All in Community
By Courtney Aldor
Every day at 2.30pm and every Saturday at 10am, Laughing Lotus hosts a Vinyasa class to benefit a non-profit serving local and distant communities. To be exact, this program, called Love Saves the Day, selects a different charity monthly to donate 50% of proceeds from their (totally packed) Vinyasa class...
By Patricia Gums
At Daybreaker, we dance our faces off before work and feel gloriously healthy while doing so. We gather in community to participate in something greater than ourselves...
By Patricia Gums
Many of us experience the notion of "wanderlust", German for "a longing for far-off places". I pretty much start planning my next vacation while still on vacation. I had the great pleasure of speaking with Erica Hartnick, who took this concept to the next level by combing wanderlust with her other passions: teaching yoga, mindfulness and surfing...
By Kelly Finnegan
Ritual Hot Yoga hosted an event and invited bloggers and publishers in the Bay area to be part of their blossoming community. Upon arriving at Ritual, it became clear to me that they are consciously building a strong community that serves as a pillar of strength and support to teachers and students alike...
By Kamala from LocalWise
Nobody becomes a yoga instructor overnight, but if you’re someone who has fallen in love with the practice and you’re ready to invest in the training, becoming a yoga teacher could be the best gig for mixing your work with your passion...
By Courtney Aldor
The Centre offers daily Yoga classes, mostly in the Hatha tradition, Bhagavad Gita lectures, Satsang meditation, and various inspiring workshops. Recently, they hosted a talk by Meir Schneider - a man born legally blind who taught himself, via the Bates Method, to see...
By SF Yoga Mag
You will walk away from this training knowing how to lead a vinyasa yoga class that is grounded, inspiring and filled with joy. But this training goes way beyond the physical practice. It is a step into the full practice of yoga - physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual...
By Courtney Aldor
Kia Miller is a world renowned teacher and devoted Yogini, who imparts her wonderful passion for life and well-being in her teaching. Her style pulls from multiple yogic disciplines, and she is especially known for making Kundalini Yoga accessible. This July, she will be teaching at Wanderlust...
By Courtney Aldor
I first met Ford Peck in Fairfax at one of his Meditation workshops. This led me to his yoga classes, which brought me to his energy healing sessions, which are more like psychotherapy (in which he’s trained), where he draws upon techniques from NLP, Yoga Nidra, various bodywork methodologies...
By Colleen Crowley
Noah Levine's spiritual path began on the floor of a padded jail cell at 18. A veteran of the punk movement, he spent his youth addicted to drugs and rebelling against pacifist parents whose peace approach seemingly resulted in a world of capitalist propaganda, government corruption, and fascist oppression. As detailed in his best-selling book “Dharma Punx”...
By Deidre Norman
When we are in the present moment, we are more grounded and when we are more grounded, we can more easily tune into the flow of life. When we are in the flow, we are a part of life, rather than just our thoughts about life. It is in this state, that we naturally become more open, compassionate and even more efficient...
By Courtney Aldor
With her infectious smile and upbeat sense of humor, Lesley Desaulnier has quickly become one of Marin’s most in-demand yoga teachers. In fact, when she first arrived from New York and a friend brought me to her class at Yogaworks, it was under the condition that I not tell anyone...
By Autumn Feldmeier
You cannot think about dance. You cannot count the beats or tell yourself to do this step and that step. Instead, you have to act in a way that puts aside your everyday conscious mind. You just have to dance. You can't make it look any better than what it is, and if you are honest, you can't make it any worse: you can't hide yourself when you dance...
By Rachel Nichols
I had the amazing opportunity to talk to Forest Fein, the Curriculum Director + Lead Instructor for the Youth Mindfulness programs at Larkin Street Youth Services. Larkin Street provides youth between the ages of 12 and 24 with the help they need to rebuild their lives. Each year, more than 3,000 youth walk through their doors seeking help...
By Kelly Finnegan
I immediately felt relaxed and open to this experience because of my love of self-acceptance. I spend a great deal of time and energy working on building up my personal value, which has no ties to society’s illusive perception of worth. In spite of all this great work that I do, it is exactly what I just called it: work.
By Patricia Gums
On May 20th, nearly 1000 people attended a guided sound meditation at Grace Cathedral to benefit San Francisco Suicide Prevention, which answers more than 200 calls a day from those in need and have 6 core programs, which you can learn about here. As a professional event planner, I can confidently say it was the “hot ticket”...
By Autumn Feldmeier
The one love movement's mission is to inspire 'one love' across the globe & create one community that gives back through action. Their cause is underprivileged youth...
By Kelly Finnegan
The word Bhakti has several definitions. One that stands out the most to me is “union through love and devotion”. One would think that love and devotion are inherently present in each and every practice, but that is not the case. No two practices are ever the same; just like no two days are ever the same...
By Patricia Gums
he title of the workshop sounded intriguing: Awakening the Nerve of the Soul, a combination of intensive Kundalini yoga practice and sound healing with Liya Garber and sound practitioner Danny Goldberg...
By Andrea Kasprzak
Sherpa Power, a new ayurvedic brew from Berkeley-based company Global Family Farms, packs a powerful message in every bottle. The brand-new beverage, which took home awards at this year’s Expo West and now available at Bay Area Whole Foods, makes a powerful change in more than just your health...
