Satsang

Satsang: Wings for the Soul, Mystical Poetry Night

Please register in advance, a Zoom link will be provided via a confirmation email.
By donation

Join us for an evening of sharing words that reﬂect the voice of our souls. We will read and have discussions, awaken inspiration and peace in the heart. Mystical poetry and sacred songs are powerful expressions of the human experience, the dynamic meeting of the mind with the Grace of the Divine. It crosses the lines of time or even specific religious views.

All are welcome to have a poem or two ready to share or simply listen and enjoy.

Diana Meltsner, (C-IAYT and e-RYT500) has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. The classes she teaches include prenatal, gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, and yoga workshops. Diana is a lead teacher trainer for 200hour Basic Yoga Teacher Trainings at Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco. She is certified yoga therapist and offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus ranging from stress reduction to injury recovery. Her classes include physical postures, breathing, guided relaxation, meditation and other yoga teachings which help people to find deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience.

Susan Ford, C-IAYT, RYT-500, began practicing yoga when she was 18 years old. Her first yoga teacher training was Accessible Yoga through Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) and began teaching in 2011. Susan has been an assistant trainer for the Basic Yoga Teacher at IYI since 2012. She specializes in Gentle Yoga and working with people with disabilities, heart disease, arthritis, anxiety, depression and asthma. Her focus is to help students to meet their bodies where they are by introducing and incorporating Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Pranayama and meditation. Susan has been certified in Yoga for Arthritis, Therapeutic Yoga, Raja Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training.

Sevika Ford2020-04-22T00:32:51-07:00April 19th, 2020|Tags: Diana Meltsner, Satsang, Susan Ford|

Satsang: Cleaning your Closets

Enroll

Please register in advance, a Zoom link will be provided via a confirmation email.

By donation

Stuffed at the back of our closets is the evidence of poor choices, unconscious or rushed moments and procrastination … and cleaning closets is usually the last item at the very bottom of your work list. If we could see clearly into the mind, we would find the same heap of rubble tucked away, halfway out of conscious awareness.
Astonishingly, as we clean and put our material closets in order, the mental closets come into view and call for the same attentions. This is the practice of the niyama Saucha, a powerful tool on the path to Realization.

Swami Divyananda is one of Integral Yoga is senior monastics and foremost teachers. Over the years she has served as the director of the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Coimbatore, India and as the Ashram Manager of Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville in Virginia. In addition to teaching at these centers, she has taught Yoga and meditation on special retreats, in corporations and universities, at the Commonwealth Cancer Center and for the Dr. Dean Ornish Heart Disease Programs. For many years she was one of the primary Basic Hatha Yoga teacher trainers at Integral Yoga’s International Headquarters in Yogaville, VA. Swami Divyananda served for eleven years at the Integral Yoga Institute in Coimbatore, South India and led tours throughout South India during that time.

Also join Swami Divyananda Ma for:

Full Moon Chanting
Wed, May 6 @ 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Integral Yoga Kirtan
Sat, May 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Saints Facing Adversity
Sat, May 16 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Hatha Mixed Level Yoga classes

Sevika Ford2020-05-01T13:05:52-07:00April 19th, 2020|Tags: Integral yoga, Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco, Sangha, Satsang, yoga|

Satsang: Finding The Gifts In Crisis

Donate

Click to Zoom

Donations welcome

The present global conditions have interrupted our patterned and habitual ways of living. They’ve forced us all to slow down. And they’ve brought our interconnectedness into sharp relief.
Let’s come together to explore how we can use this time to deepen our practice, realign with the Divine, and play our part in humanity’s transformation. We’ll also share practices that help to relieve stress, anxiety, and overwhelm and increase gratitude, presence, and peace.

Rev. Kamala Itzel Hayward is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT), a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and an Integral Yoga Minister committed to serving and honoring the innate dignity and goodness of every person through the teachings of yoga and meditation. She currently serves individuals in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District who are facing poverty, substance abuse and addiction, and mental and physical health challenges. And she is working with Dr. Dean Ornish to bring yoga and meditation to heart patients in hospitals across the country.
Rev. Kamala is also a certified coach, sharing powerful and transformative interpersonal skills to individuals and groups with a special emphasis on couples and families. She is the creator of the Relationship Transformation System, a step-by-step program for creating happy and healthy relationships.
Visit www.attunedliving.com to learn more.

Sevika Ford2020-04-16T15:31:04-07:00March 31st, 2020|Tags: Integral yoga, Satsang, yoga philosophy|

Community During Adversity

by Swami Ramananda

The profound benefit of spiritual community is perhaps experienced most powerfully during difficult times when we most need support. Years ago, I viewed a short videotape of some African water buffalo scattering in all directions when attacked by a pride of lions. Some lions captured a young buffalo and held it down as others gathered to kill and eat it. Slowly the water buffalo gathered into a tightly-knit group and crept towards the lions. All at once, the buffalo charged the lions together, heads down, and chased them off, saving their young one.
I remember this video when I think about how this pandemic is both challenging us and bringing us together in new ways. Especially when we are in such physical isolation, facing the myriad fears and frustrations that arise can be too much to bear alone. In whatever ways we can gather to practice or pray, to share our distress or console each other, we experience a unique form of strength and find new ways to go forward. I encourage everyone to reach out to friends and find groups of like-minded people to connect with online. Together, we can practice, share stories, cry with and inspire each other, and be reminded of the vast spiritual heart that can embrace all our stories and pain and still remain at peace.
In addition to our other online offerings, I teach a Hatha Mixed Level class on Saturday mornings at 9:30am. Also, please join us for our online Satsang on Saturday, April 11 from 6-7:30pm PST and Saturday, April 18 from 6-7:30pm PST.

Swami Ramananda is the President 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 35 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 trains Yoga teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Sevika Ford2020-04-03T16:39:08-07:00March 31st, 2020|Tags: Sangha, Satsang|

Previous 151617 Next