By Carley Hauck
Many of us have developed a belief that we must be nice, pleasing, or helpful to the exclusion of our own feelings and needs in order to be worthy of love or appreciation. This belief is, of course, not true and furthermore an impossible goal to meet. When we give to get, we can often end up feeling angry and as a result we don’t create healthy boundaries at home and work...
By Sachi Doctor
According to Ayurveda, fall is considered vata season. It’s a time when the energy of movement and change swirl through the air like the cool wind, drying, distracting, stimulating and exhausting both our minds and bodies...
By Stephanie Santos
Carolina Vivas makes teaching look effortless, and she put in a lot of work to make it that way. Take her class sometime and you’ll agree; the structure is challenging, but somehow you’re having fun...
By Keegan Mills
One year ago, The Center SF opened its doors with a dream. A dream to bring together seekers and storytellers, healers and tea wayfarers, movers and shakers. The evening of Thursday, September 29 was a gathering of that dream, seeing that dream in its full reality...
By Amy Adams
As I walked into Wanderlust, there was a palatable yogic buzz in the air. Looking around at the other attendees, outfits ran the gamut from Lululemon pants and flowy tops to jeans and casualwear. I was right in line with my favorite yoga outfit and was ready, notebook in hand, to breathe in opportunity and soak up the ‘wisdom’ being doled out...
By Rachel Nichols
Gabby Bernstein, inspirational speaker, Hay House author and “spirit junkie,” came to San Francisco to speak to nearly 1,000 people last Friday, Oct. 7 at Grace Cathedral about her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back. The book, which was released Sept. 27, is already a #1 New York Times bestseller.
By Courtney Aldor
If you've been to a yoga festival or even hiking in The Santa Cruz Mountains recently, chances are you've seen Danny Goldberg in his element. Between 3 gongs, surrounded by Tibetan singing bowls...
By Rachel Nichols
"Soul Sweat stands out from other classes because--more than anything--it celebrates how downright fun it can be to move and get sweaty,” Brima said. “This means a Soul Sweat class involves less chanting, gets you energized with music, offers a core work series and gives you a cardio boost...
By Danni Pomplun
Yoga for me was never about how many tricks I could do, but rather about what kind of connections I could make with others. I persevered with my yoga efforts because of the amazing support of the community I had built...
By Jade Kwiatowski
I had never gone to any type of yoga festival in the Chicago land area. We pulled up to the venue, Arranmore Farm and Polo Club, and I was totally shocked by the beauty before me! How could such a hidden gem be only forty minutes away from where I live?...
Announcement from EnergyMind Yoga and Clean PowerSF
Listen up, SF Yogis! EnergyMInd Yoga Clean PowerSF is offering a FREE Mindfulness Movement class next weekend Oct 1, 10.30-11.30am and 11.45 am - 12.45pm. There will be two mindful yoga classes that promote CleanPowerSF 100% renewable energy and San Francisco going 100% carbon free...
By Courtney Aldor
So, Energy Healing. What a controversial topic! When I published my first post prior to the recent (inspiring? life-changing? amazement-inducing?) Hands of Light workshop at Omega Institute, the responses were overwhelming. So many people were interested, with questions ranging from ‘How do I see an aura?’...
By Autumn Feldmeier
What would you do if suddenly people thought you were their guru? 5 years ago, Vikram Gandhi set out to find the answer in his mock-umentary, Kumare. In anticipation of his talk at Symbiosis with JP Sears, I set out to find out more about Vikram’s journey post-Kumare...
By Ashley Shires
It was hot and sunny, almost 100 degrees at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California, when a bright yellow school bus arrived from Los Angeles with 60 children from inner city neighborhoods...
By Autumn Feldmeier
I wanted to share my perspective on healing and growth and a year later, I started doing comedy videos. Part of what made me do it is that it gave me permission to be myself and to not hide my humorous side. I also believe that a message through humor is more digestible when it is not through the dogma of seriousness...
By Deidre Norman
In our noisy, busy world, many people are hungry for simple peace and quiet, and Silent Stay Retreat Center is the perfect solution. Sitting on a mountain top with views in all directions, the retreat center is found on the back roads to Napa Valley, only 1.5 hours from San Francisco...
My Area Yoga D.C.
On 10/08, one month before Election Day, thousands will gather on the steps of the iconic Lincoln Memorial and raise their voices in unity, peace and harmony to celebrate and heal our nation...
By Rachel Nichols
Meet Ally Hamilton: yoga teacher, writer, life coach and co-founder of Yogis Anonymous yoga studio in Santa Monica, California. Her raw and honest words always give me perspective and can carry me through to the other side of any struggle I may be facing...
PRESS RELEASE FROM UME YOGA
OAKLAND, CA - Downtown Oakland is the beating heart of a city in transition. But amid a seething mass of construction, traffic and frenetic nightlife, there is an oasis slowly taking root. Ume Yoga, Oakland’s newest studio, officially opens this September 15th...
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Tommy Rosen's path is clear. Now, he wants to help you remove the obstacles of addiction on your own path. Tommy, and his tribe of master teachers, are offering the FREE online Recovery 2.0 Conference September 14-18...
