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Ashley has a passion for inviting her students to experience peace, wellness, and joy through the practices of Ayurveda, yoga, and mindfulness.
With a focus on seasonal and lunar cycles, animals and plants, and our connection to the Earth, Ashley’s goal is to help students forge a bond with Nature and develop a strong sense of place.
She strives to make yoga and Ayurveda accessible to everyone by recognizing that each individual is unique, offering variations, creating a welcoming and nurturing environment, and celebrating differences. Ashley’s goal is to always create a safer space for all of her students. She guides students to experience stability and ease, strength and freedom by listening to their own bodies, minds, and hearts.
Ashley honors the South Asian roots of Ayurveda, yoga, and mindfulness. Her classes and teachings recognize the depth of these practices, and she intends to teach her classes in a way that respects the cultures, traditions, and lineages from which they come.
Ashley is licensed through the Yoga Alliance as an RYT-500. She has been studying and practicing yoga with her teacher and mentor Karen Sprute-Francovich since 2001, and teaching yoga since 2004. She is a certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, graduating from the program with Kathryn Templeton. Her mindfulness techniques are primarily rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, and she also completed the Mindful Schools 101 and 201 courses.
Ashley teaches mindfulness and yoga workshops for educators and in classrooms. Recognizing the many positive effects that yoga and mindfulness have had on herself and her students, her passion for helping children and adults live happier and more centered lives through the practices of mindfulness and yoga have become a focus of her teaching.
Ashley is a mother, wife, and dog mom. She loves to be in nature—wandering, walking, hiking, cross-country skiing, biking, birding, or smelling the flowers. She especially loves to share these experiences with her family and their dog. Ashley is passionate about music and dance, and considers both an integral part of her own healing. She is also a social justice and environmental activist and believes that yoga is a path of taking action in the world to make it a better place for all beings.
Ashley teaches all-levels, weekly community yoga classes in her hometown of East Glacier Park, Montana.
What People Are Saying
“[Ashley’s] calm and loving voice and exceptional guidance are part of what make her classes so special. It’s so awesome to see someone who loves yoga so much that it comes shining out of her like sunshine.”
“I had the pleasure of participating in an Ayurveda consultation with Ashley. She is very knowledgeable and the information that Ashley provided me as well as the suggestions she made were most helpful! The consultation offers insight and tools for enhancing wellness which is something that we all strive for in our lives.”
“Ashley, a dear friend and teacher, will inspire, educate, and empower you to pursue and uncover your authentic self. The whole idea of her sessions are to integrate and assimilate yoga from the inside out.”