This Free Intro to Yoga Playshop will give you the information and confidence you need to start your own yoga practice, no matter what your age or fitness level.
We will start with a brief talk about the history of yoga and the different styles of yoga available. Then, you will be able to participate [...]
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I am happy to announce I am starting new public yoga classes on LA’s westside at the Gateway Portal for Health and Welness. These are all levels classes with a spiritual focus – one is an hour-long class where we focus on our intentions for the upcoming week. The other is a hatha yoga class [...]
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Sat Nam Rasayan is a healing modality that comes from kundalini yoga. I took a Sat Nam Rasayan class the other night with Hari Nam Singh. He is a kind, friendly guy who is somewhat reminiscent of a Santa Claus in a turban. The class consists of the teacher guiding the students through a meditative [...]
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Here’s a message sent out by Los Angeles Kundalini Yoga Instructor Guru Singh on the financial crisis:
Sat Nam – Dear Ones,
Right here now there are many forces at play in these cosmos and this world: some of
them are feeding off our collective human energy without our conscious knowledge
while additional forces, in each of our worlds, [...]
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Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa is a Kundalini Sikh who wrote an often recommended book Kundalini Yoga: Flow of Eternal Power. While I found the book a bit too focused on the strict Sikh lifestyle for my tastes, Shakti Parwha is friendly and sincere. Since she teaches classes here in Los Angeles at Yoga West on [...]
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The Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is now offering a free 30-minute silent meditation four nights a week at 8:30 pm: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. (Wednesday night is Satsang starting at 7 pm, which includes meditation, chanting and a reading.) The full schedule is available here.
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It’s quite refreshing to find a yoga class in Los Angeles that isn’t all about powering through postures these days. Shari’s Yoga for Women class is a welcome respite from all the athletic yoga that seems to be dominating the current landscape. It’s a class that can appeal to women of all levels; it involves [...]
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My friend got two free tickets to the sold out Krishna Das concert in Los Angeles last night, hurrah. It was at the YogaWorks in Larchmont Village. The place was totally packed wall-to-wall with yoga people, sitting directly on the floor with perhaps a cushion or blanket. We lucked out and got a spot on [...]
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Andres is a young and exceptional yoga teacher who has started a special Pink Floyd yoga event called “Yoga Side of the Moon” at Power Yoga in Santa Monica. During the class, the yoga flow is synchronized to the full “Dark Side of the Moon” album by Pink Floyd.
I got a chance to go [...]
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This has been the week of the great Southern California fires. While I do not live directly in a fire zone, I am still affected here in West Los Angeles.
On Monday, it seemed like “just another” Malibu fire. You can see the smoke from this fire in the photo I have included with this [...]
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