Being Yoga with Trishna

I bought a Groupon about 6 months ago for 10 yoga classes with Trishna and can’t believe how lucky I was to stumble upon her classes! The studio on Parsons is beautiful — bright, intimate, with gorgeous wood floors. Classes are typically about 2 – 5 students. If you’re tired of classes with 40 other people looking around trying to figure out how to do the pose, Trishna is for you! She always explains carefully and watches us to make sure people are doing the poses safely and correctly. She is also welcoming and accommodating of all levels.
She has a gentle flow class on Thursdays, but I prefer her regular Monday and Wednesday hatha flow classes. She typically starts with gentle stretching and some chanting. After warm-​ups, she typically goes through a series of sun salutations for about half an hour so that you’re sweating by the end. Then, on to some longer held poses and stretches until Shavasana.
Her prices are reasonable; her classes intimate, friendly, and challenging; and the space is lovely. I can’t recommend her classes enough!

I started practicing yoga with Trishna about a year ago and I couldn’t be happier with her as a teacher. I have been to other classes with different teachers where I have thought «Why am I paying for this I could get the same experience watching youtube.» This thought has NEVER happened in Trishna’s classes. Trishna’s classes are small and intimate so she is able to give each individual personal attention. She explains all the nuances of muscle movement that help me to achieve poses correctly and get the most out of my yoga practice. She keeps her classes quite varied so I always feel challenged. When I started going to her classes, I quickly realized that I was inflexible, weak, and had terrible balance, but all three of these aspects have quickly improved through her guidance and encouragement. I would strongly recommend her class!

I’m so happy to have encountered Trishna, If you are looking for a yoga teacher in the true sense of the word, she is one such person. Her knowledge, experience and ongoing relationship with the ways of yoga is manifest in her classes.
She teaches twice a week in the Richmond district of SF, as well as in Marin. The classes are small and intimate. If word gets out about Trishna, I feel she’ll need to relocate to a bigger venue. So I don’t know if I want to advertise her too much, then again, good things are best shared.
Her classes are physically and mentally invigorating and relaxing at the same time, it often feels like serious soul cleansing.
Random addendum: I’ve never been able to ride my bike ‘no hands’ before, but after taking her class just one time, I was able to ride my bike with no hands all the way back to the house!

Trishna is an extrodinary yoga teacher. I went to her Sunday 2-​hour class in Bolinas for…14 years? Until I moved to the City. I’m so stoked she is teaching a class in SF! The pace of her class starts out slow, and builds to a rigorous vinyasa practice that is an awesome workout. Then, after you are super warmed up, gentle asanas for deep stretching. Trishna has the most beautiful voice you’ve ever heard. Hopefully you go to a class where she leads a little chanting. She always shares some wisdom she has gleaned from her study of Sanskrit, and she gently applies it to our day-​to-​day lives. After Trishna’s class, you feel incredible, physically and spiritually.