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yoga nidra | yin | restorative

Invested in the lunar arts of Yin, Restorative and Yoga Nidra, Ashlyn is celebrated in blending these features of yoga with dharma teachings and Buddhist psychology.

Drawing wisdom from Eastern concepts and Traditional Chinese Medicine, she emphasizes the lunar practices of yoga to bring internal balance to mind, body and spirit. Ashlyn’s work brings a layer of depth into her offerings, incorporating tools from Buddhist psychology and the Internal Family Systems therapy model.

With over a decade of devotional studentship, Ashlyn is dedicated to serve as a teacher, leading teacher trainings, workshops, and global retreats.

She humbly pays reverence to her teachers and great influencers on her path: Kali Basman, Jack Kornfield, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Judith Hanson Lasater, Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga and many more.

Ben R

"Ashlyn is a truly brilliant Yoga Nidra teacher, and her shine is constantly growing brighter. She has a profound intuitive understanding of the rhythms of reality and of the human psyche, an understanding that deepens every time I see her.

Working with her has inspired tremendous personal growth and healing, and I consider classes and private sessions with her to be an essential part of my process; some of the most profound visions I have ever had have occurred during her Nidra classes."

Community is more than co-existing—it’s co-creation, driven by a shared vision of intention, transformation and awakening.

Through mindful movement, shared silence, and heartfelt dialogue, we weave a tapestry of connection that transcends the retreat itself. It is in this sacred exchange—where vulnerability meets strength, and solitude transforms into unity—that true community is cultivated. Here, we do not simply witness each other’s journeys; we walk alongside one another, bound by purpose and presence.

We become family.

I invite you to become a part of the retreat family…✨
✈ Next stop: COLOMBIA | November 1-7, 2025 🌴🇨🇴
Link in bio to join us!

In order to move fluidity with change, we must acknowledge that grief is also a part of the process.

Change often asks us to make space to mourn what used to be. Change pushes us into the unknown and surrender the attachment to the fabricated certainty we thought we had.

I’d be lying if I were to say this decision to move to California hasn’t been hard or emotional. I’m uprooting the only life I’ve know for 31 years. I’m leaving behind my family, friends, a house I’ve made a home, a community I’ve been a part of for a better part of a decade. My anxiety is at an all time high. This move is one of the biggest changes I’ve undergone in awhile.

But I also know that with this change brings massive growth, doors of opportunity, and the wildest of possibilities.

Taking life as it comes. Trusting the process as it unfolds. Balancing the dichotomy between grief and excitement, of leaving behind my old life and stepping into a new one.

California has always been a place that I’ve been drawn to, a place where my soul has longed to be. Ready for the next evolution of this journey. Heading west to chase a dream of waves, surf, salt and sand.

For now, cherishing these last few precious days in Colorado…

As 2025 bring to us a new year of possibility and transition, I’m making a big transition of my own. After a lifetime of living in Colorado, I will be moving to California.

Colorado has been my home all my life. My practice, my business, my community, my entire journey, all started here.

Deeply grateful for the community I’ve been privileged enough to be a part of here. For those who have taken one of my classes in person, listened to a meditation online, have joined me for a workshop, or have traveled across the world with me on retreat…Thank you for letting me be a part of your journey, your practice. It’s been my deepest honor.

I invite you the continue the journey… online + in person workshops, classes and retreats all coming soon. Come practice with me while I’m still in CO for the next few precious weeks.

This beautiful state has given me so much, taught me what I know - it will always be my home.

Time to head west to the waves. Goodbye for now… 🤍

UPDATE: ❌SOLD OUT❌

Experience an unforgettable New Year’s Eve on the sacred waters of Lake Atitlan, honoring the completion of 2024 and celebrating the abundant possibilities of 2025.

Where inspired thought becomes action.
Action with purpose becomes intention.
Dedicated intention becomes devotion.
Cultivate the magic of the New Year together in sacred community.

Ring in 2025 with us in Guatemala: December 28 - Jan 4🎆
Will this last spot be yours? 🩵

Comment “NYE” below for details ⬇️

We often drift through the mundane moments of life, overlooking the ordinary experiences of doing the dishes, sitting in traffic, waiting in line - but these are the moments where life happens.

When we disregard the simplicity that sits in front of us, we miss miss out on the nuanced beauty of the present. This traps us in a myopic way of thinking where we ignore the subtle and expect the extravagant.

The sacred and the mundane are inseparable. This is what Gandhi called “blessed mundanely” - choosing to be present with each precious moment, even the boring.

When we become more wakeful to the ordinary, every moment becomes extraordinary. ✨

Thank you, Portugal. You were enchanting. 🩵

The magic that happens on retreat still surprises me and leave me in utter awe.

These yoga retreats are so much more than a vacation, this is a space of deep rooted community, intention and awakening.

Leading retreats is one of the greatest privileges as a teacher and space holder. To be able to witness others immerse into practices of transformation, open themselves to a depth of vulnerability, and connect on an intimate level with each other is an absolute honor.

Deepest bows to each of the brave souls who have joined me across the world on retreat, who have taken a leap of faith, who have showed up for themselves and for each other. I love you dearly.

Words from Portugal retreat attendees:
“The way Ashlyn leads retreats with intent, love and compassion is incredible to witness and be a part of. Words cannot thank you enough for this life-changing experience.”

“Ashlyn’s retreats allow you to fully immerse yourself not just into the practice of yoga, but the full essence of what yoga is truly about. These retreats are the most impactful journey of self transformation I have experienced.”

We invite you to join the retreat family… stay tuned for what’s next! ✨

We’re getting hitcheddd! Over the moon to spend forever with you! 🩵✨💍

Desert days & the Medina maze. Marrakech, you were a dream 💭

The last words of the Buddha were “be a lamp unto yourself”

The Buddha offered this as a remembering of our own inner light.

The Buddha did not reach enlightenment for anyone else, nor was it to prove a point, or to save anyone or take away anyone’s suffering but his own. He sat under the bodhi tree to overcome his own illusions.

We often become so entangled in our own thoughts and stories that it clouds our vision of reality. Our gripping and grasping to the way we think things should be casts a shadow over how things really are.

When we illuminate our inner worlds and see beyond our own mental constructs we find clarity and presence. We can meet the world with more compassion and understanding.

The light is not something outside of ourselves that we chase, but rather a light within that we must ignite. No one else is going to enlightenment you or do the work for you. We must commit to the diligence of our own awakening.

Only when we tend to the stoking of our own inner light, can we be a lamp for others. ✨

Guatemala awaits… 🌈🌺✨

Be enlivened by the medicine of this magical land.

Immerse in the lush jungle.

Dive into the mystical waters.

Meditate between the majestic volcanoes.

Ground yourself in the Sierra Madre mountain range.

Practice with purpose, immerse in intention.

Celebrate the New Year in the sacred sangha of community. Join us on retreat December 28-January 4 on Lake Atitlan.

❗️Only a few Shared Rooms left! Grab your space before they’re gone…

➡️ Link in bio to register.

Unpopular option: rest is productive.

Counter to what society teaches us, rest is one of the most efficient things we can do.

We’ve been conditioned to tie our worth to our productivity, valuing doing, producing and accomplishing. But when we operate in constant motion driven by the fabricated idea to do more, be more, achieve more, we become overworked, burnout and disconnected.

Less becomes more.

Rest is essential and necessary.

Rest is the time when our nervous systems are able to return to a balanced state, where our immune systems can recuperate, cell regeneration can occur - and we can give our selves permission to pull away from the chaos to honor ourselves.

When we take intentional time to rest, we can more effectively show up in the world.

How do you take time to rest? Share below. 👇

The moments when we want to escape our pain become the most insightful. This is the space where we can observe rather than react. Where we can begin to understand our response when difficulty arises.

Yoga becomes a container where we can meet discomfort and recognize our habits and patterns within each shape, informing us how we relate to difficulty outside of the practice.

When we can meet a pose with wakeful presence, we can better meet ourselves with that same attention.

What pose is the most difficult to sit with? Comment below.👇

❌SOLD OUT❌

1 SPACE AVAILABLE FOR PORTUGAL 🍋🩵

Immerse in the Algarve this summer! Join us August 28-September 3 for beach days, cliffside adventures and yoga under the Portuguese sunshine. ☀️

ONE SPOT LEFT:
🔹Shared Room - Female Only🔹

Who’s snagging the last space?!
👉Link in bio to register

The process of healing asks us to turn towards our pain, to acknowledge it, sit with it, and hold it.

We must feel our way through it.

In this day and age, there are so many distraction we can turn to to numb, escape and avoid our suffering. The greatest act of love we can perform is to be present to our pain.

Expansion is leaning into the permission to fully take up space.

Expansion is to stretch beyond our normative boundaries, to venture past our current comfort zones. We’re asked to meet new edges, and push the perimeters of what we know.

We often ask for growth but forget what the process asks of us.

To expand is to move more fluidity with the inevitability of change and gracefully welcome the unknown. To let go of our gripping and grasping to how things are now or the expectation of how we want things to be.

It is surrendering to life’s natural process of unfolding.

In Tibet, the word for meditation is “Ghom” which in translation is synonymous with “familiarly”

Essentially, meditation is the process of becoming familiar with ourselves, getting to know ourselves in a more intimate and vulnerable way.

When we can familiarize ourselves with our own thoughts, reactions, anxieties, fears, cravings, discomforts, and everything else that surfaces in meditation, we’ll be more equipped for when we meet these experiences in daily life.

When we understand ourselves, we can better relate to the world around us.

To sit with ourselves, to have the courage to truly know ourselves, is one of the greatest acts of love.

You are not your body, you have a body.

Your body is a borrowed home for this human reincarnation, a vehicle to experience life through.

If your body was yours to possess, you could tell it to not get sick, to never age, to heal on your ideal timeline. There are aspects of having a body that we cannot control, so our body becomes our greatest teacher. A body is house we get to explore, a relationship we get to know and understand, wisdom we learn to uncover in time.

How miraculous it is to have a body, honor it. ✨

Ring in the New Year on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala 🎆🎊

🔹December 28, 2024 - January 4, 2025🔹

Join me this New Year’s Eve for a very special yoga retreat on the sacred waters of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala!

Nestled between the sleeping volcanos and surrounded by ancient waters, Lake Atitlán will serve as our home for the week as we welcome in 2025. “Atitlán” in Nahuatl means “the place where the rainbow gets its colors.” 🌈

Come together in Sangha to immerse the potent portal between the completion of 2024 and the embrace of 2025. A time to honor sacred transition and transformation, enhanced by the profound magic of Lake Atitlán. Reflect and bow in reverence for what the past year has brought, and conjure the cosmic space to foster new possibilities and manifestations for the year to come.

💫Registration open!

👉Link in bio for details

Bowing to the wisdom held within all things and all experiences.

Honoring the extended mandala of teachers that have come before, and the passed down traditions that we carry on.

Nodding to each encounter that weaves a common thread linking us to the greater tapestry of life.

Bowing in reverence.
Again and again.

Equinox blessings ✨🌸

The spring equinox marks a moment of divine balance between light and darkness, yin and yang, the harmony that arises when opposites are held in equilibrium.

The equinox is the embodiment of equanimity, Upekkah, an internal balance or a state of non-reactivity.

This is a time to attune to our sense of center, cultivating balance and harmony within in our inner worlds and an authentic participation in our outer worlds. Equanimity gives space for a sacred pause in life to re-orient ourselves, and take inventory of body, mind and heart, so that we may move forward with integrity.

Returning to alignment is a greater calibration back to our sense of wholeness. Here, we can act from an integrated authority of self to lean into the cyclical momentum that carries us into this new season of growth, expansion and benevolence.

Wishing you a joyous and fertile spring 🌱

Retreat offers a sacred pause within the hustle of life. A privileged and intentional time to step away from the routines and mundanity of every day life.

Retreat prompts the sacred inquiry wisdom traditions have pondered for centuries…

Who am I?

Not my name, my job, or my roles. Not my body, or thoughts or emotions.

Who am I without all the doing or seeking or the constant productivity?

But who am I…
beyond the busy-ness.
beyond the stories.
beyond the narratives.

It’s not a question to logicize or resolve.

“Who am I?” is not a question to be answered, but an inquiry to embody, to live and experience.

Thank you @janetstoneyoga and @djdrez for holding space for a week of restoration and contemplation.

As practitioners, dedicating to ourselves to the living art of yoga is choosing to show up again and again. To continuously orient ourselves in the texture of here, regardless of where “here” is.

Sādhanā is not a journey from here to there, but from there, anywhere outside of ourselves, to HERE.

Join me in the practice field.

New Class Added (beginning Feb 7)
🔸Wednesday: 9am Vinyasa at @alignyoga.fit

See you soon, deep bows.

Dreaming of turquoise water and Portuguese sunshine 🌊🍋

.: Retreat with us August 28-September 3, 2024.

.: Experience the Algarve coast immersed in community, yoga, adventure, transformation and so much more.

.: Trip highlights: luxury private villa, off-load Jeep tour, SUP adventure, pristine beaches, exploring Lagos, local cuisine and seaside views.

✨EARLY BIRD ✨
$200 off registration end next month! Rooms are filling, only ONE single room left.

.: Details and registration → link in bio

There is a paradox of productivity that is often overlooked in our society. Sometimes doing less *is* more.

In a world that is driven by productivity, consumption and operates in constant motion, the art of rest is not just a practice, but a luxury. Doing nothing can be wildly more productive than responding to the fabricated external pressure to check off the next task.

Rest can feel foreign, even “wrong” to some as society has embedded into us that rest is lazy.

Rest is the time when our nervous systems are able to return to a balanced state, where our immune systems can recuperate, cell regeneration can occur - and we can give our selves permission to pull away from the chaos, turn inward and tend to ourselves.

As January begins, there is a pressure to accomplish, begin and produce. A false need to do more, be more- being left with feeling like not enough. We burn out before the year has even started.

When we tune into nature’s rhythms, winter is a time process, retreat inward, heal, process and reflect. Most creatures have *just* settled into deep hibernation, no urge to stir, not disturbed by a calendar date.

If we followed our intuitive pulse to move with nature, we could reserve our energy for spring: the time to awaken, expand and output.

Until then….
Celebrate the small things.
Listen to your body.
Honor your own rhythms.
Let rest be enough.

Happy 2024, may you rest well.

Take retreat in… PORTUGAL! 🇵🇹✨

Join us for a week-long retreat immersed in the revitalizing coastal gem of southern Portugal.

Nestled within the heart of the Algarve region, we’ll spend a week together in the sanctuary of our own luxury private villa. With panoramic views of the turquoise sea and rustic country-side, our sacred grounds will be surrounded with pristine botanical gardens, orchards, tranquil terraces and a private pool.

Sneak peek of your week:
🔹 7 day, 6 night stay in a luxury private villa
🔹Daily yoga & meditation overlooking the Portuguese coast
🔹3 farm-to-table meals each day
🔹SUP excursion to iconic cliff & caves
🔹Off-road Jeep tour through the Monchique Mountains
🔹Hike to hidden beach
🔹Day trip to Lagos, a historic costal town
🔹Private pool & botanical gardens on site
🔹 & MORE!

Aug 28 - Sept 3, 2024
Spaces filling, we’re nearly halfway full!
💫$200 off until 2/28/24

Link in bio to join the adventure!

Retreat life offers transformation in every aspect of Self.

A necessary pause, and undeniable state change that will leave you forever changed.

An awakening to the beauty in all beings. Nature becomes our greatest teacher.

Hearts open, widening in capacity to find a new depth. Vulnerability becomes our common language, where you’re held in acceptance, no boundaries of judgement.

Community become our most sacred foundation. A tapestry of support, a spiritual family connected by a common thread of retreat.

Perspective shifts, enriching how you see the world, each other, and yourself. All through a new light.

Each day is a ceremony. Each motion is a ritual. Every movment becomes yoga. Retreat is a living meditation.

Mexico, you were a dream. 🌊☀️

Join the retreat family. Next stop… PORTUGAL✨🇵🇹

Link in bio to learn more!

so I'm back to the velvet underground
back to the floor that I love
to a room with some lace and paper flowers

back to the gypsy that I was
to the gypsy that I was
and it all comes down to you
well, you know that it does and
lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice

oh and it lights up the night
and you see your gypsy
you see your gypsy

~ Saint Stevie Nicks

Just a few month out and just a few spots left!

The magic of Sayulita awaits… ✨
-October 28 - November 3, 2023-
We’re 3 months out, let the countdown begin.

Who’s snagging the last few spots?

A glimpse into life on retreat…

-Meditate to the melody of the jungle each morning

-Go to sleep to the soothing sound of the ocean and breathe the fresh sea breeze in your open-aired cabana

-Deepen your practice in the tropical treetops. Daily Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative & Yoga Nidra practices.

-Surf the warm waves of Mexico’s pacific coast

-Honor the power of the full moon and the wisdom of water

-Indulge in fresh, organic, gourmet meals prepared by some of Mexico’s finest chefs

-Rest, restore, reconnect.

Return to nature, come home to yourself. Join us in the journey.

Happy happy birthday to my favorite guy! The adventures just keep getting better with you. Here’s to 32, my love 🥳🎂❤️

Been a rough one over here.

Life is a whirlwind sometimes, we’re all doing our best.

So throwing it back to brighter times, beach days and surf pups. Happy Saturday, y’all. ✌️💛

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