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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.

04/02/2026

✨This Saturday✨ Bask in the beautiful rhythms and vibrations of live music, singing and deeply touching poetry as a doorway to the divine.

Join us at Lotusland for an ecstatic evening of Sufi poetry and Qawwali music, a tradition at the heart of Persian culture, honoring and celebrating this rich culture at a time of so much tragedy through devotional practices of spiritual music. Our sacred songstress Tori Paul will be joining the ensemble to share her voice. Anhad Naad Collective treats the spiritual dimension of Sufi poetry and music with deep reverence and personal connection.

Formed in 2019, Anhad Naad Collective is a genre-defying ensemble rooted in the exploration of South Asian musical traditions and their intersections with global genres. The collective had its debut concert in 2020 in San Francisco, led by core members Divya Purohit Vyas and Jun Ishimuro (of Qb Moda Jazz). Initially, their work centered around blending South Asian raga-based music with the soulful textures of jazz, R&B, and Black musical traditions.

In 2023, the group expanded its focus to delve deeper into South Asian spiritual music, with a special emphasis on Sufi Qawwali traditions. Anhad Naad treats the spiritual dimension of Sufi poetry and music with deep reverence, often seeking guidance from poets and experts from Pakistan and India. Lead vocalist Divya Purohit Vyas has previously been a part of Bay Dervish in Alameda, a spiritual music collective associated with Sufi Way, led by the late Kiran Rana and Jeanne Rana.

04/01/2026

Happy April, Full Moon and April Fools Day 🤪! Although known for silly jokes and pranks, The Fool archetype in the Tarot is the very essence of Yoga, to free ourselves from the bo***ge of ego and why we originally named our Centers Laughing Lotus :)

Although no one feels like laughing right now in a recession, with all our freedoms destroyed and threatened on a daily basis, wars with too many lives lost and environmental disasters everywhere - the Yogis and Mystics have urged liberation and enlightenment through letting go and lightening up especially when it feels impossible or - as Joy as resistance. In Sanskrit, Pratipaksha Bhavana, a yogic mind training technique meaning “cultivating the opposite” acting as an antidote to suffering. That’s why Yogis stand on their heads🙃!

Embracing the spirit of the Fool encourages us to have an open, curious and beginners mind and and open heart to send limiting self doubt caution to the wind - and yes, still believe in hope for a new day. It urges us to take risks and not be afraid of making mistakes or making a fool of ourselves.

So this April fools day, along with pranking your friends and family 😈, our invitation to you make is to make an intention to take the risk, relax more, play, have fun and embrace your beautiful, carefree spirits in nature and allow yourselves to connect to the energy that surrounds you and live life with childlike freedom - not to bypass the horrors but as practices of liberation.

Our monthly theme is Pranayama to honor our life force and the practices to liberate our minds and we have many exciting events lined up to get together to sing and laugh more, dance, and set our hearts and souls free with our sacred community like we just did at KIRTAN with Astrud on Saturday and our upcoming Sufi Music and Poetry Night, Breakthough! Kundalini with Danielle and Spring Fair and Fundraiser!

03/30/2026

Our Spring Break schedule begins TODAY through Sunday, April 5th. We hope you get to take some time in the sunshine as many of our teachers take their breaks with kids out of school 🌸 We are here to support you all week with loving practices to help you in grounding and breathing through this intense transition into Spring!

Stock up on class cards and become a Lotusland Member today before prices go up 20% on April 1st! We have added so many beautiful offerings to the schedule to sooth your soul and classes to develop dynamic discipline to uplift your spirit 💗

03/29/2026

Breakthrough! Kundalini Yoga for Liberation ✨ Saturday with

Join Danielle on Easter weekend in the spirit of resurrection and rebirth, to break free from limitations and come back to LIFE! If you’ve been running on empty, stretched thin, or just quietly holding it together longer than you’d like to admit, this class is for you.

This yoga therapy workshop uses Kundalini Yoga to work with the energy already alive in your body. To get underneath what words can’t always reach. Kundalini is our dormant creative energy trapped within and this experience gives you permission to finally let it break through powerful movement, breathing and mantra practices to release the blockages within your body.

This isn’t about performing a breakthrough. It’s about letting your body remember what it feels like to breathe all the way down. Come tired if you have to. That’s exactly the right place to start, because resurrection is just the body remembering it knows how to begin again.

As a certified Yoga Therapist, Kundalini Yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and Meditation facilitator, Danielle dismisses one-size-fits-all healing. Instead, she crafts personalized wellness journeys, integrating Kundalini Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Yoga Nidra, Breathwork, and her innovative Travel Therapy concept. Beyond her one-on-one work, Danielle shares insights on embracing a ‘hella well’ life through her popular podcasts. 💗

03/26/2026

Our Spring celebrations continue with devotional music and healing sound baths ✨ Sacred sound has the power to move us beyond the mind and into the heart, beyond judgement and feelings of separation, it relaxes us to let go and to experience a deeper connection, union and Love. Allow the power of music and sound vibration to kindle hope and peace and ignite the fire of love and devotion in your heart 💗

This Friday 5:30pm 🪷 Chris is back for Jivamukti & Sound Bath, a vigorous vinyasa followed by a blissful sound bath savasana

This Saturday 6:30pm 🪷 Community Kirtan with our beloved enchantress Astrud & her mystical musicians

Next Saturday 4:30pm 🪷 a night of Sufi Qawwali devotional music with our beloved Tori & South Asian music collective Anhad Naad

Sign up today! 🫶🏽

03/24/2026

Spring has definitely sprung at Lotusland and we kicked it off with our festive Nowruz Pirooz celebration and benefit class on Sunday, jumping over candles and shimmying our shoulders to shake off the winter blues :) Thank you to everyone who came and participated with such open hearts and minds ❤️

Our 🌸Spring Break🌸 schedule is now LIVE on Momence starting next week. We hope you get to take some time in the sunshine as many of our teachers take their breaks with kids out of school! We have a limited weekly schedule but so many wonderful special events we hope to see you at 🤗

We are here to support you all week with loving practices to support you in grounding and breathing through this intense transition into Spring! The medicine is to be tender with yourselves and each other, knowing we all may be going through it in one way or another.

Along with rebirth, Aries season is the energy of aggression and conflict — it can bring up a lot! During this volatile time, with so much conflict in our world and within, our yoga practices can help us calm our nervous systems and cool down, taking a few breaths before reacting or overreacting and be the calm in the storm. And remember, our yoga practice is always with us, not only on the mat. Turning our mind away from turmoil and to the breath, re-patterning its rhythm, or towards the sound of OM or other mantra or prayer for happiness and freedom for others, turning off sensory output and turning within, all help shifting our internal gears towards union with our spirit and inner freedom.

So mark your calendars and take action right now — make sure to sign up and join us at Lotusland, your Sanctuary, for the spiritual salve of sacred song and sing and dance through the this intense energy 🙏🏽

03/22/2026

We are having a special Spring Festival at Lotusland to help us tap into Love and Joy in the midst of all we face — Like our symbol of the Lotus rooted in the mud but blossoming and sharing it’s beauty with the world. Coming up next Saturday with 🪷Sing into Spring! Community Kirtan🪷

Please join us for a community celebration honoring the spirit of rebirth through sacred song! Our beloved enCHANTress, Astrud Castillo will be visiting and sharing her exquisite voice along with her band of talented mystic musicians sharing the sacred art and practice of Kirtan, call and response chanting.

Kirtan moves us beyond the mind and into the heart, beyond judgement and feelings of separation, it relaxes us to let go and to experience a deeper connection, union and Love. Allow the power of music and sound vibration to kindle hope and peace and ignite the fire of love and devotion in your heart as we sing in the key of WE.

It is the relationship to these mantras that illuminates our heart and awakens our consciousness. It is not important that you can sing or that you understand the words. Kirtan is an experience. It is a practice to release you out of the thinking mind and drop you gently into the heart. MAN means mind and TRA is instrument. So it is through these sacred sounds we are able to conduct the instrument of the mind.

Together we create this sacred union with healing intentions for the whole of the world. No experience necessary, everyone is welcome.

🌸FREE to Lotusland Members - Drop-in $20-$50

03/20/2026

🌞🌸 Welcome Spring and Aries Season, Bye Bye Mercury Retrograde! 🙏🏽

Today the sun enters the sign of Aries and initiates a new astrological year! Aries represents the coming of Spring Equinox, where everything dormant begins to wake up and flourish. It’s the first day of Spring and we are celebrating with powerful Kundalini Practice to initiate and awaken our creative potential through powerful breathing practices and then dissolve into a blissful sound bath with Yael TONIGHT 7pm ✨

Happy Nowruz and happy birthday to all the Aries! Aries speaks to us about emergence. Enough doomscrolling - it’s time to get moving. With this week’s New Moon, Mercury stations direct on the same day that the Sun enters Aries and the spring equinox!?! Our goals are about to get their momentum back!

During this Aries season, we will all be able to feel that inner fire guiding us towards freedom. Let’s use this energy to fight all systems of oppression and do all we can to continue to support the people of Iran.

Even in the midst of these darkest of times, in Spring, everything begins to burst into bloom. Equinox means equal night and light... and soon the days will get longer the night bringing the light we so desperately need!

We’re spending the rest of the month of March tending to our own inner garden, the subtle body, and the Lotuses that grow within us through exploring the Chakra system and the healing super powers that are within us.

Thank you all for your continued support and filling the walls of our sanctuary with such joy, enthusiasm and sacred prana to amplify our prayers that all beings everywhere may be happy and free 🙏🏽

03/19/2026

Happy Pisces New Moon and Birthday Blessings to Sophie! 💗🐠🥳

Our sweet naturalist yogi, Sophie lights up every room with her smile and is the perfect person to introduce you to the slower, meditative practice of Yin Yoga.
Sophie received her 200RYT through Lotusland Yoga in 2023 and has a yin and Vinyasa-style yoga practice that is deeply inspired by the landscapes, ecosystems, and seasonal biorhythms of the Bay Area. In her classes you might be encouraged to flow like a kelp forest, ground down like a redwood tree, or relax like a honeybee in a pollen-crusted flower. In her yin classes, you will connect with the dream space, release control, and cultivate a loving acceptance for the present moment. Sophie believes slowing down to be mindful in our movement can deepen our relationships and care for the cosmos, community, and self.

Help us wish a happy birthday and join her for class on Thursday to honor this transformative new moon energy ✨

03/16/2026

As our hearts around the world continue to break witnessing the unjust and brutal actions of our government, we can fall into cycles of reactivity, fear, depression, rage or apathy that prevent us from being able to respond thoughtfully and compassionately. We can feel powerless... but we aren’t.

As we head deeper into Pisces season, the most empathetic sign, as yogis, let’s use our practices to sit, sing and move with all our feelings and then turn them around to serve. We can see how violence shows up within us, our families and communities and we can work towards justice and peace in whatever ways we can.

We have NEW classes, workshops and special offerings for you this month and throughout spring, along with our 20% MARCH MEMBERSHIP SALE to encourage your practice and uplift your spirit in community along with updates to the schedule to keep you MARCHing and MOVING into spring with it’s promise of rebirth! 🌸🪴🌞

Join us for these fabulous events to welcome Spring!

03/13/2026

✨TONIGHT✨ at 5:30pm Lotus Flow with Live Music with .yoga and her musical friend Mark on guitar with a reggae vibe and singing you lullabies into a blissful savasana

For the perfect Yogi’s night out, stay for 7:30pm Friday Night Chill with — donation-based Gentle Flow with an added bonus of Yoga Nidra to support your getting the most restful sleep as you step into the weekend 🥰

Address

1360 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Telephone

+14152373923

Website

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.

Learn more about our new student specials, special events and our signature 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (fondly known as “Love Skool”).

Start your journey at http://sf.laughinglotus.com/