Arti is an incredible Hatha yoga teacher. Calm, knowledgeable, and deeply rooted in classical…read morepractice. Her classes blend precise technique with genuine mindfulness, making each session both grounding and transformative. You can feel her years of experience in every cue and correction. Easily the most authentic yoga experience I've had in the Bay Area.

Marc is a remarkable yoga, breath and meditation teacher. His studio is beautiful, comforting and…read morealways welcoming. Marc is passionate about creating a community of kindness, where students feel nurtured and supported to discover greater connection within the flow of movement, sound and breath that he guides us through and also connection with each other. "The Body Keeps the Score" book by Bessel van der Kolk describes how yoga can help you heal from effects of PTSD. This has been my experience at Mukunda. I feel safe enough with Marc and the healing, warm space he creates and maintains to allow deep long-held feelings the freedom to express and flow through. This letting go creates greater space throughout my body, mind, soul and spirit so that I may deepen my yoga practice. I have now experienced several spontaneous releases of heavy ancient burdens and this has restored and increased my capacity to feel deeply present. What a relief to find respite from the nagging storms of thinking and worrying that manifested during lockdown. Marc's powerful, genuinely comforting and grounding way of teaching and being encourages every student to deepen into the asanas, daily teachings and chants from the Integral Yoga system that his work honors. An authentically angelic creative movement and meditation healer. One of San Francisco's fantastic hidden gems of healing, light and love. Obviously I encourage all individuals and groups to discover Mukunda's healing sanctuary and help build a movement that is kind and also powerful, embodied and more connected in the world. Thanks Marc!

Marc is tremendous; everything you want in an instructor, warm, energetic, knowledgeable, positive,…read moreand someone who genuinely cares about you.

Tonya is a charm and an amazing and dedicated Ashtanga yoga teacher!…read more I have been practicing with Tonya since 2018 and I'm proud to call her my teacher and my friend. I came in as a beginner without much knowledge about yoga, and with Tonya's gentle yet direct guidance, I've fallen in love with the practice. The community here is also full of wonderful people who are inspired by the practice. Thank you, Tonya, for being such an awesome human being!

Tonya is an amazing teacher and I feel very lucky to practice with her! She teaches traditional…read moreMysore style yoga, she is very knowledgable, attentive, kind and caring. She knows when to push you, when to leave you alone and everything in between. I also love the community here, people are very friendly, supportive and committed to their practice. The studio itself is very cool too - you actually can observe a sunrise while practicing!

10-11:45 AM Saturday mornings at the James Howell Studio, Nora Burnett offers a mixed level…read moreInyengar yoga class. Nora's teaching is very specific and always focused so that the class makes sense in your body, if you know what I mean. It's not "show-off" yoga, just really correct, so you always feel balanced after class...and deserving to play the rest of the weekend! Having found Nora, many other teachers seem not so great. Nora is on the faculty of the teaching training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of SF and Certified to Level III (says her website). Still this mixed level class really accomodates beginners as well as experienced yogis and yoginis. It has been an intimate class but is in a nice big space...and you'll be welcome. Highly recommended.

I've been working with Rowena for over a year now, starting with her fertility yoga class after I…read morespotted a flyer when I was walking around the neighborhood. I'd never seen such a thing and I was in the midst of getting ready for a second embryo transfer attempt so I figured why not try it, anything that could possibly help. I enjoyed the class and the explanations Rowena gave for the moves we were doing. And I became pregnant! So then I graduated to prenatal yoga which I began doing as private lessons in the shala which Rowena had just gotten (conveniently in the same location as the class, at Mobu Dance Studio). After giving birth, I have been continuing on with private postpartum mom and baby yoga. It's been great to be able to bring my daughter with me to practice without having to worry about care, and my baby has really enjoyed watching me do my yoga and then the baby yoga time she gets near the end. I caught her doing happy baby pose at home after about a month of sessions! Now she does it all the time. I consider it a nice bonding activity for us and the shala is a nice relaxing place for her. Rowena makes sure my daughter is set up comfortably. She has a blanket she would lay on next to the yoga mat but now that she's gotten a little older, she has a little throne of bolsters she can lounge against for some sitting practice and a better view. At first I wasn't sure about taking private lessons instead of classes since it is a lot pricier. But it's been nice having workouts customized to me, and Rowena is super accommodating about making adjustments if there's anything I want to focus on or if a particular area of my body needs relief. I definitely notice the difference in my body now compared to when I first started. My strength and flexibility are both increasing.

Rowena brings intention and focus to every class. Her teaching is thoughtful, grounding, and leaves…read moreyou feeling both centered and strong. I always walk away feeling better than when I arrived - and love taking her classes - it is a huge treat. My practice has gotten stronger and deepened with her teachings - HIGHLY recommend making time to attend her classes! Absolutely a highlight of my week.

Mary Baumgartner is an expert and caring teacher who skillfully guides her Breathing Yoga class in…read moreinteresting, gentle, healing mind-body-breath experiences. Other reviewers have mentioned how she effortlessly and gently suggests adaptations to meet individual students's needs with no interruption to the flow of the class. I have started studying the yoga tradition that Mary teaches, deepening my appreciation of the elegance of the practices she designs and guides. As a student in her class, I notice how both during and after the practice, I feel awesome. Now that I also am studying to become a yoga teacher, I am able to see in a more informed way how good she is at what she does.

I have been studying yoga with Mary for almost five years. The Breathing Yoga is a great gentle…read moreyoga class. It helps me relax and is a focus on meditation and stretch/movement. I had a chronic shoulder injury that brought me to Mary initially. This class is a self-check, stretching out sore muscles and bringing attention inward with visualization and breath work. It truly calms the nerves and I highly recommend it!

I had never done yoga, and initially was hesitant about going, especially considering I was nursing…read morea minor leg injury. But I'm very glad I went. I was able to get good instruction and felt that I had gotten a good workout after. Susan made sure that I didn't do more damage to myself (as well as for others who were in a similar situation) through ample warning, and easing us in with certain poses that would help beforehand. Speaking with her afterward, you can tell she is genuinely passionate about yoga, and really is doing it to teach and spread the art. Definitely recommend.

I'm new to Yoga and a bit intimidated by the positions, but Susan made me feel completely…read morecomfortable. I felt great at the end of the one hour session; I got a workout but also felt stretched and relaxed. I really liked having input into the objectives of the practice, and she was very patient with my stiff muscles and lack of experience. We experimented with partner positions, and Susan made sure we were all getting the most out of each pose. I'm more of a pilates person, but Susan's class has made me consider yoga as a compliment to endurance training. Overall Susan is a patient, engaging instructor and I highly recommend her classes.

I had my first acupuncture session with Jordanna and felt totally transported. Her healing space is…read morea haven in the city. She is kind, knowledgeable, and so caring.

Myself and some tourist friends marked ourselves as going to an InTouch event with Jordanna…read moreadvertised on meetup and drove over an hr and a half from San Jose in traffic to get there in San Francisco. The building in the Mission was closed up, no cancellation notification, no notice. One other attendee also turned up and waited with us in the cold with our Yoga mats for 30 mins before also giving up. We had all been looking forward to this for days.. very disappointed.