Ashe Yoga Collective

The Scorpio Full Moon is almost here — and we created something just for this moment. 🌕

Tomorrow night, Esmer is holding space for a Full Moon Ritual + Yoga Nidra. Depth. Truth. Transformation. It's the kind of rest your nervous system has been quietly asking for. Reserve your spot with the link in our bio.

And while the world keeps saying hustle — we're over here choosing something different. Soft is not slow. Soft is intentional. 🖤 Being present IS the practice.

One more thing: your seat in Teachers' Lab 300 is waiting. Register by May 1st and save $400. For those called to carry this work forward — this one's for you. ✨

Which of these is speaking to you right now? Drop it in the comments. 👇

I remember the first time someone told me to "just breathe and hold" in a Yin class. My body was screaming to move. My chest felt tight. Holding still didn't feel healing—it felt like being stuck.

That's when I started asking different questions. What if long holds aren't restorative for everyone? What if some bodies need permission to move, not instructions to be still?

Trauma-sensitive Yin isn't about doing Yin differently. It's about understanding that our nervous systems carry stories. For some of us, being asked to hold a shape for five minutes reactivates the very tension we came to release. It can feel like being trapped instead of being held.

So we teach Yin with a different lens. We focus on how your body feels internally, not how it looks externally. We put emotional and physical safety before depth or intensity. We give you permission to shift, to adjust, to leave a pose early if that's what your body is asking for.

Because here's the truth: choice is healing. When you get to decide what feels safe, what feels nourishing, what your body actually needs, you start rebuilding trust with yourself. And that trust? That's the deeper practice.

This is the foundation of our 2026 Yin Yoga Training. We teach you how to hold space for bodies that need agency, not instructions. Bodies that deserve to come home to themselves, not perform for anyone else.

If this lands, we're holding space for you. Link in bio. 🖤

What if the tension your students carry isn't something they can simply stretch away?

We've been taught that deeper stretches release deeper tension. But the body doesn't always work that way. Sometimes what's held in the fascia, in the connective tissue, in the places where trauma lives—that needs a different kind of attention.

That's what Yin Therapeutics offers.

This method blends traditional Yin Yoga with myofascial release and functional anatomy to work with the body's actual structure. Instead of forcing flexibility, we're helping tissue release, hydrate, and restore. We're meeting the body where it is and giving it what it actually needs.

If you're a yoga teacher who wants to offer more than relaxation—if you want to guide students toward real, embodied healing—this training will deepen your practice and your teaching in ways that matter.

Our live Yin Yoga Advanced Concepts Training runs September 17–27, 2026. You'll learn how to apply therapeutic principles in your classes, understand fascia and connective tissue on a functional level, and hold space for the kind of release that changes how people live in their bodies. 🌙

This is for teachers ready to go deeper.

Reserve your spot and join us live. Link in bio. ✨

Three ways to stay close to what restores you:

Merch orders close TODAY (12 PM PT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET). Wear the reminder that culturally informed care is what we deserve, not what we're lucky to find.

Teacher training is filling up. If you've been feeling the pull to teach yoga that honors bodies as they are, this is your last chance to join Ashley and Tamika for foundations that center social justice, not body conformity.

Ojai Retreat (May 5-9) has a few spots left. Five days with Tamika, Elena, and Ashley. Rest, movement, mountain views, and the kind of community that doesn't ask you to explain yourself.

Swipe through for details. Choose what your body and spirit need right now.

Link in bio.

Two pathways into the subtler practices. Both designed for every body.

Our Yin Yoga Trainings are now open—40 hours livestream, built for teachers and practitioners who know that slowing down is its own form of resistance.

🌙 Functional Yin & the Subtle Body (July 2026): Learn to teach Yin that meets bodies where they are—props as tools, not apologies. We'll explore fascia, energy systems, and how to guide students toward the effects of poses rather than the Instagram-perfect shapes.

✨ Advanced Yin Concepts (September 2026): Deepen your understanding of meridians, chakras, and the philosophical roots of this practice. For teachers ready to hold space with more nuance and cultural awareness.

Both trainings center body diversity, trauma-informed cuing, and honoring yoga's South Asian lineage. You'll leave with skills to create the kind of inclusive spaces we all deserve.

Your practice, your way. Your teaching, your integrity.

Registration is open—link in bio. Come as you are.

When you hold a Yin pose for three, four, five minutes, your body isn't just stretching. You're working the meridians—those energy pathways connected to your organs that hold emotion, memory, and vitality.

This is why you might feel stuck energy release during a hip hold. Why tears come up in child's pose. Why frustration shifts when you target the liver meridian. You're not imagining it. You're accessing fascia, the bridge between your physical body and energetic experience.

Yin yoga regulates energy—not just flexibility. The long holds give you deeper access to what's been stored. The stillness is where the magic happens.

If you've been drawn to this work and want to understand the why behind the practice, our 2026 Yin Yoga Training is open. We go deep into meridian theory, fascia release, and trauma-informed sequencing that honors what bodies carry.

This isn't yoga teacher training that asks you to perform. It's education rooted in body agency, energetic literacy, and teaching people exactly as they are.

Link in bio to register.

Happy birthday to our yoga therapeutics queen, ☺️ Elena is a masterful teacher who has deep awareness of the body at all stages, and is a generally great human being. We appreciate all that she offers as a lead trainer in our Teachers Lab 300, and all that she brings to our lives.

Happiest of birthdays, to our Aries queen!