Asheville Yoga Festival 2018

Slackline Yoga or Slackasana is a unique practice that teaches complete body awareness. It is a moving meditation that will refine your sense of balance and mental focus. It involves balancing on a 1 inch wide 'yoga mat' (slackline). In this 90 min Slackshop you'll learn the basics of the Slackasana series. These includes standing (commitment), kneeling (core strength), sitting (focus), arm balancing (breath), as well as exercises for more seasoned slackers to expand their comfort zone on the line. All skill levels encouraged to come. Slacklining is great for yogis, climbers, couch potatoes, and athletes of all kinds. Take your yoga off your yoga mat! No experience necessary.
Class time devoted to lecture: 5-10 minutes

combines playful practices from around the world into a tour-de-force of fun, zany and powerful explorations that will draw the holistic superhero out of anyone.
No experience necessary, this class will alternate between more yin, or mindful practices and full-on physical yang practices to help balance the mind, body and the spirit.
Each class is wholly and uniquely different, evolving like and interactive story between the facilitator and the group.
This workshop pulls from the worlds of Slackline yoga, Acro yoga, years of performance and circus training and playful tools gathered from workshops world wide. Come play with us and see for yourself how play can change the world!

The slackline is a special tool that helps us find stillness in an ever-moving system, to find relaxation in an active posture and provides a powerful mind-body-spirit altering tool for biofeedback in our relationship to the world of Balance. Novices and experts alike are welcome as we explore the fundamentals of slackline as a tool for mindfulness, honing the body and changing the way we move in the world. We will explore how utilizing the slackline can have lasting effects on the rest of our lives.