ONLINE & IN-PERSON with Swami Ramananda
$15-$108
Join us for a Thanksgiving Morning Yoga Class! As we move through our yoga practice, we will focus on gratitude and the profound effects that cultivating gratitude can have in our lives.
All proceeds from this class will support to sustain and grow our IYISF Community Outreach Program, which offers free or low-cost yoga and meditation held in culturally accessible locations to support domestic workers, day laborers, mothers-to-be, young adults with disabilities, and seniors in achieving better health through movement and mindfulness.
The program began to develop in 2022 with a free, six-week yoga series in Spanish for domestic workers, led by Integral Yoga teacher Andreina Maldonado. It was sponsored by IYISF, the San Francisco Day Labor Program, the Women’s Collective, and Dance Mission Theater.
In 2023, the program blossomed with support from grants and private donors. In 2024, it expanded to include Accessible Yoga classes for young adults with disabilities, in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
Now in 2025, the program continues to grow thanks to fundraising and grants from Livongo Health, Working Theory Foundation, Give Back Yoga Foundation, and Lululemon’s Here to Be Foundation, and with community partners such as the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice Center, Community Well, Casa Doulas Center, San Francisco Women’s Building, and Access SFUSD. It aims to further offer postnatal yoga and chair yoga classes for seniors—all in Spanish.
By addressing barriers such as language, culture, cost, and transportation, the IYISF Community Outreach Program fosters inclusive, healing-centered spaces for underserved communities.
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Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, C-IAYT, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced-level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI), which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.