Special Classes, Events & Workshops
Thursday, September 24th | 7 - 8:15pm
Pop-Up Community Kundalini Yoga for the Full Moon & Fall Equinox
Join Ashley for a pop-Up kundalini Yoga Yoga class to celebrate the autumnal equinox and full moon in Libra - both symbolizing balance and equanimity - we will cultivate harmonize solar and lunar energies within through breath, movement, mantra, mudra and meditation. Everyone is welcome - no experience necessary
Friday, October 9th | 5:30 - 7pm
Kundalini Ritual Attunement For The New Moon and Equinox
Kundalini Yoga and Sound Bath for Lunar and Seasonal Shifting with Yael Haar
Spend your Friday evening at dusk - as the nights lengthen and balance the length of the day, at Lotusland Yoga SF honoring the energy of the Autumnal Equinox and Libra New Moon - both representing balance and harmony.
Drop into presence through an evening of breath, movement and sound. Join Yael in a heart opening kundalini yoga practice supporting clarity and release as we move towards the fall season of reflection and restoration and set our intentions blessed by the Venusian new moon - honoring our relationship to ourselves and others.
Circulate your life-force and allow your system to reset. Enjoy a restorative soundbath with crystal bowls, chimes, ocean drum, and symphonic gong. Give yourself the gift of rest and relaxation, while filling up your energetic cup! Bring your journals and favorite tea cup to enjoy some sweet spiced tea and cookies. Everyone is welcome - No experience necessary.
Sliding Scale $30 - $45
Saturday October 24th | 1 - 4pm
Root Down, Rise Up! A Midterm Election Yoga for Justice & Community Outreach Workshop
It’s election season, and Lotusland has got your nervous system’s back. We’re bringing back Vatissa’s awesome Yoga for Justice offering ahead of the general election, and we are partnering with the ACLU to host a VOTER OUTREACH Community Event for the last hour of the workshop!
Join us at Lotusland, your sanctuary in the city, for a trauma-informed yoga workshop that supports healing, resilience, and nervous system care, and help get out the VOTE before the November 3rd general election.
Root Down and Rise up offers an inclusive, supportive space to pause, reset, and tend to your nervous system before participating in an act of service to increase voter turnout ahead of the general elections.
This trauma-informed workshop is designed to provide immediate stress relief and support nervous system regulation for those advocating for social justice in a challenging political climate.
By exploring the roots of Yoga’s ethical practices - The Yamas and practices of Pranayama (breathing practices), Asana (gentle, breath-focused postures), and Dhyana (meditation), participants will engage in healing, accessible practices that foster reconnection and care. Then we’ll harness that energy for a General Election Voter Outreach Activity.
You’ll leave with practical YOGA tools to support your resilience, regulate your stress, and ACTIVIST tools to support the community in using their voting power to fight for justice, freedom, and happiness for all beings!
No prior yoga or voter outreach experience needed. All practices are accessible and adaptable for all bodies and abilities.
Sliding-scale $35 - $50
Monday, November 2nd | 5:30 - 7pm
Dia De Los Muertos Yoga & Altar Making
Join Zoë for a 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 13 | 7 - 8:30pm
Harvest Kirtan & Food Drive
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.
Join us! sliding-scale $20-$60
tbd | 5:30 - 6:45pm
Friday Night Live: Yoga Dance Flow
Join our divine dancer Ati for an ecstatic experience of infusing elements of contemporary dance with your vinyasa yoga practice!
Imagine dancing to a choreography that uses familiar yoga poses, transitioning between them with some new movements. In this class, where modern dance joins yoga, we will learn a full choreography portion by portion.
Everyone is welcome, no dance experience needed!
tbd | 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Friday Night Live: Reggaeton Yoga
Our vinyasa practice gives us the freedom to try new things and tap into playfulness while still keeping the integrity of our asana and the tenants of yoga. In this class you can expect a dynamic and joyful Vinyasa Yoga practice to a playlist full of your favorite Reggaeton songs with dance breaks between vinyasa flows. Shake out tension from the body, sweat, smile, and step into a movement practice of pure joy and freedom! Both Yoga and dance are cathartic, creative, and celebratory movements, and movement is the medicine we all need to tap into our reservoirs of joy and strength.
Bringing together the best of a relaxing yoga class and dancing at the club with your friends, let’s gather together in community and enjoy the an evening of authentic expression and celebration. Expect uplifting language, big smiles, and dance breaks between vinyasa flows!
