Class Descriptions 2019

Saturday Buddha Moon 10:30a

Soften tension and let go of stress in this slow, deep and transformative yin yoga experience. Join artist, storyteller and yoga teacher 10,000 BUDDHAS as she guides you into a deep state of bliss, awakening and relaxation. Open your body with deep yin stretches while listening to wisdom stories from the Buddhist traditions. These ancient tales are designed to spark deep wisdom, compassion, healing, kindness and love within us all.

Friday 2:30-3:30 Tea Shanti

Saturday 10-11am & 5-6pm Tea Shanti

Learn new ways to practice pranayama! Learn the basics of classical and  new pranyama methods, scientific mechanism based on our research, and application. PranaScience

Shiva Love Tent Saturday 11-12:15

Anchor into Heart, Expand into Life:

Tap into the guidance of your spirit as we soften and unwind the space around your heart through twisting and backbends. With purposeful moments of pause and reflection woven throughout this vinyasa practice, you’ll reconnect to the whispers of your heart and create the intention to bring this revealed wisdom to life. Includes: asana, pranayama and meditation

Ganesha Tent Sunday Sept.1

9:30-10:15am

Kick off your morning with a warming flow to spark your energy and call on your vibrancy from within.  Expect pranayama and gentle, targeted movement to coax your mind and body open followed by an all-levels flow focused on awakening your power center and cultivating luminous, healing energy from the inside out. Includes: asana, pranayama and meditation. 

Friday, 8:30-10am Buddha Moon Tent

Step into the flow with a class that starts with devotional chanting and then eases into a deep vinyasa practice with fun music and loads of hands-on adjusts and assists.

Friday, 4-5:30p Tea Shanti

Learn more about this ancient technique of understanding yourself and your karma through astrology. Lecture and discussion about the planets, signs and
houses as well as basic terms like retrograde and transits. Includes a discussion about the world-changing astrology of 2019 and 2020.

Friday Ganesha Tent at 1:30

Sunday Shiva Love Tent 7am-8am

Let Leslie Davis help lead you through the infinite possibilities of movement. This will be a 60 minute all levels class designed to give a better insight vinyasa.

SundayBrahma Nirvana 5:30-7:30p

DALIEN IS BACK with a part 2 continuation of the digestive system focused, yoga asana workshop where this time WE INCORPORATE AND INTEGRATE strong core, 3rd chakra based asana THAT FIRES up and builds the AGNI (HEAT) and energy systems in the body. THEN this part of experience will be followed by the slow and gentle, floor based postures from Thursdays experience. Here we will strike the balance of building a strong, steady fire (muscular energy)  and comfortably rooting that energy through the seated and floor based postures to help ground, provide muscle recovery and re-synchronize your nervous, endocrine and digestive systems! 

Effective digestive function is rooted in a steady and trusting para-sympathetic nervous system response…. but its also a BIG BRICK OVEN like the ones you see at an Italian Pizzeria that needs a steady and strong FIRE in order to function, breakdown and absorb nutrients properly…(and make one heck of a brick oven pizza!) This balance of intensity and calm, trust and running with scissors within us allows for the body to work at its highest potential and absorb  more properly. And of course, come experience yet another aspect of body, mind, theta brain wave /shamanic journey as this workshop also ends with a 30 minute sound savasana with all his beautiful instruments!

Saturday 3:30-5:30 Buddha Moon

Snakes molt when they have grown too large for their own skin, transforming into something new as they leave behind the old. Serpent Prana Dance is inspired by that same transformation, compassionately asking us to let go of the old so that we may let more love in. This workshop will combine dance, yoga and moving meditation.  We will focus on spinal mobility and hip openers, weaving in mindful movement, mudras and song. Our intention will be to allow a transformation as we practice letting go of the fears that limit us and embracing the intrinsic joy that connects us

Friday 7:30-9:30pm in Shiva Love

This workshop explores finding more stability, strength and steadiness in balancing asanas. With Bhakti (devotion) our hearts are lifted up to a vast sense of gratitude and connection. Bhakti is about honoring the divine with what inspires us, what feeds our hearts and souls. In this practice we’ll combine mudras pranayama and song to restore union and balance in heart, mind and body. 

2 hour Class

Saturday Art Village on river 11am

Come build Fairy houses with bits of nature. Bring sticks, leaves, acorns, small stones, any good building material you find lying around the forest, without disturbing it. We’ll create cozy abodes for the fairies and make a fairy village. A great family workshop, as its fun for all ages!

Saturday 1-1:45 Kids Village

This workshop will combine creative movement with yoga asana. We will go on a creative movement adventure combining imaginative play, song, yoga and dance. Come explore basic- fun postures and movements that teach balance, coordination, flexibility and peace.  Parent participation encouraged.  

Saturday 8:30-9:30am Tea Shanti

Discussion concerning ways to create a personal practice and take your existing practice beyond asana (postures). How to flow into the other layers of yoga to explore a deeper, meaningful connection with self.

Thursday 12-1:30 Brahma Nirvana

Quiet Sound: Live Guitar

All-level slow flow followed by yoga nidra. Weaving hatha, vini and vinyasa yoga in a feel good flow to ease students into the deep bliss of yoga nidra.Great class for when you arrive onsite!!!!

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Buddha Moon

All-level rocking vinyasa flow taught in a Mandala (circular) style designed to get energy flowing.

Friday 7-8am Buddha Moon

Friday 8:30-10am An Inrto to InStill @ Tea Shanti

Saturday 7-8a Shiva Love

Sunday 7-8am Buddha Moon

Mindfulness Meditation 101

An interactive introduction to mindfulness meditation, for everyone from complete newbs to anyone who wishes to refresh or revive their practice. The nature of mindfulness will be discussed, accompanied by an introduction to some helpful practices

Friday 8:30-9:30am Brahma Nirvana Tent

Saturday 10-11am Kidsville

Friday 8:30-9:30am Shiva Love

Friday 10-12pm Brahma Nirvana

Friday 10:30-12p Ganesha Tent

Sunday 10-10:40am Kids Village
Family Kids Yoga with Nitya Griffith

Friday 1:30-3:30 Brahma Nirvana

Tent

2-4p Friday Om Space

Friday 4:30-6pm Ganesha Tent

Find your freedom; find yourself; find your tribe… Infused with stories, music, and traditional dance from tribal cultures far & wide we come together in our expression and experience. Rippling throughout lies a Vinyasa flow as Kasey “Caveman” Jones supplies sounds from across the globe. United, we will breathe, move, and be on the journey that is Tribal Flow. Are you ready to get down with the tribe?

Friday 8-9:30pm Buddha Moon

Joseph Schmidlin D.O. mtp, LMT

Michael J

Saturday 11pm Brahma Nirvanna

Sunday 8:30-10:30am Main Stage

Saturday 8:30-10:30am Shiva Love Tent

What is your constitution? How do you live in rhythm with the seasons? Explore Yoga’s Sister Science, Ayurveda, in this fun and informative workshop with an Ayurveda Health Counselor. Leave feeling empowered to live a healthier, more inspired life!

Sunday 7:30-8:30am Ganesha Tent

Focus on waking up your joints, muscles and breath in this joyful morning practice for all levels, incorporating seasonal awareness of returning energy to the root for Autumn and  preparing you for a wonderful day ahead.

Saturday 1-2:30p Buddha Moon

Sunday 10:30-12p Shiva Love Tent

A class focused on building “core” & upper body strength to suppoert a strong asana practice.

Saturday Buddha Moon 6-7:30pm

Reclaim your spiritual and primal rite to dance beyond self-criticism into joyful aliveness! Classes include energy visualizations, moving meditation, intentional free-style dance, and heart opening group interactions to heal and balance the many aspects of ourselves. Moving into a deep state, we get closer to our true selves by moving opening to the divine energy that flows through us. A body journey that is both grounding and ecstatic, Interweave® puts transformation into practice by dissolving barriers both within and without to bring us into connected wholeness. This work is inspired by meditation, spiritual embodiment, Somatics, Focusing®, and archetypes and shadows.

Saturday 11pm Buddha Moon Tent

This class will explore the Root Chakra and the Goddess Isis as we reclaim the temple of the body with the medicinal properties of healing dance.  Beginning on the mat, we will be guided deeply into the body by way of gravity and sensation in a sensual somatic experience. The second half of the class builds into an ecstatic dance. Goddess Dance uses energy visualization, somatic moving meditation, intentional free-style dance, and heart opening group interactions and is inspired by meditation, spiritual embodiment, Somatics, chakra therapy, Focusing®, and archetypes.

Saturday 8-9pm Buddha Moon

“Sacred Movement: Living in Your Truth is an expressive movement therapy that takes us on a journey of self-discovery to unearth the Truth that lies within and to be in our own creative experience. we come together to create a safe space to move consciously, intentionally and freely. To let go, release and heal together as one“

Sunday 6:30-8pm Shiva Love

“Moving with mindful awareness to explore the wisdom within our bodies….we flow slowly with intention, finding stillness within and surrendering to what it”

Friday & Saturday 4-5pm Flow Zone (Peoples Playground)

This is a workshop for beginner poi spinners and those interested in creating a solid foundation. We will be covering basic holding techniques, basic planes of spinning, same time and split time, and a couple of tricks (butterfly/thread the needle and 2 & 3 beat weaves).

Friday-Sunday 11-12p Flow Zone ( Peoples Playground)

A hoopdance workshop for movers of all levels.

In order to achieve more diversity and fullness in  our flow we need not neglect the use of our core as well as our ability to move our feet. These factors are what make our flow a dance as opposed to a series of tricks. We will be learning how to hoop on several parts our core (head, shoulders, belly, hips, knees) as well as footwork and fancy transitions between movements. In this workshop we will be using larger hoops in order to practice core movements. I will have plenty to share.

Saturday 1-2:30pm Ganesha Tent

Do you wonder why change in ourselves, others and the world is often slow,
illusive and almost every which way but straightforward? Some patterns appear hopelessly stuck. They are not! The essence of change is related to our state of being and our understanding of process. Join us as we review the principles of change and how to bring flow to your life and to those around you.

Saturday in Brahma  Nirvana 2:30

Be inspired, uplifted and fully activated in this fun, joy-filled yoga and music experience with renowned artist, teacher and Spiritual Graffiti author MC YOGI. Set to an awesome soundtrack of hip-hop, electronic and dance music, this is the one you’ve been waiting for! Be ready to move, breathe, fly and leap into this super-powered awesome yoga activation!

Sunday Brahma Nirvana 9am

In this laidback vinyasa yoga class we’ll slow things down so we can really drop in and enjoy the moment. If you’re looking for a way to recharge, reconnect, refresh and reset, this class is the perfect remedy. Set to original tracks of super chill songs, MC YOGI will guide you into a deep state of ease and grace, stillness and peace. 

Friday Buddha Moon 10:30-12noon

Saturday Shiva Love 3–5p

Thursday 9-10:30pm Brahma Nirvana

Glowga will be a upbeat, energetic flow to create the space for your yoga experience. Arrive in the valley at Floyd Yoga Jam and transport yourself into Bliss Land where we will move, sweat and yoke in community, philosophy and practice.  An all levels energetic experience with glow-tastic adornments. This class is dedicated to creating a platform for your practice to unfold over the next four days

Friday 7-8am Shiva Love Tent

Vipassana meditation, also known as insight or awareness meditation, is best summarized by Socrates’s famous maxim “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” The goal of vipassana is to give us insight into the true nature of our experiences. 2500 years ago, the Buddha discovered that knowledge, insight and goodness are the only reliable antidotes to dissatisfaction and suffering. Our happiness, he said, doesn’t rely on ever-changing external circumstances. By looking inwards we can discover that fulfillment and joy are our true nature. And insight meditation is the method we use to look inwards.

Saturday 11:15-12:15pm Tea Shanti

Come get inspired to cultivate a space and practice of meditation with your children.

In this world full of so much activity and stimuli, we can change the environment of our home by slowing down and cultivating quiet in our lives. Let’s start by developing a daily meditation space where everyone can benefit  from checking in, books , stories, and meditation. Sarah and Jagadisha will share their story of cultivating their family meditation practice with their 14 year old daughter, Satya who started at age 6. With a light heart and a fun attitude cultivating this time can bring JOY and depth to family life . 

We will talk about how to cultivating this space, have time for conversation, and we will sit for 10 – 15 minutes.

Sarah and Satya practice at Great Tree Womens Temple near Asheville, NC where they attend mother/daughter  and other retreats. Jagadisha studied meditation with the great Swami Muktananda and sits in the wee hours of the morning! (he sits with his family too!)

Friday 4-5:30pm Brahma Nirvana

Don’t lean in, don’t lean out. Lean to the side.
Modern postural yoga and popular asana emphasizes powerful lengtheners for the front and back body. We also dwell in this front/back sagittal plane of movement most of the time in our daily lives. Break out of the mold in a practiced designed to decompress, and create length
and space in your side body and spine.
Side body lengthening can be powerful to relieve back pain, deepen twists and backbends, and allow for greater expansiveness in our lungs
(more prana = more life force!). Sidebends recruit shoulder stabilizing
muscles and deep core layers that you might not even know exist. This
practice is a sweet invitation for more opening and buoyancy in our
physical beings.
All levels welcome.
Your teacher, Ariele, is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, founder of
YogaAnatomyAcademy.com, a long time yoga teacher, and an advocate
for depth and quality in yoga practice and instruction. For more
information on Ariele, see http://sacredsourceyoga.com/ or https://
yogaanatomyacademy.com

Sunday 10:30-12p Buddha Moon

A supple yet sturdy pelvis is the rock star of your skeleton. It transmits forces from the lower body through the core, spine and beyond.
The sacrum is a pivotal pelvic bone, and, when healthy, it has just enough
wiggle room to adjust to the twists and turns of everyday movements and
asana. It can be destabilized, however, through repeated over-stretching,
asymmetrical forces or high impact, like a hard fall on the bum. A destabilized sacrum is an ouchy, unhappy sacrum.
A few techniques and the right approach to yoga asana can stabilize our
back-sides and turn the frowns upside down. Transform the your yoga into a sacrum-smart practice with Dr. Ariele
Foster, physical therapist, yoga teacher, and yoga anatomy teacher from
Washington, DC. Attendees receive a PDF handout of a quick sacrumstabilizing
sequence they can continue at home.
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Learn more about Ariele at Yoga Anatomy Academy or Dr. Ariele Foster –
Yoga and Physical Therapy

Friday 10-12:30pm Shiva Love Tent

Jivamukti Slow Flow is a slow moving extended Asana Workshop with emphasis on alignment, breath work, and mindful transitioning from one asana to the next. This workshop will include chanting, meditation, and a short discussion on yoga philosophy.

Saturday 3-5pm Tea Shanti

The Bhagavad Gita is a text in the form of a dialogue between a holy teacher and an anxiety-ridden student. Their conversation contains ways that individuals can uplift themselves and their communities. For a discussion on some of the major themes (karma, dharma, meditation, and desire) and Gita chanting, please attend this lecture.

Saturday 4-6pm Brahma Nirvana

Launchpad : AcroYoga 

Pops are spirited transitions that send the flyer into the air from the feet of the base. Flyers catch some hang time, before being caught, in the same, a similar, or an altogether different shape. Come learn to calibrate the dynamic connection necessary for safe and graceful pops, all thoroughly supported with attentive spotting.

Friday 1:30-3pm Buddha Moon

The Advancing Cycle  

Come explore AcroYoga transitions that exploit our power, cultivate our connections, and move gracefully. We’ll warm-up and calibrate with inversions, star, reverse star, and foot to hand, please come experience basing or flying these for at least 15 seconds. We’ll then layer transitions to build fun, fresh machines, and refine, refine, refine.

Sunday 5:30-7pm Buddha Moon

Come explore the therapeutic and healing side of AcroYoga. We’ll explore partner yoga to build sensitivity, balance giving and receiving, and find our boundaries and support for deeper asana. We’ll continue the connection while giving and receiving thai massage to build sensitivity, and put it all together with flying therapeutics. No experience necessary!

Friday 3-4:15pm Ganesha Tent

This is a well balanced yoga class accessible to all levels. Th e emphasis is on breath, movement, mindfulness and music. This class will leave participants feeling rejuvenated, empowered and at peace.

Friday 6:30-8pm Ganesha Tent

Lullaby Yoga™, created by Johanna Beekman, RYT 500, is a unique blend of restorative and yin yoga with heart opening live music. Her classes focus on deep relaxation and healing using principles from therapeutic yoga, yoga nidra, bhakti yoga and nada (sound) yoga. 

Sunday 3-4:30 Brahma Nirvana

Join Yogi J Miles and DJ Mikemetic for a cosmic mash-up of deep grooves and deeper flow! Follow the sound of the drums syncopating with the rhythm of breath and movement, and let the music help you find freedom to be funky! As Yogi J leads the Hatha practice, Mikemetic will provide the soulful sounds of house music, arranging beats from across the entire diaspora. Remember that everyone is free in the House ofYoga.

Saturday 8-9:30am Brahma Nirvana

This is not a morning restorative class. This is an energizing flow with music to match with one goal: to wake yo ass up!! The Bed can be a recharging station and used as a springboard to life, or it can be a very shallow grave. If we harness our own vast supply of energy by controlling our diet, our emotions, and our overall health and wellness the body will “rest” only as much as needed. This class will be curated with breath work and a heart opening dynamic flow to have us running headfirst into our day. We can either roll out of bed dreading the start of the day, or we can spring out of bed with joy and gratitude!! So put our feet on the ground, greet the morning, and Wake Yo Azz up!!

Sunday 1-2:30 Brahma Nirvana

Meet someone new  or bring an old friend

Saturday 8:30-10am Buddha Moon

Finding Duo Balance

Sunday 3-4pm Shiva Love Tent

Take the next step in your yogic & meditative journey, learning to
incorporate the wisdom of your dreams and shadow self into your waking life for
greater awareness, healing and clarity.

Saturday 11-12p Ganesha Tent

Yoga Nidra offers a unique approach to deep relaxation, stress reduction,
meditation and transformative dreamwork that can be practiced with little to no yogic experience, yet it encompasses the full breadth of yoga psychology and meditative insight. (note: would love to broadcast this to the masses…)

Saturday 1-2:30 Shiva Love Tent

Dharma Yoga is a graceful, yet challenging form of yoga based on Sri Dharma Mittra’s almost fifty years of practice of classical yoga. The practice is appropriate for students of all levels, from beginner to lifelong practitioners and accessible to so many because it meets each student where they are and according to their condition.
A devotional practice that emphasizes good health, a clear mind and a kind heart. The Dharma sequence includes standing series, floor series, 10 minute led savasana / deep relaxation, pranayama and meditation. Be receptive!
Dharma Yoga Center: http://www.dharmayogacenter.com

Saturday 10-12am OM Space

Intuitive Improvisation is a spontaneous dance making process that relies on
following one’s movement impulses. This workshop will begin through guided
somatic practices designed to enhance awareness of sensation and perception.
We will then explore a variety of improvisational frameworks, eventually working towards creating compositional scores with the entire group.

Saturday 1-3pm Peoples Playground

Fruday-Sunday 10am Peoples Playground

Friday 1:30 – 3pm Peoples Playground

Sunday 8:30-10am Shiva Love

Explore yoga as experiential worship. Using the limbs of asana and pranayama, we will “pray through the chakras”, connecting to Source through an embodied worship practice.

Friday 9:30am KidsVille

Saturday 11:15-12:15 Tea Shanti

Developing a Family Meditation and Mindfulness Practice: with Sarah and Jagadisha

Friday 1:30-2:30 Kids Village

Friday 12 midnight DrumCircle Fire Circle

Saturday 2-3pm Kids Village

Saturday 11pm or 12 midnight Drum Circle@ Fire Circle

My name is Kasey Jones. I am affectionately called CaveMan by many. I am a student of life, and of the Djembe. My passion is teaching anything I know, and music is just too much fun to pass up.

Sunday 1-2:30p Ganesha Tent

A cool collaboration of yoga, capoeira, drumming, harmonium, chant and singing as Darnell Bell AKA Yoga Dude and Alice Sevivas as take this fusion to reach the heart of each chakra vortex. Interactive infusion of proper alignment and mindful actions of the body, this hatha and vinyasa form of liquid movement and energy building practice will awaken the mind and body. Intermediate to Advanced Class. 90 minute Flow.

Thursday 6:30-8pm Brahma Nirvana

The medicine of movement and sound comes from cultures that have been traded in for a life that is hot, fast, and pushes us to our edge. Our yoga practice doesn’t have to mimic our lives; instead we can connect to our breath, body, and intentions in less harsh, and more direct methods. You can expect fluid yoga movements, sound healing, meditation, and activation. These classes have different themes, depending on the season/time of day that vary based on intuition.

Saturday 6-7pm Ganesha Tent

Vinyasa Yoga class with a “Here Comes the Sun” attitude and Sun-Salutations for Mind, Body and Spirit! The Beatles music will inspire and ignite imagination! Just IMAGINE (We do have a musician on team who can play acoustic/sing Beatles music) Awaken your chakras through pranayama, asana and energy clearing via creative movement. We use tambourines, scarves & dancing ribbons.

Sunday 3:30-5pm Buddha Moon

Saturday 6:30-8pm Tea Shanti