Community Calendar

Join us at County Library on Thursday, June 4th at 6:00pm as the hosts of the award-winning podcast series Arcane Carolinas share some of their favorite spooky stories of North Carolina!

Arcane Carolinas will have books available for purchase during the event. They can accept credit card, cash, Venmo, or PayPal.

No registration is required.

A Conversation about Kundalini Yoga and Ayurvedic Wisdom with Dr. Vasant Lad and Jai Dev
Renowned Ayurvedic physician and scholar Dr. Vasant Lad joins internationally recognized Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda teacher Jai Dev Singh, founder of the global training institution Life-Force Academy, for a live public dialogue examining the relationship between Kundalini Yoga and the classical Ayurvedic tradition. Together, the two teachers will explore how these traditions approach balance, vitality, perception, and human consciousness through both practice and lived experience. Presented in an intimate conversational format rather than as a formal lecture, the gathering offers a rare opportunity to witness an unscripted exchange between contemporary stewards of enduring wisdom traditions.
Dr. Vasant Lad
A native of India, Vasant Lad’s illustrious 40+ year career includes his service as Medical Director at the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune, India, for 3 years and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Pune University College of Ayurvedic Medicine for 15 years. He holds a Bachelor’s of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAM&S) from the University of Pune and a Master’s of Ayurvedic Science (MASc) degree from Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya. Vasant Lad’s training includes the study of Allopathy (Western medicine) and surgery. He established The Ayurvedic Institute in 1984 – the first Ayurvedic School in the U.S. – which is training Ayurvedic professionals in Asheville, NC. He is the author of 12 books (with over 700,000 copies in print in the U.S. alone), and his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. Vasant Lad is considered to be the premiere authority on Ayurveda outside of India.
Jai Dev Singh
Jai Dev Singh is a renowned international teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda, and founder of Life- Force Academy (LFA), a global training academy for the yogic arts and sciences with members in over 60 countries around the world.
Jai Dev was raised by a loving Jewish family in upstate South Carolina. While his family environment was nurturing, there was a lingering sense that he didn’t quite fit in. As a young man, he developed health challenges. While modern medicine offered temporary relief, it couldn’t get to the root of the problem. This led him on a search for true health and a deeper understanding of the human body that has taken him across the world and back.
His intense love of music brought him to Middle Tennessee State University where he studied Production in the Recording Industry. It was in college that he found himself at his very first Kundalini Yoga class. Jai Dev didn’t know much about yoga but was magnetically drawn to it. After one class he was hooked and thus began his life-changing yogic journey.
Inspired by his teacher, Jai Dev soon began to teach himself. He almost immediately attracted an audience of eager students, making it clear early on that he had uncovered a natural gift that he continues to nurture to this day.
Over the years Jai Dev trained extensively in Kundalini Yoga and a variety of other yogic traditions. He moved to Nevada City, CA to study Ayurveda. There, he discovered the true root of his health issues and exactly how imbalances in the mind and body occur. This led him on an incredible path to restoration, healing, and teaching others how to do the same. After graduating, he became the Clinical Director at the College of Ayurveda until his teaching demands led him to create his own training school: The Life-Force Academy.
Jai Dev travels the world with LFA’s mission to help people restore their inner vitality, connect to their genuine sense of purpose, and learn to live a happy life. LFA offers (virtual and in-person) courses and workshops on Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. The courses are designed to improve your health, mental wellness, inner-confidence, increase prosperity, and so much more. Jai Dev’s down-to-earth sensibility and humor, combined with a creative delivery of yogic teachings have influenced thousands of practitioners and teachers around the globe.
Today, Jai Dev is based in Nevada City, California. When not running his global training academy, he enjoys basketball, spending time with his son, and experiencing as much live music as possible.

APLR and Life-Force Academy Present: Jai Dev - Kriya: Tuning The Instrument Part One
Saturday, June 6th, 2026
AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Doors 2:30 PM || Event 3:00 PM
Kriya: Tuning The Instrument Part One
Kriya: Tuning The Instrument Part One moves through rhythmic movement, Pranayama, and foundational Kriyas to flush accumulated tension, clear the channels, and strengthen your capacity to hold more life force.
Jai Dev Singh
Jai Dev Singh is a renowned international teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda, and founder of Life- Force Academy (LFA), a global training academy for the yogic arts and sciences with members in over 60 countries around the world.
Jai Dev was raised by a loving Jewish family in upstate South Carolina. While his family environment was nurturing, there was a lingering sense that he didn’t quite fit in. As a young man, he developed health challenges. While modern medicine offered temporary relief, it couldn’t get to the root of the problem. This led him on a search for true health and a deeper understanding of the human body that has taken him across the world and back.
His intense love of music brought him to Middle Tennessee State University where he studied Production in the Recording Industry. It was in college that he found himself at his very first Kundalini Yoga class. Jai Dev didn’t know much about yoga but was magnetically drawn to it. After one class he was hooked and thus began his life-changing yogic journey.
Inspired by his teacher, Jai Dev soon began to teach himself. He almost immediately attracted an audience of eager students, making it clear early on that he had uncovered a natural gift that he continues to nurture to this day.
Over the years Jai Dev trained extensively in Kundalini Yoga and a variety of other yogic traditions. He moved to Nevada City, CA to study Ayurveda. There, he discovered the true root of his health issues and exactly how imbalances in the mind and body occur. This led him on an incredible path to restoration, healing, and teaching others how to do the same. After graduating, he became the Clinical Director at the College of Ayurveda until his teaching demands led him to create his own training school: The Life-Force Academy.
Jai Dev travels the world with LFA’s mission to help people restore their inner vitality, connect to their genuine sense of purpose, and learn to live a happy life. LFA offers (virtual and in-person) courses and workshops on Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. The courses are designed to improve your health, mental wellness, inner-confidence, increase prosperity, and so much more. Jai Dev’s down-to-earth sensibility and humor, combined with a creative delivery of yogic teachings have influenced thousands of practitioners and teachers around the globe.
Today, Jai Dev is based in Nevada City, California. When not running his global training academy, he enjoys basketball, spending time with his son, and experiencing as much live music as possible.

A community-centered book launch that invites conversation around disability, care, access, and how art can hold these realities with honesty.

Author Kristin Entler will discuss their new poetry collection, Of Water Never Ceasing, with fellow poet H. M. Cotton. Kristin will read from the book and take questions from the audience.

Of Water Never Ceasing is written from within ongoing illness and care. Moving through hospitals, homes, and the body itself, Kristin Entler traces how treatment, fatigue, diagnosis, and love alter the rhythms of living. These poems resist recovery narratives and instead stay with the daily negotiations of care, presence, and endurance, offering an intimate and clear-eyed record of what it means to keep living without the promise of resolution.

Kristin Entler is a writer and educator from Alabama, currently living in Western North Carolina. They hold an MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Their work can be found in The Bitter Southerner, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Porter House Review, BOOTH, and elsewhere. Entler can be found online @findmycure.

H. M. Cotton is the managing editor of Birmingham Poetry Review, contributing editor for NELLE, and production manager for both journals. Her writing appears in places such as Raleigh Review, storySouth, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She is an MFA student at Warren Wilson and teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a 2023 Alabama State Council on the Arts poetry fellow, she kayaked 180-miles of the Cahaba River and details the adventure at thecahabaproject.substack.com.

We are so excited to announce a special Membership Appreciation Day for supporters of the Memorial and members of the Friends of Thomas Wolfe.
Join us as we open with special afternoon hours on Sunday, June 7th, where members can bring up to two complimentary guests for a special furniture-themed tour of the historic boardinghouse, a guided downtown walking tour, a short documentary, highlighting the home and furniture’s restoration following the 1998 arson fire, and a special behind-the-scenes look at select pieces of the memorial‘s extensive artifact collection!
If you are curious about becoming a member, and would like to learn more, please check out our website: wolfememorial.com
If you are interested in purchasing a membership: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/friends-of-thomas-wolfe

APLR and Life-Force Academy Present: Jai Dev - Kriya: Tuning The Instrument Part Two
Sunday, June 7th, 2026

AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Doors 2:30 PM || Event 3:00 PM

Kriya: Tuning The Instrument Part Two moves through rhythmic movement, Pranayama, and foundational Kriyas to flush accumulated tension, clear the channels, and strengthen your capacity to hold more life force.
Jai Dev Singh
Jai Dev Singh is a renowned international teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda, and founder of Life- Force Academy (LFA), a global training academy for the yogic arts and sciences with members in over 60 countries around the world.
Jai Dev was raised by a loving Jewish family in upstate South Carolina. While his family environment was nurturing, there was a lingering sense that he didn’t quite fit in. As a young man, he developed health challenges. While modern medicine offered temporary relief, it couldn’t get to the root of the problem. This led him on a search for true health and a deeper understanding of the human body that has taken him across the world and back.
His intense love of music brought him to Middle Tennessee State University where he studied Production in the Recording Industry. It was in college that he found himself at his very first Kundalini Yoga class. Jai Dev didn’t know much about yoga but was magnetically drawn to it. After one class he was hooked and thus began his life-changing yogic journey.
Inspired by his teacher, Jai Dev soon began to teach himself. He almost immediately attracted an audience of eager students, making it clear early on that he had uncovered a natural gift that he continues to nurture to this day.
Over the years Jai Dev trained extensively in Kundalini Yoga and a variety of other yogic traditions. He moved to Nevada City, CA to study Ayurveda. There, he discovered the true root of his health issues and exactly how imbalances in the mind and body occur. This led him on an incredible path to restoration, healing, and teaching others how to do the same. After graduating, he became the Clinical Director at the College of Ayurveda until his teaching demands led him to create his own training school: The Life-Force Academy.
Jai Dev travels the world with LFA’s mission to help people restore their inner vitality, connect to their genuine sense of purpose, and learn to live a happy life. LFA offers (virtual and in-person) courses and workshops on Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. The courses are designed to improve your health, mental wellness, inner-confidence, increase prosperity, and so much more. Jai Dev’s down-to-earth sensibility and humor, combined with a creative delivery of yogic teachings have influenced thousands of practitioners and teachers around the globe.
Today, Jai Dev is based in Nevada City, California. When not running his global training academy, he enjoys basketball, spending time with his son, and experiencing as much live music as possible.

Long-running reading series, Juniper Bends, presents an evening of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and music featuring local and visiting artists at Story Parlor on Friday June 12th. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 7:30. The theme of the evening is A Midsummer Night’s Feast.
Our readers are Susanne Paola Antonetta's, Lexi Kessens, Soham Patel, and Zackary Vernon, with musician/songwriter Lillie Syracuse. Books will be available for purchase, and the authors will sign them.
Story Parlor
227 Haywood Rd,
Asheville, NC

This tour, originally scheduled for May 23rd, was rescheduled due to inclement weather.

Join us for a tour of Riverside Cemetery as we piece together fact and fiction by highlighting many of the folks that inspired various characters in Wolfe’s works, as well as other notable Ashevillians.

The tour will begin at the front gate of Riverside Cemetery, with parking available along Birch Street and near the gate. Plan for two-hour leisurely paced tour!

THIS EVENT HAS A CAPACITY LIMIT. Tickets – $10/person and must be purchased online: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/thomas-wolfes-buried-lives-a-riverside-cemetery-tour

A variety of local authors will be at Rutherford County Library on Saturday, June 13th from 11:00am-3:00pm to discuss and sell their books! The event will be held in the parking lot unless it rains, in which case it will be indoors in the community rooms.

Teens are invited to join us for coffee and books at Hope House Coffee Co! No special reading is required–just come talk about what you’ve been reading and hear what others have been enjoying.

There will be door prizes!

No registration is required.