Stretch and Dance
Seane Corn to lead Soulshine Tour’s pre-concert yoga
After stopping in places such as New York, Philadelphia and Portsmouth, Virginia, the Soulshine Tour makes its way to Wilmington on July 25.
The tour will bring both music and yoga fans together as the event begins each concert with a mass yoga session coupled with acoustic music.
Soulshine will feature acclaimed yoga instructors to teach those lessons. Seane Corn, an internationally celebrated yoga teacher who has been featured on Oprah.com and The Today Show is one of the instructors.
“It’s an incredible gathering of people. Working with (singer) Michael Franti is such an honor and a joy,” says Corn, who lives in California.
“Michael will play acoustically behind me, and I’ll teach a mat class. It’ll be yoga and then dance and back into yoga and then dance again. Michael and I are creating this experience by using music and yoga.”
The crowd yoga session starts Friday afternoon before the main concert at Battleship Park.
“Yoga is an exercise. It’s an artistic exercise, so I do believe they (music and yoga) complement each other very well,” says Beau Gunn, general manager of Hometown Wilmington Media and radio personality on 98.3 The Penguin, which is hosting the event locally.
The idea behind Soulshine came from Franti after doing yoga at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.
“I was playing a venue at Red Rocks. I thought next year would be great that before the show, we’d invite a bunch of people to come and practice,” Franti says in a video on the event’s website. “Originally, I was thinking maybe 20 of my friends. Instead, we got like 2,000 of my friends here today.”
Having participated during the tour’s West Coast visit, Corn says she’s excited to visit the Wilmington area for the first time.
“The Soulshine Tour is so fun and so community driven. It’s a real family event. You get such a good mix of people,” Corn says. “I look forward in coming to the East Coast and meeting the people (in Wilmington) and being part of their experiences.”
Soulshine Tour
Music by Michael Franti & Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen, and Trevor Hall
Friday, July 25
Yoga: 3:30-5 p.m.
Show: 7 p.m.
Battleship Park in Wilmington
