Love Shine Play Festival 2025

In Chinese Medicine, the Fire element governs the Heart Meridian, the seat of our spirit and the bridge between chaos and clarity, passion and peace. Fire energy invites us to embrace the full spectrum of our experience—joy and sorrow, exhaustion and inspiration—without resistance. It is the element of deep feeling, connection, and radiant presence.

Through a heart-centered Yin practice, we will gently stimulate the Heart and Small Intestine meridians, dissolving energetic stagnation and softening the protective armor around the heart. Expect deep holds, compassionate self-inquiry, and breathwork to cultivate both tender vulnerability and fierce aliveness. In honoring both the mess and the magic, we learn to trust the fire within—burning away what no longer serves while illuminating our deepest truths.

Come ready to surrender, expand, and rekindle the spark of your own wild, untamed heart.

Smiling is something we all desire, and studies show that those who smile more tend to live healthier lives. For centuries, ancient Taoist traditions have explored the deeper, transformative power of the smile as a form of internal alchemy. In this workshop, we’ll move our bodies in a fun and playful way, cultivating Full Body Smiles through creative variations of yoga asana set to an upbeat playlist. We’ll explore different types of smiles as taught by the ancients and hear stories about the profound impact a simple smile can have. After energizing movement, we’ll dive into the "Inner Smiles" meditation, discovering its powerful effects on the nervous system. This workshop will be fun and playful mixed with the powerful, subtle work to heal our inner bodies.

Fascia is the bio-intelligent structure that holds us together. It can be thought of as the 'organ of organization' as it keeps our bones upright, holds our organs in place, and supports the pathway of the nerves.
On an energetic level, it is the medium in which the meridian system is inlaid, thereby the vehicle for the migration of Qi through the subtle body.

In this workshop, we map out the anatomical layers of fascia and practice different techniques to release the connective tissue. We will focus on yin and yang styles of asana and fluid movement patterns to enhance the flow of prana through the fascial planes.

Are you up for a deep and intense dive into your inner landscape? Then this one is for you! We will begin this journey with powerful Somatic Breath work, and seamlessly flow into a deep Yin Yoga practice. We will be practicing Yin poses that are commonly experienced as intense, such as Dragon, Seal, Lizard, Sleeping Swan, Frog and Camel. The longer holds allow ample time to acknowledge and release resistance that may surface. Don't worry though - you will be guided through various options so you are able to deeply release into them. We end with Yoga Nidra, a guided meditation and a well-deserved Savasana to leave you feeling recharged, relaxed and deeply connected.

Let the breath guide you into deeper oceans of mindfulness. Embark in the gift of stillness through Yin yoga while unleashing fresh energetic pathways that yield to Prana and restore the flow within. Through steeping in specific asanas by lying on the earth in longer held poses, we will explore our many diverse emotions and how they are expressed within our inner landscape. We are vessels of transformation. How can we overcome the experience of facing what we cover up or run from? It begins with this present breath ready to face what arises. Navigated by our Breath of Life, the sticks and branches are cleared in this inner river of blessings. Awareness grows as we simply allow the rising of the inner light to shed rays of clarity on any darkness or obstacle by simply trusting in this journey with our present breath that carves out our life. Like waves returning to the ocean and shore of our being, we have the power to return to our breath and observe what arises and anything that doesn’t serve us begins to dissolve. We continue to anchor into our breath again and again in this safe space where our hearts pulsate with life in a continual rhythm. Yin yoga benefits in improving this energetic flow of chi in our organs and works on the deeper tissues of the body. Using this ancient knowledge, you will unleash your highest potential by restoring the flow in mind and body and leave refreshed and renewed on this beautiful path of yoga.