All in Community
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...
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 Courtney Aldor
Those of you who’ve been following my recent posts on Vedic Meditation know I have a new-found love for the practice ever since I met James Brown. After taking a 4-session course with him, I wanted to find out more about how he came to teach Vedic Meditation. After all, one of the reasons his class is so accessible is...
By Courtney Aldor
Over the years, I’ve tried many types of meditation; Zen, Zazen, Breath-work, Yoga Nidra, Guided, Visualization, Mandala and, before James Brown’s 4-day Vedic Path Meditation workshop, I opted to meditate daily by chanting a Sanskrit mantra. Loudly. And only in the comfort of my own home...
By Rachel Nichols
Deepak will discuss the roadmap for "higher health" based on the latest findings in both mainstream and alternative medicine as well as share insights from his new book, Radical Beauty: How to Transform Yourself from the Inside Out...
By SF Yoga Mag
Zenrez is a promotional booking platform that allows you to discover the best fitness studios and book classes last-minute...
By Courtney Aldor
Tomorrow night at The Center SF, James Brown will be holding a Vedic Meditation session followed by a Dharma Talk on the subject of relationships, details here. In the spirit of his upcoming event and since I just learned (and learned to LOVE) this ridiculously effective technique, I thought I’d share 4 excellent uses for Vedic Meditation...
By Rachel Nichols
In Kundalini yoga we believe that, at the soul level, we are all perfect and pure,” she said. “The challenge is with the mind and our sense of identity. I always keep reminding myself and students that we are already perfect and healed; we just need to remember it by clearing the mind...
By Autumn Feldmeier
Our theory of change begins with people. Through personal practice, community building, and collective action we transform ourselves and restructure our world to support the conditions of wellbeing for all...
By Courtney Aldor
Last week, we learned a beautiful lesson from Jasmine Tarkeshi: Realizing we all have something special to give not only makes us feel abundant, but it’s a great gift to others in more ways than one. Mandala Mondays, a creative get-together at OpenEye in San Rafael, was founded on that principle exactly...
By Courtney Aldor
Every day at 2.30pm and every Saturday at 10am, Laughing Lotus hosts a Vinyasa class to benefit a non-profit serving local and distant communities. To be exact, this program, called Love Saves the Day, selects a different charity monthly to donate 50% of proceeds from their (totally packed) Vinyasa class...
By Patricia Gums
At Daybreaker, we dance our faces off before work and feel gloriously healthy while doing so. We gather in community to participate in something greater than ourselves...
By Patricia Gums
Many of us experience the notion of "wanderlust", German for "a longing for far-off places". I pretty much start planning my next vacation while still on vacation. I had the great pleasure of speaking with Erica Hartnick, who took this concept to the next level by combing wanderlust with her other passions: teaching yoga, mindfulness and surfing...
By Kelly Finnegan
Ritual Hot Yoga hosted an event and invited bloggers and publishers in the Bay area to be part of their blossoming community. Upon arriving at Ritual, it became clear to me that they are consciously building a strong community that serves as a pillar of strength and support to teachers and students alike...
By Kamala from LocalWise
Nobody becomes a yoga instructor overnight, but if you’re someone who has fallen in love with the practice and you’re ready to invest in the training, becoming a yoga teacher could be the best gig for mixing your work with your passion...
By Courtney Aldor
The Centre offers daily Yoga classes, mostly in the Hatha tradition, Bhagavad Gita lectures, Satsang meditation, and various inspiring workshops. Recently, they hosted a talk by Meir Schneider - a man born legally blind who taught himself, via the Bates Method, to see...
By SF Yoga Mag
You will walk away from this training knowing how to lead a vinyasa yoga class that is grounded, inspiring and filled with joy. But this training goes way beyond the physical practice. It is a step into the full practice of yoga - physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual...
By Courtney Aldor
Kia Miller is a world renowned teacher and devoted Yogini, who imparts her wonderful passion for life and well-being in her teaching. Her style pulls from multiple yogic disciplines, and she is especially known for making Kundalini Yoga accessible. This July, she will be teaching at Wanderlust...
By Courtney Aldor
I first met Ford Peck in Fairfax at one of his Meditation workshops. This led me to his yoga classes, which brought me to his energy healing sessions, which are more like psychotherapy (in which he’s trained), where he draws upon techniques from NLP, Yoga Nidra, various bodywork methodologies...
By Colleen Crowley
Noah Levine's spiritual path began on the floor of a padded jail cell at 18. A veteran of the punk movement, he spent his youth addicted to drugs and rebelling against pacifist parents whose peace approach seemingly resulted in a world of capitalist propaganda, government corruption, and fascist oppression. As detailed in his best-selling book “Dharma Punx”...
