Back to Basics, 3-part Hatha Yoga series
We apologized, this series has been cancelled.
Thursday, October 6 • 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 13 • 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 20 • 6:30 – 8:00 pm
The Art of Balance
ONLINE & IN-PERSON
Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email. Please review our In-person Safety Guidelines.$20, $25
The Autumnal Equinox represents balance, equanimity and harmony. Let us observe by examining Balance poses. There are many benefits to balance postures: from the increased awareness of our physical bodies to the steadying of our mental and emotional states.
This interactive workshop looks to explore various balance postures from the ground up. Explores our relationship to the ground and how we can maintain this sense of balance in everyday life.
Mia Velez entered the Integral Yoga Sangha in 2016 through the kitchen by helping to cook Thursday community lunches and silent retreat meals. In 2018 she certified as an Integral Yoga teacher to learn more of the IYI approach and be part of the lineage. Mia is a disciple of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu lineage and is highly influenced by her martial arts training. After completing her first 200 hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallel in Yoga and Kung Fu. When she began teaching Kung Fu in 2014, she incorporated Yoga insight and principles in her classes. Her goal in teaching is to connect with the students and to facilitate a safe space for exploration and self inquiry. Yoga and Kung Fu is integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equality through multiple non-profits groups.
Service and Surrender: A Path with Heart
Online and In-person
Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.
Please review our In-person Safety Guidelines.
$15, $20
Our culture trains us in so many ways to dwell in the head – planning, reasoning and judging – that we become separated from the heart. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how we can engage the heart in our daily activities by embracing the path of service and feeling the natural flow of compassion that is our nature. We will explore the practice of surrender by acknowledging the limitations of the mind, letting go of personal gain and opening to the guidance of the higher Self within. We will use guided reflection, discussion and ritual to open the heart to the presence of Grace that can offer us strength and wisdom on the spiritual path.
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco 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 is a co-founder of 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.
Moon Salutation Workshop
$20 | ONLINE & IN-PERSON
Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.
Please review our In-person Safety Guidelines.
At this New Moon, we will open to our Being with the sideways flow of the Moon Salutation, a yoga asana series. This feminine flow opens the doors to allowing the voice of intuition and creativity to come forth and manifest. This creative process comes from stillness, darkness of the night, and the empty canvas.
We will dive into exploration of our bodies, let our patterns surface and allow space for expression.
Prior experience with yoga and meditation is helpful, but not required. Have a pen and paper available for a few minutes of guided writing at the end of the workshop.
Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT and e-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. Diana has been a lead teacher trainer for 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2012. The classes she teaches include chair/gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, prenatal, guided mindfulness meditations, and various yoga, pranayama and meditation workshops. She’s been working as a health educator and yoga instructor for Kaiser Permanente since 2014.
She is C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and San Francisco center manager for the Integral Yoga Therapy 800-hour certification program. Diana offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus on physical and mental wellness. Her offerings help people to find a deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience.
dianameltsner.com