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04/12/2025

Embodied Breath & Bliss: Mountain Yoga Retreat
September 10–13, 2026 | Moon Rising Retreat Center, Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
Restore. Reset. Awaken.
Join Torre Hinnant for a magical 4-day immersion in yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing, and nature connection designed to nourish your body, calm your mind, and ignite your spirit.
Nestled on 22 private acres along the Yadkin River, Moon Rising Retreat Center offers the perfect sanctuary to step away from the noise of daily life and return to your natural rhythm. Aligned with the energy of the new moon, this retreat opens a powerful portal for intention, clarity, and inner transformation.
Slow down. Feel the sun, the earth, the mountain air. Reconnect with your true essence through embodied practices, mindful living, and the healing presence of nature. Each day invites you to soften, expand, and remember who you are beneath the roles and responsibilities.
A journey into presence, inner alchemy, and bliss awaits.
Come home to yourself in the Blue Ridge Mountains.




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27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! Just a few of the things I'm grateful for. Friends, family, four legged babies, and living in such a beautiful place in the high country. l

17/11/2025

I’ve just returned home from traveling, studying, and practicing in the birthplace of yoga—India. Time there feels fluid, and any expectations of what might or should happen quickly become irrelevant. Incredible India—and the universe—has her own timing and plans, ones that rarely match what I think should unfold.

So I learned to let go… and then let go again. To surrender to what is instead of listening to the familiar stories my mind loves to repeat like a scratched record.

Layer by layer, I surrendered into the flow—anchored by daily asana (postures), pranayama (breath control,) kriya (purposeful action) and meditation—and something beautiful happened. A remembering. A deep, cellular knowing that I am already whole and complete. That there is nothing to strive for, no worth to prove. When the stories of lack fall away, what remains is a fullness of being.

Living and moving in Love. Letting Love move through me.
This is coming home.

This Tuesday night, I’ll be sharing a class themed around coming home as we move through a mindful flow of asana, breath, and stillness. A practice designed to leave you full, complete, and connected as we move beyond the limits of the ego, tune into universal flow, and open to our essential nature—beyond bliss. Coming home to ourselves.

Tuesday, November 18th
5:30–6:45 pm

In-person + virtual options available.
I would love to share this practice with you.

14/11/2025

In love with this gorgeous, vibrant, colorful and deeply spiritual country, India. Thousands meet on the banks of the Ganga River every night to pay honor to the river of life that flows from the Himalayas and provides water to millions of people. .

11/11/2025

Messages of love from India to brighten your day. ❤️

10/11/2025

So grateful for this sacred journey in India. So much beauty and deep soul connection through the practices and community.

08/11/2025

"You are the path and the path is you."
Anand

07/11/2025

Only day 5 in India and Wow! It keeps getting better. All the Kriya practice, meditation, yoga, connection. . Don't look for happiness. Let your life be an expression of happiness." Anand

05/11/2025

05/11/2025

There is something familiar and comforting about the hot, humid air clinging to my skin. Immediately I am taken with the sweet smell of India as I step off the airplane onto the tarmac. My identity unimportant as I move en mass with the flow of humanity. Alone but safe in my anonymity. My personal space and story fade into the background as the mystery that is India comes strongly into focus. The lense of my experience seeing clearly the beautiful, vital chaos around me. light shining through dense smog shimmers and illuminates my heart.

26/10/2025

"Sell your cleverness and find bewilderment." -Rumi

My first childhood memory was walking through tall grass in the Virginia mountains with a box of Cheerios in hand, feeling the grass brush my little legs, sensing the moist earth from morning dew on my bare feet, while the morning sun peeked out playfully from behind the mountains warming my face.

Bewilderment was one of my first authentic spiritual practices. I have had a deep love and awe of nature for as long as I can remember. Playful, curiosity brings me joyfully into the present and it is here that I find the peace and beauty of life living through me and around me. I find love.

And isn’t love everything. Love is in the purr of a kitten, bird song in the morning, the joining together of community after a storm like what happened in the Appalachians after Hurricane Helene. If we continue on this path of devoting ourselves to love rather than to the I, ego, entire worlds open up to us and self-realization, samadhi becomes inevitable.

This is the practice of Isvara Pranidhana, surrender to the divine, whether the divine of your understanding is nature, a deity, the flow of life, the great whatever, or simply love. The practice of surrendering to this is the final sustaining practice in the 8-limbed yoga of the the yoga sutras.

Ishvara Pranidhana, coupled with Tapas (dedication to practice,) and Svadyaya (honest self-reflection,) is the trifecta that literally brings us home. And home is here, in this moment living in love.

Join me Tuesday 5:40-6:45pm for a vinyasa flow exploring the theme of surrender to love at Neighborhood Yoga. In-person or virtual options available to participate.

20/10/2025

"I have been a seeker, and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of the soul." – Rumi

In yoga, this deep inner listening is called Svadhyaya — self-study. 🪷

It’s not just about reading sacred texts or analyzing our thoughts. It’s about turning inward, observing without judgment, and recognizing the quiet wisdom already within us.

This Tuesday evening in class, we explore Svadhyaya on the mat — not to perfect the pose, but to witness ourselves in it. To notice. To learn. To grow.

📿 Come with curiosity. Leave with clarity.

Join me Tuesday 5:30-6:45pm for a work out and a work in as we explore this rich theme in our Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 5:30-6:45 at neighborhood yoga.

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