when we opened the doors to our first simple sanctuary for yoga and sacred living in 1999. Before the internet, social media and zoom we wanted to share the transformative practices of yoga as a healing salve that had been passed down to us through our teachers and our teachers’ teachers ..way back to ancient caves in India and our own ancestors that brought us so much peace and joy and awakened compassion in our hearts to be of service to our world. We wanted to create a space for everyone to feel welcome to bring all parts of themselves, like Rumi’s poem the Guest House that compares our being human to a guest house – to welcome the joy, depression, shame and malice as visitors to bow down to and treat honorably as a teacher sent as a guide from beyond.

Since then we have gone through many transformations and have learned and grown so much through life’s great Gurus: the blessings and challenges of daily life, as we have honored each one through the doors and onto the mat to move, breathe, sit and change with and learn from to be of greater service to a higher good. And so… we are renaming the new sanctuary, LOTUSLAND YOGA SF, to honor our roots and continue to grow branches like the eight limbs of Yoga reaching and stretching the blessings of Yoga’s values and ethics of equality into our streets and all aspects of our lives to honor Yoga’s timeless traditions and roots.