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(Photo Credit: Yoga Reach International) In 2005, Laura Burkhart founded Yoga Reach International as a way to bring well-being, adventure, and philanthropy together. Yoga Reach specializes in yoga travel-adventures, special events, classes and workshops with the intent to help the communities that it touches through either hands-on projects or donations. Special events include [...] 
Studio Natural Light (Photo Credit: Yoga Flow SF) Ingleside, the new up-and-coming neighborhood in San Francisco, welcomes a beautiful new yoga studio, Yoga Flow SF, a heated fast paced vinyasa flow based studio. As an avid yogi, I just had to check out the studio for myself and I was definitely not disappointed! [...] 
(Photo Credit: Stonestown Family YMCA) The YMCA, known for its youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility programs strives to “build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities”. Beginning in 1992, Healthy Kids Day was initiated to raise awareness about keeping children active – physically and academically – even during the Summer months [...] 
One in 12 pregnant women are diagnosed with preeclampsia, which causes a rise in blood pressure that may lead to a serious illness or death of a mom and infant. This debilitating condition often requires pregnant women to stay for an extended time at the hospital and deliver their babies early, resulting in a [...] 
Krav Maga is a form of martial arts, self defense, and street fighting that was developed in Israel in the 1940s. While it is practiced by various units within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Krav Maga has also made its way to the US, which is how I found it. What started off as [...] 
My favorite way to explore a city is by running. It’s healthy, it’s free, and best of all, you can slow down and take pictures or grab a bite without having to worry about holding up the tour bus. I once ran a route that started at Times Square and traced the toe of [...] 
When it comes to fitness, my weapon of choice is my pair of Asics running shoes. I’ve bought the same brand, same model, for 7 years now, and I’ve always preferred to run alone. When I moved to San Francisco, I thought: this is great—hill training! But as I settled into a routine here [...] 
AIDS Walk 2011 Photo Credit: www.Aidswalk.net Although HIV may not be a common conversational topic among mainstream America, AIDS prevention and treatment funds are still a long shot from where they could be. The 2011 10k San Francisco AIDS Walk will round the bend for its 25th year of fundraising on July 17th [...] 
Hanuman Center, located in a quiet corner of the Castro, offers not only yoga, but other modalities of healing and energy therapy such as Reiki, dance, acupressure, and craniosacral therapy. It offers a warm, tranquil space that was intimate, shared by only 8 other practitioners for a restorative yoga session. The Restorative Yoga class [...] 
After adjusting a little bit to having a new baby, I searched for a place to try postnatal yoga. Though I found a few places in San Francisco that offer postnatal yoga, It’s Yoga, Kids (IYK), located in the Presidio of San Francisco, is the only studio I found where children and families are [...] |
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May 13th, 2013 
