By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
We want to unplug. We want a break from all the noise and confusion in life. We want to take off and have nothing to do, no one to listen to, no email or texts to respond to. We just want to be free. So we sign up for a silent retreat…
By Ashley Shires
I have had an amazing, transformative experience every time I've attended Shakti Fest, at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, and this year was no exception. The festival is a full weekend of live sacred music and yoga with the most open-hearted people I've ever met. Reflecting on the 9th annual festival, I was overwhelmed with highlights, but the practical Capricorn in me has a few tips and take-aways I'd love to share with you…
PRESS RELEASE FROM WANDERLUST
Eric Krasno, Danny Mayer, Louis Cato, Mary Corso, Jesse Murphy & More Will Perform Together For the First Time at Wanderlust Festivals in Stratton, VT and Squaw Valley, CA…
By Nikita Mehta
As we travel from town to town and festival to festival, we can always count on familiar friendly faces from vendors that we have come to know and love. One of our favorites that we get to see all the time is Larissa Miller and her company Pi Yoga…
By Ashley Shires
All the teachers we’re bringing into the academy are showing up big time, really wanting to share their wisdom in a practical, educational way...
By Brooke Nally
Set in the whimsical jungle just outside of Ubud, the Bali Spirit Festival made it’s 10th year around the sun, celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary. It was my first time to Bali, and I didn’t know what to expect...
By Andrea Bogart
There are so many examples throughout the day where I am deeply connected to the present
moment and others where auto pilot is taking me through the motions and I'm not present at
all. Does this sound like you too…
By Ashley Shires
My favorite part is how people come together from all over the country: old friends and new friends, that sweetness of friendship and celebrating the path of love, the journey of love. Specifically at Shakti, celebrating the divine feminine. I’ve felt this great connection to my own mother, my first guru, love for the mother. That is very easy to translate into a relationship to God as Divine Mother…
By Julie Fustanio Kling
"I didn’t choose Kundalini, it chose me,” Rosen says. “Beyond a shadow of a doubt I am being directed and blessed. I don’t feel like my life is mine anymore..."
Wanda Pratnicka, PhD has a unique ability to diagnose and remove spirit entities, aka ghosts, from people remotely; no matter where a person is located. Pratnicka is a unique healer and has written several books. We were thrilled to have an interview with her…
By Aleta Arora
It was a truly magical experience. As I entered the tent that was serving as a stage for this marvelous performance my eyes were immediately drawn upwards. There I was greeted by a kaleidoscope of colors. They gave me much of the same sensation as being a child and looking through that treasured kaleidoscope for the first time...
By Autumn Feldmeier
I'm a seasoned festival goer, a 10 time Burner, I attended the very first Wanderlust in Tahoe and I have traveled around the world to festivals like Bali Spirit Festival, Envision Festival and others. In the past I avoided Lightning In A Bottle (LIB) because I assumed it was too LA. Covering LIB for SF Yoga Mag last year changed that perspective for me and I absolutely loved it…
By Rachel Nichols
One of the things that we learn in yoga is that "we have issues in our tissues" and that the practice of moving the body can bring some of the trapped energy (issues) to the surface. For example, it is not uncommon for yogis to find themselves in tears for what feels like no reason after doing several poses that engage the hips or open the chest/heart space...
By Julie Fustanio Kling
Men outnumber women when it comes to presenters this year at Sat Nam Fest, April 11-15 in Joshua Tree. SF Yoga Mag caught up with three of them to ask them how they plan to help heal the divide between men and women in the #metoo era...
By Nikita Mehta
My eyes opened at the first clanging of the bell. It was 5:30 am. Our breath made little clouds in the cool morning air as the moon lit our path down to the meditation hall. By 6:00 am we settled, wrapped in warm shawls and surrounded by other practitioners, into our morning meditation...
By Andrea Bogart
Have you ever been curious about how yoga could or does relate to your life? It doesn’t matter how long or short of a time you’ve been practicing, we will continuously be surprised at how much this practice reveals and supports where we are in our lives...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D
Stepping out of our worldly identity can lead us to the freedom of “no self.” No self, no problems. Embrace this awareness, and we find the joy of being our true self in the world...
