Connect With Your Mind, Body, and Spirit (and Get Your Goat!): Ashley Flowers of Ashley Flowers Yoga

Today I have the distinct pleasure to bring you my new friend Ashley Waters of Ashley Waters Yoga.

I was introduced to Ashley through another new friend, Shay Bellas of Navitour -- which is awesome enough for someone who loves the whole women-supporting-women thing. And then when I started talking to Ashley and she copped to failing out of Jazzercise, I knew she was my people!

Ashley’s based in South Portland, but she was doing fully-remote yoga long before COVID made that everyone’s business model. Ashley Flowers Yoga fuses Ashley’s passions for nature and movement, taking her practice onto the water, as well as out into parks and fields (once in a while even sharing space with some four-legged friends!)

Ashley’s training and experience as an educator shines through in this conversation, as she gives me a much needed primer on yoga styles, and provides a somewhat plausible explanation for the charms of goat yoga.

If you’re like me and are in desperate need of some flexibility, but get intimidated by all the Sanskrit and woo-infused class descriptions and just decide to stay on the couch, this conversation is definitely for you. And who knows, somewhere in her explanation of Vinyasa vs. Shivananda, maybe you’ll pick up some tips to help you cure your awkwardly placed poison ivy...

You can check out all of Ashley’s goodness through her website, or 'Om Demand' on her YouTube channel (yup, she did that!), or if you really just want to see lots of pictures of cute goat frolic, find her on Facebook, or @youcancallmeflowers on Instagram.

And of course, she’s one of the guides profiled over at Navitour.com - Shay’s startup travel company has hit the ground running this spring, and has lots of fantastic trip and tour leaders featuring their fun offerings on the Navitour platform, so I hope you’ll check it out as you’re making your summer-in-Maine plans!

A few more links from this hilarious conversation:

• Ashley Flowers Yoga on Navitour
• Habitat for Humanity 
• Portland Paddle
• Madeline L’Engle
• What is the Sun Salutation?
• Smiling Hill Farm
• Nubian goats
• Shay Bellas of Navitour on Guides Gone Wild