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 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 Autumn Feldmeier
"One’s legacy might be considered before one is almost gone, and last I checked, I’m still here, baby! I’m proud of being among the early pioneers in the turn-of-the-century San Francisco yoga movement. Being able to help serve the tidal wave of modern day yogis in this beautiful city (and beyond) has been one of the biggest joys of my life..."
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 Ashley Shires
I pulled my rental car into the dirt parking lot of Bhakti Fest, in the Joshua Tree desert, and a security guard in a bright orange vest motioned for me to roll down my window. I did, to a blast of 100-degree heat. He grinned at me, yelling, “Namaste!” I grinned back, realizing I had pulled off the highway and into an alternative reality...
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...
By M Ryan Saldiver
In our Yoga mat practice, it’s important to remember we’re not pushing for perfection, but excellence. Aristotle said “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly...
By Courtney Aldor
Ok, so I’m in NYC right now, missing the Bay Area every minute of every day. Which is why, when I heard about Devaa Haley Mitchell’s free online Inspiring Women with Soul event on the Shift Network, I jumped at the opportunity to connect with that NorCal yogi spirit and inspiring women everywhere. My alarm went off for Shiva Rea’s talk...
By Colleen Crowley
Tucked away in one of those unassuming single-story white wooden Presidio buildings is SenSpa, one of SF’s hidden gems. Recently, Monica Parks, a Lead Massage Therapist at SenSpa, gave a talk on how to incorporate spa-like treatments and therapies into our daily lives to maintain health and wellness between visits through a feeling of abundance...
By Courtney Aldor
When I asked Tarika Lovegarden - author, meditation coach, nutritionist, and all-around badass chick - if I could interview her, I was going to write about her profoundly deep Heart Meditation classes. That is, guided meditation specific to strengthening the energy of the heart chakra: that which relates to love, confidence, compassion, hope and healing...
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...
