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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Morning Yoga
2028-02-02 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-03-01 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-04-05 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-05-03 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-06-07 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-07-05 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-08-02 09:00 - 22:30, 2028-09-06 09:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA, 90038, United States
YOGA CLASSES- Hollywood

Hollywood Forever Cemetery presents Morning Yoga Classes every day but Friday starting at 9:30am. In Buddhist and Hindu teachings, the Graveyard, or Charnal grounds, is a favored place of practice where yogis must confront our mortal destiny, our fear of death, and our aversion to impermanence.

In the Summer of 2020, as our favorite indoor Yoga studios were forced to close and we found ourselves less compliant in ZOOM classes, a few of us started coming to Hollywood Forever to practice safely together in the mornings.
We are now honored to offer this experience to all yogis, from beginners to advanced, looking to deepen their practice in a safe outdoor setting with green grass and quacking ducks.
We practice on the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Fairbanks Lawn, where Cinespia movies are screened, so there is ample space to spread out and safely distance as you enrich your practice with our sangha community.

Attendance Tips:Cost: Donation based
Parking: FREE! Park anywhere alongside the lawn. Please drive slowly as the property is home to peacocks, cats, and many other furry and feathered creatures.
Experience: All levels welcome!
Bring: Mat/Towel/Water & Sunscreen. Make sure you have a towel to place under your mat as the morning lawns can be dewy.
Safety: Give yourself plenty of social distance – we have room to spare so spread out. Please wear a mask until you are on your mat.
Rain = No Class
*Please complete your Yoga Liability Waiver online click here.

Class Descriptions:
Vinyasa Flow is a style of yoga characterized by a series of postures (asanas) arranged together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. Expect a work out.
Silent DiscoOHM Yoga is a Vinyasa Flow class with the added feature of personal headphones for each yogi to hear music and the teacher’s guidance. You and your classmates will share your own intimate world of sound curated by Erica.
Kundalini Yoga is the ancient combination of postures (Asana) with breath-work (Pranayama), meditation (Dhyana), and word/sound repetition (Mantra) to achieve Bliss (Samadhi). We do not venerate gurus or teachers of the yogic past, instead seeking the guru within each of us. Above all, we are committed to the ancient yogic principle of Ahimsa – non-harming – with compassion as our guiding principle.

Hours
Monday: 9:00am – 10:15am
Tuesday: 9:00am – 10:15am
Wednesday: 9:00am – 10:30am
Thursday: 9:00am – 10:15am
Friday: no yoga
Saturday: 9:00am – 10:05am
Sunday: 9:00am – 10:00am

For additional information, visit the website @
https://hollywoodforever.com/yoga-schedule/

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Hike To The Hollywood Sign
2028-02-10, 2028-03-09, 2028-04-13, 2028-05-11 | CA, United States
HIKING TO THE SIGN
The Hollywood Sign is the most famous icon of the city of Los Angeles, and there are three routes below ranked from easy to difficult. The Mt Hollywood Trail, The Brush Canyon Trail, and The Cahuenga Peak Trail (currently closed)

Stunning views of the Hollywood Sign unfold at your own pace on hiking trails that meander through the rolling chaparral of the Santa Monica Mountains. Trails originally blazed by paws, hooves, and yucca-thatched moccasins now connect us to cultural as well as natural wonders. The western frontier of Griffith Park offers hikers amazingly close encounters with the Sign, which is off-limits to human hands, just below the ridgeline at the 1,708-foot summit of Mt. Lee. On the longest hike, you can ascend above and behind the Sign’s 45-foot-tall aluminum letters, where you look out over a windswept vista encompassing the DOOWYLLOH sign, the dreamy towers of downtown Los Angeles, and, on a clear day, the ageless blue Pacific.

From behind, the Sign reads DOOWYLLOH
Authorized hiking trails are open the same hours as Griffith Park, from Sunrise to Sunset, 365 days a year. While enjoying hiking, please stay on authorized trails.
Please beware of the extreme fire danger on the trails, parts of which are still recovering after a devastating wildfire in 2007. Trespassing is illegal. A LAPD officer is stationed near the Sign, which is protected by a fence and security cameras 24 hours a day. Thank you.

Easy Way:
The Mt. Hollywood Trail,
offering a mind-bending side-angle view of the Sign, has two starting points in Griffith Park, the 6.5 square miles of protected wilderness AKA the heart and lungs of Los Angeles (Hours: Sunrise – Sunset). The shorter loop hike of about three miles starts at Griffith Observatory’s parking lot, which is free and fills up early on weekends.
A slightly longer and steeper trail with fewer people starts on a fire road intersecting N. Vermont Canyon Rd., just past the Greek Theater, where hardy hikers find plenty of street parking.

The Charlie Turner Trailhead marker

The most popular route up Mt. Hollywood, the second highest peak in the park, is suitable for families with children. It begins at the Charlie Turner Trailhead, named to honor a longtime park volunteer. You can use the restrooms at the Observatory and ask a park ranger about conditions on the trail. Summer can be scorching up there, so be sure and carry plenty of water. Sandals and flip-flops are not the best footwear in snake country. The trailhead sign and landscaping are at the north end of the Observatory parking lot. The hike begins with a short, easy ascent along a ridge.
Look for the Mt. Hollywood trailhead sign and landscaping at the north end of the Observatory parking lot. The hike (where leashed dogs are legal but unleashed ones common) isn’t likely to cross paths with P-22, the mountain lion that traversed two freeways to take up residence in the wilds of Griffith Park in 2012. Start walking up a short, easy ascent along a ridge through authentic wild chaparral where you may spot purple and orange wildflowers in the spring and red Toyon berries on California Holly bushes in the fall. In less than a half- mile, you come upon a cooling grove of pine trees called the Berlin Forest, planted by real Berliners to honor their sister-city status with Los Angeles. There are tables and benches, and a beautiful view of the Hollywood Sign framed by pine boughs. Be on the lookout year-round for Zorro-masked Mountain Chickadees in the conifers and orange and yellow flame-headed Western Tanagers in the scrub.

The entrance to Dante’s View
After another gently up-sloped half-mile, you reach a four-way crossroads. The left fork goes around the west side of Mt. Hollywood toward a rest stop called Captain’s Roost. The right fork leads around the east side to a well-kept “folk” garden called Dante’s View. The Friends of Griffith Park have recently been planting and nurturing more native plants around the rest stop gardens, which were severely burned in 2007. Both provide shade (there’s also a water fountain at Dante’s View) and restorative views of the Observatory and the city to the south and the Hollywood Sign to the west. The 1,625-foot Mt. Hollywood summit is about one-quarter mile beyond both stops and consists of a coastal sage scrubby knob with protective railing. The slightly cockeyed view of the letters in the Hollywood Sign is from a perspective just a few degrees off dead center, and almost directly at eye level. READ MORE

MODERATE:
The Brush Canyon Trail,
also part of Griffith Park, features a fun side trip to Adam West’s Bat Cave, home of the Batmobile in the 60’s Batman TV series. Locals know it as Bronson Caves, and there’s a small parking lot close to the trailhead on Canyon Drive and an overflow dirt parking lot just down the road. The trail offers sensational views of the city and ends behind the Hollywood Sign. The old rock quarry tunnel has figured in many movies, from 1925’s Riders of the Purple Sage to 2010’s Megashark vs. Crocosaurus.

A view from the Brush Canyon Trail. hike

The 6.5-mile trail to the Sign climbs more than a thousand feet through several healthy ecosystems, so hikers need to give it three hours and carry plenty of water. If there aren’t too many unleashed dogs, you might see mule deer, bobcats, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Look up for Cooper’s Hawks soaring in the thermals over the Sign and down for honeybees probing the wildflowers. READ MORE
NOTE: Reservations are NOT currently required on this hike. However, access might be closed off during the day depending on overcrowding.

DIFFICULT:CLOSED
The Cahuenga Peak Hike,
across a short saddle from Mt. Lee, runs through the latest 138-acre addition to Griffith Park and offers wide angle views of the Hollywood Reservoir and the San Fernando Valley. Suitable for the more experienced hiker, it begins on the Aileen Getty Ridge Trail and includes the Hugh Hefner Overlook, both named for two of the many benefactors and community activists who raised the money to save the land from a luxury housing development in 2012.

The trail is more rugged and less defined than the Canyon Blvd. trail. It includes the famous Wisdom Tree and traverses an area where the park’s resident mountain lion, P-22, has been spotted (usually after dark when the park is closed). The trail is open from sunrise to sunset. READ MORE
Hours
Open Daily: Sunrise – Sunset

For additional information, visit the website @
hollywoodsign.org/hiking-to-the-sign/

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Saturday Stairs at The Hollywood Bowl
2028-02-19 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-03-18 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-04-15 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-05-20 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-06-17 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-07-15 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-08-19 08:00 - 10:00, 2028-09-16 08:00 - 10:00 and 5 more dates | The Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA, 90068, United States
EVERY SATURDAY- Hollywood Bowl
DID YOU KNOW? The Hollywood Bowl is a public park. On days that there is no performances, it is open to the public from sunrise to sunset. Which makes it a perfect place to develope your stair master skills. So Get to Steppin’. And every Saturday you can join the group Saturday Stairs, us as we workout together.
Free Fitness Group – All Levels
Running Stairs and Hills – Doing Body Weight Exercises
Every Saturday – 8am – Hollywood Bowl

For additional information, visit the website @
facebook.com/saturdaystairs

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