The plan: A vigorous Vinyasa yoga class interwoven with ideas and energy about how to cultivate, well, your own “fearless voice,” defined here as your own unique, self-determined truth –- ideas, passions, weird syntax -- and then trusting its power out in the world, without unhealthy self-censoring or fear of bursting into flame.
As a longtime writer of provocative, often controversial satire and cultural criticism, Mark is often asked how he “gets away” with not only the things he writes about, but the wild, sexed-up, non-journalistic tone in which he writes it. How does he reconcile his sometimes outlandish persona/voice from his column and book, with the gentler, more ego-tamed world of yoga? And vice versa?
This class will explore some possible answers, as we sweat through some tight spots and specifically hone in on the third and fifth chakras (personal power and communication, respectively), offering big gratitude along the way.
Rigorous asana, followed by a short reading and a book signing.
About Mark Morford:
 Mark Morford has been practicing a fluid, energized style of Vinyasa yoga since way back 1997, and teaching since 2000. He's been blessed to study with a wonderful variety of powerful and generous teachers of a type normally name-dropped in this kind of bio, so he'll just avoid that here and merely say, he's had a wonderful ride. And it feels like it's still just beginning.
Mark’s yoga offers an athletic, challenging and often irreverent blend of focused breath and strength-building movement (asana) set to great music, all designed to invigorate the body, calm the frenzied urban mind and bring you more fully into the present moment, as you discover — or, more accurately, remember — a more profound notion of Self. His classes give you an opportunity to crack open your heart, peel away layers of urban anxiety, sweat out toxins and bad text messages, sample some divine rasa (nectar), find connection and slide through the world with more authentic grace, strength and flexibility.
For the past decade, Mark has also been an award-winning columnist and culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com. His work has appeared in multiple mainstream magazines, journals and newspapers throughout the country. He's also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. His latest book, "The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism" is a mega-compendium of his finest, funniest and most popular columns to date. |
