Lotusland Yoga SF

💛 This month we are offering Donor Membership — a way to become an integral part of our Mission and practice as service!

Welcome to Love Saves the Day — our Lotusland Love Foundation, benefiting and partnering with non-profits as well as our center’s community classes, sliding scale memberships, and yoga school scholarships.

With its roots as a class taught by Jasmine every Saturday since the ‘90s, many students don’t have a reference for the name today — but it was the most fabulous and iconic vintage clothing store in NYC’s East Village back in the ’80s! The name stuck as the goal of yoga — as the great Guru Neem Karoli Baba would tell all the spiritually hungry westerners arriving in India in the ’70s: “Love others, Serve others, Feed others, Tell the truth.” This is the path of Karma Yoga — Service as Love in Action — living our yoga as a way of life, transforming the way we relate to the world. 🙏

Our very first class was around Thanksgiving, as it was getting so cold in NYC, and we partnered with City Harvest — who saw the injustice of hundreds going cold and hungry every night while tons of food was thrown out by NYC restaurants. They began the movement of food rescue, bringing that excess to shelters and serving those in need.

In the same spirit, we’ve created a membership where if you’re able to pay a little more each month, you make it possible for someone with less to pay what they can — so everyone can receive these life-changing practices! Become a Donor Member today for just $199/month auto-renew and receive full benefits — for yourself AND someone else. 💛

Over the last 27 years we have partnered with so many nonprofits — locally, nationally and internationally — for our practice to directly benefit those in need, as ourselves. By awakening all the qualities of the heart — Service, Kindness, Love, Compassion and Courage — we liberate ourselves and live a life devoted to benefiting others.

Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu — May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, deeds and actions of my own life contribute in some way. 🕉️

In the same spirit, we’ve created a membership where if you’re able to pay a little more each month, you make it possible for someone with less to pay what they can — so everyone can receive these life-changing practices! Become a Donor Member today for just $199/month auto-renew and receive full benefits — for yourself AND someone else. 💛

Over the last 27 years we have partnered with so many nonprofits — locally, nationally and internationally — for our practice to directly benefit those in need, as ourselves. By awakening all the qualities of the heart — Service, Kindness, Love, Compassion and Courage — we liberate ourselves and live a life devoted to benefiting others.

Lokah Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu — May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, deeds and actions of my own life contribute in some way. 🕉️

🪩 Tonight at 5:30pm! Kick off the long weekend and kick off your shoes AND your yoga mat and sweat your prayers with a liberating Yoga and Dance mash up 💃🏻

Join our divine dancer Ati for a special Friday night Live of her signature class - 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.

Both Yoga Asana and dance are cathartic, creative, and celebratory practices and movement is the medicine we all need to tap into our reservoirs of joy and strength.

See you on the cosmic dance floor !🪩 Sign up at the link ⬆️

🪩 Tonight at 5:30pm! Kick off the long weekend and kick off your shoes AND your yoga mat and sweat your prayers with a liberating Yoga and Dance mash up 💃🏻

Join our divine dancer Ati for a special Friday night Live of her signature class - 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.

Both Yoga Asana and dance are cathartic, creative, and celebratory practices and movement is the medicine we all need to tap into our reservoirs of joy and strength.

See you on the cosmic dance floor !🪩

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We are SO grateful to be diving into the Yoga Sutras again this September as we have for 27 years, returning to the classics of yoga - as a reminder of the infinite ways to invite Yoga into our daily lives. Not only through committing to our daily practice on our mat our cushion but to experience the radical transformation yoga promises through the small, moment to moment, changes we can make in the ways we live. Known as the “do’s” and “don’ts” of Yoga, the Yamas and Niyamas are the foundation of any Yoga Practice. As the first two limbs they are there to support our spiritual growth like loving parents, guiding us in ethical ways to live with others (Yamas) and cultivate self discipline (Niyamas) that lead to happiness and freedom. But, unlike the ten commandments or punishments they are the ten commitments of a devoted practice that leads to personal liberation.

Basic and essential to the yogic path are the practices of the YAMAS, described in Book Two of the Yoga Sutras as : non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, sexual self-discipline/continence, and non-greed. Patanjali calls these the maha vratam (great vows), which, according to Sutra 2.31, “are universal, not limited by class, place, time or circumstance.” Such practices are considered elemental and ideally available to everyone.

Come recommit to your Sadhana, spiritual practice, through these personal vows. Bring them to life through practice and self reflection, as well as, the remaining six limbs of yoga in which we will immerse ourselves.

We have a fall sale to recommit to a daily practice for just $49 dollars for your month and $149 auto-renew!

Enrollment is still open for Fall Yoga School, our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - beginning NEXT Friday September 11th and there are only 2 spots left!

Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your studies and practices and share what you love in the new Year. Please Note: this is the last weekend 200 Hour Program we will share until spring

Partial work/trade and payment plans are available! The link 🔗 is in our bio to apply and register soon 🫶🏼

Before she heads out for her month-long adventure, shoutout to our beloved manager Zoë! Her roots in Lotusland run deep — as a teen at midnight yoga, to social media manager and running our online studio during the pandemic 🙏🏽💗

Yoga School in 2017 sparked something special in her, guiding her on this path of dharma and ultimately able to support our current yoga school as a lead teacher and mentor!

It’s this deep connection to the Lotus family that makes our community so unique, we invite you to join in on the magic by becoming a member! 🪷

💗Join Jasmine tomorrow-Saturday 8/29 at 11 for Love Saves The Day Benefiting the People of Nepal through Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) —providing urgently needed humanitarian aid in moments of crisis and natural disasters. After major flash floods struck the Rasuwa district in Nepal, MSF teams experienced in providing emergency responses arrived in Nepal less than 24 hours after the floods struck to assess the needs on the ground.

For MSF, the ability to respond quickly to medical humanitarian emergencies is crucial to saving lives. Unrestricted funds allows them to allocate resources most efficiently and where the needs are greatest.

“What the world needs is servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader. We have enough leaders who are not real leaders. Let us become a real servant instead. That is the only way to become a real leader. We should recognise those in need and help them. That is our dharma (duty), and we should not expect anything in return. We should share whatever we have with others, and we should try to contribute to the welfare of society in some way. It is through giving that we progress on the spiritual path. The blood that is pumped by the heart is circulated and distributed evenly throughout the whole body. What would happen if our circulation were to stop? Likewise, whatever we have should be circulated and shared. It is through selfless sharing that the flower of life becomes beautiful and fragrant.”

Come dedicate your practice to the greater good and your presence and practice with purpose will directly serve MSF serving those in need 🙏🏼 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Amma Embracing the World

“You can wish your life away. But if you’re going to dream, you’re going to have to get out and, like I always say, you have to put some wings on them dreams, and some feet and fingers and some hands. They gotta get into some stuff. You can’t just sit around and think of all the things you want to do. You’ve got to think of what you want to do, and then you’ve got to get out and make that happen. The magic is inside of you; there ain’t no crystal ball.”

Rest in Peace, Dolly Parton, such a beautiful inspirational light in this world and loved by so many