July is a great month to reassess the year with 6 months more to go of 2025. Have you hit your wellness goals? We found the best place to help you with that – GLOW fitness. Nothing pairs better with warm weather than a tart, refreshing drink. And no one does tart and refreshing better than cideries and meaderies. Check our list for the best in the bay. Felt art, an Eames Exhibition, and a Counterculture museum are in the mix for creations to view this month. The Orchid sale has arrived and the Corpse Flower is about to bloom. Enjoy the summer fellow tomatoes (and hope your tomatoes are ripening on the vine, just like us!)

 Want to get your GLOW on?

Whether you are taking to the mat at an advanced level or need to literally take to the mat in child’s pose for the duration of class, Glow is a space for healing and community—not judgment and competitiveness. It’s a one-stop shop for wellness, focusing on sustainable fitness for everyone through yoga classes, pilates, resistance training, and meditation, as well as workshops and offsite retreats, corporate wellness for local businesses, and spa offerings like massage, facials, red light therapy, and reiki.

Natash Ivantsova, originally from Belarus won the green card lottery while studying in Ireland. Her move to SF and several jobs, along with chronic neck pain, led Ivantsova to create the healing and movement space she is now known for. Glow Yoga and Wellness opened in March 2011, and it has been a place where welcome and wellness have coexisted ever since. “I wanted to offer spiritual yoga for all ages, a place that welcomed all levels so that everyone was included,” Ivantsova says—a commitment to access that includes offering free memberships in exchange for volunteer shifts and a 20 percent discount for anyone who makes less than $90,000 a year. On Stockton in North Beach – I will see you on the mat won’t I? GLOW WELLNESS

Cideries and Meaderies

Like breweries who turn grain into IPAs, stouts, and lagers, there isn’t just one type of cider or mead. Cideries and meaderies create a wide variety of styles using apples and honey from different orchards and gardens; if you think you’re not a fan, chances are you haven’t even scratched the surface.

Hide Run Meadery

In 2012, the owner of Heidrun Meadery began transforming an old West Marin dairy farm into a honeybee oasis. Ten years later, the honey wine purveyor in Point Reyes Station is a wonderland of flowering plants that stretch like a multihued ocean as far as the eye can see. At its center is Heidrun’s patio, where sparkling monoclonal and wildflower meads, like the succulent California Sage Blossom and the rich and complex Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Blossom, are available by the flight or the bottle. The raw material for Heidrun’s meads, honey from their bee colonies and others around the U.S., is also available at their sweet onsite mercantile. In Point Reyes. heidrunmeadery.com

Far West Cider Co

Their apples are grown on a 100-year-old, fourth-generation family farm in San Joaquin County. But it’s at the Richmond cidery where they go from innocent fruit to fermented hard ciders like the crisp and tart Nü Dry and the fresh and tropical You Guava Be Kidding Me. Crack them open at Far West’s waterfront taproom, which shares the historic Riggers Loft Wine Company building and a calendar of live music and events, with several wineries. farwestcider.com

Flora and Ferment

Located in Albany this charming cider house pours a rotating selection of small-batch ciders, meads, and hard kombuchas from all across California. With a bright and cozy ambiance, this local favorite encourages you to bring your pup and your own snacks to try their featured flavors and peruse the botanical arrangements for sale. Whether you’re a cider connoisseur or just in the mood for something refreshing, Flora and Ferment delivers an easygoing atmosphere and seriously good sips. floraandferment.com

Felted Art

For years, the artist, Masako Miki from Osaka, was fascinated by folklore – particularly a story called The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. She has been creating her own version of yōkai: colorful felted figures for a long time. The scale of Masako’s sculptures is so amazing and large that you start to become immersed. Now, for Midnight March at the Institute for Contemporary Art San Francisco, she is bringing dozens of them together—along with paintings of the night sky—to recreate the story. FELTED ART

Button Art

Buttons aren’t just utilitarian fasteners. Plunge your hand into a bucket of them, and it’s like a mini swim in a ball pit. Inn Artist Beau McCalls’ hands, they’re not mere mechanism or ornaments but the main event. “Beau McCall:  Buttons On!” In the four-decade retrospective, now in a west coast premiere at the Museum of Craft and Design, they form a bright red clawfoot bathtub that appears to be studded with jewels. They make a corset look like a jar of gumballs. They cover a pair of bubble gum pink briefs. given a seat at our Noon-5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday through Sept 14^th.  BUTTON ART

The Counterculture Museum

Opened in May 2025, this non-profit is devoted to the earth-shaking 1960s countercultural movement. Expressed through music, art, organic agriculture, protest, community-building, and other activities that directly threatened the status quo, the legacy of San Francisco in the 1960s continues to reverberate around the world. The new museum was founded not only to preserve the spirit of the 1960s, but to help inspire today’s artists and activists to keep on dreaming of a better world and pushing for social change. Artifacts and memorabilia from key events and actors of the 1960s are organized into both permanent and temporary exhibits at the Counterculture Museum. Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. On the iconic corner of Haight & Asbury. COUNTERCULTURE MUSEUM

The Corpse Flowers Are Back!

Hold your breath! The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park as announced that one of their rare super smelly “corpse flowers” is just about ready to bloom. Once it does – hurry to catch a glimpse as it only blooms for two days. Sign up to their email or follow them on social media to know when “Chanel” the Titan Arum opens her petals and lets loose that odor! CORPSE FLOWER

The Orchid Show and Orchid Sale

Get ready to immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of orchids at the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park. Orchids and other plants will be for sale from members of the San Francisco Orchid Society as well as many local, national & international nurseries. Interactive demonstrations will be conducted by experts with information about successfully growing and blooming orchids at home. The show runs from 10:00am – 5:00pm on Saturday (July 26), and from 10:00am – 4:00pm on Sunday (July 27).  ORCHID SALE