By Ema Barba
People are taught “don’t talk to people you don’t know." But what I learn in this practice is – not only can you trust strangers, but you can love strangers, you can support strangers…
By Pennie Nichols
Yoga is for everyone. Even if you were not able to attend the entirety of the festival, we wanted everyone to have the opportunity to experience some of the magic and connection that happened all weekend long…
By: Nikita Mehta
One of our favorite things about festivals like Wanderlust is interacting with the amazing vendors and entrepreneurs. It’s even better when our favorite vendors are local SF based companies who we can support and love here in our city. This year we were honored to meet up and collab with Bloombra…
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…
