All by Ashley Shires
By Ashley Shires
Writing helps me process the world, revealing the broken parts and the beautiful parts simultaneously. It allows me to express on the outside what I am feeling and thinking on the inside, something a polite Southern girl is generally not encouraged to do...
By Ashley Shires
My intention is always to connect people to their own souls, their own heart. If I can in some way be a conduit or process that helps people make that connection, that is my prayer...
By Ashley Shires
Saul David Raye an internationally acclaimed yoga instructor and kirtan artist who draws on the depth of bhakti and tantra yoga traditions. His music is influenced by his travels in India and his experience growing up in the music industry in Malibu. He will be teaching yoga and playing music from his new album, 10,000 Suns at Bhakti Fest...
By Ashley Shires
Saul David Raye is an internationally acclaimed yoga instructor, healing practitioner and kirtan artist. He draws on the depth of Bhakti and tantra yoga tradition, and his music is influenced by his travels in India and his work in the music industry, growing up in his dad’s Avatar Recording Studios in Malibu...
By Ashley Shires
My intention is always to connect people to their own souls, their own heart. If I can in some way be a conduit or process that helps people make that connection, that is my prayer...
By Ashley Shires
The Prison Yoga Project helps incarcerated men and women build a better life through trauma-informed yoga with a focus on mindfulness. It helps prisoners make grounded, conscious choices instead of reactive ones...
By Ashley Shires
The festival, founded in 2010, draws an amazing and diverse line-up up yoga instructors and musicians. This year, we asked several of the presenters to contemplate the festival’s theme, “Raise the Vibration.” We have compiled a range of inspiring responses from Jaya Lakshmi, Rod Stryker, Gina Caputo, Janet Stone and Sianna Sherman...
By Ashley Shires
Jai Uttal is a pioneer in the World Music Community, a Grammy-nominated musician who brings together Indian devotional music with reggae, samba and more, a truly eclectic, ecstatic sound...
By Ashley Shires
Seane Corn is a renowned yoga instructor and activist who teaches vinyasa as a tool for self-empowerment. She brings awareness to global humanitarian issues and trains yogis to be activists through her co-founded organization, Off the Mat, Into the World. She will be a featured Presenter at Yoga Journal LIVE San Francisco, January 13-16, 2017...
By Ashley Shires
Yoga is born from within, from our own transformation, meditation and inner silence. We will explore how yoga is expressed through us, how to find our inner guru. We need to stop putting the energy on the outside, looking for the perfect guru, but owning the power we have inside...
By Ashley Shires
It was hot and sunny, almost 100 degrees at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California, when a bright yellow school bus arrived from Los Angeles with 60 children from inner city neighborhoods...
By Ashley Shires
There were so many amazing instructors at the Steamboat Movement Fest, including Bhakti yogi Rusty Wells, with his great sense of humor, his down-to-earth teaching style and his dance party playlist...
By Ashley Shires
SF Yoga Magazine caught up with Jai Uttal, the Grammy nominated musician and world music pioneer, before his upcoming performance at Bhakti Fest, September 7-12, 2016. Since 1990, Jai Uttal has released nineteen albums, fusing Eastern and Western traditions in eclectic and transformative ways...
By Ashley Shires
Robert Sturman is a gifted photographer who has worked as an Official Artist of the 47th Grammy Awards, the 2007 United States Olympics, and has become renown for his stunning images of diverse yoga practitioners around the world.
By Ashley Shires
Every yoga festival has its own unique personality, but the Telluride Yoga Festival stands out for its intimate classes, stunning Rocky Mountain setting and down-to-earth but transformative teachings. It’s a gem, and it’s not too late to discover it...
By Ashley Shires
The Steamboat Movement Festival, August 11 - 14, 2016, is an exciting and eclectic three days of mind, body and spiritual classes, all set in the summer mountain paradise of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Here are five reasons you don’t want to miss it...
By Ashley Shires
“So many festivals come and go,” Yoshi Aono said. “I knew if I did this, I would have to be completely devoted to it.” That was one of the reasons he chose Hanuman as the name for the festival...
By Ashley Shires
I don’t know if it’s a calling - it takes effort, but it’s from my soul. I’m skilled at making pictures and bringing out the best in people. I get to hang out with these incredible human beings who have triumphed over obstacles...
By Ashley Shires
I pulled my rental car into the dirt parking lot of Bhakti Fest, in the Joshua Tree desert, and a security guard in a bright orange vest motioned for me to roll down my window. I did, to a blast of 100-degree heat. He grinned at me, yelling, “Namaste!” I grinned back, realizing I had pulled off the highway and into an alternative reality...
By Ashley Shires
I’ve been graced to live in many amazing places and yet, Boulder feels like a root deep in my body...
