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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.

11/11/2025

As the excitement of last week’s election results and relief fades, and reality snaps back into focus, it’s time to gather ourselves and find strength and refuge in each other and our practices to continue the fight forward towards love and liberation for all.

As we move into the holidays it’s perfect time to connect in conscious community and we have crafted some beautiful offerings for you to feel and heal as resistance to show up to the work that is in front of us and the people in our communities that need us.

All our classes and events are sliding scale to make the practices available to everyone so please invite your friends and family to find solace in our soulful Sangha, our sanctuary in the City 🪷

Check out these amazing events offered by our incredible and gifted teachers to heal your hearts, free your minds and feed your bodies all month. We are here for you 🪔

✨ Join Zoë this Friday 5:30pm for a FREE lotus flow with live music and a final Yoga School Info Session - come get all the details and register with Early Bird discount!

✨ Next week a special New Moon Community Kundalini with Ashley honor the shift toward Sagittarius season

✨ Chris is back for Friday Night Live: Jivamukti & Sound Bath before the holiday break

+ During the holiday weekend:
💕Thursday 11/27 at 10am - Gratitude Benefit Class for Native Wellness Institute with Jasmine
💕Friday 11/28 at 11am - Kate Duyn is hOMe for the Holiday and teaching
💕Sunday 11/30 at 1pm - Community Clothing Swap with Zoë

See you soon! 🙏🏽

11/06/2025

Now is the time, beloved yogis… LET’s start a YOGA REVOLUTION, a revolution of Love!🪷💕

As we move towards a new year with continued devastating news of wars and revolutions, the climate crisis and recessions we can all throw up our hands and ask, “What Now?” Whether you are feeling powerless and fearful these days, or fired up and ready to go, or a mix of both, Lotusland Yoga School’s 200 hour Teacher Training awaits YOU with the practical tools, spiritual wisdom, expert guidance and creative community to show up for yourself and the world around you. Through our program you’ll cultivate a personal daily personal practice designed around your unique needs and unleash the confidence to teach, move and SHINE as your most authentic self: a light that you’ll take out of the studio and into the world.

As students at Lotusland, you already know that Yoga is so much more than the asanas we practice on the mat. Yoga prepares us mentally, physically and emotionally so that we can remain awake, compassionate and grounded in our center and our world … and empowered to be our true selves.

Join program director Jasmine Tarkeshi this Friday at 5:30pm for an informative Q&A to get all the details on our celebrated Yoga School Program so beloved, our grads have dubbed it Love Skool because you will fall in love with Yoga as a way of life. ✨🙏🏽

Deepen your Practice and Studies of Yoga and become a Registered Yoga Teacher in 2026! RSVP for tomorrow’s info session - or register for the virtual option to receive the recording right to your inbox 🫶🏽

11/03/2025

🧜🏽‍♀️New Kundalini Class every Tuesday at 10am with Yael Haar starting 9/4!

With Election Day on Tuesday, a full Moon rolls in on Wednesday the 5th and Mercury goes retrograde on Sunday the 9th along with the shift in seasons and weather and we may all be feeling it!

Feeling anxious during times of upheaval is natural. We will all react differently. Taking care of yourself is essential. Usually helping others and engaging in something peace-nurturing, helps— lots of breathing, and getting outside, nourishing food and cultivating community. Take a break from the news, do what you love and spend time with those who love you, tune into your heart and listen to others. Light a candle, pray, play with children, sing, listen to music, soothe your soul…. And then…. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work with full hearts and support the most vulnerable in our communities.

Every November our monthly focus at Lotusland shifts towards Ayurveda, Yoga’s sister science of healing and we are all so excited to share this wisdom with all of you all month especially during Vata season where we can all get a little run down. The days are getting shorter and colder as the Seans shift and so must our daily practices and routines. It’s soup season and time get cozy and warm to soothe our nervous systems and strengthen our immune systems with nourishing movement, music and meditation.

We have added some incredible classes and teachers to our weekly roster to continue to serve and support you with powerful practices to nourish your bodies, minds, hearts and souls.

Yael hair has been teaching her transformative Kundalini Yoga and Sound Healing monthly events for over a year at Lotusland and we are so excited and honored to have her on our weekly schedule every Tuesday at 10 am starting THIS Tuesday!

Kundalini Yoga is known as the yoga of awareness and transformation. Each class combines physical exercises (asanas), breath (pranayama), meditation, sound (mantras), and deep relaxation to create a complete mind, body, and spirit experience.

All are welcome, as modifications are offered. No experience is necessary.

11/02/2025

Felíz Día de los Mu***os! 🏵️💀 Last night, to the tune of your beautiful voices, we built our ofrenda or Altar to honor those who have passed and bring them to life through singing sacred songs. Honoring the spirits of ones we’ve lost, to act in gratitude for the life we have and faith that those who’ve left the physical world are still here with us in spirit.

Day of the Dead is a holiday to honor our ancestors and the lessons they’ve passed down to us.

Dia de los Mu***os is very much a celebration of life, it is a holiday that involves personal and communal rituals of remembering our ancestors and inviting their spirit to join us for an evening of communion. We honor the dead by decorating altars with their photos, flowers, and offerings like drinks, food, or their favorite memorabilia in hopes that on the night the veil to the spirit realm is thinnest, they come and visit us and enjoy the worldly treats they loved in this life.

The 7:30pm class is CANCELED tonight so you can go out to 24th street for the annual Día de Los Mu***os procession or to the festival of altars at Potrero Del Sol park 🕯️💀🏵️ bring flowers, candles, and be prepared to see a spectacular show of art, music and community tradition 🫶🏽

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween, yogis!! What mystical magic and scary shapes are you embodying today? 🎃👻

This week we celebrate the deeper meanings behind Halloween, or Semhain, October 31st. Originating in ancient Europe as a Celtic Fire festival, Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year. Samhain’s association with death and the Dead reflects the honoring of Nature’s rhythms and this important cycle in rebirth. In many places, Samhain coincides with the end of the growing season. Vegetation dies returning to the earth with killing frosts and death is in the air. This is why we say the veil is thin between the world of the living and the realm of the Dead and communication with the spirit world becomes easier.

Join us for a costume optional healthy Halloween happy hour Partner Acro Yoga hoedown with Max at 5:30 and learn some scary yogic tricks and stay for treats and tea 👻

10/30/2025

and Bday Love to our scorpio sister Astrud!! 🎂Our beloved enchantress is home this weekend to share Kirtan and kick off our annual Food Drive for the SF Food Bank - let’s come together in community to support the countless families in our beloved city suffering with the cut of SNAP benefits.

Join us THIS Saturday at Lotusland, to take refuge, heal and bask in the warmth and abundance of our community, Astrud will be sharing her magical voice with her talented band of musicians as we call in and call on the spirits through call and response chanting, singing and dancing. Bring a donation of unopened canned or packaged goods!🙏🏽

Come to the event early and join Zoë Elena for our Dia De Los Mu***os Ritual💀 and help us in building our Lotusland offrenda or Altar to honor those who have passed and bring them to life through singing sacred songs. Let’s come together as a community to honor the spirits of ones we’ve lost, to act in gratitude for the life we have and faith that those who’ve left the physical world are still here with us in spirit. Bring pictures of your beloveds and something to remind you of them as an offering. 🏵️

10/26/2025

✨Early Bird Registration is open for Yoga School January 2026, 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training✨ Immerse yourself in the power of Purpose and Practice, embodying Yoga as a way of life 🙏🏽

Begin the new year stepping up as a leader in your community and share the transformative practices of Yoga you LOVE with the people you LOVE 🪷

Lotusland Yoga School 2026 begins January 30th - May 16th for you to boldly jump in and follow your heart in deepening your devotion and discipline on your spiritual path by living a life of truth, compassion and confidence. By honoring Yoga’s ancient and sacred roots, you will be part of it’s evolution aligned with who you are in service of a higher purpose to contribute to the world in a positive way.

A big part of our training is cultivating community or Sangha, through establishing yoga buddies and mentors as lifelong support on the path of peace and liberation. With your yoga buddy by your side, you will be encouraged to show up each day with enthusiasm to go through the challenges together.

Along with Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6pm, you will have requirements to practice teach, 2 classes a week and homework assignments that you can do together with your buddy for moral support and lots more fun :)

Space is limited, apply today and receive $500 off tuition through November 15th and become a registered Yoga Teacher, RYT 200 in 2026! All your classes at Lotusland are included in your tuition starting January 1st and payment plans and partial scholarship and work study options are available. 🫶🏽

Come to get all the details of our incredible weekend program in it’s 27th year, learn about your teachers, curriculum and requirement at our upcoming ✨ Early Bird Info Session on Friday 11/7 ✨ with program director Jasmine Tarkeshi

Send in your application TODAY!

10/21/2025

Let the Lotusland Holidays Begin! We are welcoming our gorgeous goddess Astrud home for our holiday harvest community Kirtan and food drive to honor the spirit of gratitude along with altar making with Zoë for Dia De Los Mu***os to honor our ancestors 🏵️

will be sharing her magical voice with her talented band of musicians as we call in and call on the spirits through call and response chanting, singing and dancing.

Here is SF with it’s rich Latin American culture we celebrate Dia de Los Mu***os, Day of the dead on November 1st & 2nd. At this significant time of year when ancestors are energetically open to receiving nourishment, we have an incredible chance to remember them! Join Zoë Elena and all of us in building our Lotusland offrenda or Altar to honor those who have passed and bring them to life as we sing sacred songs through Kirtan. Bring pictures of your beloveds and something to remind you of them as an offering.

Sign up and bring a friend! By donation $10-$50 (or Lotusland Membership) 🧡

10/20/2025

Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating! The “Festival of Lights” is one of the most important nights 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 to heal our hearts and restore harmony.

On the new or dark moon, lamps and candles are lit to banish the shadows and call in the light. 🪔

It’s a time to clean, clear and beautify our homes and place candles, lamps and lights on our altars and make offerings of beauty and many even leave windows and doors open to welcome Laksmi’s blessings! In the same way, we can come to our yoga mats and meditation seats and light the lamps of courage, compassion, kindness and peace through our practice and then turn them around to offer the lights of our practice to others. Small gestures matter and when we do our work in the world with mindfulness we stay grounded and focused and present, we can remember that we are all on this planet together and part of something bigger. The world needs your light and your gifts, the world needs you!

This month, as we enter Scorpio season, inviting us to turn inward towards our depths and the days shorten and nights are endless, we begin our special and sacred evening candlelight classes to honor this sacred time of year

🕯 Tuesdays 8:30 pm - Candlelight Flow & Restore with Cyrus
🕯 Thursdays 8:30 pm - Candlelight Yoga Nidra and Pranayama with Tori
🕯 this Friday 7pm - Candlelight Yin with Sophie

We are also honoring this power of lighting lamps of love through some super special events and coming to Lotusland to awaken these qualities within us to BE the light in these times of such darkness and despair.

✨ TONIGHT 7pm Diwali celebration with Tori & Zoë
✨ next Friday 5:30pm Halloween AcroYoga with Max
✨ Saturday Nov. 1st we honor Day of the Dead with Community Kirtan and Food Drive

See you soon 🫶🏽

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.

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1360 Valencia Street
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+14152373923

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http://Lotuslandyogasf.com/

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Laughing Lotus Yoga Center is devoted to sharing the yogic gifts of a healthy body, joyful spirit and quiet mind with everyone. The center’s trademark "Lotus Flow" classes bridge yoga’s timeless philosophy with the art of creative vinyasa sequencing, incorporating conscious alignment, breath awareness, and inspiring music into each class. Committed to celebrating community and fostering spiritual life, the center offers something for everyone: benefit-donation classes, Yoga with life music, Kirtan, Yin yoga, meditation, and so much more.

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