All in Consciousness
By Courtney Aldor
Tomorrow night at The Center SF, James Brown will be holding a Vedic Meditation session followed by a Dharma Talk on the subject of relationships, details here. In the spirit of his upcoming event and since I just learned (and learned to LOVE) this ridiculously effective technique, I thought I’d share 4 excellent uses for Vedic Meditation...
By Rachel Nichols
In Kundalini yoga we believe that, at the soul level, we are all perfect and pure,” she said. “The challenge is with the mind and our sense of identity. I always keep reminding myself and students that we are already perfect and healed; we just need to remember it by clearing the mind...
By Rachel Nichols
The Yoga of Max's Discontent invites readers on a spiritual quest with a young investment banker, Max Pzoras, from New York as he travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally and spiritually. His quest takes him high in the Himalayas, reaching his goal to become a modern-day yogi...
By Autumn Feldmeier
Our theory of change begins with people. Through personal practice, community building, and collective action we transform ourselves and restructure our world to support the conditions of wellbeing for all...
By Colleen Crowley
Renowned meditation teacher and bestselling author Sharon Salzberg recently presented a workshop at 4th Street Yoga in Berkeley...
By Rachel Nichols
A very special woman is coming to San Francisco's Grace Cathedral to tell her story next Tuesday night on August 16 at 7:45 p.m, following Yoga on the Labyrinth, the Tuesday night yoga class at the cathedral...
By Courtney Aldor
Enter Max Strom. Max is the author of There is No App for Happiness, and A Life Worth Breathing. He’s spoken at TEDx and for Fortune 500 on the ethics of business and leads mindfulness workshops world-wide. When I heard was he was doing a talk at Yogaworks on finding our life’s purpose, I was intrigued. Maybe he'd help me figure out what to busy myself with. And after all, dear readers, which one of you doesn't want to know your life purpose? According to Strom, the answer is deceivingly simple...
By Katie Lucas
As an instructor, my greatest accomplishment isn’t sending home a room of sweaty people. My greatest accomplishment is when I can get my students to laugh. As the Co-Founder of Ohm K, a women’s wellness apparel brand specializing in cheeky yoga tank tops and empowering messages, I’m all about bringing some levity to my workout...
By Rachel Nichols
The Peaceful Ninjas, a holistic education movement that empowers youth to create world peace by cultivating healthy bodies, clear minds and strong spirits, is quickly becoming a mindfulness festival favorite for organizers, vendors, parents and children alike...
By Rachel Nichols
Grace Cathedral and the Yoga on the Labyrinth community in San Francisco are welcoming Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, two renowned spiritual leaders from Rishikesh, India, to speak on Tuesday, July 26. The conversation will focus on Living with Grace...
By Courtney Aldor
Not too long ago, in what was supposed to be a Meditation class, a friend and I were in an uncomfortable situation. Flanked by women of various ages, we were instructed by the man leading class to roll around on the floor and moan. When he commanded us to do it ‘louder’, ‘harder’, and ‘more’, and shamed us by suggesting we ‘notice our sexual repression’, the women followed suit by re-enacting orgasms for him...
By SF Yoga Mag
Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda continue to inspire me with their music! In fact, I think I have every album they have published. It was an absolute honor to receive their newest album, Kundalini Morning Chants, for review...
By Leyla Ahmet
Unresolved trauma stays locked in the body. The body holds onto painful memories that are not dealt with and we can hold stress in our bodies as well. Many even hold armor around the heart to protect it from loss and hurt. This is where the power of yoga can help us heal, the magic gets to happen. As we stretch and strengthen the body, we begin to create space for movement, space for letting go and space for change...
By M Ryan Saldiver
Another special highlight of the festival was a children's dance performance put on by
the Toodayamangalam Shri Krupa Dance company. This group of young girls between the ages
of 6-12 were doing a dance piece called the Bharatanatyam - which is symbolic of the devine
dance of Shiva...
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 Autumn Feldmeier
I came from a stressful job in a stressful industry. I found that the the only way for me to keep sane was to practice the Sudarshan Kriya technique. This technique ended up completely transforming me physically and mentally...
By Erika van Gemeren
After taking Saul David Raye's class at Shakti Fest this year, I wanted to know more and I wanted to dig deeper. I was curious to see what Saul had to share outside of the yoga room! He is a humble teacher who emanates love, it seems as if he lives and breathes his practices in all aspects of his life...
By Casie Danenhauer
VAGINA OWNERS ARE PRETTY RAD. It's true... we are pretty incredible beings. What better way to celebrate how amazing we are by coming together to learn, grow, move, and create in community...
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”...
