Asheville’s yoga scene is incredible! You can hardly drive down any commercial street without seeing a yoga sign. The health benefits of yoga have really caught on here. It helps deal with stress as well as increased flexibility, muscle toning and even internal massage.
My mother lives in a retirement community downtown where they offer various enriching activites that include exercise. She just told me one of their activites is canceled for a month while the instructor spends time in India learning new yoga techniques.
That’s not unusual. There are many yoga instructors here and a surprising number of them have spent time learning from masters abroad.
But you don’t have to fly off to a far away destination. Come to Asheville to learn yoga! There are over a dozen yoga schools, centers,and institutes. You can find any level. There’s yoga for pregnant women, seniors, athletes, beginners, advanced, and trained teachers. There’s yoga to get in shape and yoga to de-stress and relax.
You can sign up for a series or often you can even drop in for one class. Let a yoga session be a souvenier of your Asheville vacation! And stay with us at Lovers’ Loop Retreat.
A couple weeks ago I attended the first annual Asheville Sacred Music and Yoga Festival. It was three days of every kind of workshop and lecture you can imagine related to yoga as well as on-going music and a wide assortment of vendors including acupuncture, hoola hoops, incense, herbal medicines, and ”green” real estate. All kinds of people - young mothers with babies, white-haired retirees, American and international – were strolling through the booths, sitting on grass listening to music, eating the tasty foods available and participating in workshops. It was a great weekend and I imagine will grow next year.
So, come a check out the Asheville yoga scene. Here are a few of the places you can look into:
