Sunday Spiritual Talk: One Hundred Years of Yoga

ONLINE with Swami Ramananda Marcia Miller

$5-$20 | Enroll for free, use promo code FREE.

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

$5-$20 | Enroll for free, use promo code FREE.
In this special online gathering, well-known yoga therapist and Reiki Master Marcia Miller and our beloved San Francisco Institute Director, Swami Ramananda, will celebrate a combined 100 years of practicing and teaching Yoga. Both graduated from the Yoga Teacher Training program in 1976—50 years ago this year!

Join them as they share the insights, lessons, and wisdom that have emerged from a lifetime of study, practice, teaching, reflection, and living the teachings of Yoga. They will share some of the most important things they have learned along the way—lessons that have deepened and sustained their own journeys.

Come share in an open and heartfelt conversation about the journey of Yoga: what sustains us, what helps us grow, and what can bring us back to the peace and wholeness that are our true nature.

Satsang is a special time for us to come together as a community. In Sanskrit, Sat means truth and Sangha means community. Satsang offers an opportunity to come together to share spiritual teachings. The philosophy of Integral Yoga is explored often through an informal discussion. Although our spiritual paths may diverge, the act of sharing spiritual teachings with others is inspiring and creates a solid foundation for continued practice.

People of all faiths are welcome.


Marcia Miller has been practicing and teaching yoga for 50 years. A lifelong yoga teacher, meditation teacher and coach, Reiki Master, and founder of Yoga on High, she has dedicated her life to helping people discover greater awareness, compassion, aliveness, and wholeness. After five decades of teaching, Marcia continues to follow her curiosity and to explore with her students wherever their questions and experiences may lead. http://marciamilleryoga.com/

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.

Spiritual Study: The Yoga of Everyday Sanity, Part 3 of 3

Online | $5-20 sliding scale | 3 sessions, offered individually.
Free for active teachers

Part 1:  11/30 Book now
Part 3:  12/7 Book now

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

Yoga was never meant to be confined to a rubber mat for an hour a day. It was designed as an emergency toolkit for the human psyche.

The Yoga of Everyday Sanity is an interactive three-part workshop series that shifts yoga from a physical fitness routine into an existential rescue mission. Drawing from the profound, time-tested philosophy of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (Swami Satchidananda and Rev Jaganath Carrera’s interpretations), this series reframes the six traditional branches of yoga and the psychological “Locks and Keys” as direct, actionable solutions to the modern crises of burnout, anxiety, and relational drama.

The Yoga Spiritual Study series is an offering in which participants learn and discuss how the teachings of Yoga apply to our daily lives. We read passages from scriptures of Yoga and other ancient and contemporary spiritual texts, take time to reflect upon them, and share with each other how these words and practices support us on the spiritual path.
All are welcome to join any one or all of the sessions. These sessions will not be recorded.

Reverend Diana “Dharani” Díaz, MA, RYT 500 is ordained by IYI Minister Reverend Jaganath Carrera through Yoga Life Society. A writer and Yoga teacher certified in Yoga for Stress Management, Accessible Yoga and Holistic Sound Resonance, Rev. Dharani is passionate about sharing both yoga and writing in communities. She teaches yoga online for Sister Mentors and currently serves as vice president of Voices of Our Nation’s Arts (VONA), an organization that nurtures writers of color. She particularly enjoys the practice of Yoga Nidra, which aligns with her beliefs in the healing power of sound, words, and the nature of the true Self being peace.

Spiritual Study: The Yoga of Everyday Sanity, 2 of 3 parts

Online | $5-20 sliding scale | 3 sessions, offered individually.
Free for active teachers

Part 1:  11/30 Book now
Part 3:  12/14 Book now

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

Yoga was never meant to be confined to a rubber mat for an hour a day. It was designed as an emergency toolkit for the human psyche.

The Yoga of Everyday Sanity is an interactive three-part workshop series that shifts yoga from a physical fitness routine into an existential rescue mission. Drawing from the profound, time-tested philosophy of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (Swami Satchidananda and Rev Jaganath Carrera’s interpretations), this series reframes the six traditional branches of yoga and the psychological “Locks and Keys” as direct, actionable solutions to the modern crises of burnout, anxiety, and relational drama.

The Yoga Spiritual Study series is an offering in which participants learn and discuss how the teachings of Yoga apply to our daily lives. We read passages from scriptures of Yoga and other ancient and contemporary spiritual texts, take time to reflect upon them, and share with each other how these words and practices support us on the spiritual path.
All are welcome to join any one or all of the sessions. These sessions will not be recorded.

Reverend Diana “Dharani” Díaz, MA, RYT 500 is ordained by IYI Minister Reverend Jaganath Carrera through Yoga Life Society. A writer and Yoga teacher certified in Yoga for Stress Management, Accessible Yoga and Holistic Sound Resonance, Rev. Dharani is passionate about sharing both yoga and writing in communities. She teaches yoga online for Sister Mentors and currently serves as vice president of Voices of Our Nation’s Arts (VONA), an organization that nurtures writers of color. She particularly enjoys the practice of Yoga Nidra, which aligns with her beliefs in the healing power of sound, words, and the nature of the true Self being peace.

Spiritual Study: The Yoga of Everyday Sanity, 1 of 3 parts

Online | $5-20 sliding scale | 3 parts/sessions, offered individually.
Free for active teachers

Part 2:  12/7 Book now
Part 3:  12/14 Book now

Please register in advance: a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard.

Yoga was never meant to be confined to a rubber mat for an hour a day. It was designed as an emergency toolkit for the human psyche.

The Yoga of Everyday Sanity is an interactive three-part workshop series that shifts yoga from a physical fitness routine into an existential rescue mission. Drawing from the profound, time-tested philosophy of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (Swami Satchidananda and Rev Jaganath Carrera’s interpretations), this series reframes the six traditional branches of yoga and the psychological “Locks and Keys” as direct, actionable solutions to the modern crises of burnout, anxiety, and relational drama.

The Yoga Spiritual Study series is an offering in which participants learn and discuss how the teachings of Yoga apply to our daily lives. We read passages from scriptures of Yoga and other ancient and contemporary spiritual texts, take time to reflect upon them, and share with each other how these words and practices support us on the spiritual path.
All are welcome to join any one or all of the sessions. These sessions will not be recorded.

Reverend Diana “Dharani” Díaz, MA, RYT 500 is ordained by IYI Minister Reverend Jaganath Carrera through Yoga Life Society. A writer and Yoga teacher certified in Yoga for Stress Management, Accessible Yoga and Holistic Sound Resonance, Rev. Dharani is passionate about sharing both yoga and writing in communities. She teaches yoga online for Sister Mentors and currently serves as vice president of Voices of Our Nation’s Arts (VONA), an organization that nurtures writers of color. She particularly enjoys the practice of Yoga Nidra, which aligns with her beliefs in the healing power of sound, words, and the nature of the true Self being peace.

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