Joaquin de Teresa: Boom Yoga [Miami, FL]
A gentle spirit with a fiery soul. An intuitive healer, Joaquin is a Yoga teacher intentionally seeking to share healing and connect worlds. His studies include Yoga, Acroyoga, Thai Massage and indigenous medicine. Through his work he promotes space for individual transformation and daily divine play.
Grounded Body Yoga for Energetic body Lift Off
A mixed level, mixed style yoga class designed to assist us in maintaining a high vibration and smooth energy flow throughout the weekend. 60 min
Acroyoga Solar Flight School
A foundations level Solar practices AcroYoga workshop. No partner or experience required. 90 min
Acroyoga Lunar Healing School
A foundations level Lunar practices AcroYoga workshop. No partner or experience required. 90 min
What is AcroYoga?
AcroYoga blends the wisdom of yoga, the dynamic power of acrobatics, and the loving kindness of healing arts. These three lineages form the foundation of a practice that cultivates trust, playfulness, and community. In this immersion we will focus on the Lunar Healing Arts Practices that cultivate listening, loving and letting go and Yogic Practices that cultivate breathe awareness, life balance and connection.
AcroYoga is a space to:
– Heal the body
– Learn to massage both on the floor and in the air
– Play with freedom
– Connect profoundly both with both yourself and with friends
– Break the barriers of what you believe impossible
– Conquer gravity
– Take off in flight
– Join the world community of AcroYoga
… and smile a ton!
Tanya Neplioueva [Asheville, NC]
I have always lived in my body, but not the way I do now. Yoga and bodywork practice have rooted me deeply into myself and encouraged a daily exploration of my intentions, my awareness, my limits and my strengths.
Meeting my body allows me to exist in each moment while embracing change. Every day is different but the practice is constant. I am granted another opportunity to find stillness, to breathe consciously and watch closely, to trust the wisdom of my deeper self, to be fully present, to feel rather than think. Each such experience offers a potential for deeper self-realization. It allows the subtle magic of life to step into the forefront of awareness.
The mind quiets and everything else expands.
Massage, yoga asana, meditation, and pranayama practice are deeply therapeutic in their ability to offer us such insight into the present moment. Regular use of these tools allows both body and mind to become clear. Light shines into darkness. We heal ourselves. We arrive.
I invite you to expand into yourself. Discover your practice. Embody!
Nick Atlas [Villa Rica, GA]
Nick Atlas is the founder of Evolutionary Education®, a multidimensional learning project based on the principles of deep ecology and non-duality—our interconnectedness with each other and the natural world. A native New Yorker and perennial traveler, Nick is an accomplished artist, musician, forthcoming author and graduate of Emory University in Atlanta. He is currently earning his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of West Georgia, where he teaches courses on self-discovery, conducts pioneering research on lucid dreaming, and inspires the next generation of teacher-healers to realize their maximum potential. www.nickatlas.com
Lucid Dream Yoga
Journey into the rare art of dream yoga, exploring the relationship between lucid, non-lucid and post-lucid dreaming. Learn to enhance dream recall, tap into subtle energies and participate in expanded states of consciousness that transcend the boundaries of waking and sleep. No experience necessary.
Qigong
Explore the ancient Taoist healing art of qigong, a flowing practice and philosophy designed to balance yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) energies in the bodymind. Connect with the elemental forces of nature, learn to circulate and revitalize your vital energy, to self-heal and heal others! No experience necessary.
Laughter Yoga
Drop into your body, clean out the cobwebs, revitalize your spirit and meet some soulmates you didn’t know you had. Laughter is the best medicine!
Sarah Tracy [Atlanta, GA]
Sarah Tracy is a devoted student and teacher of yoga. She discovered the yogic state through dance and meditation in 2010. Since then she has evolved through her 200 hour training and is now certified at the 500 hour level. She began training students how to teach in 2014 under the guidance of her mentor, Bethany Vaughn. Sarah has recently been studying qi gong and martial arts under the 31st generation Shaolin Grandmaster Shi Deru, which compliments her understanding of yoga and the body-mind-spirit connection. Sarah’s teaching method is direct and deep. Her classes focus on breath, alignment, and introspection as tools for enhancing the practice. She teaches with the eternal dance and meditation as her guide. Sarah is a dedicated student, committed to always learning and evolving, and from that place she teachers with authenticity and clarity.
Root & Rise
Sarah’s classes at Kinnection are vinyasa based with some qi gong woven in. The focus links postures with breath in a moving meditation. These sessions are designed for centering and grounding energy in the body. As we move through postures and breath, the intention is to root into the inner space and allow the inner guide to rise.
Truth-i Manifest [Asheville, NC]
Having been a teacher of qigong, yoga, meditation, and internal martial arts for 9 years, including 5 years at The Ashram Health Retreat in California, where he taught more than two thousand people, Truth-I brings experience and revolutionary perspective to his energy cultivation workshops. His grasp of the philosophies and exercises of energetic systems from around the world, and use of a clear, poetic teaching style, invites an in-depth experience for beginners as well as advanced practitioners.
Dancing Star Qigong
This workshop will provide an opportunity to experience ancient energy cultivation practices from the art of Taoist qigong (chi-gung), known to its disciples to benefit health, clear energetic blockages, nourish the light body, and bring profound transformation to human consciousness. Open to all levels, participants will learn forms and breathwork that have components of both yin and yang: stillness and motion, meditation and stretching, relaxing and energizing, and take home practical ways to incorporate energy cultivation as a life-enhancing tool.
Christy Thorndill [Baltimore, MD]
Intro to Reiki Energy
Do you like helping others relax and feel good? Are you interested in energy and how to direct it? Are you looking for ways to relax and balance your own energy?
Join Reiki Master “Yoga Christy” for a quick and powerful introduction to Reiki Energy Medicine. Reiki Energy can help to balance, nourish, and support the healing of body, mind and spirit, in a gentle and non-invasive way. In Reiki training, you learn to consciously direct life-force energy, or Ki, to yourself and others.
In this Introduction to Reiki, you will receive an energetic Attunement to help open your system to receive energy. You’ll also learn the simple basics you need to get started giving relaxing Reiki to yourself and others right away. You may wish to bring a chair, cushion, or blanket to sit on. You’ll also have the chance to stay and practice with your classmates if you want. Expect to leave feeling relaxed and refreshed!
Vedic Thai Massage
Like giving massages and want to be more effective? Want to help others but you’re afraid you don’t know how? Already a massage therapist hoping to broaden your skills?
Join Vedic Conservatory Instructor “Yoga Christy” for an inspiring introduction to Thai Bodywork. Thai Bodywork is an ancient healing art which promotes deep relaxation, meditation, and flexibility. Some call it “Lazy Man’s Yoga” because the receiver gets to be completely passive as they are stretched and opened.
Christy will demonstrate and describe various compressions and stretches for the back, hips, and shoulders, and you’ll practice giving and receiving them with your partner in class.
You can bring your own partner or pair up in class. Bring a blanket or pad to lay on and wear comfy yoga clothes for your best enjoyment of this workshop, as we will be working on the ground.
Everyone will get to receive as well as give massage! In her workshops, Yoga Christy presents sophisticated healing techniques in a simple and accessible way that awakens the bodywork ninja in all her students. Expect to walk out of this class full of inspiration, and feeling much better than when you walked in.
Slacklibrium
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Slack-Librium is a slacklining collective whose mission centers on building community and instilling positive change by teaching instructional slackline and mindfulness workshops at schools, festivals, camps and other events across the country. Slacklining, for those of you who don’t already know, is the act of balancing on a one to two inch piece of webbing that is tensioned between two objects, usually trees. More advanced “slackers” will then add various tricks and static yoga poses into their practice. Successful slacklining requires a seamless connection between body and mind, making slacklining an extreme form of movement meditation. Our workshops are taught using mindfulness meditation techniques in order to help participants cultivate a greater awareness of both body and mind. Find out more at slacklibrium.com
Slack-Librium Slackline Park
Open during ALL daylight hours of the campout
Our Slack Park will be open all weekend long with scheduled slackline and mindfulness workshops every day! You will enter our workshop as a human being… and leave as a human being who knows how to slackline. We like to keep it simple. No experience necessary. All ages welcome. Slack-Librium instructors will offer personal one-on-one guidance for participants in addition to providing a wide assortment of daily group workshops including; intro to slacklining, intro to mindfulness, slackline fitness, slackline yoga, partner slacklining, and more! Check out the Slack Park bulletin board at the campout for the full schedule. Step into Slack-Librium… don’t be shy.
Sunshine Jupiter [Nashville, TN]
Sunshine Jupiter is a natural born dancer, healer, and filmmaker in a lifelong study of the movement of energy in all its forms. Her extensive training in a broad range of dance styles, from ballet to West African, led her to the energetic roots of all dance. She now applies her deep knowledge of energy movement to flow arts such as Hula Hooping, Poi, Fire Staff and Helio Dragon as well as teaching and film production. In all she does, you will find her radiant joy helping energies to flow and blockages to melt away.
Flow Mantra
Incorporating the fundamental elements of trance and meditation into flow arts…Breath, rhythm, posture, repetition, and intention….To access the zero-point of the universal flow, wherein we tangibly experience our oneness with all creation. **All flowtoys welcome**
Breaking through Boundaries with Flow Arts
A flow arts class focused on finding and breaking through our boundaries….developing complete freedom of expression through discovering and penetrating our self-imposed conditions. **All flow toys welcome**
Diana Khatib (HooptyLoopty) [Atlanta, GA]
I moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Atlanta, Georgia a year and a half ago to pursue becoming a professional hula-hooper. I am licensed with BodyHoops and American Association of America. I am working on obtaining American Council on Exercise. I have been performing for the past six years. Hula-Hooping changed my life and i want to share this passion with the universe.
Fundamentals of Hoop-Dance
Illuminate your unique creative voice and explore the limitless possibilities that the hoop offers us. All levels are welcome. Bring a hoop, i will provide extras and bring some water to keep hydrated.