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Welcome to Lotusland! Your sanctuary in the city devoted to celebrating all eight limbs of Yoga as a way of life for the purpose of a greater good.
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Our classes are intimate and intentional and include sacred movement, meditation and mantra along with deep rest and reflection guided by Yoga's spiritual teachings to return to our true nature of being. You will find classes for all levels as well as workshops, trainings and retreats to serve the needs of your body, mind and soul, as well as our greater community.

10/19/2025

This Monday, October 20th,This new moon in Libra marks the auspicious night of Diwali, the 5-night Hindu “festival of lights” and the most important night of the year to honor Laksmi, the goddess who symbolizes the virtues of Love, light, beauty, wealth and prosperity, fertility – as well as good fortune. It is celebrated as the spiritual victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. On the darkest night of the new moon, when the world turns inward and still, we gather to light a lamp of song and spirit.

Join Zoë and Tori for a special evening of creative and nourishing CandleLight Flow and Live Music - a slow flow vinyasa available for all levels to the tune of live music, with added mantra, meditation, and yoga nidra!

This live music journey weaves together songs from Indian mystical traditions, sacred chants, and spontaneous vocal improvisations. Carried by the pulse of drum rhythms and layers of ambient sound, the music invites deep presence, introspection, and renewal.

10/14/2025

❤️ Let the beauty we love BE what we DO. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground 🙏🏼- Rumi

Join Jasmine THIS Friday at 5:30 for a free class followed by an info session for our upcoming Winter/Spring 2026 Yoga School immersion beginning January 29th-May 14th 🧘🏻‍♂️🤸🏽‍♀️📚 Begin the new year immersing yourself in deep study, practice and conscious community and share what you love as a way of life to benefit others.

Through group practice and lectures taught by our inspiring teachers, in-class teaching practice, 1:1 mentorship, self-inquiry, personal practice and homework assignments - you will uncover your unique voice & be empowered to teach if you choose, in an authentic way, aligned with your truest self. You’ll learn not only yogic tradition and history, postures and alignment, but also how to live your yoga with love, and apply your new skills for peace, love and liberation in the modern world with devotion to a higher purpose.

Come this special class and info session and receive $500 off regular tuition !

RSVP in the link on our bio, in person or on line 🫶🏼

10/13/2025

We will be open for a limited schedule of classes today and a portion of Zoë’s 6pm class will be donated to Native American Wellness Institute. A non-profit organization founded in 2000, NWI’s mission is to “promote the well-being of Native people through programs and trainings that embrace the teachings and traditions of our ancestors.” “Wellness” might be a modern buzzword, but for the Native community, access to ancestral teachings to help physical, spiritual, emotional and mental well-being is a powerful tool for healing generations of trauma.

Join us today at 2:30 pm for Yoga and Ayurveda with Dr. Marda from India, sharing the ancient rituals for healing and along with Max guiding us to incorporate them into our yoga practice!

Whatever you are doing today try to take time in reflecting on the history of the land we live on and call “The United States of America ». Renaming “Columbus Day” to Indigenous Peoples’ Day draws attention to the pain, trauma, and broken promises that were erased by the celebration of Columbus Day and Holidays like Thanksgiving. Before his arrival, the indigenous folk were successful self-sufficient communities that sustained life by being deeply connected to their sacred traditions and land for thousands of years. For the Native Americans, Columbus Day has always been hurtful as it glorifies the violent past of racism and genocide and 500 years of colonial torture and oppression by European explorers like Columbus and those who first settled in America. So today, spend time in nature if you can to honor this holy ground we call home, talk to your children and family and friends about the real history of The United States, research the tribal lands you live on and their customs, explore books and films by Native Americans, give back by donating to Native American foundations and Non-Profits.

10/09/2025

Autumn has arrived in SF and the mild weather and quiet evenings are reminders of the cycles of nature and our humanity. Moving with the ebbs and flow of life is not always easy, especially when we are experiencing such systematic, global disregulation. So we turn to our practice to reconnect with our humanity, our powerful voices, our liberating breath, and healing community.

As we we move deeper into autumn and the irregularity of vata season with the shifts and change in seasons, grounding, warming and regularity is the medicine to strengthen and anchor our minds and nervous systems for optimal physical, mental and emotional well being.

Join us for Mantra, Movement, Music, Meditation and Mythology all month to soothe your nerves, calm your mind and keep your heart open ❤️

✨this Thursday 10/9 Free Yoga Nidra & Sound Healing with Tori

🧘🏽‍♀️ Friday 10/10 come chill with Zoë & Chris for Yin Yoga Sound Bath

🌿 Monday 10/13 A Day of Yoga & Ayurveda with Dr. Marda and Max

🙏🏽 Friday 10/16 our first Info Session for Yoga School 2026 — free class with Jasmine 5:30-7

🪔 Monday 10/20 Celebrate Diwali with CandleLight Flow & Live Music with Zoë and Tori

🎃Friday 10/31 Halloween AcroYoga with Max

🪷 Saturday 11/1 Harvest Kirtan, Food Drive and Altar Making with Astrud!

Sign up for all and bring a friend 🫶🏽

10/06/2025

Today’s Full Harvest Moon in Aries is BOLD lighting up the evening sky and encourages us to shine a light and face head on whatever’s bothering us. It has the potential to spotlight some deep wounds that need healing. So be soft with yourself and gentle with others — find stillness if you’ve been feeling knocked around, add nourishing movement if tension is building up in the body. 🌝

We know so many of you (and us!) are feeling anxious and unsettled by all the news at home and worldwide and hope Lotusland has been a refuge and sanctuary of healing and peace and protection for you in the midst of life’s turmoil. As the shutdown continues, we know many folks are effected, we want to remind you we are a donation and sliding-scale community center created to make Yoga accessible to everyone and that cost need NEVER be an obstacle to you receiving the blessings of Yoga to restore our bodies and minds.

These times call for restorative practices and we have added many beautiful evening classes to help us fall asleep during Fall’s unstable and restless energy.

Meet our newest teacher Cyrus Ebadat teaching Tuesdays at 8:30 Candlelight Flow and Restore! ✨

Cyrus’ candlelight class offers time to slow down move with the breath as a moving meditation while cultivating heat in deep and slower flow and will guide you into deeper restorative poses.

In the class you will develop breath work, movement, and meditation that will help you wind down the day and prepare for rest into the evening with his warm and peaceful presence that will help melt away any stress or tension from your day.

Come practice with every Tuesday night starting this week!

09/27/2025

Happy Birthday to the amazing Amanda! 💐🎉🥳 We’re all so lucky to get to learn from you and get to know your caring, playful and adventurous spirit!

Help us in wishing our beloved a birthday filled with love and sweet treats 🎂

And be sure to practice with Amanda for All-Levels Jivamukti Yoga on Thursdays 7pm and Saturdays 9am!

09/26/2025

She’s baaaaack 🥰 but only for one one day so catch her while you can 💃🏻 Begin mythology month at Lotusland bringing the gods and goddesses to life through mantra and movement on your mat as we step into the most mystical time year 🫶🏼

Sign up in the link in our bio ❤️

09/25/2025

The 9 nights of Navaratri continue — come honor the many forms of the Goddess ✨TONIGHT✨ with Tori’s Community Yoga Nidra, Breath and Sound

Navaratri is one of the most auspicious times of the year when the Goddess is said to visit us. In her honor we sing, dance and rejoice her glory chanting her divine name and our collective victory over evil. Each night is a step inward, a chance to dissolve old patterns, tap into our inner strength, and rekindle devotion — to self, to spirit, and to life. 🪷

Day 1: शैलपुत्री Śailaputrī - the daughter of the mountain
Day 2: ब्रह्मचारिणी Brahmacāriṇī — the student or female ascetic
Day 3: चन्द्रघण्टा Candraghaṇṭā - the voice of justice, and wife of the deity Siva
Day 4: कुष्माण्डा Kuṣmāṇḍā - the aspect of fullness of the Goddess
Day 5: स्कन्दमाता Skandamātā- the mother of all Day 6: कात्यायनी Katyayani — the warrior
Day 7: कालरात्रि Kālarātri — the utmost fierce aspect of the Goddess
Day 8: महागौरी Mahagauri — the luminous, nurturing one
Day 9: सिद्धिदात्री Siddhidatri — the Goddess who bestows all accomplishments

By invoking a different manifestation during each day of Navaratri, we are able to cultivate different facets of sakti or divine energy embodied by each manifestation in our own lives.

Join tonight and every Thursday 8:30pm 🙏🏽

09/23/2025

This Friday join Chris Hill with visiting special guest teacher, Julia Horn for an experience of sweet harmonious surrender ~

In this creative movement practice, you will bring warmth to the body with soft, creative, free-flowing movement, then gently transition toward a sequence of longer held, supportive postures coming from both the restorative and yin traditions. Each part of the sequence will be tonally balanced with live music complimenting the movement as well as the longer held positions.

When the body is allowed to dance and then be supported properly, space and freedom are created in the joints and spine creating an overall deep sense of well being, meditation and relaxation

✨Artful Movement with ✨
Moving with Julia Horn is a unique amalgam of various forms of yoga, dance, and multiple healing modalities. At the crossroads of ancient practices, cutting edge science, depth psychology, art and poetry, this yoga addresses layer upon layer of the brilliance that is you. Hailing from the Appalachian mountains and shaped by a lifelong dance with movement, healing, and unfolding life as rambler and curious investigator, Julia weaves artistry, nature, and deep wisdom into every class.

✨Sound Healing with ✨
To accompany practice, a beautiful sound bath using sound healing instruments including antique singing bowls from the Himalayas imbued with healing mantras. The frequency of the bowls create vibrational sound harmonics that impact the sympathetic nervous system by engaging the relaxation reflex, (and disrupting the pain reflex) creating an overall deep sense of well being, meditation and relaxation.

09/17/2025

Join us at Lotusland for a special evening of devotion, movement, and inner reflection as we honor both the Fall Equinox and Navaratri, the nine-night festival celebrating the many facets of the Divine Feminine.✨

Zoë will guide a devotional, creative and celebratory vinyasa flow and Tori will offer an inspirational and introspective practice of breathe, meditation and sound healing, all set to the resonance of live music that carries into this powerful celebration of Shakti.

Navaratri is one of the most auspicious times of the year when the Goddess is said to visit us. In her honor we sing, dance and rejoice her glory chanting her divine name and our collective victory over evil. Coinciding with the Autumnal Equinox when the veils are thin and the energy of our sadhana and spiritual practice is most potent. This day marks the beginning of nine nights of the goddess. Each night is a step inward, a chance to dissolve old patterns, tap into our inner strength, and rekindle devotion — to self, to spirit, and to life. 🪷

We come together to flow, chant, sing and celebrate this auspicious occasion to invoke the Goddess within and around us.

All levels are welcome. Come as you are — open-hearted, curious, and ready to connect.

09/15/2025

The chaotic shift in season to Vata during eclipse season has many of us thrown off balance along with the relentless world events that stir up our emotional storms. This is a time to strengthen our nervous systems and immune systems so we can remain grounded, in our center and able to respond to all that comes our way and help support everyone in our lives. 🍃🍋

We are so honored to welcome renown Ayurvedic Physician Dr. Marda from Pune, India to Lotusland to share his wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga for healing healing through 1:1 sessions and an open workshop with our beloved Max Kopeikin!

In the two hour workshop, Dr. Marda will illuminate the connection and link between yoga and its sister science of healing, Ayurveda. Through an engaging presentation and his expert guidance and Max’s expert asana demonstration and teaching, we will learn to incorporate Ayurvedic principles in our yoga practices as self care to support and prepare us through the vulnerable shift towards Vata season.

He is also graciously offering just four 1:1 45 minute consultations which include a dosha diagnosis and solutions through lifestyle and nutrition advice on how to use local spices herbs as healing remedies.

Sign up TODAY as space is limited 🙏🏽

09/09/2025

Yoga is a science that illuminates all the ways we are interconnected with the universe and offers us practical practices and ways of living that dissolve the divisions between ourselves and others and the universe.

Ritualizing significant planetary and seasonal shifts are ways to realign our selves and our lives with the universal order and this month there are many major cosmic events!

We have the solar eclipse on September 21st following yesterday’s Full moon lunar eclipse and the vernal equinox on the 22nd! We have three beautiful events for you to honor and experience these events within our bodies as we are the microcosm of the microcosm. The Solar eclipse On September 21st, in Virgo invites you to evaluate the regimens and rituals that structure your days. Are they supporting your peace? You might feel a desire to release what isn’t working. This shedding can make room for practices that nourish you on a deeper level. This eclipse teaches that self-improvement is a long game, so take it one sacred step at a time.

✨Join Yael on Friday the 19th for eclipse reason recovery

✨Zoë and Tori on the 22nd for an Equinox Navaratri celebration!

✨and Chris with guest teacher Julia Horn on the 26th for artful movement to support returning to balance

Sign up today! 🙏🏽

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1360 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Telephone

+14152373923

Website

http://Lotuslandyogasf.com/

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