✦ A new home at 1234 Valencia Street ✦
Dearest Lotusland — students, friends and family, neighbors and beautiful beings everywhere!
We are so excited to FINALLY announce that we're spreading our wings down the block to our gorgeous new nest at 1234 Valencia Street — two practice rooms, a new Wellness Wing, a Tea Lounge and Lending Library — to make the transformative practices of Yoga accessible to ALL. With your support, we can empower more unique people to become the happiest and healthiest versions of themselves, in a community of diversity where we see the best of being human.
Can you help us keep our vision and special space alive, and touch more people's lives and inspire even more waves of transformation and healing throughout our city?
A message from Jasmine & Zoë
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✦ The Lotusland mission, in the Mission ✦
Our mission is to make the timeless practices of Yoga accessible to all, in an intentionally inclusive and intimate space dedicated to offering you more personal attention and fostering community connection. We want to keep our sliding-scale system in place, and believe in the idea of equity — for those who have a little more to pay what they can, and for those who have less to pay what they can.
In our 3 years as a culturally diverse, women-owned and operated San Francisco sanctuary for physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing and education, we've seen people of all ages from all walks of life become healthier and happier and more at peace with themselves in the midst of the infinite challenges we face. With Yoga En Español, Community Yoga for Youth and Pre-Natal, Love Saves the Day benefit classes to support non-profits and causes, along with BIPOC and work-trade Scholarship Programs for our Yoga Teacher Trainings — we are cultivating confident healers and leaders to serve their communities with love.
The new center is also home to the Lotusland Yoga School — our teacher trainings, workshops, immersions and continuing education, with apprenticeship, volunteer and employment pathways that turn students into teachers and teachers into leaders. And it is a true community center: a neighborhood gathering place for kirtan and live music, benefit classes, celebrations, book club in the Lending Library, and tea in the Lounge — a space for our Mission community to come together, on and off the mat.
This will be so much more than a studio — we are creating a center for organizing, serving and uplifting our city. For every beautiful being we impact, we know we generate a ripple of change that can reach their families, communities, and society to spread more beauty, love and light into our world — especially during such tumultuous times, when we need these practices and each other the most.
✦ Beautiful beings everywhere ✦
Every gift co-creates the space
Please donate what you can! Every amount from $10 – $10,000 will be so deeply appreciated to help meet our goal. This Yoga Center is for YOU — choose the way that feels right for you.
Our preliminary urgent fundraising goal of $50,000 by September 1st is to help with the construction costs of our two beautiful practice rooms — walls and doors, electrical re-wiring and lighting, permits, contractor, architect and permitting costs, the Iyengar rope wall, and our trademark murals with the beautiful artwork of local artist Twin Walls Mural.
Whether you live in San Francisco, practice Yoga or not — we know we can do this together.
Please join us, and spread the word by sharing this link with anyone you know that can help.
✦ One of the most direct ways to contribute ✦
Sign up as a Lotusland member now and become a founding member of the new space — your name woven into the story of our new home from the very first day. Here's what's included:
$159 / month
✦ Donate through Lotusland & receive a gift ✦
Seven steps from Earth to Heaven — each donation rises through the chakras and comes with a gift of practice in return. Choose your element:
Our new center is almost born — and like any expecting family, we've made a registry! Every gift helps our baby grow into its new home: the blocks it will learn to stand on, the blankets that will keep it warm, the books that will fill its shelves, the rope wall it will one day climb. Claim a gift and know exactly what your love becomes — and watch the nursery fill up as our community showers it with everything it needs.
Vegan cotton warmth for savasana — 140 blankets across both rooms.
Claim a blanket →Sponsor 1 of 8 stations on our Iyengar rope wall — the anchor of the new space.
Claim a station →Fill the Lotusland Tea Lounge with cups to cozy up with before and after class.
Buy a cup →Support BIPOC & work-trade scholarships for our teacher trainings — gift as many as your heart calls for.
Gift a practice →A special series of themed benefit classes with your favorite Lotusland teachers, live music, and guest artists — each one raising funds for a specific piece of the new center, from the rope wall to the mural to scholarships.
The schedule is taking shape — check back soon. Sliding scale $108–$250 · give at the level that feels right for you.
Coming SoonTreasures donated by our community — private sessions, local art, restaurant gifts, getaways, and experiences from friends of Lotusland and our Mission neighbors. Every dollar goes straight to the new space.
Join us August 8 at the Birthday Bash Kirtan for a LIVE auction — and the grand opening of online bidding. We're gathering treasures now: see below to donate an item.
Bidding Opens 8/8We love unused goods, services, and experiences — anything that would make someone say "Ooooh!" at an auction. Think: home goods, toys, games, accessories, handmade items, bar sets, wine, show tickets, spa treatments, getaways…
Your "baked-to-order special occasion sweets"? YES. Unused holiday gifts? DOUBLE YES. That gorgeous thing you're not returning because the line is too long? ABSOLUTELY YES.
If you have something to donate — or know a business or friend who does — please submit a donation form online. Paper forms for local businesses are available too.
Questions? jasmine@lotuslandyogasf.com
Can't commit monetarily? Your time is just as sacred. Join the crew that's literally building this space and spreading the word across our neighborhood.
Join our community paint days and help create the Twin Walls mural — no art experience needed, just love.
Assembly, light construction, moving, and prep as the new space comes together.
Call our community to share the campaign, invite donations, and spread the word about events.
Walk the Mission and 24th Street with postcards and flyers — be the campaign's feet on the ground.
✦ Save the date · 8/8 Lion's Gate ✦
Save the date for our Birthday Bash on 8/8 — as the Lion's Gate portal opens, we gather to manifest this new chapter together. Our big announcement party and Kirtan with Astrud — with our raffle, a LIVE auction, and the grand opening of our online silent auction. There's no more auspicious day to set our intentions and co-create what's next — we are SO excited to celebrate this incredible news with you!
RSVP Coming Soon"It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community — a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the Earth."— Thich Nhat Hanh
Formerly Laughing Lotus Yoga Center on 16th Street, the new incarnation of our 27-year Yoga history continues — like the lotus, rising from the mud.
Ok, we know your number one question is WHEN?!?! Knowing everything takes longer — we are aiming for a big and beautiful opening celebration in early January 2027, and will share all the details as soon as they are revealed.
