Nationally-recognized Yoga Establishment Transfers Possession to Ayurvedic Wellness Organizations

Co-Founders of the Asheville Yoga Heart Handover Stewardship to AyurPrana and The Ayurvedic Institute to Proceed Supporting the Native Neighborhood

ASHEVILLE, NC (February, 24, 2022) – Asheville Yoga Heart (AYC) is coming beneath new management, with the earlier house owners Stephanie and Sunny Keach wishing a heartfelt farewell to the hundreds of scholars and lecturers they've helped develop and nurture over the 25 years that AYC has been in operation. 

Asheville Yoga Heart opened its doorways in 1997 and began constructing a group across the ideas of inclusion and a standard love of yoga and wellness. Asheville Yoga Heart has grown to be an influential studio and faculty with their internationally-recognized yoga courses and instructor coaching packages. 

Steph and Sunny Keach have labored tirelessly to make yoga accessible, delivering high-quality and compassionate hatha yoga instruction to assist people uncover motion as a therapeutic modality. United by their shared ardour to have an effect on constructive change on the planet by means of well being, therapeutic, training, and motion – each Sunny and Steph Keach really feel very honored and blessed to have stewarded such a thriving group.

Sunny added, “I want to share a heartfelt gratitude to every one of you that showed up along the way to help make this dream a reality. It’s been so very humbling and soul enriching to watch our little idea of opening a yoga studio blossom into something that has had such a positive impact on so many lives. Thank you all so much for allowing me to feel like I’ve made a difference in the world. Hats off to y’all for spreading that yoga love out there. I’m so excited to be handing over our “4th child” to this very succesful group of great of us. I want you all the perfect.”

Steph intimated, “I’ve always ‘confessed’ to every teacher trainee that I am teaching them yoga postures and history and how to safely teach, yes, but most importantly, how to love – yourself and others. And with the thousands of trainees, and even more students, that love has been felt around the globe, but more significantly, in my heart and in my soul. I don’t think I could feel more honored and blessed to have made this our life for the past 25 years. It has been the most gratifying thing I think I ever could have done, and never could I have imagined touching the lives of so many. I humbly bow to everyone reading this and thank you for your love and support, as you can see, it reaches beyond the walls of AYC. I just knew in my heart that we would find the next owners, the ‘right owners,’ and wow, it couldn’t have felt more perfect when we met. This new crew brings lifetimes of experience with Yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda. Ayurveda is all about health and well-being and really that’s all I ever wished for with each and every beautiful being that came through our doors.”

This transition indicators new beginnings and AYC will proceed its influential work within the native yoga group by means of new house owners, sister organizations The Ayurvedic Institute and AyurPrana. The Ayurvedic Institute will relocate their campus to Asheville, North Carolina, and their college students will start attending courses on the AYC grounds within the fall of 2022.

For over 40 years The Ayurvedic Institute has educated and educated practitioners within the historical therapeutic science of Ayurveda and the transfer to Asheville affords the Ayurvedic Institute a possibility to evolve the imaginative and prescient of the Institute’s founder and director, Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc. 

To today, yoga and Ayurveda are kindred therapeutic techniques that empower tens of millions of individuals throughout the globe with practices and cleanse methods that allow them to grow to be proactive in their very own well being and wellness. AYC, The Ayurvedic Institute, and AyurPrana will mix their information and sources to assist their shoppers and college students in thoughts, in physique, and in spirit.

The AyurPrana staff is wanting ahead to increasing upon this already vibrant wellness campus in downtown Asheville to welcome college students for each the Asheville Yoga Heart and the Ayurvedic Institute itself – together with the lots of of scholars, practitioners, lecturers, and assist workers which can be the guts of those establishments.

Come meet the brand new house owners and think about campus renderings throughout The Ayurvedic Institute’s open day for potential college students, media, and members of the general public on March 31, 2022. Please additionally be part of us in thanking Stephanie and Sunny Keach for his or her dedication, ardour and for constructing a robust basis from which this new wellness campus can flourish.

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