Since 2016, The Love♡Shine♡Play Festival (previously Asheville Yoga Festival) has been working to bring the gift of yoga to Asheville through a weekend filled with world-class instructors, dynamic musicians, motivating speakers and a diversity of vendors.
Co-Owners, Amanda Hale and Sara LaStella have made it their mission to grow the festival into the pre-eminent yoga, health & wellness event in the Southeast. Thank you for joining in the adventure!
Janet will offer a half-day immersion and 5 practices/workshops. Times listed in local time (eastern daylight time)
Thursday, July 25
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Cultivating Resilience * Immersion
It could not be a more fitting time to focus on building our resilience.We will delve deep into the art of building a strong pranic (energy) body and cultivating resilience. Through practice, devotion, and commitment, we'll explore how yoga can help us find balance and inner strength, for whatever life's challenges come our way.Throughout this immersive experience, we'll focus on nine key themes that actively support resilience in our entire being:
Through a combination of yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and introspective exercises, you'll learn how to harness the power of these themes to enhance your resilience and overall well-being. Whether you're new to yoga or an experienced practitioner or teacher, this workshop offers a supportive environment for your journey to return to your strength, flexibility, and inner balance.
Friday, July 26
10-11:30 am
Summer of Love • with DJ Drez
Join Janet and DJ Drez for a joyful, groovy, and immersive practice. We’ll move with a backdrop of beats, to celebrate the expansiveness of summer and our collective aliveness. Our practice will open our hearts wide. This connection to hridayam (spiritual heart) invites us to glimpse behind the illusion of separation and melt into the community of living beings, all longing for joy, connection, and love.
4-5:30 pm
Nourish • Restore
Drop into the healing meditation of the sound and body. We will create a space between effort and surrender, allowing the release and healing of our over exhausted system. Using the integrative power of sound, mantra, and postures designed to reset the nervous system and relax the places that hold tension and old hurts. We are all in need of individual and collective healing.
Saturday, July 27
8-9:30 am
Rasa Lila • with David Matters
We’ll invoke the essence of Radha and Krishna for a journey of self acceptance, love and returning to our hearts deepest longing. With our bodies and voices we’ll create a ceremony and ritual, honoring sacred life. This will be an opportunity to embrace our divine nature through storytelling, yoga, chanting, movement and dance.
4-5 pm
Meditation
Let’s awaken to our splendid inner world, sit with the fullness of our mind, body, spirit and return back to the world with clearer seeing, actions, and grounded from the inside out.
Sunday, July 28
8-9:30 am
Bhakti * Yoga of the Heart • with DJ Taz Rashid
Bhakti—yoga of the heart—is a reminder to feel deeply into the powerful rhythm that moves through everything we do, that sets the tempo of our every action. Chanting is like a love letter to our life. We’ll gather in community to fortify the nervous system through the vibration of chanting. We’ll activate our voices, and Bring alive and learn the ancient mantras, purāṇas (myths),and deities all while chanting from the heart.
You can find details and purchase tickets on the Love • Shine • Play Festival Website.
Janet’s studentship began at 17 under the meditation teachings of Prem Rawat. His reverence for simplicity and finding joy in the rise and fall of life live on in her practice and teaching today. In 1996, she traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, and became dedicated to the path of yoga. Janet blends the alchemy of her own practice with decades of studentship. She aspires not to teach but to allow the practice to emanate from her, letting awareness blend with movement and breath. Based in Bali and San Francisco, she leads immersions, retreats, workshops and more.
