By SF Yoga Mag
Qi Gong literally means "Energy Cultivation Practice" in Chinese. It sees our thoughts, emotions and the physical body as an integrated energy source that can be mastered and cultivated. In practice you realize the power of all three energy sources combined...
By Dana L. Lee
Tao's remarkable life as a World War II French Resistance fighter, competitive ballroom dancer, film producer, model, and Guinness Book of World Records holder for World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher all support her belief that “There is nothing you cannot do"...
By Ashley Shires
The Prison Yoga Project helps incarcerated men and women build a better life through trauma-informed yoga with a focus on mindfulness. It helps prisoners make grounded, conscious choices instead of reactive ones...
By Rachel Nichols
One of the highlights that we are excited about at San Francisco’s Wanderlust 108 this year Los Angeles-based yoga teacher Mary Beth LaRue. We caught up with Mary Beth, who has been teaching yoga for 10 years, to find out what she is most excited about for this year’s Wanderlust 108...
By Ashley Shires
The festival, founded in 2010, draws an amazing and diverse line-up up yoga instructors and musicians. This year, we asked several of the presenters to contemplate the festival’s theme, “Raise the Vibration.” We have compiled a range of inspiring responses from Jaya Lakshmi, Rod Stryker, Gina Caputo, Janet Stone and Sianna Sherman...
By Courtney Aldor
My favorite part of the book is its message: yoga is for everyone, regardless of what you look like doing it on Instagram because we practice just as much for the mind as for the body. As a social justice activist, Jasmine also outlines why acting with kindness and compassion is just as crucial to your practice as doing a downward dog...
PRESS RELEASE FROM BELOVED FESTIVAL
From the creators of Beloved Festival comes Inaugurada La Primavera on April 21 & 22, two nights of joy and justice and a multi-venue call-to-action. Featuring Alex + Allyson Grey, Las Cafeteras, and a diverse array of musicians and artists, this Portland, Oregon celebration catalyzes hope and accountability in the midst of uncertainty and benefits the Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project...
By Jennifer Stock
According to licensed mental health counselor Sharon Golden, “sometimes the things we do and what we own can have a soothing effect on our psychological health. The connection to body, mind and spirit are what matters, and things we keep close to our bodies can aid that connection"...
By SF Yoga Mag
The Sat Nam Festival is created from a passion for beautiful music and Kundalini Yoga. It is a celebration of the joy and rejuvenation of Kundalini Yoga and the healing and uplifting powers of Kundalini music. It is a festival where friends become family and everyone supports each other on this journey we call life...
By SF Yoga Mag
A Wanderkarma Pop Up Shop is coming to YogaWorks in San Francisco this weekend! Wanderkarma is excited to be bringing yoga bags, jewelry, and hand bags from Rwanda to sell in San Francisco...
By Kelly Krishna Dunn
LOVEYOURBRAIN is the above and beyond campaign born from the documentary, The Crash Reel and pro-snowboarder Kevin Pearce's inspiring story. LOVEYOURBRAIN collaborates with brain injury survivors, yogis, and meditation teachers to share meditation practices suggested for healing...
PRESS RELEASE FROM JAI UTTAL
Sonoma, CA – March 21, 2017 – Coming off of a sold out Kirtan event with over 400 bhaktas at Spirit Rock, Grammy nominated spiritual music pioneer Jai Uttal will perform a more intimate Northern California event to celebrate the release of his acclaimed 19th album Roots! Rock! Rama! in the town of Sonoma April 22 at Sacred Music Sessions...
By Autumn Feldmeier
Every talk, every yoga workshop was more than just a class, it was more than just growing your own personal consciousness. They were all a call to action, to be part of a Revolution! After the Sedona Yoga Festival, I'm reminded of how beautiful life is and the radical, revolutionary act of finding the beauty in others...
By Courtney Aldor
Well, SF Yoginis and Yogis, it’s almost that time again! Wanderlust Squaw Valley is just around the corner. Now if you read my post on the magical summer weekend I had at last year’s festival, you’ll know that my FAVORITE thing about it was the space it created for women, men, and everyone in between to come together as one loving, nurturing community. So, I couldn’t help but fall in love with Madame Gandhi - who'll be playing live and sharing her beautiful message - when she told me that’s exactly what our female future looks like...
By Kelly Krishna Dunn
Both Daisy Yoga and Office Yoga aim to bring yoga and meditation to the work force as a way to help improve people’s work-life balance, increase health and happiness, reduce stress, and increase productivity. And the their newly launched yoga teacher training program is one more way to keep this positive momentum going...
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Radha chants or plays the mantra while she heats the butter to a specific temperature and simmers it until the perfect and precise moment when the curds become honey colored on the bottom of the pan...
PRESS RELEASE BY TELLURIDE YOGA FESTIVAL
The Telluride Yoga Festival will celebrate ten years in the stunning San Juan Mountains this July 20-23. The first yoga festival of it's kind; the event draws in nearly a thousand yoga enthusiasts to the historic mountain town for four days of community, live music, and yogic contemplation...
PRESS RELEASE BY ARISE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Recognized as more than a music festival, ARISE offers a range of activities such as workshops, enriching yoga classes, provocative documentary films and panel discussions, art installations, live painters and art gallery, performance artists and theme camps...
By Hannah Jenkins
Knowing the sequence in my own body so well helps me feel connected to individual
students in specific ways. Having done it so many times, with so many different iterations of my
own body, in so many different moments in time of my life, helps me feel like I can relate to all
different experiences....
By Kelly Krishna Dunn
The spirit of Yoga Shala West shares a deep love for Ashtanga Yoga. Every morning becomes magical stepping into this sacred sanctuary which holds an omnipotent space quite strongly...
