By Ashley Shires
It was hot and sunny, almost 100 degrees at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California, when a bright yellow school bus arrived from Los Angeles with 60 children from inner city neighborhoods...
All in Culture
By Ashley Shires
It was hot and sunny, almost 100 degrees at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California, when a bright yellow school bus arrived from Los Angeles with 60 children from inner city neighborhoods...
By Autumn Feldmeier
I wanted to share my perspective on healing and growth and a year later, I started doing comedy videos. Part of what made me do it is that it gave me permission to be myself and to not hide my humorous side. I also believe that a message through humor is more digestible when it is not through the dogma of seriousness...
By Rachel Nichols
Meet Ally Hamilton: yoga teacher, writer, life coach and co-founder of Yogis Anonymous yoga studio in Santa Monica, California. Her raw and honest words always give me perspective and can carry me through to the other side of any struggle I may be facing...
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Tommy Rosen's path is clear. Now, he wants to help you remove the obstacles of addiction on your own path. Tommy, and his tribe of master teachers, are offering the FREE online Recovery 2.0 Conference September 14-18...
Press Release from Peaceful Ninjas
The children are at the center of a World Peace initiative supported by a community of peers and adults, at the nation’s largest yoga & mindfulness festival...
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 Ashley Shires
There were so many amazing instructors at the Steamboat Movement Fest, including Bhakti yogi Rusty Wells, with his great sense of humor, his down-to-earth teaching style and his dance party playlist...
By Christian Martin
For the ninth year in a row, people from up and down the West Coast gathered in the coastal forest near Tidewater Falls in Oregon August 12-14 to celebrate, dance, expand and connect...
By Courtney Aldor
Originally, I set out to do a simple question and answer interview with the inspiring Priscilla Bright, MA on her upcoming energy healing workshop with Anne Hoye September 16-18 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. But as soon as she spoke, I knew that wouldn’t do...
By Rachel Nichols
The Yoga of Max's Discontent invites readers on a spiritual quest with a young investment banker, Max Pzoras, from New York as he travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally and spiritually. His quest takes him high in the Himalayas, reaching his goal to become a modern-day yogi...
By Kelly Finnegan
Going on vacation is kind of a big deal. You work hard and you save time and money to indulge in an experience that is meant to help you reset and relax. Some people like to pack in multiple activities and others take a more laissez faire approach. Either way isn’t right or wrong, but it’s important to partake in an experience you can customize to suit your preferences...
By Christian Martin
We believe that the presentation of diverse expressions of sacred music at a single venue demonstrates their common origin and our shared relationship as a global community of contemporary devotees...
By Ashley Shires
SF Yoga Magazine caught up with Jai Uttal, the Grammy nominated musician and world music pioneer, before his upcoming performance at Bhakti Fest, September 7-12, 2016. Since 1990, Jai Uttal has released nineteen albums, fusing Eastern and Western traditions in eclectic and transformative ways...
By Ashley Shires
Robert Sturman is a gifted photographer who has worked as an Official Artist of the 47th Grammy Awards, the 2007 United States Olympics, and has become renown for his stunning images of diverse yoga practitioners around the world.
By SF Yoga Mag
Meet Thyself is a Yoga 'retreat festival' happening from November 28 - December 3, 2016 in Goa, India. It is an initiative to encourage everyone to find some time for thyself and live that pure “Me Time".
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Like the lyrics in his popular new song, Ziggy Marley has “found a place where the weekend’s long” in Loveland, Colorado on August 7, 2016. He will headline the diverse conscious love uprising that is the Arise Festival...
By SF Yoga Mag
To a yoga newbie, the variety of methods for practicing this activity can seem daunting. And there is nothing worse than trying to dip your toe into the yoga pool, only to find that the class you chose is not suited to your needs.
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 Courtney Aldor
In all my years of yoga, I’d never once thought about going to a festival. I’d been to music festivals, food festivals, art festivals, but the thought of doing nothing but yoga for 4 days honestly scared me. Wouldn’t I be tired? What if I was too junior or too advanced for such a big group? What if the teachers weren’t for me? What if the vibe wasn’t for me? It was the...
By Ashley Shires
Every yoga festival has its own unique personality, but the Telluride Yoga Festival stands out for its intimate classes, stunning Rocky Mountain setting and down-to-earth but transformative teachings. It’s a gem, and it’s not too late to discover it...
