By Autumn Feldmeier
I'm a seasoned festival goer, a 10 time Burner, I attended the very first Wanderlust in Tahoe and I have traveled around the world to festivals like Bali Spirit Festival, Envision Festival and others. In the past I avoided Lightning In A Bottle (LIB) because I assumed it was too LA. Covering LIB for SF Yoga Mag last year changed that perspective for me and I absolutely loved it…
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 Julie Fustanio Kling
Men outnumber women when it comes to presenters this year at Sat Nam Fest, April 11-15 in Joshua Tree. SF Yoga Mag caught up with three of them to ask them how they plan to help heal the divide between men and women in the #metoo era...
By Nikita Mehta
My eyes opened at the first clanging of the bell. It was 5:30 am. Our breath made little clouds in the cool morning air as the moon lit our path down to the meditation hall. By 6:00 am we settled, wrapped in warm shawls and surrounded by other practitioners, into our morning meditation...
By Andrea Bogart
Have you ever been curious about how yoga could or does relate to your life? It doesn’t matter how long or short of a time you’ve been practicing, we will continuously be surprised at how much this practice reveals and supports where we are in our lives...
By Bruce Davis, Ph.D
Stepping out of our worldly identity can lead us to the freedom of “no self.” No self, no problems. Embrace this awareness, and we find the joy of being our true self in the world...
By Deepak Sridhar
Over the next few years, as I continued my journey of seeking and soul searching, I constantly pondered over and meditated on this question - What is Normal? And as the years passed, with my meditations getting deeper and mind clearer, a few things became apparent to me...
Our friends at Hanuman Academy have put together a very special FREE online gathering this April 7-11: The Yoga & Wisdom of Nature Summit, and you are invited...
PRESS RELEASE BY LiB
Featuring Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Medicine Woman & Sundance Chief Carmen Vicente, Kaypacha of New Paradigm Astrology: The Pele Report, Activist & Founder of Indigenous Environmental Network Tom Goldtooth, Creator of Center of the Cyclone Meditations Biet Simkin, Founder of Juniors Pickles Jerrold Ridenour, and many more...
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 Autumn Feldmeier
That the camera is an excuse to pay attention to people and see them. We all want to be seen. We can use this camera, whether it is your phone or a fancy machine, to pay attention, see and celebrate others around us...
By Megan Warren-Henderson
Suzanne Sterling is an ecstatic vocalist, innovative composer, teacher and invoker of the sacred. Both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a facilitator of transformational workshops and intensives for many years, Suzanne has received critical acclaim...
By Nikita Mehta
As the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, some 400 yogis gathered on the cool sand overlooking the surf for a singular purpose; to set a Guinness Book World Record for the largest collective Ohm circle in the world. For 25 minutes we sat, facing each other, facing the ocean, facing the sky and gave our vibration to the collective...
By Ashley Shires
The theme of this year’s festival is “Transformation Begins Here.” We asked five Hanuman presenters, Kia Miller, David Newman, Dayna Seraye, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and Tiffany Cruikshank to comtemplate the theme, asking them how their transformation with yoga began and how it continues to this day...
By Nikita Mehta
I hope for the retreat to be a time we can become very grounded in ourselves in a way that clarifies our actions in the world. Time spent introspectively heals and rejuvenates us to go back to our daily life feeling connected in a way that lets in a little more joy...
By Ashley Shires
Jai Uttal, the Grammy nominated musician, is a pioneer in the world music community. He began studying classical piano at age seven and later learned to play old-time banjo, harmonica and guitar...
By Nikita Mehta
"Let me try yoga,” I said to my clinical advisor. “I think that with some chair yoga and some pranayama I can increase her lung capacity and self-confidence. I’ll find the research to back it up...."
