By Stephanie Santos
Natasha Teran is an Ashtanga yoga teacher based in San Diego, California. Her classes themselves are an invigorating combination of discipline and fun, which focus on proper alignment, the building of strength, and individual improvement...
By Autumn Feldmeier
When the 6am alarm goes off, I don't hit the snooze because I know that Daybreaker is about choosing to live life differently, choosing to be happy and choosing to pursue the best versions of ourselves...
By Carley Hauck
When I could turn towards my innate strength and wisdom, I felt empowered and could do and be anything that I put time and attention on...
By Courtney Aldor
Of all the transformation techniques, I can’t think of anything more powerful than facing one’s shadow. Sure, it sounds scary, but simply by acknowledging what's there, you can feel great relief. That's because it takes a huge amount of energy to suppress parts of ourselves we don't want to advertise, so once we're free to use that energy in other ways, it can bring about profound change, both mentally and physically....
By SF Yoga Mag
This in depth study of pranayama and core conditioning will show you how to turn stress into a healthy power boost, and how to control your energy levels to give you a boost when you need to focus, and how to unwind when it's time to catch up on rest...
By Rachel Nichols
If you love crystals, astrology and leggings, you need to check out the super cool activewear brand, Confused Girl, founded by Giovanna Silvestre...
By Dana L. Lee
Have you ever met someone who generated light and healing in the world? Meet Jola Sonkin, Co-Founder of Go Macro, and her mother, Amelia Kirchoff. Jola and Amelia’s story springs like bright fruit from the ground of their organic family farm, auspiciously named “Posilippo” which means “pause from pain”, by Jola herself in 2000...
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Introducing HANAH One, a botanical supplement, rooted in Ayurveda, ancient wisdom to heal our modern world. HANAH One provides more than sustained energy, in fact, the list of it’s potential benefits is astounding...
By Courtney Aldor
When Sachi Doctor - Ayurvedic expert and founder of Elemental Alchemy - was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder. With 2 Western doctors as parents, she spent years...
By Autumn Feldmeier
The beautiful thing is that anyone can make this invocation and invitation to the Light. I figure my role is to offer myself to this force of Love and helping others who want to live this way. I'm not here to build some army of women for world domination. You don't have to approach this from an alpha place and just recreate the same old patriarchal mentality but in cuter clothes...
By Courtney Aldor
Something interesting happened when I sat down to try to write this post about Kaypacha - the lovable, adorable, and ever-wise Astrologer who brings us the weekly Pele Report...
By SF Yoga Mag
From the inception of the Gathering, their efforts have been guided by an insatiable drive for novelty, community, and authenticity. The entire project has been funded by their community through sales of Experience Passes, hard work, long hours, and occasionally their own resources...
By Ashley Shires
Yoga is born from within, from our own transformation, meditation and inner silence. We will explore how yoga is expressed through us, how to find our inner guru. We need to stop putting the energy on the outside, looking for the perfect guru, but owning the power we have inside...
By Rachel Nichols
Veterans Yoga Project (VYP), a non-profit organization that supports recovery and resilience among veterans, their families and communities, is hosting its third annual Veteran’s Gratitude Week on Nov. 4-13...
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...
