From a press release:
Asheville YogaFest 2016 is pleased to present its third annual yoga extravaganza July 8, 9 and 10 in the gorgeous Montford neighborhood at the Morris Hellenic Cultural Center, 229 Cumberland Ave., Asheville. It will offer a locals only ticket price of $100 for all three days for Buncombe County residents, public servants, nonprofit workers and students in order to make this amazing yoga celebration accessible to the local community.
Asheville YogaFest 2016 will showcase its evolution into the preeminent yoga festival in the Southern United States, as superstar yoga teachers from around the South will team up with luminaries from the yoga mecca of Asheville to present three full days of deep yoga practice, sure to sate even the most ardent devotees. Stellar yoga teachers from Chattanooga, Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, Pensacola, Raleigh and Charlotte will align with eight of Asheville’s best to create a real regional experience and expose yogis to a copious variety of yoga styles, which will allow locals to practice with many master teachers that they have never seen while still honoring our local favorites.
Asheville YogaFest will present 12 thematic two-hour yoga workshops, but will also unveil YogaTalks on Friday night — a yogacentric take on Ted Talks, in which five scintillating speakers will present riveting 12 minute talks, with an accent on cutting edge yoga theory and practice. Saturday night, to raise the spirit, Asheville YogaFest 2016 is honored to welcome our hometown kirtan favorite, Osel, featuring Michael Johnson, for a uplifting mantra driven concert.
Asheville is so deep in the practice of yoga, with more studios and more practitioners than any city of similar size; it is well known across America that there is something very special happening here. In order to allow inclusion of local practitioners, a deeply discounted $100 ticket, all inclusive, is available on the website, ashevilleyogafset.net, with a limit of 100 tickets.
“We’re soaring into our third year and are offering the most amazing array of yoga teachers ever seen in our city. We are a festival born to honor yoga teachers…their dedication and expertise. All of our teachers this year were hand selected and we visited all of their cities and studios. They represent the best, most accessible and engaging yoga teachers in our part of the country”, says Mike Hiers, director of Asheville YogaFest 2016.
“We are proud of what Asheville YogaFest has become — an immersive, intensive, three day, all encompassing yoga experience,” Hiers continues. “Everyone’s karmic batteries will be fully charged by Sunday afternoon and attendees will be prepared to take this feast of yoga off the mat and into daily life and practice. We will all be changed for the better.”
For more information visit ashevilleyogafest.net and Asheville Yogafest on Facebook.
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