PRAMA INSTITUTE

Holistic Education for People and Place

The Prama Institute is a conference and retreat center located on forested hilltops and grasslands surrounded by the Appalachian Mountains. It sits in Marshall, NC, near the French Broad River, about 25 minutes outside Asheville, NC. Our scenic and peaceful surroundings create the perfect place for educational conferences, yoga retreats, workplace seminars, and other events.

Besides the high-quality conferences that the Prama Institute organizes all year round, the facility is also available for rent to all types of groups, organizations, and businesses. Our experienced staff is available to offer you assistance with event planning, marketing, and registration. Let us assist you in creating your own successful workshop or seminar.

JULY 23 - 25

Blissful Path to Bliss - Yoga and Meditation Retreat with Stephanie and Michael Johnson

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Atmospheric: A Virgo Full Moon Gathering

Date & Time: 2008-02-20 8:00 PM
Location: Ghosttown Studios
Asheville Full Moon Gathering & Evoke Community present:

Atmospheric: A Virgo Full Moon Gathering

About Virgo: The mutable sign of Virgo is practical and adaptable. It typifies service to others in some way. It denotes keen analytical and critical faculties with great attention to detail.

Our themed sounds will be in an atmospheric, ambient, chill-out state of mind.
Costume and alter decoration are welcomed from all.
Josh Spice will be displaying art.

Ananda will be leading a Kundalini yoga class from 8pm-9pm. Bring your own mat.

DJ sets with:

Gilbot (AFM)
jOshU (AFM, Pimpin' Asheville)
Olof (Speaks in Tongues, AFM)
Medisin (T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, AFM)

Also, as a community we encourage all participants to bring their cultural gifts. If you are interested in presenting visual art, performance art, or ritual, please do so. If you would like to present a larger installation, please contact a member of the community to see about creating space or defining time to share with us all. Our gatherings are created by all in attendance, the talents and arts they bring, and wonderful people who donate their time and energy toward coming together every month!

This full moon will be held at Ghosttown Studios
120 Alexander Pl.
Swanannoa, NC
28778

From Asheville:
I-40 East
Exit 59
Left onto Patton Cove Rd.
Right at the light
2nd Right, Park St
2nd Left, Alexander Pl.
Park in the church parking lot.

Each full moon we gather from dusk until dawn to celebrate the cyclical, cosmic interplay of life through music, dancing and ritual under open sky . Our purpose is to experience joy, to heal ourselves through movement and to embody the truth of each moment through sound. Every gathering is an opportunity for us to practice living and breathing at a higher vibration, to acknowledge our unity of spirit and to ground this collective experience through our bodies and into our daily lives. We invite you to co-create this experience with us.

We share a cultural identity that is rooted in a global, social phenomena beyond specific musical genres or religious associations. As we continue to grow, we will communicate and collaborate with our larger community around the world, celebrating our differences as well as our unified purpose to heal and to manifest The Vibe.

$10 per person goes toward water, fruit, tea, decoration, tp, warm weather campground rental, indoor space rental, equipment costs, generator/gas, and all the factors that allow us to create, share, and sustain the Asheville Full Moon gatherings in their ever evolving community.

Blissful Rituals

about blissful rituals
In the early winter of 2004, Blissful Rituals was created as an offering to the Asheville community. The focus of Blissful Rituals is to offer healing massage and body treatments using the purest substances available. Organic oils and happily harvested herbs are the ingredients in all massage and body treatments. All products used are without any chemical solvents or preservatives whatsoever. Using only natural substances for cleansing and rejuvenation sends strong positive messages to the mind, body, and spirit that we are in harmony with nature. Thus, we are honoring ourselves, each other and The Earth at the same time.

about lara narayani
In 1992, Narayani began to spiritually awaken when she started practicing Yoga and meditation. Realizing there was a higher calling to be discovered, she embarked on a journey to find her true work in the world. In 1997, she moved to New York to focus her studies on massage at The Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy. Staying focused on spiritual studies, she recieved certification as a Yoga Instructor through the Integral Yoga Institute in 1999. Narayani also has studied a variety of ancient healing practices, including: Kabbalah, Native American Sweat Lodge and Medicine Wheel Teachings, West African Dance, Soul-Point, Qi-Gong for enlightenment, Ayurveda, Both DONA and Wholistic Doula training in Asheville. Through practicing healing arts from various cultures, we tune into the simple laws of nature and realize that all life is connected and thus sacred. Inspired by this truth, Blissful Rituals was created as an offering to the Asheville community in 2004. In 2006, Narayani completeed an intensive training in Ayurvedic Beauty Treatments and hands on techniques at the well respected Ayurvedic Institute. She continues to learn and teach around the US to share the simplicity of healing.

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Lake Edens Art Festival

Lake Eden Arts Festival is a big shindig thrown twice a year in Black Mountain, just outside of Asheville, NC. Huge grounds with swimming and camping facilities. A wonderful, sensual, spirited, peaceful, gathering of souls where you can have anything from a chinese massage to acupuncture. You can watch the belly dancers, or do a one and a half off the diving board. Have your tarot read, get some henna for your hands, take a hike, do yoga, browse the crafts & jewlery aisles, watch a concert or a poetry slam.

LEAF Festival is May 13-15

Asheville Full Moon Gatherings

Asheville Full Moon Gatherings
Our next event will be Friday, March 25th to celebrate the Full Moon in Libra and the Sun in Aries.  This event will start again with "Opening the Body Yoga" led by Mike Greenfield at 7pm.  The event takes place at Studio 9, at 147 W. Haywood St. (by Riverside Dr.)