our Yoga Teacher Training Instructors
Meet our certified Yoga Alliance–experienced instructors guiding our 200-hour, 300-hour YTTs, and YACEP courses online and in-person.
MEET ASHLEY KING
Yoga Teacher, Healer, Playful Soul, Mountain Woman
Ashley began her asana practice around age 19, but was born and raised in the Nichiren Buddhist tradition where her upbringing centered around practicing for the betterment of herself, those around her, and the world as a whole.
Chanting mantra before she could form actual sentences, ignited wonder, and allowed her to witness the power of human prayer and intention from a very young age. She began attending yoga classes upon experiencing a “dark night of the soul”; in her early twenties. She discovered that yoga had a way of alchemizing her thoughts and connecting her spirit to her body she had not previously experienced before.
Ashley obtained her 200hr teacher certification from School Yoga Institute at the Mystical Yoga Farm in Guatemala in 2017 and then her 300hr certification from SYI in Costa Rica June/July 2022. Her passion for the outdoors led to many years working and teaching youth in the field of Outdoor Education and then later in Wilderness Therapy.
In 2020, Ashley attended a transformational neuromuscular massage school and is now a licensed massage therapist in Crested Butte, Colorado. Practicing massage and teaching yoga in her community has allowed her to facilitate deep transformation in herself as well as others.
Her strong foundation in Eastern philosophy and consistent practice helps her teach from deep understanding. Her everyday life experience is the foundation for her teaching and how she relates to her students. She believes her life’s work is to help others remember their infinite greatness and to learn how to love more.
When she is not working as a teacher or massage therapist, you can find Ashley climbing on the side of a cliff with her husband, riding her mountain bike, backpacking through the wilderness, playing with her dog, skiing, singing to her uke, dancing with her hoop, and letting life flow through her.
What’s your favorite yoga pose and why?
Each pose and each transition hold clues of Truth as to how we are showing up in that very moment as well as in our life.
I love exploring deeply into foundations and discovering why I arrive in a posture this way or that. I am less fascinated by the actual shape of the individual postures but the deep unraveling of my own patterning that happens within the discovery of each pose each day. Each posture always seems to be revealing something new!
What is your favorite quote?
“If I change my identification from the ego to the soul, then as I look at people, they all appear like souls. I turn my head, the thought of who I am, to my spiritual heart, which is a different sort of awareness,—feeling directly, intuiting, loving awareness. Its changing from a worldly outer identification to an inner spiritual identification. Concentrate on your spiritual heart, right in the middle of your chest. Keep repeating the phrase, “ I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness.” – Ram Dass
What inspires you in your practice?
From the words of Patabi Jois, “Do your practice and all is coming!” The practice itself is the gift, the inspiration, the challenge, the Truth. It we are truly practicing the art of of yoga, we are always practicing, and there is always an opportunity to look within to connect with the universe.
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