By Courtney Aldor
This interview is an especially exciting one for SF Yoga Mag. Not only did Goldie Graham do her teacher training with our very own beloved founder, Deidre Norman, but she did it in SF! Now she returns to the Bay as an esteemed Wanderlust teacher for Wanderlust 108. She has been named among the Top 100 Yoga Teachers...
By Christy O'Connell
Some people go to church, while others go to yoga. Why not go to yoga at church? Yes, you’re hearing that right. Every Tuesday night Grace Cathedral hosts ‘Yoga on the Labyrinth’ in the entire church...
By Christy O'Connell
I'd never been to Monarch Nightclub, let alone practiced yoga in a bar, which seemed like good enough reason go. Yoga in a nightclub sounded strange at first (would the floors be sticky with old smells of booze?) yet intriguing all the same. I was there because of VinyasaSF, a company started in 2015 by Jessica Kenny and Tara Mohtadi that throws pop-up power-yoga events...
By Courtney Aldor
The Centre SF has been around for some time. However, it’s been newly revamped as a drop-in or membership-based teahouse, event space, movement and all-things-yoga studio. They have kung fu, capoeira, reiki sessions, singles nights, how-to-manage-money workshops, dance, sound healing, yoga, and the list goes on....
By Rachel Nichols
As the weather warms up, more wineries are planning a variety of events in hopes to entice new customers into the tasting room, and lately I’ve been seeing more wine and yoga events begin to pop up. I’ve heard of three wine + yoga events coming up this month in Sonoma County that are worth checking out...
By Courtney Aldor
To get to Cody Strauss’s class on Saturday morning, I crossed a precarious makeshift bridge of sticks across a steady flowing stream. Of course, I could’ve come by way of the front entrance, past the Mill Valley Public Library, but that just wouldn’t be like me. Up on the Amphiteatre stage, we laid mats out on the wooden platform to the sound of crows calling...
By Courtney Aldor
Marin moms, are you listening?! Beloved Marin yoga teacher, Christopher Love, has teamed up with the Church of St. John’s in Ross to offer pay-what-you-can Vinyasa Yoga classes Monday nights at 6.15pm with FREE CHILDCARE! To boot, the classes feature live music, with yoga on their ornately painted labyrinth lit by candlelight. The experience is quite special. We paid them a visit last week to experience it for ourselves...
By Leyla Ahmet
When I open my eyes the morning seems brighter, clearer. I roll out my mat and move into my yin practice. I am starting the practice centered, focused and relaxed. It is blissful. The practice floats on a new found energy of calm. As I emerge from savasana I set an intention to remain relaxed as I go about my day. To be able to be efficient but still relaxed.
By Courtney Aldor
The first time I met Rachael Breeze, we didn’t technically meet at all. In line at the grocery one afternoon, I was in awe of an absolutely radiant woman in front of me. I said to myself, ‘I want to feel the way she looks.’ A few weeks later, at EarthSpa for my first Ayurvedic consultation, I almost jumped when Rachael came to the door - she was the woman from the store...
By Nick Krieger
There were six of us (plus two facilitators) in the room for the Diversity Training for Yoga Teachers workshop at Yoga Tree. Six. A tiny number, minute for a city that boasts progressive values and a fervent yoga community of avid practitioners,
By Leyla Ahmet
The call from the mosque gently draws me from a sweet sleep. The voice of the muezzin so full of emotion that my skin instantly covers in goose bumps even though the air is already balmy and warm. The clock says 5am, the moonless sky is indigo blue, the stars like tiny holes in a heavy nighttime curtain. I decide since I am awake to attend the early morning beach yoga.
By Courtney Aldor
When Autumn Feldmeier opened the night, she was brimming with excitement, ‘I’ve been teaching class to DEEPSØNØS for awhile now, and, well, sometimes you aim high and things work out…’
By Colleen Crowley
She said that when people feel despair, the best thing to do is take action. Getting locked into despair is not helpful. To give our vote away, she noted, is to give our power away, and to give in to despair...
By Courtney Aldor
SFYogaMag caught up with Nordic songstress HÄANA in anticipation of her upcoming events this month. She’ll be facilitating a meditative sound experience DEEPSØNØS, at Harmonia in Sausalito on Friday March 11th and performing at Morning Gloryville on Wednesday March 23rd . HÄANA has toured internationally...
By Courtney Aldor
I’d been there just 5 minutes and I already had my arm around the guy next to me. Sangha Saturdays was started to bring people together over their love of yoga, and it was working...
By Tawnya Schultz
People around the world are onto something. From Berlin to London, Tokyo to New York and right here in San Francisco, groups of morning gloriers are starting their day with some yoga and a good ol’ fashioned themed dance party, because….why not?
By Tawnya Schultz
Yoga, dancing and a casual Bay boat cruise sounds like a nice day, but what if you could do it all before 9 a.m.? The DayBreaker crew makes it a reality, bringing a community of energetic, eccentric and enthusiastic souls together for a morning that won’t be forgotten.
By Colleen Crowley
Bay Area residents recently packed themselves into 4th Street Yoga in Berkeley to spend an evening with Sharon Salzberg, one of today’s most beloved and relatable meditation teachers. Salzberg’s topic for the evening was Equanimity...
By Peter Walters
My hope and aspiration is that we can bring this community back together, inviting in everyone that we can — with a space that can contain all of us — even bigger than Urban Flow...
By Christy O'Connell
Lisa Rueff has just launched Super Soul Yoga Hike in the Marin Headlands. We all gathered at 10:00 am in the parking lot at Ft Cronkhite/Rodeo Beach. Little did we know what an amazing experience was ahead of us.
