News + Press
Balanced Rock Press Kit
Balanced Rock in the Press
2022
Article Mention | CW Healing – Nature, Yoga & Financial Freedom by Yosemite | Highway 120 Chamber of Commerce
Featured in Taylor’s Tracks | “12 Best Online Yoga Teacher Training Courses (For Every Budget)”
2021
Feature Article in LA YOGA Magazine | “Online Can Be Divine: Lessons Learned in Online Yoga Teacher Training” by Paula Wild
Feature Article in LA YOGA Magazine | “Visiting Wild Places with Mindfulness” by Heather Sullivan
Feature Article in Gripped Magazine | “Balanced Rock: Sharing Yoga, Meditation and Wellness from Yosemite” by Chris Van Leuven
Feature Article in LA YOGA Magazine | “Mindfulness and Rollercoasters of Emotion” by Paula Wild
Blog & Podcast | F-Stop, Collaborate and Listen: “Robb Hirsch — Curiosity of the Natural World — Photographing Yosemite” by Matt Payne
2020
Podcast | “When Women Fly: Connecting Nature & Spirit with Eliza Kerr – Climber, Surfer, Ayurvedic Specialist
Feature Article by Ashley Harrell | SFGate.com
LA YOGA’s Teacher Training Guide | Dec/Jan Issue
Esalen Course Catalog | Spring/Summer Issue
2019
Outside Online | mentioned in article “AutoCamp Brings Glamping to Yosemite”
Yoga International magazine | Advertorial piece in the 2019 Summer Edition (print edition, see publication below
2018
North Face Japan | Autumn/Winter Issue
2017
Travel & Leisure Magazine | 10 Female-focused Travel Companies to Know
2015
Yosemite Vacation Planner | Featured in the Relaxation Section.
06.2013
Backpacker Magazine | Nirvana Now! | Read this funny, irreverent article here.
03.2012
Balanced Rock launches Wild Yoga Teacher Training in Yosemite National Park: 200-hour Yoga Alliance-certified course incorporates nature and ecology with yoga
06.2011
Yoga Journal | Call of the Wild: Climb, Paddle, or Surf Your Way to Bliss on a Yoga Adventure
05.2011
Mariposa Gazette: Celebrated Yoga Instructor Leads Fundraiser in El Portal
05.2011
Outdoor Afro: Black Women DO Camp – Experience Yosemite This Summer!
05.2011
Celebrated Anusara Yoga Instructor Noah Mazé to Lead Local Memorial Day Fundraiser
Join donation-based fundraiser and silent auction on Monday, May 30 from 9:00am-11:00am at the El Portal Community Hall. Funds to benefit Balanced Rock scholarship funds.
04.2011 | Yosemite Gateway Partners Newsletter: Spotlight on Balanced Rock
03.2011
Women of Color Going Backpacking – Oh Yeah!
Article written for Oakland Local and shared by Outdoor Afro
07.2009
Wild Diversity
Article in elephantjournal.com
10.2004
Backpacker Magazine: Diversity Takes a Hike
Wild Women Workshops (later renamed Balanced Rock) led the country’s first women-of-color backcountry trek in Yosemite National Park with the help of an REI grant.
05.2003
Yoga Journal: A Trek on the Wild Side
The moving story that highlights the creation of Wild Women’s Workshops (later renamed Balanced Rock) after the untimely death of a local Yosemite Institute instructor.