ONLINE & IN-PERSON
$15-$108 (class card use available)

Join us for a morning yoga class on Thanksgiving. As we move through a yoga practice, we will focus on gratitude and on the profound effects that the cultivation of gratitude has in our lives.

All the proceeds from this Yoga class will support the Institute’s outreach program “Serving our Community through the Practice of Yoga” to fund free in-person yoga offerings in the Mission’s Spanish-speaking yoga classes at Women’s Building and prenatal/postnatal yoga class at Casa Doula. We are motivated by love, respect, and a desire to serve our Latino people in this San Francisco neighborhood through sharing the classical teachings of yoga and helping members of our community to find peace within themselves, and bring that peace into their lives.

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 was 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 parallels 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 are integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race, and class equality through multiple non-profit groups.

Your support allows for low cost access to living and sharing the classical teachings of Yoga; Cultivating peace within ourselves, our communities and around the world.Thank you for your support.

And join us after the Thanksgiving Yoga Class for Thanksgiving Puja, Sharing & Potluck with Swami Ramananda, Thu. NOV 23 @ 11:15 am – 12:15 pm PST
Online​ & In-person | Free

Whether join at the Institute or online gather together for a sacred ceremony to invoke the Spiritual Light and guide us in a reflection on the profound spiritual practice of gratitude. We will have time for personal sharing on the many blessings we have received. It’s our ability to be grateful for whatever we have that allows us to connect with the Joy and Divinity already within us.
We will share a potluck meal afterward and enjoy each other’s company. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share (no meat, fish or eggs).