Instructor, Inner Power Yoga Studio
Introduced to yoga as a teenager by her mother, Ashley has been practicing yoga for over twenty years. She received her yoga teachers certification from the Center for Yoga in Los Angeles under the guidance of Diana Beardsley, and has studied with and been inspired by a number of yoga luminaries including Shiva Rea, Bhagavan Das, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Bryan Kest, and Amrit Desai.
Ashley has been teaching yoga and leading workshops on both coasts for ten years. In 2005 Ashley was a featured teacher at the internationally renown Kripalu Institute in Massachusetts. Her vinyasa flow classes are a creative combination of conscious breath work, mindfulness and surrender. Ashley teaches a challenging, playful class with joy and enthusiasm.
She encourages her students to use their yoga practice to experience the truth of who they really are and to discover how to live joyfully and peacefully in every moment.
In addition to yoga, Ashley has been dancing since she was a child. Her dance background includes Ballet, Modern, Odissi, Mohini Attam and most recently, American Tribal Style Belly Dance. She has a BA in Dance from Bennington College.