Our beloved Asheville community and the Appalachian region have been deeply impacted by Hurricane Helene. Our community is still processing, but also rebuilding, connecting, and supporting one another with such a powerful heart. It’s been so beautiful to witness and be a part of.
While these efforts to restore our village are ongoing, we are still very actively supporting our community. Thank you to the volunteers and supporters of these efforts.
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We are so moved by Yaima’s generous heart, that they are still coming to Asheville as planned and offering to make this event a benefit to support our community.
Yaimia will be collecting donations for two remarkable organizations - BeLoved Asheville and Manna Foodbank. SoHum will offer FREE FOOD, hot meals from 5-7 PM after Yaima’s breathwork ceremony to feed the community in this moment of connection and celebration of community resilience.
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On Saturday, October 26, APLR and Seán Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band warmly welcome you to a night of interactive, soul-stirring chant music to benefit BeLoved Asheville, who have done tremendous and tireless work to help rebuild our community after the devastation of Helene. Please join us for an evening of fundraising, community building, and live music!
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Lamplight AVL, Make Noise, Drop of Sun, and APLR have come together to host Setting and Superflower on Wednesday, October 30th, for a special event to benefit artists who sustained significant losses due to the hurricane. Please stay tuned to our social media, more info on this soon!
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We’re thrilled to announce that Six Organs of Admittance with special guest Tashi Dorji will proceed as planned on Wednesday, November 6th. Ben and Tashi will be taking donations to benefit ROAR (Rural Organizing and Resilience), who have been on the ground in Marshall helping to rebuild one of the communities hit the hardest by Helene. Learn more about this wonderful organization at https://ruralorganizing.wordpress.com, and follow them on Instagram at @_roar_wnc.
Asheville Yoga Center will continue to serve the community with heart-centered movement with $10 community classes this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 1:30-2:45 pm. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds, all are welcome to practice yoga in community.
Our generous, talented, and nothing short of amazing chef from SoHum Mountain Healing, Sean Sigmon, with the support of head therapist, Julia Apodaca, have headed up serving 200 people on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at The Ayurvedic Institute and Asheville Yoga Center campus. In a collaboration with the renowned Plant Restaurant (who serves on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at their location), they are serving warm vegan meals to the community during a time when warm, nourishing, vegan meals are hard to come by. If you’re in the area, come by! Any donations go to Manna Food Bank.
The Ayurvedic Institute is still accepting donations by mail or in person at this location (62 Orange Street, Asheville, NC) that we send to local organizations for distribution.
In a collaboration with LEAF, we are supporting areas in need of not just food, shelter, and basic needs, but also healing touch and bodywork. We were overwhelmed to see how many healers are ready and willing to go into the community and offer their services pro bono. We are in the process of setting up organized systems to connect them with people with spaces (including our very own AyurPrana Listening Room!) they’d like to offer for this work, shelters, and organizations that can use this service at their location of service. If you are one of these healers who wants to be connected, email vrinda@liveayurprana.com.
