Try This Breathing Meditation to Get Through Your Jitters
Try this pranayama meditation from yoga teacher and founder of Manduka, Peter Sterios, to quell the jitters.
Try this pranayama meditation from yoga teacher and founder of Manduka, Peter Sterios, to quell the jitters.
Taking a few minutes to reconnect to the natural world around you can reset your energy and center you in the present. Here are some simple ways you can plug into nature's healing vibes even in a concrete jungle
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Try this practice, which emphasizes joint health and offers movements that can be incorporated into your daily life, to help maintain or improve mobility and stability for healthy aging.
Swami Jaya Deva of Kashi Atlanta discusses how doing the deep inner work can help you transform the suffering in the world.
Old patterns can feel impossible to escape, but with practice, you can make a shift. Even a couple minutes of these techniques from yoga teacher Tatiana Forero Puerta can help to calm your sympathetic nervous system (associated with the “fight, flight, or freeze” response) and activate your parasympathetic nervous system (“rest and digest”), making transformation more possible.
Try this abundance meditation practice, led by Yoga Foster and Reclamation Ventures founder Nicole Cardoza, to cultivate the inner energy you need to get you through the day.
In her new book, Revolution of the Soul, social activist and yoga teacher Seane Corn details how ill and awkward she felt during her first yoga class and what kept her going back for more.
The 20-year yoga student chatted with us about Gloria Steinem, pranayama, and finally perfecting her Scorpion Pose.
Forero Puerta starts her workshops with a shaking practice, which she leads to the beat of up-tempo, rhythmic music.
Try this short meditation when you need a reminder that you are, and have, enough.
Nicole Cardoza is making the world a little bit nicer by bringing yoga to kids in schools and altering the face of wellness.
Follow your Savasana with a short 8-minute meditation from Jana Long, increasing the duration over time.
Weightlifting was wreaking havoc on my body and spirit—until I found yoga.
Stop overlooking the hardworking joints.
Psst: Yoga mostly just *stretches* the glutes.
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Try this simple practice to reset your day and truly listen to yourself and those around you.
Kino MacGregor, Ashtanga Yoga teacher and co-founder of Miami Life Center discusses how to make this notoriously difficult practice more approachable.
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These yoga teachers are using their platforms to give back to the community in necessary and inspiring ways.
90% of your happiness is determined by how your brain processes the world, with only 10% being impacted by environmental or external factors. You really do hold the power to change your perspective! Here are several simple daily practices and the supplement support you need to train your way to a happier brain!
It can be empowering and freeing to create your own at-home-yoga practice. Follow along as Chelsey Korus gives you the tools to create your own strength-based yoga practice.
Encourage shoulder mobility with a quick practice you can do at the office.
Powerful alternates that move your hips in all directions.
2019 Live Be Yoga ambassador Lauren Cohen shares her tips for maintaining a personal practice.
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Susanna Barkataki and Rina Deshpande share their insights about commercializing the word Namaste.
This new awareness made me realize that if you don't pull out tension by the roots, it just migrates elsewhere—that boiling water has to let off steam somewhere.
Feeling exhausted and burnt out? Try this easy, do-anywhere sequence from Jules Hunt, founder of the blog Om & The City.
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.
Find your inner fire on the mat.
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Got a desk chair and two minutes to spare? Try this playful take on Side Plank Pose to engage your entire body.
Bring on the bounce to improve agility, coordination, and balance.
Use these tips from Ayurveda expert Larissa Hall Carlson to increase your physical and mental well-begin.
Live Be Yoga Ambassador, Lauren Cohen visits Gather, a yoga studio and community based in San Diego, CA. Through its co-op model and educational programs, Gather aims to make yoga and wellness accessible to all, while honoring the roots of the practice.
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Use this sequence to find refuge from the clutches of chronic illness.
Stephanie Snyder, the founder of Love Story Yoga in San Francisco, shares the spiritual philosophy of the goddess Lakshmi and how to apply her wisdom in your daily life.
We sat down with three master teachers in San Francisco who shared their advice for new(ish) teachers.Stephanie Snyder, Jason Crandell and Janet Stone share their thoughts on integrating yoga philosophy into daily life, the importance of continuing education, and how a strong personal practice brings true wisdom.
Yoga and mindfulness teacher Jules Hunt shares simple ways to boost well-being after dealing with chronic stress.
Warrior Pose I Virabhadra = a hero or warrior from the Mahabharata asana = pose
Strengthen your immune system by activating a subtle energy system called Celtic Weave.
Strengthen your underlying energy systems with this Energy Medicine Yoga technique.
The Live Be Yoga ambassadors celebrate Sanuk's new launch at Wanderlust Hollywood.
The founder of the American Viniyoga Institute shares insight on Viniyoga practices and a sequence for helping to manage addictive behavior.
Practice along with Jivana Heyman for the next 17 minutes to release tension and fear.
Yoga therapist and psychologist Gail Parker, PhD, applies restorative practices in an innovative way to help people heal from racial wounds.
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A volunteer yoga program at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego is bettering the lives of its oncology kids.
Strengthen your subtle energy systems and step up blood flow with this modified posture.
Yacht parties and bikini bodies got you down? Here's how to get out of the funk.
Meditation teacher Sally Kempton discusses the mythology of two Hindu deities that majorly inform Tantric philosophy.
Dealing with racing thoughts? Giving too much attention to detrimental thoughts? Priya Jain, owner of Seventh Chakra Yoga in Huntington Beach, California, shares a mantra and mudra meditation practice to help cultivate discernment.
One writer plunges into a seven-day yoga challenge and has five major takeaways from her experience.
These six yogis you should follow will help you stay in alignment with the stars during this chaotic time.
Transformation Yoga Project leads trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes in Philadelphia addiction treatment centers and prisons.
Get grounded and then open your heart with these two sequences from the master Ashtanga Yoga teachers.
In her new book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, yoga teacher Jennifer Pastiloff examines how facing loss, grief, and vulnerability allowed her to find endless love, self-acceptance, and wild happiness.
The short answer is, it’s complicated.
Envision your heart as a blossoming flower in this beautiful meditation from Sally Kempton.
Try Sama Vritti Pranayama (Box Breathing) when you’re stressed, anxious, or upset.
Kundalini Yoga teacher Priya Jain talks about building your identity around the practice you love.
A volunteer yoga program at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego is bettering the lives of its oncology kids.
There are new standards for registered yoga schools and teachers. Here’s what’s changing.
Try these alternatives to get all the same benefits without bearing weight on your hands and wrists.
You've probably been saying it wrong this whole time.
Do this practice when you want to come back to your true self.
Today, we’re highlighting people from around the world who are incorporating yoga into their lives.
As a child, Ebony Smith survived sexual assault but didn’t have the tools to cope with the trauma until years later, when she found yoga. Now, she’s bringing the practice to her community, and others in crisis.
Young Latina are facing elevated risks of suicidal ideation in the U.S. Here, how yoga brought one young woman—Alejandra Suarez—back from the edge and into the role of teacher.
Brad Wetzler found himself over-medicated, in a fog, and uncomfortable in his own skin. But yoga reminded him how to open his heart and feel whole again.
Finding herself homeless and miles away from her daughter, Cleo Childress discovered abundance through yoga.
After building the perfect life in DC, debilitating anxiety drained Paige Pichler of her power and strength. Here, how yoga helped her start over and feel worthy again.
We asked readers to share stories of how yoga has impacted their lives. The response was overwhelming, to say the least. From helping to ease depression and suicidal thoughts to ameliorating physical pain, yoga has, without a doubt, the power to change lives. Here, five standout stories of recovery and renewal.
The modification taps into a powerful meridian that governs your stress response.
A trip to Salt Lake City reminds YJ ambassador Brandon Spratt of how one teacher's goodwill transformed his life.
Maintain a healthy equilibrium with a 5-minute restorative meditation you can return to throughout the day.