Upcoming Events

THURSDAY, JULY 16

6:00 P.M. YOGASMOGA Beverly Hills Grand Opening. Light bites, bubbly, custom photoshoot experience, and 25% off all apparel purchases. 9458 Dayton Way. Beverly Hills.

8:00 P.M. FREE Luminaries live in the park! Luminaries bring an amazing live show that’s reminiscent of the golden era of Hip Hop, fused with a soulful, electro, live band, funk filled experience! Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles. Corner of 6th St/Park View St., Los Angeles.

SATURDAY, JULY 18

11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Free Information Session with Terra Gold at Loyola Marymount University. Sharing the details for the upcoming fall Yoga and the Healing Sciences 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program running 2 weekends a month August 1st-December 13th, 2015.University Hall 3700, Classics & Archaeology/Theological Studies Village, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22

7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Drops of Nector. Join in community with these Divine Masters from India as they shre their wisdom and the ancient science of yoga and meditation. Golden Bridge Yoga. 719 Broadway. Santa Monica.

SATURDAY, JULY 25

July 25. Synergy Partner Yoga with Amanda Dykann. Synergy Yoga is a healing art that incorporates Partner Yoga, Acro Yoga and guided Thai massage. It inspires trust, playfulness, and communication.This workshop is wonderful for people who are new to yoga as well as advanced practitioners. Preregister by July 24th $25 individual; $45 per couple. Hot 8 Yoga. 1422 2nd St., Santa Monica.

8:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. Trauma Informed Yoga Training.This 2-day training will provide you with effective, yoga-based tools for working with incarcerated youth and other at-risk populations. $300. SBCC-Thrive LAEmpowerment Center. South Bay Center for Community Development. 540 N. Marine St. Wilmington.

9:30 A.M. – 1:45 P.M. TBFM® Sat. Intensive. Technique Class; Teacher Forum. $65/each class. Two-Snake Studios. 1637 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.

SUNDAY, JULY 26

9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. Trauma Informed Yoga Training.This 2-day training will provide you with effective, yoga-based tools for working with incarcerated youth and other at-risk populations. $300. SBCC-Thrive LAEmpowerment Center. South Bay Center for Community Development. 540 N. Marine St. Wilmington.

10:30 A.M. – 2:45 P.M. TBFM® Sun..Clinic. Technique Class; Shoulder Girdle. $65/each class. Two-Snake Studios. 1637 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.

6:00 P.M.DTO Album Release + Yoga Event @Dang Good Yoga. Join us for yoga, live music concert and celebration. VIP tickets receive a signed copy of DTO’s album, Nameless Spirit. Cristi Christensen will be guiding the flow. $25 early bird; $35 at the door; $45 VIP. Dang Good Yoga. 1440 S Escondido Blvd., Escondido.

Wanderlust Hollywood Opens July 24!
Enter to Win 2 Tickets to the Opening Celebration

Featuring some of the biggest and brightest talent from our festivals, Wanderlust is opening their new 10,000-square-foot space in the heart of Hollywood with a weekend full of yoga, music, dance, food, and revelry.  Now through July 20, enter for a chance to win 2 all-inclusive tickets to the weekend’s festivities happening Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25.

Learn more about the studio here

Write to us at LA YOGA and tell us why you want to win access to the opening weekend.
Satya Retreats

Have you always dreamed of traveling to Africa? Imagine practicing yoga in a beautiful tent overlooking the Masai Mara! Kenya offers a truly magical experience! Satya Retreats has cultivated long-standing relationships with partners and friends on the ground there to ensure a smooth and unforgettable experience.

Join us for a week of yoga and wildlife! Yoga coupled with Game Drives in the wild, at a luxury camp in one of Africa’s greatest wildlife parks.

LA Grow at The Wiltern

Join us at the Wiltern on July 19th for an afternoon of garden and delicious healthy food exploration. Sit down to a seasonal, farm-to-table dinner catered by Jennie Cook’s Catering, featuring veggies grown by RootDown LA, a South Central based non-profit whose goal is to empower high school students to build stronger communities by cooking and growing healthy food, right where they live. Proceeds to benefit RootDown LA. This event is all ages. The Wiltern and RootDown LA share a vision that everyone across Los Angeles has access to healthy food.

For more information, click here.

Student Clinic @ National Holistic Institute

At the Moksha Festival this past weekend, we collaborated with the National Holistic Institute. Student interns worked on event volunteers, teachers, artists, and other people fortunate to experience their expertise. The school has a clinic open to the public where people can sign up for Swedish or Shiatsu sessions with student therapists. Rates are $25 for 50 minutes or $50 for 100 minutes at the school’s campus in Studio City (with free parking). Learn more here.

FREE SHOW TONIGHT  with The Luminaries

Formed in Venice Beach California, and immersed in one of the most culturally diverse communities in LA, the Luminaries are service oriented Hip Hop emissaries of peace. From the underground parties in “Dogtown” to the biggest festival stages on the west coast, the Luminaries have now taken their message international and crowds everywhere sing along the anthem, “Peace Worldwide Starts From Inside!”

Luminaries bring an amazing live show that’s reminiscent of the golden era of Hip Hop, fused with a soulful, electro, live band, funk filled experience! As expressed by one of the “Grandfathers” of the genre, and early founder of modern rap, Afrika Bambaataa reminded us the power of “Peace, Unity, Love, and having Fun!” In the same vein, Luminaries create a soundscape of Hip Hop mantras inviting audiences to participate in the connectivity of one another while going ecstatic on the dance floor!

For more information on this FREE performance, click here.

Cure Stress in Three Minutes

Ultimately, our breath is the barometer, telling us how we’re doing mentally, emotionally, and physically. Taking a few moments to mindfully experience your breath has powerful, stress-relieving benefits. When we interact with our breath, we can affect our state of mind, our physiology, and our body’s stress response.

Ask yourself if this moment is a good time to give The Three-Minute Cure a try?

Sit or lie down in a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath to settle. Begin to follow your breath, either at the nostrils or the belly/chest. This is your foundation. As the body becomes peaceful your mind opens to suggestion. Count 12-15 long breaths with the intention of relaxing your body.

Free Showing of Awake at UCLA’s Fowler Museum

There is an upcoming opportunity to see Awake in LA.

On Thursday, July 23 at 7:30pm, the Fowler Museum at UCLA will be hosting a free screening of Awake followed by a Q and A with the filmmakers.http://www.awaketheyoganandamovie.com/fowler
Join the IG Getaway? What is it….

Iggetaway.com
August 22-26. Los Angeles

Your favorite yogis on Instagram are coming together in one place for a five-day yoga experience: the I.G. Getaway. During the first two days, teachers from all over the world including Irene Pappas, Dylan Werner, Laura Sykora, and Mat Giordano, will be leading a series of classes at the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club. Explore the city the following three days, with a morning meditation, yoga class at local studios, tours of LA, and dinner at local favorite restaurants. Hike, surf, or enjoy a sun-kissed day at the beach. The final day begins at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market and ends with a final farewell event with worldwide followers.

Accessible Yoga Conference in Santa Barbara

Conference founder Jivana Heyman, one of the co-owners of the Santa Barbara Yoga Center, offers this advice for people who want to increase the accessibility of their yoga classes. It is advice we would all do well to remember, “ Offer Inspiration instead of competition. Generally, when teaching we offer a form of a pose to the whole class, and then if an individual student is struggling we offer them a “modification.” Consider a different approach: teach the whole class a modified form of a pose, then offer individual students other variations. Or, offer a few different variations of a pose and have the students choose which they want to practice. Remember, students want to please you and can be competitive, so they will often try to do the most challenging form you offer. Be conscious of your language in suggesting that one variation is more “advanced” than another. What is “advanced” Yoga anyway? My teacher, Swami Satchidananda, used to say that “Yoga is not just standing on your head, as many people think, but learning how to stand on your own two feet.” Read more here: http://layoga.com/practice/yoga-therapy/opening-the-door-to-yoga-students-with-disabilities/. Sign up for the Accessible Yoga Conference September 12-13 here: http://www.accessibleyoga.org
Practicing with the Revolution Doc Team

Beautifully shot and edited, Revolution is a remarkable documentary by Director Rob Stewart about the necessary personal and global transformation that must occur if we are to secure our future as a species on this planet.

Revolution details Stewart’s journey into ocean conservationism over a period of four years and through fifteen countries. Stewart chronicles five mass extinctions that have occurred in the last 3.7 billion years. He employs the lens of self-interest and self-preservation as an educational tool, warning us that unless we act soon and rapidly, a sixth mass extinction is imminent. Aimed at audiences of all ages and primed as an educator’s tool, Revolution’s simple, powerful and poignant message is, “What must we do in order to keep the human race alive and vibrant for the next generation?”

For more, click here.

Photo by:
Santiago is a Surfer, conservationist, yogi and ocean lover.  A Portrait, lifestyle and surf photographer from Lima, Peru; based in Venice beach. His first short film about Yoga its out now “The Walk of Life” SantiagoBisso.com
The Road to Bhakti Fest

Join Karnamrita Dasi and Govind Das and Radha for a night of #bhaktibliss at Bhakti Yoga Shala for a pre-Bhakti Fest event.

Pre Bhakti Fest Kirtan
with KARNAMRITA
and Govind Das and Radha &
Saturday August 1st, 2015
doors open 8PM

Bhakti Yoga Shala
207 Arizona
Santa Monica, CA 90405
$20 Suggested Donation

Please come join us for a summer soulful Pre Bhakti Fest event with two of the headlining Bhakti Fest kirtan artists: Karnamrita and Bhakti Yoga Shala owners Govind Das and Radha. Both bands will take the stage throughout the nite and offer an inspiring and heart opening set of mantra and kirtan music. Bhakti Fest sponsors will be offering giveaways as we gradually step towards this spiritually uplifting festival in Joshua Tree CA Sept 9-14 2015.

Karnamrita Dasi is an immensely talented and moving singer who has delighted audiences around the world. She grew up in an Ashram community in the United States, and has sung bhajans and kirtans since childhood. She continued with hermusical training in Indian classical vocal in Vrindavan, India. Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful voices in the Vaishnava tradition, Karnamrita performs all over the world. Join us for a evening of healing, uplifting, heartfelt music, chanting, and singing.
Donate to the Accessible Yoga Conference Scholarships

The mission of the 1st Annual Accessible Yoga Conference is to provide a forum where the Yoga community can come together to connect, share, and support those who wish to expand access to the Yoga teachings for people with disabilities, chronic illness, seniors, and people who may not feel comfortable in a regular yoga class.

Please join us in raising money for our scholarship fund to bring yoga teachers and students with disabilities to the 1st Annual Accessible Yoga Conference, September 12-13, 2015 at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center in Santa Barbara, California.
Tuition is $300 per person, and we’re raising $3000 to provide 10 people the chance to attend the Conference for free.

To learn more and donate, please click here.
It’s Fig Season!

While fresh figs are just fantastic on their own, consider:

• Slathering them with almond butter for a simple breakfast.

• Finely chopping and then rolling them into a gluten-free tortilla, slicing it crosswise, and baking until figs begin to melt and tortilla becomes brown and crunchy.

• Simply scattering them around a cheese plate with almonds and walnuts.

• Slicing them in half and drizzling with balsamic and grated Manchego cheese (a Spanish sheep’s milk cheese) in this Spanish take on what Red Jen Ford thinks of as a baked cheese plate. To read her recipe, click here.

Vedic Astrology: Love and Connection

Venus turns retrograde in Leo today. Expect some relationship changes and perhaps even relationship upheavals between now and September 6, when Venus ceases being retrograde. These relationship changes have the potential to alert us to higher possibilities and greater devotion. Venus is where we find happiness in life; unfortunately, we tend to seek happiness in others. Look deep within for a higher love and source of beauty.

For more of Sam Geppi’s forecast, read online here.

LA Yoga App On Your Phone and Tablet

We are excited to announce the LA Yoga app is now available for Apple and Android devices.

The app is a free download, and each issue is only $.99 or the entire year for $9.99.

Peruse the 2015 Teacher Training Guide on the LA YOGA App platform

Read the entire yoga teacher training guide through our interactive app platform with enhanced social media sharing and live links to programs and websites. Read stories on your mobile device or tablet and take LA YOGA with you anywhere for your research and inspiration.

Get your LA Yoga app now.

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