-focus and re-energize. All levels welcome.
Embodied Mindfulness: Meditation and Yoga Series with Stephanie Johnson
Embodied Mindfulness: Meditation and Yoga Series with Stephanie Johnson
Dates: 4 Sundays May 25 – June 15
Time: 7:00pm-8:30
Cost: $60 for series or $18 drop-in any class
Embodiment invites us to experience fully inhabiting all of our body, instead of our often habitual pattern of living in and from our heads. Mindfulness is cultivating an awareness of the present moment which creates space for choice, transformation, resilience, and a greater sense of connection. In this series, we will explore ease-full approaches to embodying mindfulness and illuminate the inherent transformative and healing qualities already present in the body through the practices of meditation and yoga. Each class will include a gentle yoga practice, a discussion, and time to practice meditation techniques. All levels of experience are encouraged and welcome.
Heavy Metal Yoga with Josie
Heavy Metal Yoga with Josie returns!
Date: Sunday, May 25
Time: 1:00pm-3
Cost: $15-$25 sliding scale
In this gentle yet challenging yoga class, Josie will guide you through relaxation and movement while the room is bathed in the healing waves of carefully selected heavy metal music. A special emphasis will be placed on feeling each pose, using a combination of breath and sound (the music or your own voice) to help release negative emotions that may be stored in the body. Using music, mental focus, and the natural support of those practicing alongside you—we can contact the shadow side of our beings, fill our hearts with courage, and find the strength necessary to face our demons, heal ourselves, support those dear to us, and change our world. All levels and all bodies welcome.
