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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!
1-4 pm: Yoga | Aging: Perimenopause & the Art of Transitions
What the #@&%! is happening?
Who am I now?
Where did my energy, vitality, and sense of purpose go?
If any of this feels familiar, you’re not alone. Perimenopause often arrives quietly—until suddenly we realize we’re in the middle of it. The shifts can touch every part of us: body, sleep, mood, resilience, identity.
In this half-day immersion, we’ll explore how yoga can support us through seasons of change—whether you’re in perimenopause, post-menopause, or simply navigating the transitions that come with aging and evolving. Through movement, breath, rest, and reflection, we’ll practice meeting change with steadiness rather than resistance.
Together we’ll work with:
Stability — grounding the nervous system, finding steadiness in the body and emotions
Strength — supporting muscle, bone, and resilience through sustainable, intelligent movement
Sustainability — learning rest practices to support sleep, stress regulation, and recovery
This offering centers the lived experience of women while welcoming others who want to understand the transitions more than half of the population moves through—and how to support partners, friends, and themselves through change with more care and awareness.
Come as you are. This is a space to move, rest, ask honest questions, and meet this stage of life with more clarity, compassion, and strength.
12-1:30 pm: 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: Begin AGAIN
How to start where we are. Begin now. Now. And now, again. A journey into stepping into presence so we may see the moment clearly and slough off old patterns, habits, thought loops, and greet what is exactly here in front of us.
8-9:15 am: Morning Meditation
A guided meditation from the mountain top. Enjoy the incredible birds-eye view of town surrounded by nature while we step back into spaces of connection. Tending our inner relationship amidst the natural world is a powerful combination. Let go of tension and attend to the inner terrain of the body.
10-11:30 am: Inner Rhythms with DJ Drez
We begin landing with breath and pouring ourselves into a slow, soulful flow guided by Janet. As the practice deepens, the movement expands. The space warms. Breath becomes the rhythm. Carried by DJ Drez we liberate ourselves into free, intuitive dance. Our heart beats creating a collective wave of compassion, presence, and release—a celebration of aliveness, resilience, and the simple power of moving together.
10-11:15 am: LSD: Long, Slow, Deep with Sol Rising
A journey inward through long-held, floor-based postures and slow, steady breath. This practice is an invitation to dissolve layers, awaken inner currents, and enter the quiet mystery that lives beneath the surface of it all.
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.
