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Matt Ahern truly represented the healing arts, through his gentle, compassionate nature and penchant for helping others. An athlete, musician, and environmentalist, Matt was dedicated to the practice and teaching of yoga and providing counsel to anyone in need.
Matt Ahern spent the last several years of his life actively engaged in healing others through yoga and therapeutic practices, often frustrated at the time and expense involved to acquire new skills. His studies toward his degree in communications from the University of San Francisco, California (2001), had shown him the value of education as it inspired an ongoing love of learning new things. A skilled musician, Matt also enjoyed writing, recording, and playing music, from the Texas Hill Country to the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and was committed to supporting the practices of “sustainability”, “local” and “organic”.
A San Antonio, Texas native, Matt chose his hometown to start in 2007 the Farm Recording Studios, while also focusing time on EchoTown, his Internet database and networking enterprise for sustainable-living businesses in and around the Alamo city. The Farm ultimately became a creative hub for local musicians, artists, and environmentally conscious individuals.
About the same time, Matt met yoga instructor Debby Andersen, who became his girlfriend, and started a transformation through the healing arts, nutrition and yoga. His entrepreneurial pursuits also included founding Garden Start, a venture that designed, installed and maintained organic gardens.
New relationships and learning led him to his mentor, David Elliot, and the practice of Pranayama yoga as he subsequently expanded his personal website venture to include work as a consultant, healer and musician. Dividing his time between Colorado and Texas, Matt was soon teaching breath work classes and healer training throughout the Southwest.
Despite an intense focus on his own health, a sudden decline stemming from a congenital heart defect took Matt Ahern’s life at the age of just 36 on January 7, 2015. Matt’s unexpected passing left a great void in the music and healing community. His memorial service at the Argyle Club in San Antonio overflowed the venue, a testament to his spiritual abundance as hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects. At the same time that this service was taking place, Matt’s friends held concurrent memorial events in California, Illinois, New York and Florida. Two weeks later, the Yoga and Healing Community held yet another memorial service at Southtown Yoga Studio.
On Matt’s birthday, several months after his passing, musicians and artists who’d performed and recorded or displayed their works at the Farm gathered to celebrate his life, each remembering the positivity, kindness and empathic person who’d impacted their own path in such a remarkable way. It lasted about seven hours and featured performances by many of the musicians and bands that recorded at The Farm and featured some of the songs Matt had composed.
The Matthew Ahern Healing Arts Foundation ensures that the values its namesake held dear will continue to live on through the work of those individuals helped in their pursuit of continuing education.