Mukunda Yoga Center (2025)

05/07/2025

Happy Interdependence Day!!!

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“Be the Change via Interdependence!” - excerpts of the newest blog in yesterday’s newsletter by Marc Morozumi:

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Most credit Mahatma Gandhi with the quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. Part of the passage actually written by Gandhi in a 1913 article for Indian Opinion: “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.”

As a Yoga practitioner, teacher, and activist, I find continuous insight from Gandhi’s journey. Gandhi’s commitment to ahimsa, a Sanskrit word meaning non-violence, does not mean passivity. Ahimsa requires a vigorous shift in word, thought, and deed that manifests in all efforts towards peace. And this only is possible when we change from our divided mind of ‘us vs them’, and do the difficult, sometimes painful but rewarding work of acknowledging our self-seeking tendencies and habitual patterns that can transform and lead us to sustain a direct mission for greater equity, compassion, and love. Yoga is much more than postures on a Yoga mat. It’s the way to change ourselves so that the world we co-create is a more just, kind, and caring world.

A major concept that Gandhi developed is known as Satyagraha. “There are three basic precepts essential to Satyagraha: Truth, Non-violence and self-suffering. These are called the pillars of Satyagraha. Failure to grasp them is a handicap to the understanding of Gandhi’s non-violence.” (read more at mkgandhi.org)

As we just passed Independence Day AND an emerging holiday, Interdependence Day celebrated today on July 5th, may we remember the importance of honoring our strengths and weaknesses, may we review our moments of personal battle and collective triumph. We can be the change. In a USA article from 2021, Peter T. Coleman wrote, “A national holiday will not heal our more selfish instincts or deeper divisions, but it could offer a symbol and a catalyst to set us off down a better path together.”

29/06/2025

Off the Mat Blog: Pride Week - Marc Morozumi
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Joy is resistance. Rest is resistance. Love is resistance. Compassion is resistance. Kindness is resistance. Well-being is resistance. I feel such a different relationship with these concepts than ever before and that we need to keep understanding and incorporating these in our lives more than ever.

These qualities exist not because they can be monetized, capitalized upon, or co-opted, but because they activate an aspect of our creative mind/heart that grounds us in our shared humanity. There are forces that wish to destabilize, dehumanize and degrade our natural instincts for self-care, community-care, and interconnectivity. The primary reason - because those forces trigger our survival instincts and we react to stress, fear and bullying with reflexive manners that disable our higher cognition that knows there is another way. In short, it motivates the “us versus them” mentality and we lose sight of our strengths for self-reflection, complex problem-solving, forgiveness, and healing.

SF Pride is naming, “Q***r Joy is Resistance” as their theme this year and I’m happy to see that. With funding being dropped and relationships shifting due to elimination of DEI programs, it’s a time for higher thinking and action. As an organizer with IfNotNow Bay Area and a gay, mixed-heritage anti-Zionist Jew, I understand resistance in a more complex way than ever. While there has been controversy with SF Pride, I know the importance of elevating awareness of the power of resistance when there is oppression, as is the story of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement. So if we can break down the simple understanding of the oppressor and the oppressed, the colonizer and the colonized, the land stealer and the land guardian, one can see the call for resistance and how history tells many stories of “a people united” that “will never be defeated.”

In Hatha Yoga, we have numerous postures referred to as warrior poses, named after Virabhadra, created by Lord Shiva. From a mythological story to the common battles of self in the world, our practices can reveal Truth as we face challenges with courage, humility, and grace.

17/06/2025

THIS Saturday, 6/21
Film & Discussion: 12noon-3pm
The Teacher - 2023
Film by .nabulsi
Location shared after registration
(West SOMA neighborhood)

Join us for an afternoon of film and conversation. will be screening The Teacher, a 2023 film by Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi. The event is free to attend and light snacks will be offered. This will be an opportunity to build community and knowledge in the pursuit of Palestinian liberation.

“This film brought me to tears multiple times as it became more clear to me how one power, that’s supported by other leading world powers, can create an outcome of powerful resistance that plainly displays settler colonialism - there are those who fight to keep their land, culture, and families and those who kill to abuse and take it. The truth becomes quite plain to see. By systematically provoking a people and manipulating a narrative, it’s possible to create a new reality that switches the roles of terrorist and victim that I had originally been taught. And it keeps being used as a playbook over and over again that America helped write. I can only hope it will stop once we are willing to learn the full history versus a one-sided version which has been upheld by and relies on great trauma. - Marc Morozumi

15/06/2025

Holding Grief amidst Our Joy
Excerpts from Marc Morozumi’s Off the Mat blog from 6/12
(Edited from first writing)

An important part of the SF Well-being Fairs after October 2023, has been our Grief Altar. With all that’s happening in our world, it feels imperative that we make space for our grief amidst our joys.

Grief and loss are inevitable parts of our human experience. Through healing in our own time, we may find the energy to cultivate a new depth of gratitude and compassion for our fellow beings. Grief isn’t something that wraps up neatly or works in a linear time frame, so when we can offer space for one another to move at the pace we need, we support one another’s well-being. It can also foster a sense of community when we recognize collective grief as a part of our time on this planet together.

To stay fixed on the horrors of all that we’ve been witnessing day in and day out would shut down our nervous systems. To find a way to be informed and recognize how our actions either contribute to uphold these or help to dismantle these oppressive systems, establishes a way for us to create a conscious co-existence on this planet. (The spirit of yesterday’s ‘No Kings’ March was a powerful day in community!)

We will always have opposing forces in our world - life exists in a constant state of duality. Until we can understand how to live side by side and find a balance in the perceived opposites, we must push against an oppressive system. When this system aims to dominate with scarcity tactics versus promote an abundance model of tolerance, we get farther away from humanity’s deeper message of shared safety and collective care.

For father’s day: We may welcome the day with ease and lightness, or feel the heaviness of the patriarch, capitalism, authoritarianism, and more. We might be celebrating our LGBTQ+ dads and our divine fathers or mourning the fathers we have lost or even lost touch with. It is possible for us to hold the complexity of our emotions even when they feel like they’re in conflict.

May we find our right connection to honor each and every day, each and every being. Every life is a universe.

11/06/2025

Come down for Filoli Pride THIS weekend !! Enjoy the gardens and events planned throughout the day, including:

Yoga w/Marc at the Wedding Place: 4pm & 6:30pm — Marc Morozumi, founder/owner of

From Filoli:
“Celebrate love, self-expression, and community at Filoli’s Pride Weekend! This family-friendly event blends creativity, wellness, and joyful celebration in a stunning setting. Express your creativity through art, unwind with a sound bath, dance to live performances, and connect with LGBTQIA+ community partners. Wrap up your day with an evening of Drag Bingo. Reserve your spot today and be part of the beauty of Pride.”

10/06/2025

Thank you to all the amazing practitioners, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees!!! We had a magical day at Saturday’s SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair!!! Here’s a handful of pics that give little windows into what we created.

Photo contributions by and Eliza Chu 🙏

This FREE event helped showcase many diverse ways we can find inspiration, connection, and resources that support a personal and collective path to well-being.

From samplings of movement classes and sound baths to conversation circles on topics like Sensual literacy from , Building Spiritual Ritual w/ , and more! From our 5 Art & Writing zones to our Healer’s Marketplace with herbal remedies, artivist jewelry, and more. From our amazing massage team to our practitioners tabling for 1:1 connection to discuss Hypnokink, , and more! From our Grief Altar for Peace & Solidarity to our food and beverages sponsored by and .

It was an exceptional day in community - the antidote needed when our government and political powers work hard to destabilize and rip apart communities. It’s the resourcing we need to make sure we keep our focus and energy to help do whatever we can to speak out, take action and fight against Fascism. From a grounded place, may we use our privilege and power to move the tides towards the change our world desperately needs.

08/06/2025

Soooo grateful for for joining us as our Grand Hostess at the SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair yesterday! She helped us dive into the day with an opening share that brought depth and meaning to our topic of well-being. From what she shared, it inspired this message from Marc Morozumi, Founder and owner of and Initiator of the SF Well-being Fairs:

Your well-being is supported by finding right connection with the issues that matter to you, not by being disconnected and isolated. Your well-being is supported when you raise your awareness of the facts of history, not by getting lost in disinformation and only holding on to one side of a story. Your well-being is supported when you recognize the work of those who have paved the way for us today and not by feeling like you have to start from the beginning.

We are beings that inherently know that as a collective, we are stronger. We know that our sorrows are halved when we share them in community and our joys are doubled even tripled when we unite with our broad and loving family. There is a message of scarcity and divisiveness that was created to weaken the many and empower the few. It has the ability to destabilize our nervous systems and make us feel small. But let us not let our emotions override our inner knowingness.

Beyond all of this duality that we see in this material world, there is also a primordial and everlasting message of oneness that is a slow moving call to action for us. There is an inner light within us that is the same light in every being on this planet - it is an indistinguishable and inextinguishable light. Once we start to feel it, see it, we get it, and we move with it.

I’m so grateful that Honey was with us to bring her voice and vision to our Summer Pride Well-being Fair. We had an amazing afternoon with our 24 LGBTQAI+ practitioners and the incredible love and collaboration from the . Happy Pride everyone. May you find your way to honor yourself, your community, and not lose sight of the fact that our liberation is intertwined with all peoples’ liberation.

07/06/2025

The SF Well-being Fair app is ready to guide you on your Well-being Fair adventure TODAY!!!!
12noon-5pm

Download the app (IOS or Android) and see the amazing schedule for the day - 24 LGBTQAI+ practitioners ready to greet you!! is our Grand Hostess so get there at noon so you don’t miss hearing from her along with our entire host and welcoming team!!

With 4 sessions happening simultaneous: 2 different areas for 30-minute sampling classes and 2 different areas for our 30-minute conversation circles, you’ll want a way to pick and choose what you’ll attend.

SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair
Location:
1800 Market Street
Or join via LIVESTREAM! You can register on the website :sfwellbeingfair.com or link in bio!

04/06/2025

Post Yoga session with Marc with Deb and Mike yesterday! Sending out a HUGE thanks to our main 2025 SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair sponsors and ! They’ve been longtime clients , even starting back when Marc was Castro.

Thanks to their support for wellness programming and our collaboration of the SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair, we can pay our 24 practitioners who will be providing samples of group classes, conversation circles, art & writing zones, Healer’s Marketplace, and healing zones — offering 1:1 tarot and intuitive readings, Yoga, meditation, meeting therapists, teachers, artists, healers, changemakers, and more!

The SF Well-being Fairs (SF WBF) happen 4 times a year. They are primarily a volunteer effort to raise the conversation on what it truly means to be well - personally and collectively. At the SF WBF, we believe well-being is our birthright and often we need inspiration, education, and access to resources. We may come to recognize that our choices ripple further and have more power than we may realize. We may unintentionally be supporting something that’s causing the most harm on the other side of the world…

So it’s phenomenal when there are kind and generous people who are intentionally supporting the movement for good and the well-being of community in this city - may it send a ripple far and wide as we learn to make better choices for ourselves and our global family.

If you’d like to be a sponsor for an upcoming SF Well-being Fair, DM

Please join us THIS Saturday!
3-floors of well-being services, offerings, and modalities. 12-5pm
Link in bio
sfwellbeingfair.com

03/06/2025

The SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair returns to THIS Saturday, June 7th!! The event starts at 12noon. Register with link in bio or visit sfwellbeingfair.com

Presented by in collaboration with with sponsorship from private donors, , and !!! Huge thanks for the support! 🙏🤗💗

returns as our Grand Hostess at 12noon which will include an offering for the day, along with greeting support from of the !!!

The SF WBFs happen 4 times a year around the turn of each season. For the summer, and because we land on Pride month, we gather a team of all LGBTQAI+ practitioners who are teachers, therapists, healers, coaches, artists, activists, doulas, changemakers, and more!

At a time when this world is asking us to be as conscious and focused on our impact on one another and this world as we can, the SF WBF offers a reminder to attend to our personal and collective well-being as an urgent call to humanity. We advocate a mindset of kindness and care so we don’t lose ourselves in the creature comforts of everyday life, or drown in the overwhelm. It feels necessary to emphasize self-care which is a huge part of the fair. It’s a practice that we believe can mean we resource ourselves in just the way that will allow us to be of support and service to one another. We wish to no longer see any genocide be possible on this planet, of which we can track at least 11 happening right now! Visit our Grief Altar at the fair to learn more. We make change by being brave, courageous, and knowledgeable.

This is how we celebrate Pride this season - with open eyes, open minds, and open hearts. Come and join us for a day to get inspired, explore new modalities of wellness, and connect with community for well-being!

22/05/2025

We won’t be able to stop all the horrific things happening on this planet in one day, but we certainly can have one day where we remind each other of the importance of gathering in joyful community. May the joys balance, or even outweigh the sorrows.

The SF LGBT Center is gearing up for June and starting off Pride month again with their epic Building the Block House Party on Saturday, May 31st from 12-6pm. This is a FREE event but requires registration.

I’m honored to be invited back to this event by closing it with a stretching and Yoga Nidra/deep relaxing session from 4:45-5:45. Our nervous systems need support right now and the material world seems best at winding us up. But we have access to a resource within that reminds us of our shared humanity.

Sign up for my session asap!! Link in bio. Other offerings include Yoga w/ Contemporary Heels Dance w/ and Zumba w/ and a day filled with other amazing offerings. More in link or visit sfcenter.org/buildingtheblock2025

16/05/2025

Welcoming back (pictured w/Marc Morozumi ) to our SF Summer Pride Well-being Fair! This is our 2nd time being hosted by as a collaboration with the center’s Q***r & Well programming.

June 7
FREE event!
12noon-5pm
SF LGBT Center
1800 Market Street
Open to ALL!!
Register ASAP!
bit.ly/3S7qL68

3-floors of inspiration, resources, and experiences to support personal and collective well-being! Yoga, sound healing, movement, conversations circles, 1:1’s, art zones, vendors, vegan snacks by , drinks by and more!

Honey is the Director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives and a force of fierceness and good here in SF. Marc is a Bay Area Yoga teacher and the founder and owner of and presenter of the SF Well-being Fairs. Yesterday, they had a fun and meaningful 2-1/2 hour conversation in Mukunda Studio to build deeper connection and prepare for this upcoming Pride event. Our missions and values aligned and the talk inspired this share:

The SF WBF aims to resource all of us for the long haul while we tap into our innate wisdom. We aren’t truly well unless all sentient beings are considered, cared for and well. If we continue to “other” and demonize those that we believe are a threat to our safety, we create an endless loop of harm. When we come together to understand the role we each play in 1. perpetuating cycles of harm, 2. accessing wisdom to transform them, then 3. uplifting those harmed by supremacy and colonialism, we begin to see the path towards a just and equitable world.

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