Special Classes, Events & Workshops
Friday November 1st | 5:30 - 7pm
Friday Night Live: Bhakti Flow
with Rowena Mittal
Experience a transformative, heart-opening yoga practice that is accessible to everyone! Bhakti yoga or marg is the path of love and devotion. Bhakti flow is a non-sectarian spiritual practice that focuses on the whole being - teaching us to love unabashedly, unapologetically and unconditionally. This practice is helpful when we find other paths of yoga difficult or encounter challenges in life off the mat. Learn how to strengthen and stretch the mind, body, and spirit. To rebalance the energy centers which allow us to see Self and/or Other more clearly through the lens of love, we will practice a vinyasa and yin yoga asana (physical postural practice), pranayama (breath practice), and nada yoga (voice practice). Rowena will share historical and modern context for practice and lead the class through chants -- including their meanings -- accompanied by voice, djembe, and tamborine. Hari bol! You are welcome to just listen or join in anytime. Come as you are, or bring a friend to kick off the weekend!
Saturday November 2nd | 5:30 - 7pm
Dia De los Muertos Yoga & Altar Making
A Dia De los Muertos inspired Lotus Flow Vinyasa and Dance with the Dead on your mystical mat! Then head out on our procession to the festival of Altars and Ritual Circle produced by the Marigold Project at Potrero Del Sol Park, located at 25th Street and San Bruno Avenue. Let’s come together and honor our ancestors by remembering their gifts and making offerings of marigolds and their favorite things.
Friday November 8th | 6:30 - 8:30pm
Harvest Kirtan & Food Drive
with Astrud Castillo
Please join us for a community celebration honoring the spirit of gratitude by giving thanks and praise through sacred song, offering food donations to the SF Food Bank and enjoying vegan chai and treats together in our Lotusland sanctuary.
Our beloved enCHANTRESS, Astrud Castillo will be visiting and sharing her exquisite voice along with her band of talented mystic musicians: Cooper Ladnier or guitar, vocals and Eddie Young on bass and electric cello and their guest percussionist. As a group they are inspired by Nada Yoga , Sacred Sound and sing in the key of “WE”.
They share kirtan, a call and response of sacred sounds and mantras. It is the relationship to these mantras that illuminates our heart and awakens our consciousness. It is not important that you can sing or that you understand the words. Kirtan is an experience. It is a practice to release you out of the thinking mind and drop you gently into the heart. MAN means mind and TRA is instrument. So it is through these sacred sounds we are able to conduct the instrument of the mind. Together we create this sacred union with healing intentions for the whole of the world.
$25 or Free to Lotusland Members
November 8 - 10 | Weekend Intensive in Los Angeles
Super Sutra Sequencing 20Hr Training with Light on Lotus
Reignite your passion for your practice and teaching through practicing and teaching Yoga as Embodied Philosophy!
Step out of your comfort zone and explore weaving the ancient wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras through your teaching and practice by bringing yoga’s timeless teaching to life through the lens of Lotus Flows’ dynamic and devotional dance and discipline of creative sequencing.
Jasmine Tarkeshi and Kate Duyn will bring the wisdom and creativity from their years of personal practice, study and teaching to facilitate a space for disciplined practice: Tapas, svadyaya: self study and inquiry and Isvarapranidhana: surrender and service. You will be inspired and initiated into becoming a more confident, creative and compassionate teacher as you deepen your devotion to your personal Sadhana and self study and be encouraged to teach and practice through the lens of your own lived experience.
This intensive and 300 hour advanced module focuses on the architecture of Lotus Flow and allowing your personal expression of Asana and Dharma of the Sutras to shine through. The Yoga Sutras are time tested recipes that work, while our Lotus Flow Vinyasa allows us to throw in whatever we have in the cosmic kitchen of the moment and create something new. Together, we can anchor our practice and teaching to integrate both sides of our brain towards Unity.
Sunday November 17th | 4:30 - 6pm
Full Moon Breathe & Restore
Kundalini, Pranayama, Meditation & Sound Healing with Yael Haar
Gift yourself an evening of energy clearing, restoration and recharging your wellspring of life-force energy!
Join Yael Haar and community as we journey inwards to create a space of serenity in the mind, body and subtle energy field. Full moons are times of culminations, release, celebration and completion. This full moon is in the sign of Taurus, an earth sign which promotes stability, practicality and focus on the physical, sensuality and material world.
Together, we will practice a clarifying kundalini yoga experience where we will stimulate the nervous system and glands to circulate our life-force. Using the natural intelligence of the body we release tension and create a state of peace and expansiveness.
Through breath and movement we will clear stagnant energy. We direct the mind with mantra and project sound currents that support purification.
Use this full moon to release what doesn’t serve you OR to expand into the current gifts that life is serving UP for you. Together we will reconnect to our creative power and presence. This evening will leave you feeling restored and revitalized!
What’s Included:
Kundalini Yoga Practice
Mantra Meditation
Gong Bath (& Sonic Chime) for Restoration
Sliding scale $30 - $50
Friday November 22nd | 5:30 - 7pm
Friday Night AcroYoga
with Max
AcroYoga is a physically dynamic and creative partner yoga practice that expands our communication and trust.
This wonderful workshop is an introduction to AcroYoga, and perfect for anyone new to the practice or anyone looking to deepen and refine their AcroYoga skills.
Beginner AcroYoga focuses on the static poses and also introduces basic acrobatic transitions. Participants will get a sampling of all of the parts of the AcroYoga practice: yoga asana, partner acrobatics and Thai massage.
You will warm up with beginner-friendly individual yoga and partner yoga. You then do acrobatic conditioning and learn some L-basing acrobatic classics from the AcroYoga repertoire, working with spotters to ensure everyone is able to explore the poses safely. Then finish up with some therapeutic flying and Thai massage.
The practice welcomes all bodies, ages, shapes and sizes. No experience or partner necessary, just be ready to play!
Saturday & Sunday December 7-8th | 1-6pm
The Art of Hands-On Assists: 10 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training
with Amanda Moran
Join advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher Amanda Moran in a weekend immersion on the art of hands on assists. In this 2 day Immersion for Yoga teachers you will overcome hesitancy and gain confidence in safely offering the gift of hands on assists, while teaching either a led class or a private session. The immersion will explore the scriptural basis for a sound teacher student relationship in which both parties are elevated and the benefits of practice are increased, the physical dynamics for safe assisting, and the energetic alignment structures underpinning this ancient art. Amanda will guide you through a vinyasa class incorporating sthiram and sukham, or steady and joyful assists, in surya namaskar, standing poses, arm balances, inversions, backbends and forward bends.
Sunday December 22nd | 1 - 3pm
Winter Solstice Celebration: Surya Namaskar Workshop
with Ati
Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, and a day to celebrate the warmer days ahead and the return of the Sun. In yoga, the Sun is our inner light, the primal and natural force that sustains the vitality of the body and lights us up and warms us up from within. In this workshop we will learn to practice Surya Namaskar as a devotional practice to that light within ourselves by feeling it move through us, illuminating our consciousness.
We will explore all variations for all levels and break down the infamous "caturanga dandasana” , stepping and jumping backward and forward, lunge variations, cobras and upward facing dog so you develop your own practice in alignment with your anatomy. You will learn to practice Surya Namaskar with attention to the movement of the breath, and with awareness of the impact on the body and the mind. Appropriate for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, this workshop will deepen your appreciation of Surya Namaskar, and uplift your experience and passion for your practice.
Over 2 Weekends January 18 - 19 & February 22 - 23 | 1 - 6pm
Radiant Feminine: Empowered Healing for Women’s Reproductive Health From Menstruation to Menopause
A 20-Hour Journey Through Energy Healing, Yoga, and Spiritual Practices with Chanda Williams
This transformative 20-hour course invites women to embark on a holistic journey to heal and nurture their reproductive health. Drawing from ancient wisdom and modern practices, we blend yoga therapy, pranayama (breathwork), meditation, nutrition, chakra healing, energy work, poetry, and spiritual reflection to help women reconnect with their bodies and cycles. Grounded in principles of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, yogic philosophy, and modern medical research, the course encourages deep self-awareness and healing for every stage of a woman's reproductive life—from menstruation to menopause.
Together, we will explore the unique phases of women’s health—menstruation, perimenopause, and menopause—through diverse perspectives. By sharing stories and experiences, participants will connect with a global sisterhood of women, cultivating compassion and mutual understanding. This inclusive space welcomes all women, irrespective of background, to reflect on their journey and learn from others.
Jan 31 - Feb 4, 2025 | Week Intensive in Australia
Embodying the Bhagavad Gita through the Chakras with Soul Tribe Studio
Join Jasmine for a 5 day, 25 Hour intensive, training and retreat to Soul Tribe Yoga in Batemans Bay, Austraiia! Let’s reunite in conscious community and soak in the nectar of the teachings and practices of Yoga’s inspiring and transformative spiritual text, the Bhagavad Gita and bring them to life in a personal way as we journey through the Cakras though movement, mantra, Mudra and Meditation.
This intensive with be broken down into 5, 5 Hour days and will revolve around some of the major themes of The Gita and 7 major Cakras. Through Asana, Pranayama, Mudra and Mantra along with journaling and personal inquiry, group discussion and teaching, habit exploration and reforming we will invoke personal change and action, transforming our inner dialogue and outer practices. Together we will create a safe and brave space to look at exploring deeply rooted conditioning about who we are, outlining practical ways in which we can use our practice and teaching to create inner and outer change. Through exploring yogic concepts and tradition, this intersection challenges us to look deeper into both the universality of the human experience as well as its important differences. Through compassionate awareness of both our unity and our separateness can lead to greater equity and justice in our world.
