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"Free Yoga at Sports Basement is the best! I just took my twelfth class there today and it was great. All the teachers are excellent and its such a contribution to the community to have such a welcoming place to go and exercise, learn about yoga, meet other people and even get a discount shopping there. This is the kind of good will that marketing can't buy. I tell everyone about the class and the store. I hope the Yoga classes will continue and maybe even more than once a week. Thanks Sports Basement for your commitment and contribution to the community." - Serratia M.

 

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New -Sponsor Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Tony Eason in Aidslifecycle 2008

Hatha Flow Yoga Teacher - Paul Tucci

Hatha Yoga Teacher - Paul Tucci

In 1996, I attended my first class at World's Gym - San Diego. The Yoga teacher asked "why are you taking this class?:" I answered, "to learn something new about my body". Through experiencing the Iyengar style of Yoga with Tony Eason, I noticed that my sacrum & lumbar spine started to loosen. I discovered the power of the deep breath, and the mindfulness of the practice.

Les Leventhal inspired me with his insightful and challenging classes. Darren Main & Christopher Love 's Hawaii yoga retreat was a celebration of the deepening of my yoga practice and my life.

And after a misguided venture into Real Estate, Joy Ravelli suggested that I become a yoga instructor. That suggestion sent me to many work-shops and eventually to Seattle where i took my teacher training with Ana Forrest.

And, after 11 years, that innocent answer is still the root of what yoga still is for me . Yoga is an exploration of the muscles, the bones, the tendons, the breath, and a break from the churning mind.

Presently, I teach an Ana Forrest inspired Hatha Flow classes at Gold's Gym (Brannan St.).
Love & peace, Paul

Artist / Musician - Colin Harris

 

Calling all Yoga Teachers:

If you are a yoga teacher (or a soon to graduate yoga teacher) looking to share your knowledge, practice karma yoga (community service), and put yourself in the public eye, come join in & volunteer your services making yoga affordable for every individual. Pick one Sunday per month for June, July, August, September, October, Nov, or December - 2008. Teach as many months as you would enjoy doing. . . .

Yoga teachers will receive a $25.00 gift certificate from Sports Basement (per yoga class) & can use the platform as a way of promoting themselves and their unique yoga experience. (Yoga Class attendance averages 28 students per class).

Regardless, it's a grand opportunity to start the year on the right path, meet some like minded individuals, see life in a different light, & calm the mind.

 

Sports Basement - An Interview

  1. Send a brief Yoga Bio
  2. Send a list of your available Sundays in April, May, or June- 2008.
  3. Send a link to your website, personal profile ( Myspace , Zaadz, Tribe , Yelp review , etc) or something which speaks highly of you
  4. Start advertising your yoga classes

 

Sports Basement Interview

 


Looking for Free Yoga Classes?

Over the last 7 months, Sports Basement has offer free yoga classes each & every Sunday from 1:00 - 2:30pm. And thanks to  the high turn out of yoga students, speed walkers, mothers, coach potatoes, high school students, Fat Tire Beer Specialist, snowboarders and then some, . . .Sports basement has offered it's location for 6 more months - June - Dec 2008.

So get your shoes. Jump on your bike. Catch the Muni #33, #22, #9 or even the #19 - but, I think you'll like it.

Sports Basement --San Francisco

Yoga Teachers of various styles ( Iyengar Yoga , Ashtanga Yoga , Vinyasa , Raja Yoga , Kundalini , Anasara Yoga , Yin Yoga , Power Yoga , Anna Forrest Yoga , etc.) have joined together and presented their unique connection with the yogic path.

 

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Sports Basement - Yoga Classes - May 2008

Donation Yoga Teacher - Tony Eason

04 May 2008 - Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Tony Eason

A Graduate of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, Tony Eason has been a student of Yoga for fifteen years. Now an 11th Yr. AIDS LifeCycle cyclist, tony came to yoga to enhance his cycling performance.

His teachings includes the use of yoga props to encourage the ultimate benefit from each posture. Through Iyengar yoga classes, he teaches students to pay attention to the alignment of their bodies, to become aware of the breath, and to control the mind. Presently, Tony teaches cycling seminars, substitue teaches, and/or weekly yoga classes at James Howell Studio, Club One, Gold's Gym, Sports Basement, and the San Francisco Tennis Club. Cyclist, beginners, and everyone else, are encouraged to attend his classes."

Raja Yoga Teacher - Janardhan Chodagam

11 May 2008 - Raja Yoga Teacher - Janardhan Chodagam

Raja Yoga meditation is an open-eyed technique that can be used by anyone, anywhere.  Whether you want to learn how to relax, need to be more concentrated and creative or are searching for personal enlightenment, this course can satisfy each of those needs.

Meditation enables you to create new attitudes and responses to life, giving you a clear spiritual understanding of yourself.  Like any skill, meditation requires practice to achieve positive and satisfying results.  By doing a little every day, it soon becomes a natural and easy habit, which generously rewards you for the little effort it involves.

We will look at:

    * Re-discover enjoying and using the positive qualities already latent within you
    * Understand your mind and what makes you tick
    * Draw peace, strength and tranquillity from a higher source
    * Practical guidance in the technique of meditation

Each session will include:
    * Know-how
    * Philosophy behind meditation and the skill of meditation
    * Guided meditation commentaries led by the meditation teacher
    * Most importantly a chance to explore what does and doesn't work for you

 

Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Garrell Herndon

18 May 2008 - Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Garrell Herndon

My teaching is inspired by my training with Iyengar style teachers, and my studies of Structural Integration. Teaching was never a goal, just a part of the learning process.

Took my first yoga class in 1988. Joined the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco Advanced Studies/ Teacher Training program in 1991. Been to Pune to study with the Iyengars directly.
Over the years I've studied with many Great SF yoga teachers. Kathy  Alef, Patricia Sullivan, and Janet MacLeod.. I also studied with Tony Briggs, Arthur Kilmurray, Manouso  Manos, and Ramanand Patel. Mostly, I apprenticed and studied with Ramanand. Patel  . The summer of 2007 I was fortunate enough to assist the instructor at the Guild for Structural Integration.

In the yoga class the use of props, and physical adjustments,, help students find their greatest potential in the poses.  The classes are all around solid and the refined instructions are felt to the bone.  You can read more about all this at http://yogabodywork.net /

Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Melissa MacDonald

25 May 2008 - Iyengar Yoga Teacher - Melissa MacDonald

The first yoga class I went to gave me immediate relief from my lower back pain and I knew without doubt I had stumbled upon a precious gift: I was committed. After ten years of practice, including participation in a two-year Iyengar teacher training program, I now teach yoga. My precise and thoughtful instruction of the yoga poses guides students into a deeper awareness of themselves enabling them to tap into yoga's gifts of health and transformation.

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