All in 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 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 Deidre Norman
We are beyond thrilled to be heading to Summer Bhakti Kirtan Camp this August! This is an annual event led by Jai Uttal, co-created by Nubia Teixeira and co-taught by Daniel Paul and Prajna Vieira. This year’s Kirtan Camp is happening August 6 - 12, in Fairfax, California…
By Ashley Shires
Chanting Ram is a practice, really, a nonstop practice, even in the worst years of my life. I’ve been doing it for a long time now (laughs). My spiritual evolution is like a snail, but it’s been years and years of investment of my heart...
By Courtney Alex Aldor
When I was invited to see David Sauvage’s ‘Empath’, a one-man show of energy reading meets performance art, I wasn’t sure what to expect. An Intuitive myself - that is, a person who reads energy for a living like David does - it’d been drilled into me that an exchange like the one I was about to witness…
By Nikita Mehta
Today, May 27th, MANDALA will close its doors and something new will arise in this space. That is the way of life, birth and death, endings and beginnings. The circle of life…
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 Rachel Nichols
What Soren said to me when I interviewed him for SF Yoga Mag before the conference happened made so much more sense by the end of the weekend. He told me there is a power in human connection, in all of us coming together and tuning in together in the same room...
By Deidre Norman
Everyone wants to feel loved, supported and connected. And we truly are, even when we think we’re alone. Anyone can do this work. If you can have a dream, you can do this too...
By Ashley Shires
We all belong to Sattva – it is an evolutionary thing. Sattva in sanksrit is an infinite field of knowledge, not stuck in time. It is not a series of poses that you do the rest of your life – it is an evolution...
By Rachel Nichols
In late January, YogaTree Castro hosted a special workshop -- Yoga, Transformation, and Social Justice -- led by the beautifully inspiring Seane Corn, co-founder of Off the Mat, a non-profit that supports yogis in becoming conscious and effective community leaders...
By Courtney Alex Aldor
On Friday night at Grace Cathedral, something magical happened: I arrived early. Yes, totally by accident, I showed up to the ever-popular, super-sold out Grace Cathedral sound bath about 2 hours before its start. Surprisingly...
By Rachel Nichols
“I’m not always going to be the hero of the stories I tell,” spiritual teacher and author Gabby Bernstein told 1,300 spirit junkies who gathered at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco last week to hear her speak about her latest book, Judgment Detox. “When I became more conscious of my own judgmental nature, I began to feel myself wake up..."
PRESS RELEASE BY KIM SIN YOGA
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Kim Sin, founder of Kim Sin Yoga is announcing the release of her company’s Office Yoga Virtual Teacher Training, the first stand alone, online training of its kind...
By Rachel Nichols
While advances in technology continue to help make our lives more efficient, we are also becoming increasingly distracted by our devices, and living in the present moment has become more challenging than ever...
By Nikita Mehta
Two hours passed by in what felt like one large inhale. Then Wah! walked around and distributed flower petals as a physical reminder of the sacred experience from which we had all returned. The evening left a deep imprint on my soul. It’s a memory I tapped into when the heightened emotions of the holidays became too much. It is a well of healing from which I continue to draw...
By Autumn Feldmeier
I had the incredible opportunity to attend the workshop Radical Healing: Yoga for These Times with Kerri Kelly last month at Yoga Tree. I’ve been hearing the word ‘radical’ a lot recently. I have seen several yoga classes/workshops using the word radical for their descriptions and even the theme of this past Burning Man was Radical Ritual. I feel like the word radical is overused and watered down. Kerri’s Radical Healing workshop was anything but watered down...
By Charlotte von Hemert
It’s one thing to have a theoretical understanding that we are each a unique wave in the vast ocean of universal consciousness. It’s another thing to have time-tested tools to help us tap into this experientially. This past Sunday I attended Paul Muller-Ortega’s half-day workshop where he shared practices that supported us with the latter...
