Video 4: Use this Pranayama Practice to Settle the Mind
Learn how to control your breath as Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner takes you through a breathing practice to calm stirring thoughts.
Learn how to control your breath as Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner takes you through a breathing practice to calm stirring thoughts.
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence, explains the importance of stable surroundings at home for both parents and kids with autism.
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence, lays down the ground rules for an ideal living space.
Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence, teaches you how to focus on the present moment and avoid worrying about the future when facing problems in parent-child relationships.
Learn valuable communication tools from Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence, when talking to a child with autism.
Learn how a regular yoga practice can benefit people with autism—from grounding and balancing poses, to deep relaxation techniques. Join Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner, and yoga teacher Hannah Schuler in this 3-part video series to get started.
Create a deep sense of peace, and root down to connect with the earth in this yoga practice created by Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner and led by teacher Hannah Schuler.
Improve your stability, lengthen your muscles, and ground down in this yoga practice created by Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner and led by teacher Hannah Schuler.
Join yoga teacher Hannah Schuler in this gentle asana practice, created by Ashrams for Autism founder Sharon Manner, to wind down and let go of tension.
Join Sharon Manner, the founder and creator of Ashrams for Autism, for a guided Yoga Nidra practice.
Join Dr. Marc Rosenbaum, founder and director of Education for Excellence, in a five-minute guided meditation.
Join Sharon Manner, the founder and creator of Ashrams for Autism, in a five-minute guided meditation.
Even better news for tired yogis: It doesn’t require much effort.
Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is a deep relaxation practice that helps relax the physical and emotional bodies so that healing can occur.
Try some of these sleep-friendly tips to promote a healthier sleep and good night's rest for you and your family.
There are certain practices that you can introduce into your home to make it a happy and safe place to live.
Learn how to practice simple changes to your diet and lifestyle to eliminate anxiety.
Keeping up with a busy life usually means our health gets pushed aside. Here are a few ways to keep your healthy eating habits in check.
Do you have the upper body strength Chaturanga requires?
Ever wonder what it takes to start your own yoga studio and make it successful? Follow along as we trail an enthusiastic pair of yogis through their business journey, with words of wisdom from top yoga mentors.
Do you feel stuck? In part 4 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley shares three stages of svadhyaya practice to help you live life as who you truly are.
Do you find it difficult to unwind and settle your mind? Incorporate these tactics into your everyday life to manage stress.
Rodney Yee decodes the common pranayama cue that can leave hardcore anatomists scratching their heads.
There’s a lot of talk of harmonizing your chakras, but what knocks them off-kilter in the first place? Yoga master Alan Finger says the answer is in the gunas.
This April, help the Seva Foundation raise awareness and funds to prevent blindness around the world by hosting or attending a yoga class near you.
From stepping out of your yoga comfort zone to discovering the best supplements for your diet, here are 4 ways to be your healthiest you.
Former US Navy SEAL Brandon Webb has achieved a lot in the last five years by anyone’s standards and he credits his practice with helping enhance his productivity.
Energy Medicine Yoga founder, Lauren Walker, bases her teachings on the power of self-love. And here, she opens up about a recent moment when she was reminded just why it’s so important.
Fascia is a buzzword in the yoga world right now. Here’s everything you need to know about this connective tissue—and how to use the knowledge to deepen your yoga practice.
Yoga master Alan Finger offers a simple explanation of the seven chakras, along with how one chakra actually regulates the rest.
Connect with your Muladhara and Svadhishthana Chakras (your root and sacral energy centers) to feel grounded and free to express yourself in your own unique way. In this short creative warm-up, Sofiah guides you out of your comfort zone, and playfully brings your imagination into the picture as you set your intentions for 2018.
In this guided Graceful Warrior Sequence, fire up your Manipura Chakra (solar plexus energy center) to ignite your authentic power for a balanced, healthy, happy 2018.
Strengthen your shoulders and back as you move step by step into Visvamitrasana.
Stretch your hamstrings and hip flexors in these prep poses for Visvamitrasana.
Modify Utthita Parsvakonasana as needed to find safe alignment in your body.
Strengthen your legs, knees, and ankles, stretch your hamstrings, and tone your abdominals.
Taking us with her on a profoundly personal journey, Kathryn Budig reflects on everything that’s led her to now—the most authentic place she’s ever been.
Meditation Studio co-founder Patricia Karpas shares some of the best wisdom offered on her Untangle podcast.
Sage Rountree shows you how to use a yoga block in Bridge Pose to realign the SI joint while stretching the front of your body.
Sage Rountree talks you through a relaxing pose to give the muscles that control the relationship of your pelvis and spine a time out.
YJ Influencer Laura Burkhart offers the story of her own chronic pain and hip injury as a caution to yogis and encourages you to get honest about your own practice.
Draw energy from your root and direct it to the vissudha, so you can communicate with yourself, others, and the universe with more clarity and truth.
Yoga teacher Rina Jakubowicz shares her experience making lifestyle choices not understood by her community, and offers some tips for owning them.
Your relationship with self requires conscious nurturing. In part 3 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley shares how your communication with others can get in the way.
Understanding how you move your body using the three anatomical planes can help you get stronger, prevent injuries, and feel more balanced and grounded.
In this excerpt from his new book Yoga Therapy: Foundations, Methods, and Practices for Common Ailments, Mark Stephens offers methods for warming up and massaging the wrists to reduce pain in yoga practice.
YJ Influencer Lauren Eckstrom discusses how Pratipaksha Bhavana can support you in living in alignment with your intentions and embracing with your most authentic self.
Take a closer look at seven subtle-body healing modalities, and how to find one that will help you boost the benefits of your yoga practice.
Once you begin to identify your obstacles through mindful yoga practice, you will be able to set better intentions and reset your karmic path.
Practice Sian Gordon's grounding Katonah Yoga sequence to find the stability you need to clearly see where you want to go and the best way to get there.
Yoga teacher Carola Lovering shares how her practice was instrumental in the writing and selling of her debut novel, Tell Me Lies, coming June 2018.
Drum roll, please...
New year, REAL you. If you’re ready to embrace authenticity this year, self-inquiry is a powerful place to start. Yoga teacher Tracee Stanley shows us how.
Need a New Year’s resolution—or a fresh intention any day of the year? YJ Influencer and psychologist Lauren Taus suggests looking to your practice to identify personalized goals that are also applicable to the rest of life.
Wish you were better able to accept hot and cold, noisy and silent, joy and sorrow? Cyndi Lee shows us how.
Love Yoga studios owner Sian Gordon opens up to Yoga Journal about growing up at Yoga Zone, values, and discovering the Katonah practice.
Karen Brody, author of the book Daring to Rest, explains how transformational doing nothing can be. Learn how yoga nidra activates your parasympathetic nervous system to guide you to deep inner peace.
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This strong, balanced sequence is designed to ground you even as life's craziness swirls around you.
Last week, Rachel Brathen (aka @Yoga_Girl) shattered the yoga world when she collected more than 300 #MeToo experiences in what the yogis thought was a safe space.
Access Consciousness founder Gary Douglas explains how turning the standard self-help formula on its head could actually be a lot more helpful.
It’s all about progression with Natasha Rizopoulos’s signature method of designing a satisfying practice.
Release tension with this restorative sequence from Rodney Yee for encouraging the flow of breath and prana.
Learn how master teacher Rodney Yee discovered the power of pranayama to quiet the mind and why it's a focus of every asana class he teaches.
Master teacher Rodney Yee shares his interpretation of Yoga Sutra 1.2.
These short practices from Yoga Medicine teacher Shannon Stephens can have profound effects on the way you experience stress and life's toughest moments.
As a yogi, you’ve likely picked up a crystal or a mala—and maybe hoped it could help you cultivate what you lack. But would you buy into crystal healing as an alternative therapy?
The more time you spend offline doing nothing, the more you’ll want to put your phone away and connect with yourself, friends, and the world around you.
In part two of this six-part kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley explains how to elevate your self-communication to activate the feelings beneath the noise.
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Want to ensure a healthy, pain-free yoga practice for years (and years) to come? Part two of our three-part plan for ultimate bone health is all about how to supplement your practice with cardio and strength training.
Long day? Feeling sluggish? Try these poses from YJ Influencer Meredith Cameron to create space in your upper body to soften, flush, and balance your organ system.
In honor of the season of giving, we’re highlighting some yoga-based relief efforts that are mindfully helping rebuild—from Sonoma County to San Juan.
Naam Yoga founder Dr. Joseph Michael Levry will gather thousands of yogis in Mexico City this Sunday to meditate and give hope to those affected by tragedy.
Celebrating your life is a game-changer.
Inspire others with your passion for movement.
Los Angeles-based teacher Sesa O'Connor talks to YJ about her spiritual upbringing, raising a little yogi solo, and the booming yoga industry.
You might want to kickstart this as a regular practice.
Yoga Journal Influencer Benjamin Sears guides pranayama, seated postures, and a self-energy adjustment to relax the nervous system before bed.