Mukunda Yoga Center, 1250 Folsom Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA (2025)

03/01/2025

Join Swami Ramananda & Marc Morozumi in conversation at SATSANG: Responding Together to a World in Chaos this Sat. MAR 1 @ 5:30-6:30
pm PST

Online & in-person | $5-$20 donation or enroll for free w/ promo code FREE: https://bit.ly/4gEvCp2

This year has just begun and already it feels like we’re being pushed further beyond our limits by the events in our country and our world.

Our nervous systems are triggered and we find ourselves reacting to every media blip without a chance to mindfully reflect and respond.

What tools do we have to navigate this turmoil when it feels like we have little to no control? How can we refer to ancient teachings to guide us from elevated stress and uncertainty to experience resilience by way of our inner-knowingness?

Whether we choose to look the other way or become a changemaker, our actions make a difference.

Join Swami Ramananda and Marc Morozumi for a lively and grounding discussion to explore, consider and choose how we make our way through the endless chaos in our world.
Everyone is welcome to stay for tea and light snacks afterwards.

Satsang offers an opportunity to come together to share spiritual teachings. Although our spiritual paths may diverge, the act of sharing spiritual teachings with others is inspiring. All are welcome.

02/22/2025

Are you an American Jew that’s open to learning more about the political powers in Israel that have been supported by our fax dollars for decades? Have you been seeking more community around what it means to speak out against crimes in our name and how we can become a voice for humanity and not a weapon of harm?

Join tomorrow’s documentary and discussion series sponsored by IfNotNow Bay Area - IfNotNow is an American Jewish activist group that opposes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. INN recognizes that Palestinian liberation is intertwined with Jewish liberation.

DM for full details and to register.

02/22/2025

Tomorrow at Mukunda Studio:
Gogoflow’s Serenity Sunday Flow
Sunday, February 23
4:30-5:30pm
Details and register:
(Click Linktree in her bio)

Excited to welcome Gogo back to the studio to share her fun classes. Tomorrow’s class is part of a monthly series. Check out details, register and learn more about gogoflow:

02/16/2025

Save the date!
Spring Renewal Well-being Fair
Saturday, March 15
12noon-5pm
Harvey Milk Center for the Arts
Food and drink sonsorship by Rainbow Grocery
All are welcome to this FREE event!
Registration opens tomorrow!!

Mukunda Studio presents, in collaboration with TendWell Collective, our 10th seasonal Well-being Fair!! We highlight a diverse group of practitioners who will share information and services to support, educate and inspire your journey of well-being. Short group classes (indoor and outdoor), conversation circles, 1:1 connections with practitioners, healer’s marketplace and all you’ve come to enjoy at our fairs will welcome you.

We expand a perspective beyond the wellness industry to remind everyone that our well-being is our birthright. Ultimately, there’s nothing you must purchase or take from the outside in order to be well - it’s more of a process of tuning yourself to find your unique station. And sometimes, we need inspiration and support to find that!

This event is a call to individual and collective well-being that acknowledges our interdependence with all sentient beings - this is crucial for an equitable world. The message of “us versus them” has created reasons to use fear as a method of control. When our inner teacher can witness inequality and oppression, we more readily understand the potential of our true nature of harmony and equality. We see beyond the story of safety through supremacy and work to build safety through solidarity, recognition through collaboration.

If you’re interested and would like to get involved in our SF Well-being Fairs as a practitioner, sponsor or volunteer, please DM and let’s collaborate!

02/14/2025

Mukunda Studio: Celebrating 5 Years!!!
Soft opening: February 14, 2020
Anticipated Grand Opening: March 21, 2020 :)

To my private clients/office groups, public group class students, volunteers, teacher subs, studio renters, Well-being Fair team - sponsors - practitioners, amazing landlord, coaches, studio deities and SOMA West neighborhood:
Thank you for an inspired journey that keeps going! YOU are what makes this possible and I am forever grateful!

-Marc Morozumi
Mukunda Studio founder and owner

Celebrate by

Group pics in order shown and in order of how Mukunda Studio came to be:

1. Integral Yoga SF - Saturday morning class - 2009-2020. Deepest gratitude for being a loving family that made me the teacher I am today. :]

2. M Spa Yoga by Yogamukunda - 2017-2019. Huge thanks to Andrew, owner of M Spa for helping me create my first Yoga space.

3. The Yoga Loft @ MX3 Fitness 2019-2020. Massive thank you to Glenn and Dave for building a partnership that helped me grow!

4. Mukunda Yoga 2020, became Mukunda Studio 2020-Present. Highest regard to Tim, owner of 1250 Folsom for believing in this dream!

Remaining slides: Mukunda Studio community

Read this week’s blog by Marc:
“Guidance from Something Greater”

Excerpts:

Rarely is the path ahead one that we can completely predict. We may certainly have visions of what it will look and feel like, but the nature of life is that there will always be twists and turns that have us redefine what and how we live and follow our dreams…

…We are in another phase of very troubling times. I don’t wish to add to the startling news that compounds each day, attempting to confuse, overwhelm and misinform us. I do wish to offer a way for us to expand the aperture of perspective and let in more light.

…just as we understand a dog barks and a cat meows, colonialism disregards anyone living on land that they desire. Let’s consider, as human beings with capacity to transform, we don’t have to keep following this. We can create safety through solidarity. Let’s imagine we can shift, evolve and love more, one day at a time...

Link in bio for full blog or head to mukundastudio.com and click on “Off the mat blogs”

01/04/2025

Tomorrow! Mukunda Studio re-opens after a short holiday break - It’s time to discover or recommit to Yoga and well-being in 2025!

With all that continues and lies ahead in our world, it’ll be wise to find some way to be in supportive community as you navigate the highs and lows as they ebb and flow. Establishing a relationship with something that is constant, unchangeable and personal provides a grounding point amidst all the fluctuations and challenges. Whether that constant has a name or is nameless, is located in time or is timeless, it is always there with unconditional love and compassion.

First Hatha class with Marc:

Hatha Foundations
9:30-10:50am PT
In-person at Mukunda Studio or livestream

Link to register in bio

This is a perfect class for anyone new to Yoga, for those who’ve even disliked Yoga in the past and a forever useful class for those with longstanding practices. Based on the Integral Yoga tradition, this class encourages mindful movements and experiences around body, breath, mind and spirit. The practice is about finding the right amount of effort and ease in each posture while experiencing the arc of the class moving from identification of the gross, physical body to awareness and connection with the powerful, subtle body. We meet ourselves on the mat so that we have time and space to collaborate and coordinate with our own energy system. Then, we apply this to the other 22+ hours in the day. That’s the approach here versus only focusing on getting good on your mat. And it’s all learning about this life else we wouldn’t be in these bodies!

Take the leap and imagine building in a regular practice to support your nervous system, your personal and interpersonal relationships and overall well-being. Check out pricing for in-person and livestream packages in bio or at mukundastudio.com/group-class-pricing/
New student Incentive: 3-pack for $36!!! (Single class regularly $28)

Picture details: 12/31/24- Marc’s Tuesday 9am Hatha Flow in-person and livestream - last class of 2024!

12/16/2024

Our Winter Wonder Well-being Fair was WONDER-full!! So grateful for the beautiful sharing and service by our Winter Wonder practitioner team: , , , , .witch, , , , , , and Swami Ramananda - Director of . And massive appreciation to and for grant support and for sponsoring our food and beverages. Thank you for capturing photos, for managing the entrance check-in and The Stevebros for overseeing the food.

The Well-being Fairs are presented by in collaboration with and occur at the turn of each season to celebrate each equinox and solstice. We’ve presented 70 different practitioners over our 2-years of 9 fairs!! This winter solstice gathering was a gift to our past practitioners as well as a welcome to any practitioner who might be interested in collaborating on our 2025 fairs. We’re always searching for fellow practitioners who feel inspired by this work:

Mission Statement
Our mission is to empower our attendees with direct knowledge, practical tools, and collective experiences that promote physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We approach this event in collaboration and commit to an inclusive environment to celebrate health, diversity, and self-dignity for all people regardless of race, age, gender, class, or sexual orientation. We request that practitioners we work with are aligned with this mission.

We are especially grateful for all who contributed to and connected with our Grief Altar of Peace and Solidarity. So much work to be done in this world and we don’t go at it alone. Taking time to rest, recharge and reflect individually and collectively are the ways to make progress and real change.

May our work ripple inwards towards our ancestors and outwards to our divided world. May the healing of our trauma, and transformation of our suffering become the inspiration that helps dispel all misunderstandings. May it move us to be the changemakers who seek liberation not just for some, but for all sentient beings.

12/12/2024

Spaces are filling up for our Winter Wonder Well-being Fair! This is a practitioner-centered event presented by in collaboration with . Big thanks to and and for recognizing the value of this event with sponsorship and grant funding. 🙏

THIS Saturday
12noon-5pm

We’re providing a FREE event for those who are writers, teachers, therapists, thought-leaders, coaches, change-makers, artists, and activist. If your livelihood is in service to individual and collective well-being, we want to offer this event to you. Gather in a nurturing environment for a day to rest, recharge and reflect. Let this be a day to receive, revive and realign! Group sessions, Conversation Circles, Creativity Zone, Grief Altar for Peace and Solidarity and more!

Head to link in bio to register and see the schedule for the day or visit sfwellbeingfair.com

We’re planning our 2025 year and seeking to expand our practitioner family for future seasonal fairs - 4 times a year. Come for a day to enjoy and experience our fair! Then join our mission of helping to support and promote the message that well-being is our birthright! In a world that is trying hard to divide us, to convince us of corrupt narratives and switch the victim for the offender , our work to advocate for collective well-being is evermore important.

We promote the topic of well-being as a path of discovery and alignment that’s based on intrinsic values versus external marketing and messaging. Wellness is a wonderful thing but sometimes it feels like a narrow corridor meant only for some. Wellness may sound like there’s something to do or buy when well-being is a truth to awaken from within. Inspiration from wellness resources may help, as well as conversations, practices and rest. We believe that our true well-being is recognized when we welcome the view that we aren’t completely well until everyone is well. We aren’t free until everyone is free. When we find our calling, our contribution, our connections, we find our purpose to on this planet!

What is your understanding of well-being? What helps support you and your overall well-being?

12/06/2024

Meet !! Saeeda Hafiz will be joining our upcoming Well-being Fair as a practitioner.

Winter Wonder Well-being Fair
Saturday, December 14
12noon-5pm
Free event for fellow practitioners!
In-person or live-streamed
Location: Mukunda Studio
Register with link in bio

Saeeda’s workshop:
“Beyond the ikigai: Find and Activate Your Sweet Spot.” Ikigai is a Japanese concept that offers guidance on life purpose. Hear why this will be particularly beneficial for our practitioner community. Join for a pause button to dive in more deeply to meaning and purpose as we navigate life at this pivotal moment.

About:
Saeeda Hafiz is a yoga teacher, author, & wellness expert with certifications from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, and the Natural Gourmet Institute. She is also a graduate of Temple University. As a holistic health educator, she focuses on sharing her knowledge of physical and mental wellness with diverse groups. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has appeared on various podcasts, radio, and television programs as well as being featured in several national and regional publications. Her public speaking engagements have educated the public in yoga, holistic nutrition, and healthy living from coast to coast. She’s been a certified yoga instructor and holistic nutrition educator for more than 25 years.

Stay tuned for more intros to meet our practitioner team for our WWWBF!

12/03/2024

Announcing our first practitioner focused Well-being Fair! A free event for teachers, therapists, healers, coaches, artists, activists and all who dedicate their livelihood to providing services within our communities near and far. We have a special day planned to provide space to rest, recharge and reflect on the year while preparing for 2025 as a collective.

Register for in-person or livestream at sfwellbeingfair.com or use link in bio.

Stress and overwhelm cause us to react to life experiences in ways we would choose differently if we felt safe and grounded. World events that are obvious crimes against humanity, which would seem impossible to become normalized, become so because we are too busy being wound up by the mechanisms of capitalism. Though we may never fully untangle, it may be possible to unravel enough to find our common thread to humanity and be a force for good rather than one of the endless beings on shuffle and repeat. Thinking we are hopelessly stuck or acting as though it doesn’t matter gives our power away. Responding with a conscious mind that can envision equality, liberation and real peace for all, awakens our true potential in this lifetime. Doing this in a community of likeminded seekers adds a dimension of possibility that we must harness in these dark moments of our history.

Join to nourish your overall well-being and receive calm inspiration on this day from our fellow group of skilled practitioners. You deserve this gift on this Winter Solstice journey of closing down 2024 with mindful self-care. Register ASAP - limited to 50 in-person tickets (livestream unlimited!). Stay tuned to meet our practitioner team for the Winter Wonder Well-being Fair! Register link in bio.

11/18/2024

We had a fun tech run - for the upcoming screening and panel discussion for a Bay Area screening of - Shredding the Silence on Menopause - PBS documentary.

Sunday, November 24th
2-4:30pm In-person or livestream
Mukunda Studio
1250 Folsom Street, 2nd Floor
Register with link in bio
Please share with your communities!

Join us for a feature-length documentary film that centers on the lived experiences of women across the U.S.. After the documentary, we will have a panel discussing the physical, mental, and spiritual transitions brought by menopause. Tea and vegetarian/vegan snacks will be served.

Panelists:
Fiona Brandon, MPS, MA, MFT
Brenna Geehan, ERYT, CFNC
Jennifer Boyd, Physician Associate, Ecopsychologist, Functional Medicine

11/17/2024

Announcing our 1st Well-being Fair dedicated for our past and future practitioners! Save the date:

Winter Wonder Well-being Fair
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Mukunda Studio
12noon-5pm

This season, to honor the Winter Solstice, we invite practitioners who are teachers, therapists, healers, coaches, lecturers, artists, activists, philosophers, writers and more to receive the benefits of a dedicated, practitioner-focused event.

This is an afternoon set-aside to our past and future SF Well-being Fair practitioners for self-nourishment and collective motivation for healing. We want to give you the opportunity to recharge your most important resource - YOU!

We see our December event as a way to support our Bay Area practitioner community at large! More than ever, community building will be what supports our individual and collective well-being when forces are working hard to divide us. We are stronger together and can more easily raise the healing vibration together.

We have a soothing day in the works that we hope you’ll set aside as a retreat day and stay for the afternoon. From sound healing and Yoga Nidra, to mini-workshops and conversation circles and more. We aim to “Empower the Movers of Human Kindness” by helping to inspire personal and collective healing. Collaboration is the key and being in a mindful community is the foundation.

Register ASAP. We are limiting this event to 50 practitioners. We offer our Well-being Fairs 4 times a year - an event at the turn of each season. Our Winter Wonder Well-being Fair is dedicated to support those who dedicate their time supporting others! Please share and consider making a donation to our events. Head to the website and register with links in bio.

11/13/2024

With the recent violence in Amsterdam related to the football match, it might be a helpful moment to get more understanding of the character of the military state of Israel alongside western dominance. Why does it have such power with impunity and skillful methods to direct the narrative? Understanding the manipulation strategy of DARVO brings more light on how offenders can reverse the narrative to be seen as the victims.

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Back for a 2nd screening, Mukunda Studio continues Movie Nights to present Israelism and other thought-provoking films that are followed by community discussions. Mukunda Studio founder and owner Marc Morozumi is a gay, mixed-race Japanese/Ashkenazi anti-Zionist Jew raised by a Jewish mom and Jewish step-dad in Cincinnati, OH. Having been raised with the Zionist narrative and a strong grip on the dominant western narrative, Marc didn’t begin to deeply question the facts until about 15 years ago.

Since October 7th, Marc has taken a deep-dive into understanding settler colonialism along with the imperative of Palestinian liberation which is intertwined with Jewish liberation. He has come to recognize the inspirational roots of cultural Zionism by Jews suffering from antisemitism in the late 1800’s versus the political Zionism that choked away any virtue and has escalated today, being responsible for the Palestinian genocide in Gaza.

You’ll be welcomed to the studio with our signature decaf vegan chai as we get the evening started. Followed by the option to enjoy appetizers or a vegetarian meal during the movie! Food catered by Bay of Burma (New local Burmese restaurant).

Register - link in bio
6:30-7pm: Decaf vegan chai welcome
7-8:30pm: Israelism Film Screening and appetizer or dinner
8:30-9:15pm: Optional discussion

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*Additional pricing for food:
Appetizer: Burmese Samusas: $12
Dinner: Burmese meal (Vegan stew, tea leaf salad, samusa): $30

11/11/2024

TLP Talks Return!
Truth, Liberation, Peace
Free Weekly Discussion Group
Starting tomorrow Monday - 11/11/24
5:30-6:30pm - In-person or livestream
Mukunda Studio

With the results of the election, it feels like a return of a gathering space for conversation is needed. TLP Talks originated in November of 2023 in response to the events in Israel/Palestine on October 7th. This traumatic event (which as we know did not start on 10/7) required deep understanding, research and conversation to fully comprehend how such an event could happen.

After months of gathering together, we return to continue to process our grief, frustrations, misperceptions and paths forward. We need time and safe spaces to remember our common goals versus the ones that separate us. Navigating safely through our emotions, creating space for unlearning and relearning together is where our personal and collective healing lives. The answers are in the conversation!

All are welcome as we navigate the difficult conversations where our goal is to come together for support, understanding and unity for the sake of taking action where we can. Join in-person or livestream on zoom. Register with link in bio.

10/29/2024

THIS Thursday - Celebrate the Festival of Lights - Diwali - 3rd annual celebration!
Sliding Scale: $35-$50
10/31 - 6-8:30pm
Diwali meets Halloween!
Register link in bio

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6-6:30pm: Decaf vegan chai welcome
6:30-7pm: Guided meditation by Marc Morozumi
7-7:30pm: Puja (light ritual) by
7:30-8:30pm: Festive Meal - Tara Indian Cuisine
(Vegetarian/vegan)
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At a time when darkness seems to be prevailing, we do well to pause and remember that the Light always prevails. It feels more and more that we’re at a time when our resources within the material world are not making a difference while genocide is able to happen. It seems outrageous that so many could be convinced this is just what needs to happen to bring peace and safety to a region and to the world. The message that seems to be promoted is that “the politically correct thing to do is to look away and not talk about Palestine.” (Roughly quoted from one of the speakers at a film screening last night of “Ahmad Alive” by .palestine.) But more than ever, Palestine’s 76-year old story is being shared and made into a global conversation. Humanity’s true colors are coming forward. Shifts in our material-bound minds are moving closer to realizing there is a spiritual solution.

Add to this intense time, we’re one week from elections - a race that is painfully too close for comfort and a humble mark of our collective journey in our USA and beyond. This is what we have to show for our advanced, civilized world?

Join for a night in community as we make space for our grief. Bring your anxiety, your overwhelm, your stress and let it be transmuted while you resource and truly connect with your well-being. It’s from this grounded place that there is real hope for change. We will pause to consider what can we do as individuals and communities to help move away from all current day genocides and all crimes against humanity. How can we be movers of Light when there is so much darkness? How can knowledge help dispel ignorance? How does good always saturate evil?

Mukunda Studio is a rentable, Yoga and well-being space in West SOMA. We are a 1-flight walk up and shoes off space.

10/28/2024

Yoga class under the disco pig! Great sharing class in the Folsom Street Events space. The special moments when the light hit the disco pig felt magical and gave our practice a whole new disco dimension. Grateful for our West SOMA community and for everyone’s flexibility with having classes away from the studio this wknd.

As we continue to manage the stress we’re carrying while living on this planet, and witnessing the unbearable horrors across the world, how do we go along with our usual day to day and disregard the anguish? Adding in time to remember the call of humanity and the reminder of our collective experience may help us move away from distractions and lead us towards right actions. And with election week coming up, this week is a good week to get to a Yoga class!

Move your body, steady your breath, direct your mind and make your best choices. A mindful life can be a practice of letting go of the stuck places in the mind and moving ahead with the self that can be most clear and focused in order to be of best service to self and others.

All are welcome!
Tuesdays:
8am meditation w/Shundo
9am Hatha flow w/Marc
6pm Hatha alignment w/Stacey
Register on Mukunda Studio schedule
Link in bio

10/14/2024

Since 1992, the Bay Area recognizes Indigenous Peoples Day! Let’s reflect on the world impact of having avoided honoring this day for 500 years. Not all states include this recognition on/instead of Columbus Day. The 100 cities that do celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day “say he (Columbus) brought genocide and colonization to communities that had been in the Americas for thousands of years.” -nytimes.com/article/indigenous-peoples-day.html

We are built on traditions and stories that only evolve when we take a closer look at the effects from all sides involved and accept our wrongdoings. Much of our curated, American history has focused on powers that dominated, promoting advancement of the modern world. And what America hadn’t widely admitted until 500 years later was that it happened by brutal destruction and an attempt to erase the history of people who lived on the land prior, the indigenous people. So do we erase recognition of Columbus and all that has come from this evolution? Or do we include this as part of our very messy journey of realizing our wrongs and making them right? Do we learn from past harms by confessing them? Do we speak of the full story as the wisdom of America rather than promoting a prideful story that by being half-told becomes a false history?

Many leaders follow this greedy, fear-based mindset of genocide to make way for a “civilized world.” This moves us away from the deeply rooted intelligence of these stewards of land who see their relationship as one of collaboration versus ownership and takeover. The idea of colonization has become so normalized that we have current day genocides and people who justify these by using supremacy for safety, ancient religious reference and/or industrialization. Are we better off having become so far removed from respecting the people and land who work in tandem with each other? Are we healthier, safer, wiser, more advanced? Or simply better equipped to ignore crimes against humanity?

Let’s pause and honor ourselves as visitors of this 4.5 billion year old planet and elevate our indigenous family for helping us not forget who we are and where we come from. May we speak out and heal together.

09/27/2024

THIS Sunday, 9/29 during Folsom Street Fair, and return to Mukunda Studio to offer Sensual Haven - an extraordinary retreat to engage your five senses.

Sensual Haven
Mukunda Studio
1250 Folsom Street, 2nd floor walk-up
12noon-5pm
Shoes OFF - Clothing ON space! :)
Enjoy a respite from the street fair
Respect each other’s safety and boundaries
Enjoy time to chill or mindfully connect w/others

Let your senses be redirected from all the external energy and take a moment to direct your attention inward. Come up and enjoy our tranquil oasis for a while and head back out when you feel resourced and recharged!

Wombat Mental Health Services will activate Mukunda Studio with interactive areas including: 1. sound explorations: sound bowls, chimes, relaxing music, 2. crafts and creative writing, 3. aromatherapy and mindful breathing, 4. tactile sensory experiences with fabrics, textures, 5. taste sampling electrolyte waters, candy and more!

From Wombat MHS:
“At Wombat, we know that sexual liberation is key to total liberation, and we’re all about centering BIPOC and LGBTQA2I+ communities in everything we do. We’re back to help you break stigmas, build connections, and indulge in the freedom to be exactly who you are.”

This is a free event, open to all who feel called and connected to this welcoming space. We look forward to welcoming you for an exhilarating day!

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