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Iyengar Yoga instructor Lisa Walford offers advice for how beginning yoga students can get started.

Strengthening your side waist muscles may not eliminate your love handles, but it will unlock your pelvis and protect your lower back.

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Iyengar Yoga instructor Lisa Walford explains the strength, flexibility, and actions necessary for Pincha Mayurasana.

Lisa Walford offers guidance to prep and work toward full Eka Pada Rajakapotasana.

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If your yoga class doesn't feel quite right, it might not be a good match for your dosha. Learn how to identify yours and implement it into your routine.

While many medication treat the symptoms, vibrations created from chanting Om can help clear your sinusitis and ward off infections from its source.

A surprising new study finds a possible connection between abdominal strength and longevity. Here's how yoga can give you strong abs.

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Having thoughts arise during meditation is normal, but are you clinging to these thoughts rather than simply watching them drift by?

Ever wonder what you're chanting during a yoga class? From "Aum" to "Yam", learn more about common yoga chants.

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Why you should consider swapping inversions for restorative yoga poses during your period.

What's old is new again. Chanting and music is the new way to practice yoga across the country.

Toiling under the tyranny of perfectionism? Perfection isn't the tyrant—it's our notions about it that rule us.

Tim Miller turns to the ancient wisdom of Patanjali to answer this existential question.

Barbara Benagh explores the why women are sometimes told not to invert during the menstruation cycle.

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Cyndi Lee discuses is the best time of day—and year—to practice yoga.

Sarah Powers offers advice for modifying neck position in Camel Pose.

There are yoga poses to help with that.

Sarah Powers explains the basics of Sun Salutations and why you should practice them regularly.

Sarah Powers advises yogis with sciatica which poses to avoid and which to favor.

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Different yoga systems have different answers. Sarah Powers addresses the debate of whether backbending during pregnancy is safe.

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Surrendering to the unknown is less frightening if you have faith that something will catch you when you fall—whatever name you call it by.

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Lay Virasana back and to take the stretch in the thighs and ankles up a notch.

Salabhasana or Locust Pose effectively preps beginners for deeper backbends, strengthening the back of the torso, legs, and arms.

Boost the body's energy and fight fatigue with Fish Pose, or Matsyasana in Sanskrit, while building confidence with a loving stretch in the shoulders. It is said that if you perform Matsyasana in water, you will be able to float like a fish.

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Say hello to leg and ankle strength as you seek stability and extend into this balancing pose, Half Moon Pose.

Here's how to integrate it into your flow and your life.

If backbends are a struggle for your body, you may try these preparatory shoulder-openers.

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Learn how your body's midline is key to balancing in Tree Pose.

Your new favorite form of mindfulness.

Think of it as Yoga Inc.

Ancient texts insist celibacy is a must on the yogic path, but few modern yogis opt for such an ascetic lifestyle.

Tim Miller gives advice for students struggling to master the jump-through in Ashtanga Yoga.

Discover the art of breathing and apply it to your practice.

Prenatal Yoga doesn't seem right for you? Tim Miller gives advice for modifying a more advanced practice for pregnancy.

Tim Miller gives advice for practicing with a common injury, an overstretched hamstring attachment.

Tim Miller turns to the wisdom of Patanjali to explain how yoga prepares us for death.

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Tias Little offers advice for preparing for the yoga splits.

Tias Little gives instruction on how to come into Headstand without the help of a wall or teacher

Tim Miller offers advice for learning the chakrasana transition in Ashtanga Yoga

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You may have developed a curve in your back over time. But the good news is you can use yoga for slouching. It will help reinforce the natural curve in your back and improve your posture.

Tias Little offers advice for how flexible yogis can avoid injury.

Traditionally, the goal of a spiritual practice has been to attain enlightenment, but is that what today's seekers are really after?

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Many yogis find that anapanasati, a form of meditation that focuses on the breath, is a natural place to begin their sitting practice.

Based on Taoist Meditation practice, Shiva Rea's inner smile meditation is an opportunity smile at yourself and embrace your happiness.

By visualizing your heart as a lotus flower, you can begin to create a safe, comfortable place for your mind to settle.

Try this meditation to nourish the heart from the inside out.

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Learn why you should vocalize your mantras instead of silently thinking them to benefit the heart and the central nervous system.

This co-founder of a Los Angeles yoga studio weighs in on commodification and the revolution that is yoga.

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Are you overstimulated, overworked, and stressed? If so, you might be depleting your rasa reserve.

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, —including ourselves.

Alternative approaches to treat erectile dysfunction beyond medication have been shown to be effective, including exercise, stress management, sex therapy, and yoga.

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