All in Consciousness
By Deidre Norman
In early August, a special group of people gathered for a week-long Summer Kirtan Camp in Fairfax, an adorable little town just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The camp is led by sacred music composer, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist Jai Uttal along with Nubia Teixeira, Daniel Paul and Prajna Vieira…
By Elizabeth Millard
Do you sometimes snack mindlessly on mediocre food? Buy clothes that don’t really fit? Binge-watch TV shows when you really need sleep? You’re not alone. Our culture has become almost fanatically centered on consumption of all types, and it’s affecting our health, happiness, and well-being…
By: Nikita Mehta
One of our favorite things about festivals like Wanderlust is interacting with the amazing vendors and entrepreneurs. It’s even better when our favorite vendors are local SF based companies who we can support and love here in our city. This year we were honored to meet up and collab with Bloombra…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
There is a time in life to make a pilgrimage. Let’s pack up some belongings, and set out on a path hoping to get a glimpse of what life is all about. There are many pilgrimages with footsteps for us to follow…
By Rachel Nichols
On an early morning in spring, I walked into a stunning sacred space flooded with tons of natural light, sparkling healing crystals in all the right places and a room full of bright faces whom I would be spending the weekend with learning Reiki, a beautiful healing practice that brings us back into alignment with our true selves…
By Julie Fustanio Kling
Singer songwriter Amanda Botur’s debut album, Confluence/Sangam, is pure love. As a yoga teacher and a dear friend of mine (I admit I am biased), Amanda has a gentle way of saying the way you show up to anything in your life is the way you show up for everything…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
Most people are taught when sitting in meditation to watch their thoughts, feelings, everything which comes into awareness and let it go. Focus on your breath. Simply watch what arises and let it go. Focus on your breath…
By Autumn Feldmeier
Martin's classes always focus on the lesson of Yogas Citta Vritti Nirodhah, translated as Yoga is the calming of the fluctuations of the mind…
By Deidre Norman
I would like to align my peace activism with my corporate innovation background. That seems to be the next calling - to inspire big business to actively promote peace, compassion and nonviolence…
By Labeba
In your presence, there is grace. Speaking for peace. In the light of joy. There is a version of an angel, the internal beauty and good you trust in the capacity of this earth to be a better place to live…
By Rachel Nichols
Sensitivity, perceptivity, creativity, innovative thinking, empathy. When you think of these qualities, what kind of person comes to mind? Perhaps an artist, an entrepreneur, a healer? What about someone who identifies as ADHD or HSP…
By Sierra Wagner
Jnana yoga is about developing inner wisdom. Key concepts within it are that we are one; We are infinite; We are connected; We are perfect, whole and complete. Clarity comes from not veiling or covering over our most essential nature…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
We want to unplug. We want a break from all the noise and confusion in life. We want to take off and have nothing to do, no one to listen to, no email or texts to respond to. We just want to be free. So we sign up for a silent retreat…
By Nikita Mehta
As we travel from town to town and festival to festival, we can always count on familiar friendly faces from vendors that we have come to know and love. One of our favorites that we get to see all the time is Larissa Miller and her company Pi Yoga…
By Andrea Bogart
There are so many examples throughout the day where I am deeply connected to the present
moment and others where auto pilot is taking me through the motions and I'm not present at
all. Does this sound like you too…
Wanda Pratnicka, PhD has a unique ability to diagnose and remove spirit entities, aka ghosts, from people remotely; no matter where a person is located. Pratnicka is a unique healer and has written several books. We were thrilled to have an interview with her…
By Nikita Mehta
My eyes opened at the first clanging of the bell. It was 5:30 am. Our breath made little clouds in the cool morning air as the moon lit our path down to the meditation hall. By 6:00 am we settled, wrapped in warm shawls and surrounded by other practitioners, into our morning meditation...
