By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
There is a time in life to make a pilgrimage. Let’s pack up some belongings, and set out on a path hoping to get a glimpse of what life is all about. There are many pilgrimages with footsteps for us to follow…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
There is a time in life to make a pilgrimage. Let’s pack up some belongings, and set out on a path hoping to get a glimpse of what life is all about. There are many pilgrimages with footsteps for us to follow…
By Rachel Nichols
In the fast-paced, “do more,” “be better” world we live in, it’s easy to get lost in our days as we find ourselves operating on autopilot and checking things off our never-ending to-do lists as quickly as possible. Sometimes even doing our yoga or meditation practice can begin to feel like a chore, another thing “to do”…
By Autumn Feldmeier
We are super excited to be attending Beloved Festival - a festival whose goal is to dissolve the boundaries that isolate us through music, dance and play…
PRESS RELEASE FROM OMRISING
OmRising, Northern California’s newest yoga + music gathering (Oct 5 - 8th at Camp Navarro in Mendocino County, CA), excitedly announces the addition of Saritah, a globally conscious roots artist to its lineup…
PRESS RELEASE FROM BELOVED FESTIVAL
Beloved Festival has always nurtured a special alchemy designed to meld unexpected elements, to challenge and encourage festival goers to focus on the music, the meaning, the community…
By Nikita Mehta
What does it mean to truly form community? To be in sangha with one another? Every day in studios all across the Bay Area we roll out our mats, side by side, flow and breathe, move our bodies, set intention and lay in savasana together. We say hello, make lingering eye contact, exchange numbers, meet for coffee… and then go about on our busy, beautiful, blessed lives. We are a community…
By Ema Barba
Between the 15th and 20th of August, you will find us in the city of Pravets, Bulgaria, at the most famous Yoga and music festival in South-Eastern Europe, Udaya Live. Udaya is filled with vivacity and brightness, and super upbeat. There is also the opportunity to just chill out – you can create your own experience as you wish…
By Ema Barba
You need to know how to deal with negative emotions. They come and go just like the clouds. We don’t learn to control the emotions. But we learn how to not let emotions control us. Emotions are going to come. Happiness is going to come, sadness is going to come. You need to experience them and let them go. There’s no such thing as express spirituality. You need to do the work...
By Rachel Nichols
On an early morning in spring, I walked into a stunning sacred space flooded with tons of natural light, sparkling healing crystals in all the right places and a room full of bright faces whom I would be spending the weekend with learning Reiki, a beautiful healing practice that brings us back into alignment with our true selves…
By Pennie Nichols
Among the list of influential presenters at this year’s Asheville Yoga Festival is Tracee Stanley. Tracee is a renowned teacher from the west coast whose focus has been sharing the powerful practices of self inquiry, yoga nidra, and meditation through multiple modalities...
By Julie Fustanio Kling
Singer songwriter Amanda Botur’s debut album, Confluence/Sangam, is pure love. As a yoga teacher and a dear friend of mine (I admit I am biased), Amanda has a gentle way of saying the way you show up to anything in your life is the way you show up for everything…
By Natalie Belden
Floyd Yoga Jam, held in the magic of the Blue Ridge mountains was birthed in 2012 and has since grown into a weekend in which most would say has healed them from the inside, out...
By Julie Fustanio Kling
If we want to live up to the Dalai Lama’s vision at the 2009 World Peace Summit that “the world will be saved by western women,” we’d better get going. That was the message I took away from Hanuman Festival in Boulder, CO this year…
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D.
Most people are taught when sitting in meditation to watch their thoughts, feelings, everything which comes into awareness and let it go. Focus on your breath. Simply watch what arises and let it go. Focus on your breath…
By Janice Brooks
The last two decades has seen expansive growth in the cross-cultural experience of Yoga. These experiences have followed the same evolutionary creation trajectory of people needing to gather together to celebrate as our ancestors have done over the ages. As such, Yoga festivals, have become our new (and improved) way of creating new life-altering public ritual experiences…
By Courtney Alex Aldor
Let's face it, we live in a society that values how much we do. While checking something off a list can feel close to euphoric for some, so can a good balanced night of sleep. Or ten…
By Autumn Feldmeier
Martin's classes always focus on the lesson of Yogas Citta Vritti Nirodhah, translated as Yoga is the calming of the fluctuations of the mind…
By Ashley Shires
Some of the most fun I've ever had in yoga has been in Gina Caputo's classes at the Hanuman Festival in Boulder, Colorado; she is a down-to-earth teacher with a fantastic sense of humor and a rocking playlist. I was thrilled to catch up with her again at the festival this year, to talk about her journey in the yoga world, her passions, and her favorite parts of teaching at Hanuman…
