By Christy O'Connell
Warm sunny day in Golden Gate Park + 3000 yogis + 5k + Yoga + Meditation = inspiring and amazing day! Lindley Meadow was full of folks all ready to get their exercise on. I hadn’t seen that many people in the meadow since Hardly Strictly Bluegrass...
By Kelly Finnegan
The word yoga and nightclub in the same sentence reminds me of my roaring twenties. I’d party all night and then repent in the morning with a hot yoga class. I thought a hot yoga class would simultaneously sweat out my hangover and purify my soul. It helped a little with the hangovers; I’m still actively working on the soul part.
By Colleen Crowley
Overall, Sat Nam Fest was a rich experience of divine music, delicious food, and all the Kundalini Yoga you could hope for. It was one potent workshop after another packed into 5 days in the beautiful desert of Joshua Tree. From Wha Kundalini Dance classes to holding space with Jai Dev Singh, there seemed to be a common theme for this year’s festival: how to heal trauma.
By M Ryan Saldivar
With so many conclusive studies about the positive aspects of meditation - strengthened immune response, increase in grey matter density in the brain, more even emotions and better memory - the practice is gaining popularity. In my own classes, a question I get often is: how to clear the mind of stress? The answer is simple: Don't.
By Courtney Aldor
When Lisa Rueff, who leads those beautiful yoga hikes you can read about here, told me she’d created a game, I was intrigued. A game? I wondered why anyone would need games in a city like SF with endless things to do indoors and out, but as soon as she told me how it came about, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one...
By Ashley Shires
I’ve been graced to live in many amazing places and yet, Boulder feels like a root deep in my body...
By Courtney Aldor
Driving down Marinship Way to Harmonia in Sausalito, I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a hidden gem. I enter the sunny garden and pass a redwood sauna originally constructed for Sly Stone...
By Kelly Finnegan
I woke up at 5:14 am, one minute prior to my alarm going off. I immediately grabbed my phone and started what felt like a digital binge; I went on almost every social media site and read the news while I ate breakfast.
By Courtney Aldor
This week, we caught up with Liya Garber on what inspired her to teach Kundalini. Liya has a workshop coming up this Sunday, April 17th at Yogaworks Telegraph...
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.
