Zazen

01/15/2018

Being sick has been a long, slow detox from capitalist culture and its mandate that we never rest.

01/08/2018

"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." - BKS Iyengar

All in need of healing and recovery are welcome to join Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Cassie Jackson, for her bi-monthly Yoga and Recovery class at Zazen, 2nd and 4th Fridays, 7-8pm.

01/04/2018

We have one work trade spot remaining in Steve Kraft's structural integration/rolfing training, beginning tomorrow! For the right person, it's possible to pay for the entire training over an 18 month period by doing bodywork at Zazen. This is a truly unique opportunity to be trained in structural integration.
Please share widely to those who might be interested.
If interested, email tyler@zazensf.com

Structural Integration Training in San Francisco A full basic training in the art Structural Integration, as taught by Dr Ida P Rolf, will be offered in San Francisco in 2018. The training will begin in January, and finish in August. The class will take place in 2 four-day weekends each month, for

01/04/2018

Join Imam Bilal Hyde for sufi Dhikr at Zazen this weekend! All are welcome.

Dhikr with Imam Bilal Hyde

Saturday January 6, 2018 please arrive before 8 PM (doors open 7:30 PM)
Zazen SF, 2219 Filbert Street, San Francisco

I was dead, then living and breathing again.
I was laughing, then weeping, then laughing again.
The power of love’s sweet magic overwhelmed me again,
healing the dull silence in my heart.
And then I was singing again.
I was roaring, bravely, with the voices of lions, again,
then softly, like the shimmering stars in the sunset, again.
–Rumi, translation by Bilal Hyde

Imam Bilal will lead an African Sufi dhikr ceremony based on the traditional style from the region of the Nile. We will meet at San Francisco Zazen at 2219 Filbert Street on Sat. Jan 6, starting at 8 PM. All are welcome. This dhikr is usually done seated. There will be zafu pillows on blankets, or you may bring a pillow, prayer rug, or blanket to be comfortable sitting on the floor; chairs will also be available. You are invited to arrive twenty minutes before 8 PM so you can be seated and settled by 8. We anticipate finishing and leaving by 10 PM. A donation of $20, $10, or whatever you can give would be appreciated; no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVPs would be appreciated, via Subhana at subhana@nuraniinstitute.org (you can contact Subhana if you have questions or need more information, as well). The meeting room is up 10 stairs, so access isn’t easy for those with a disability; regrets. Shukran (thank you).

12/21/2017

Spiritual practice groups for people studying with or interested in the work of contemporary spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl.

12/21/2017

3-Day Silent Retreat
An offering to dive deep within, supported by the community and minimal guidance from Thomas Huebls students.
Open to anyone who is willing to look within and share in the collective support.

This is will be our last offering here @ Zazen Retreat Center. Come join in the celebration of life

https://thomashueblbayarea.com/?mc_cid=f8790bb85b&mc_eid=c39dc11a37

Spiritual practice groups for people studying with or interested in the work of contemporary spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl.

12/19/2017

12/19/2017

Structural Integration Training in San Francisco A full basic training in the art Structural Integration, as taught by Dr Ida P Rolf, will be offered in San Francisco in 2018. The training will begin in January, and finish in August. The class will take place in 2 four-day weekends each month, for

12/18/2017

We welcome you to start the new year in and intentional and joyful way. Join Koren Kiener for a New Years Day yoga class with live music, 6:15- 7:45pm. Sign up here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=19428&stype=-7&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000175&date=01/01/18

12/14/2017

Welcome Yoga Teacher, Magi Khoo, to the Zazen Community! Magi will teach Hatha Flow with Alignment Thursday evenings, 6-7:15pm starting 1/4. About Magi:

Magi teaches so she can share the joy and freedom yoga has brought to her life. It helped bring balance to a hectic corporate life and grad school over a decade ago. More profoundly, her deepening practice and study of yoga and its philosophy helps keep her grounded and clear-headed to maintain balance as she seeks to weave yoga into everyday life, in her own world and in relationship to others.

With over 500 hours of yoga and meditation studies, 1,500+ hours of teaching experience, and ongoing regular practice primarily in the Iyengar tradition and continued training, Magi seeks to bring the same joy and liberation to her students whom she also attributes as her teachers. Her classes blend from a dozen years of vinyasa practice with an on-going Iyengar practice that began in northern India in 2011. She also weaves in lessons from a life-long of meditation studies. Learn more about Magi at BeingMindfulEveryday.com.
https://www.instagram.com/beingmagi/

12/11/2017

Enjoy a gift of healing, relaxation and connection for two at Zazen. https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=19428&stype=42

12/11/2017

A gift for us,
in healing, relaxing, and being together

Enjoy a gift of healing, relaxation and connection for two at Zazen.

12/06/2017

Join us for our 2018 Structural Integration Training and Apprenticeship with Steve Kraft. The program begins in early January. We have two spots remaining.
Work Trade and payment plans available.
if interested email: info@zazensf.com

Structural Integration Training in San Francisco A full basic training in the art Structural Integration, as taught by Dr Ida P Rolf, will be offered in San Francisco in 2018. The training will begin in January, and finish in August. The class will take place in 2 four-day weekends each month, for

12/03/2017

Gift Cards Available.
Float. Bodywork. Yoga. Acupuncture. Sauna.

11/22/2017

GRATITUDE

is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event, it is the deep, a-priori state of attention that shows we understand and are equal to the gifted nature of life.

Gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things must come together and live together and mesh together and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air, that the underlying gift of life and incarnation as a living, participating human being is a privilege; that we are miraculously, part of something, rather than nothing. Even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the color blue, the green of the fields, the freshness of a cold wind, or the tawny hue of a winter landscape.

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter’s face across the table, of a son's outline against the mountains, is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him. To sit among friends and strangers, hearing many voices, strange opinions; to intuit even stranger inner lives beneath calm surface lives, to inhabit many worlds at once in this world, to be a someone amongst all other someones, and therefore to make a conversation without saying a word, is to deepen our sense of presence and therefore our natural sense of thankfulness that everything happens both with us and without us, that we are participants and witness all at once.

Thankfulness finds its full measure in generosity of presence, both through participation and witness. We sit at the table as part of every other person’s world while making our own world without will or effort, this is what is extraordinary and gifted, this is the essence of gratefulness, seeing to the heart of privilege. Thanksgiving happens when our sense of presence meets all other presences. Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention.

….

© 2015 David Whyte
from ‘GRATITUDE’
In CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2015

…

After the Dinner
Photo © David Whyte 2012

11/14/2017

Today at Zazen. Tuesday.

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:00 -12:00pm
Gestalt Group

12:15-1:45pm
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:00-7:15
Yin Yoga with Jeremy

7:30-8:45
Gentle Yoga with Landra Landra Bickley Eliopoulos

Bodywork Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Acupuncture Available
Infrared Sauna Available

All are Welcome.

11/10/2017

Today at Zazen. Friday. All Are Welcome.

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:15-11:30
Hatha Flow with Allie

11:45-1:45
Community Acupuncture

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

4:30-5:45 pm
Vin/Yin Yoga with Lucia Grace

7:00-8:00 pm
Yoga and Recovery with Cassie
(2nd and 4th Fridays)

Wellness Consultation Appointments Available
Bodywork Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Acupuncture Appointments Available
Infrared Sauna Available

11/05/2017

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10/31/2017

Today at Zazen. Tuesday.

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:00 -12:00pm
Gestalt Group

12:15-1:45pm
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:00-7:15
Yin Yoga with Jeremy

7:30-8:45
Gentle Yoga with Paul

Bodywork Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Acupuncture Available
Infrared Sauna Available

All are Welcome.

10/25/2017

Are you longing for a meaningful holiday season? To stay connected to yourself when times get busier or overwhelming? Join us at Zazen for a Winter workshop Saturday 12/2 at 3pm. We'll explore nourishing yourself from the inside out and consciously preparing for a mindful winter season!

Zazen's loving wellness team brings a unique background to support you, share modern psychology tools and coaching techniques to weave in mindfulness.


Register Online: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=19428&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000240

10/18/2017

Today at Zazen. All are Welcome.

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:15-11:45
Hatha Yoga with Sandy Lamerson

11:45-1:45
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:15-7:30pm
Hatha Flow Yoga with Hermine Iacobaeus

7:45-9:00pm
Mindful Yang Yoga with Melissa

Bodywork Appointments Available
Acupuncture Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Infrared Sauna Available

10/17/2017

Today at Zazen. Tuesday October 17. All Are Welcome.

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:00 -12:00pm
Gestalt Group

12:15-1:45pm
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:00-7:15
Yin Yoga with Jeremy

7:30-8:45
Gentle Yoga with Landra

Bodywork Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Acupuncture Available
Infrared Sauna Available

10/16/2017

"When I mentioned to a friend that my baseline neurosis has evolved from daily stress into anxiety, her response was – "Go for a float!" -NPR Article about floating: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/16/554063496/floating-away-your-anxiety-and-stress

Americans' stress levels rose significantly over the past year, according to the American Psychological Association. A doctor tries float therapy to see if it can help him feel less stressed out.

10/16/2017

Today at Zazen. Monday October 16. All are Welcome!

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:15-11:30
Hatha Flow Yoga with Hermine Iacobaeus

11:45-1:45pm
Community Acupuncture with Tom

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:15-7:30pm
Mindful Flow Yoga with Koren Kiener Yoga

7:45-8:45pm
Yin Yoga with Jeremy

Bodywork Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Acupuncture Appointments Available
Infrared Sauna Available

10/14/2017

Today at Zazen. Saturday October 14. All Are Welcome.

8:00-8:30am
Unguided Meditation

9:00-10:15 am
Mindful Flow with Koren Kiener Yoga

10:30- 11:45am
Iyengar Yoga with Theresa Marks

12:00-3:00pm
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

6:30-9:00pm
Sufi Discourse, Dhikr and Potluck with Said Bin Yunus

Bodywork Appointments Available
Acupuncture Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Infrared Sauna Available

10/12/2017

For those directly affected by the fires and for those volunteering in response, we offer you our sauna, flotation, and community acupuncture services, free of charge to support clearing the lungs, in addition to all other services at cost (50% off), for the rest of this month; and our practice and space of interfaith meditation, daily. Book on-line at zazensf.com using the codes “freefire” for 100% off sauna, flotation, and community acupuncture; code “firesupport” for 50% off all other services.

In solidarity with our community and our world, we come into presence and awareness of what’s arising, set an intention in relation to the whole, state how we may be supported in that intention, and reflect on our intentions, as part of our practice of daily care.

“The obvious choice, then, is to extend our notions of self-interest. For example, it would not occur to me to plead with you, ‘Don’t saw off your leg. That would be an act of violence.’ It wouldn’t occur to me (or to you) because your leg is part of your body. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon rain basin. They are our external lungs. We are beginning to realize that the world is our body.”
― Joanna Macy, Greening of the Self

10/12/2017

"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." -BKS Iyengar

Zazen is happy to offer a bi-monthly Yoga and Recovery class with Iyengar Yoga teacher, Cassie Jackson, on 2nd and 4th Fridays, from 7-8pm starting 10/27. This class will be geared towards those in recovery and anyone working with depression, anxiety or trauma. Please share with anyone who may benefit.

Here is more information about Cassie and the offering: Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Cassie Jackson, is offering a class for those in recovery at Zazen. It has been her experience that Yoga's methodology intelligently and compassionately addresses the specific needs of anxiety, depression and trauma, most often the root cause of substance abuse. We will explore how yoga's philosophy and methodology aligns with the principals of the recovery program and how it provides a platform for those philosophies and principals to manifest physically through our bodies. This class aims to support recovery by offering asanas and other various tools that have helped sustain Cassie in her recovery over the years. Utilizing the knowledge given her by her teachers, her classes foster equanimity and ease. BKS Iyengar's indelible teachings and ingenious gift of props facilitates the individual needs of every body. Her inescapable love of yoga, her compassion for the human spirit, her authenticity in heartening others along their path can be felt in every meeting. You will leave her class feeling restored and connected through the healing modality that is yoga.

See our online schedule: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=19428&stype=-7&sView=day&sLoc=0

10/05/2017

"Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.”
― Gary Snyder

"Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.”
― Gary Snyder

Photo of Tassajara Creek by Zohra Kalinkowitz

10/04/2017

Today at Zazen

6:00 -9:30am
Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga with Sidney

7:00-7:30am
Unguided Meditation

10:15-11:45
Hatha Yoga with Sandy

11:45-1:45
Community Acupuncture with Patricia

1:45- 2:15pm
Unguided Meditation

5:00-5:30pm
Unguided Meditation

6:15-7:30pm
Hatha Flow Yoga with Hermine

7:45-9:00pm
Mindful Yang Yoga with Melissa

Bodywork Appointments Available
Acupuncture Appointments Available
Float Appointments Available
Infrared Sauna Available