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What Is Intersectionality in Yoga and Why Does It Matter?
Understanding how our identities and experiences intersect, overlap, and diverge is key to creating equitable yoga spaces.
5-Minute Meditations For Grounding, Balance, Presence, and Love
A special Daily Bliss practice series from the Live Be Yoga Experience.
Fat Shaming and Toxic Diet Culture Are Rampant in Yoga. It’s Time to Push Back
Idealizing thin, white, able-bodied "yoga bodies" harms us all. So let's shut down fat shaming and toxic diet culture in yoga spaces, once and for all.
4 Ways to Adapt High Lunge to Your Body and Needs
This foundational shape lengthens your hip flexors and engages your core, preparing you for more demanding poses.
One Atlanta-Based Yoga Teacher Shares Her Vision for What a Post-Coronavirus World Could Look Like
As Georgia re-opens its economy, yoga studio owner Octavia Raheem implores us to stop scrambling to be productive in the way that mattered yesterday.
As Georgia Reopens Its Economy, A Small Coalition of Yoga Studio Owners Remain Closed
As coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpass 1 million, several Atlanta-area yoga studios say it’s still too soon.
Finding Healing and Empowerment After Human Trafficking
Salt + Light Coalition is a non-profit organization using yoga and wellness to help rebuild the lives of women and youth who have endured human trafficking.
Try This Sequence to Confront Your Fears and Unleash Your Inner Warrior
I always felt that yoga offered more than a great stretch or workout. It gave me a way to connect with others and myself at the same time. You can find a bit of that feeling in this sequence.
Is Social Media Wrecking Your Body Image?
You’re not alone. Here’s how to use your yoga practice to feel better in your body right now.
7 Truths About Eating Disorders Every Yoga Teacher Needs to Know
Here’s what a yoga therapist (and anorexia survivor) says are the most important things to remember when someone who suffers from an eating disorder comes to your class.
5 Secrets to Help You Quit Comparing Your Body to Others During Yoga Class
It can be tough to stop sizing yourself up next to everyone else in the yoga studio—despite knowing that yoga isn’t about comparing your poses to those of other yogis. Here’s how to finally let that go and start focusing on your own practice.
5 Ways You Can Use Your Yoga Practice to Improve Your Body Image
All of us struggle to some degree with body image issues. Here are 5 ways yoga can help you feel more confident about the skin you're in.
22 Travel Essentials for Your Next Yoga Retreat
Are you ready for your next trip to yogic euphoria? Whether you’re jet-setting to Bali or simply strutting across town to your favorite studio, this stellar lineup of yogi travel gear will make your journey as blissful as your destination.
Chelsea Jackson Roberts Explores Barbados + the Yoga of Travel
Yoga teacher Chelsea Jackson Roberts takes us with her on a trip to Barbados that reminded her of the yogic lessons travel can teach.
10 Innovators Shaping the Future of Yoga + the Yoga Lifestyle
Learn more about 10 people making a deep impact in the yoga world.
The 30-Minute Yoga Sequence to Help You Recharge
Seated meditative poses support you as you drink in and recharge, and Warrior Poses, inversions, and backbends help you find strength as you pour out offerings to the world.
The 20-Minute Yoga Sequence to Help You Recharge
Helping others can be energizing and exhausting all at once. It’s important to practice techniques that help you refuel and take care of yourself.
The 10-Minute Yoga Sequence to Help You Recharge
This balancing, restorative sequence encourages you to “drink” as you “pour.” Seated meditative poses support you as you drink in and recharge.
Tessa Hicks Peterson: Social Justice, Yoga + Awareness of Inequalities
A social-justice educator shares tips on how to move from raising your consciousness about inequalities and biases to taking actions that improve the world.
A New Campaign Reminds Us Yoga is Beautiful + For Every Body
A new campaign reminds us yoga is for every body. Read more to find out about this social movement in the yoga community.
Africa Yoga Project: 5 Yoga Teachers from Nairobi, With Love
At Yoga Journal LIVE in Colorado, we were honored to host 5 Kenyan yoga teachers with Africa Yoga Project. Here's what they thought of YJLIVE.
Leadership Lab: Chelsea Jackson on Power, Privilege, and Practice
A community activist finds that the more she practices yoga, the more she finds her voice.
Leadership Lab: Kerrie J. Kauer on Power, Privilege and Practice
A Gender Studies professor describes her dream yoga class.
5 Body Image Considerations for Yoga Influencers
Sociologist Melanie Klein weighs in on her takeaways from our Practice of Leadership conversation.
6 Women Tackle Body Image in the Practice of Leadership Series
The panelists sum up their goals for increasing self-acceptance in a Photoshopped world.
My Body Image, My Self: Weighty Stories of Self-Acceptance, Part 1
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My Body Image, My Self: Weighty Stories of Self-Acceptance, Part 3
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My Body Image, My Self: Weighty Stories of Self-Acceptance, Part 4
Yoga Trailblazer Dianne Bondy Wants No Yogi Left Behind
My Body Image, My Self: Weighty Stories of Self-Acceptance, Part 5
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Beauty in Asana: How Yoga Helps One Woman Find Beauty In Her Body
"I lived in my head until yoga finally brought me back into my body."
The Growing Yoga Festival Trend
Part workshop, part yoga party, a yoga festival is just the place to enjoy practice, community, and fun.
17 Poses to Help You Recharge + Find Balance
Only have 10, 20 or 30 minutes? Try this at home practice to recharge during your busy day with yoga teacher Chelsea Jackson.
Q&A: Chelsea Jackson on Diversity + Embracing Who You Are
Rising yoga star, scholar, and our June Home Practice teacher Chelsea Jackson talks about her work with teenage girls in Atlanta, and the importance of diversity and embracing who you are.
4 Prep Poses to Fire Up Your Core for Side Plank
Use the following four poses to safely warm up and engage your core and hips for Side Plank.
5 Ways to Warm Up for One-Legged King Pigeon Pose
Master this deep hip opener and backbend to help stretch and release tension. Use these five poses to safely warm up for One-Legged King Pigeon Pose.
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Wrap Up: Sociologist Kimberly Dark on the Practice of Leadership Panel
Kimberly Dark, writer, sociology professor and yoga teacher, hits our high points of discussion around body image and the yoga community at the Practice of Leadership panel at YJLIVE in San Diego.
What You Need to Know About ‘Cruelty Free’ Beauty
Some beauty brands claim to be 'cruelty free' while still using ingredients that other companies tested on animals.
This One Simple Practice Will Change How You Feel About Yourself
Here’s how to reclaim your self-confidence, feel better in your body, and help others do the same—starting now.
2016 Natural Beauty Awards
Here’s your guide to the 27 products that both met our tough standards and exceeded our performance expectations.
5 Ways Yogis Can Support Breast Cancer Awareness
This October, add some pink accessories to your yoga uniform with these five items that donate proceeds to supporting breast cancer organizations.
YJ Flashback: 14 Covers the Editors Still Love
Take a peek at some of the highlights from 14 of our most memorable issues, including the guest teachers, models, and wellness experts who have shaped the magazine.
#FindYourInspiration: One Yogi’s Breast Cancer “ChemoAsana”
Kathryn Budig interviews yoga teacher Caitlin Marcoux on her strategies for facing fear and finding strength in the face of breast cancer.