Love Shine Play Festival 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the beautiful Appalachian Mountains!

10:00am EDT

Acro 101 LIMITED

Friday July 25, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Learn the basics of acro, including how to be a safe "base", the techniques to "fly," and how to be a good partner.

No partner or experience necessary!

Moderators

Micah Ellinger

Micah Ellinger has been immersed in the world of partner acrobatics since 2008, starting with an intensive circus program for 9 months at New England Center for Circus Arts in Vermont, and in 2016 completed 3 years of training hand-to-hand at École Nationale de Cirque in Montreal.Since... Read More →

Presenters

Christine Moonbeam

Christine Moonbeam is a seasoned acrobatics and handstand coach with a decade of experience. She's the founder of Christine Moonbeam Acrobatics, Progressive Partner Acrobatics, a co-founder of ATC (Acro Training Camp), Colorado Acro Fest, and a coach at Pitch Catch Circus and LEAP. Christine's... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Aurora Room at AC 10 Broadway, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga, Acro

LEVEL All Levels

12:00pm EDT

Handstands & Beyond : All Levels AcroYoga LIMITED

Friday July 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT

The Hideaway

Regardless if you're completely new to the practice or a seasoned practitioner, we'll start with building a steady handstand and use that to explore supported acrobatic postures that take our inversions to new levels. We'll find clean lines of connection, and layer progressions to balance power and grace. This practice will be solidly sequenced, highly accessible, and powerfully playful. No experience or partner necessary, come with an openness to adventure.

Presenters

Jean-Jacques Gabriel

Acroyoga Program

From his early childhood in Haiti, Jean-Jacques Gabriel has been focused on seeing, shaping, and amplifying beauty, which he defines as “a mixture of what circumstance commands and infinity implores”. The son of painter Jacques Gabriel, he painted before he could walk and later... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
The Hideaway 49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga, Acro

LEVEL All Levels

10:00am EDT

Upper Body Thai Massage R&R LIMITED

Saturday July 26, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT

Vespara Room at AC

There’s a wealth of therapeutic potential in Thai massage’s moments of rocking and rhythm. A subtle and continuous rocking, soft jiggling, and slow shaking can greatly advance us in softening, and surrendering resistance. We’ll focus on the neck, shoulder, and spine to build our capacity to share healing touch that is fluid with pleasant pockets of tender intuition. No experience necessary, come with a partner you want to give and receive with, or ready to work with someone new.

Presenters

Jean-Jacques Gabriel

Acroyoga Program

Saturday July 26, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Vespara Room at AC 10 Broadway, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga, Thai, Acro

LEVEL All Levels

12:00pm EDT

Lower Body Thai Massage R&R LIMITED

Sunday July 27, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT

Aurora Room at AC

There’s a wealth of therapeutic potential in Thai massage’s moments of rocking and rhythm. A subtle and continuous rocking, soft jiggling, and slow shaking can greatly advance us in softening, and surrendering resistance. We’ll focus on the hips, legs, and feet to build our capacity to share healing touch that is fluid with pleasant pockets of tender intuition. No experience necessary, come with a partner you want to give and receive with, or ready to work with someone new.

Presenters

Jean-Jacques Gabriel

Acroyoga Program

Sunday July 27, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
Aurora Room at AC 10 Broadway, Asheville, NC 28801, USA

Yoga, Thai, Acro

LEVEL All Levels