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How does someone who’s new to L.A. or interested in trying yoga for the first time pick the right studio and the right teacher? My approach is the same in any new city or place.

Strengthen your core and shoulders and develop better balance as you move step by step into Eka Pada Vasisthasana.

Strengthen your core and outer hips and stretch your inner thighs and hamstrings in these prep poses for Eka Pada Vasisthasana.

Modify Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana 
if needed to find safe alignment in your body.

How to move from Utthita Hasta
Padangusthasana to Eka Pada Vasisthasana.

These poses help release tension from the belly, ribs, and back. Try them before belly breathing—or any pranayama practice.

Darnell McDonald, mental skills coordinator for the Chicago Cubs, explains why meditation and simply being present give players a competitive advantage.

The founder of DeafYoga Foundation brings yoga to the underserved hearing-impaired community.

New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and mom of two daughters in New York City opens up about her practice.

Get to know our 2016 award winners. 
Plus, we take you inside a one-of-a-kind 
yoga teacher training in a women’s prison.

At a high-security prison in Maryland, 16 women are enrolled in one of
the first-ever 200-hour yoga teacher trainings behind bars.

An eco-conscious yogi dedicated to protecting our oceans teaches others to
revere the 
natural world.

When yogis come together as members of the 50 million-strong well-being community, we become a powerful constituency, says Kerri Kelly of #voteWELL.

A trailblazer brings together 
people of diverse backgrounds for yoga, food, and conversation.

This yoga teacher and PhD in psychology is helping people battle eating disorders.

Joe Loizzo, a psychiatrist and Buddhist scholar, brings mindfulness to the public.

A former World Bank official helps yoga 
nonprofits grow.

Two Kenyan yogis are bringing 
mind-body practices to child 
soldiers, at-risk youth, and aid 
workers in Africa.

Brooke Hamblet, the daughter of an alcoholic brings hope and recovery to those facing addiction.

As a transgender yoga teacher and community activist, he fights gender bias, both on and off the mat.

Dan Nevins, an Iraq War veteran, uses yoga to help others prevail over injury and trauma.

This game-changing trio is transforming the way patients and health care providers are treated. Learn more about the Urban Zen Foundation and their impact.

Open your chest and find proper alignment after a tough standup paddleboard workout. This beginner SUP yoga sequence will get you started.

Do you practice yoga regularly but somehow still feel “stuck” in certain spots?  Senior Yoga Medicine teacher Allison Candelaria created this muscle- and fascia-freeing flow to tune up the whole front line of your body.

In the past three months, the Live Be Yoga tour has been inspired by so many yoga many practitioners from all walks of life. But former professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce taught me that matter what happens to us, we can deliberately choose to give back, save lives, and hold on to the purpose we’ve been given, even if it turns into something we never could have imagined.

Yoga students often bring their off-the-mat problems into the studio, looking for guidance. While it’s easy for teachers to get sucked into these conversations, it can be tricky to know what to offer in response.

Motivate yourself by dedicating a space for yoga inside your home. We have the five tips to create a meditation space that's perfect for you.

Want to avoid asana burnout? Amy Ippoliti says the trick is all in optimizing functionality by engaging the deep stabilizers while finding ways to give the major movement muscles a break.

Making ends meet while building a following as a yoga teacher can be draining. Take heart and start employing these simple self-preservation strategies.

These six yoga mats are beautiful and they will help you set an intention for adding more well-rounded creativity in your life.

Struggling to find a career that you're passionate about? Turns out, you've known your true calling since you were a kid, says astrologer Debra Silverman.

Drop-in meditation studios with 100- and 200-hour meditation teacher trainings are popping up around the country.

There are a variety of ways to modify poses that are problematic for the general public. Here, five solutions to common challenges in all-levels classes.

Warm up for Eagle Pose with these three prep poses that will open your shoulders and hips.

The Live Be Yoga tour met program coordinators at Turning Point in Burlington, Vermont to learn how they help people with addition recover using yoga.

It’s yoga’s unofficial arms-overhead anthem. But Yoga Physics founder Alexandria Crow is on a mission to ban this widespread cue. Here, she breaks down what you need to know.

Only in Vegas: Join Dharma Yoga teacher Eileen Lorraine for an electrifying practice among retired neon signs this summer in her pop-up hot yoga sessions at Las Vegas's Neon Museum.

Mary Beth LaRue’s life 10 years ago couldn’t be more different from what it is today. Here, she shares simple tips for making the transformation.

Our places of discovery, illumination, and breakthrough are not limited to our temples and our mosques but extend into traffic jams, dirty dishes, and even our trips to the mechanic.

This flow helps foster both self-love and compassion for others.

Supportive adjustments can transform someone’s practice. Learn the fundamentals of what makes a fantastic assist so you can safely and intuitively guide others

Your next creative idea may come from where you least expect it. Here, Mary Beth shares some of her favorite ways to get inspired.

Brandon, who practices at Lyons Den Power Yoga in New York City, reveals how practicing at home in a safe space helped him build confidence and conquer his insecurities.

Brandon, who practices at Lyons Den Power Yoga in New York City, talks about transitioning from playing college football to practicing yoga.

Life coach and yoga educator Coby Kozlowski offers 3 tips for how to live yoga in your everyday life, from seeing strangers as children to seeing yourself as your mother saw you the day you were born to meditating on something you really love.

Lucy, 18, reveals why she's doing her 200-hour teacher training at Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre in Toronto.

Lisa Messina of Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre in Toronto shows Live Be Yoga Tour ambassador Taylor O'Sullivan a really safe prep for Handstand that conditions the body and uses the wall (so you don't have to worry about falling into the middle of the room).

Lisa Messina of Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre in Toronto shows Live Be Yoga Tour ambassador Tarah Stuht how to practice getting up into Handstand using a trick called "blanket asana."

Use this simple meditation to encourage your mind to rest and enable your body to recharge so it can come back strong.

How learning to say this one little word more often completely shifted my perspective.

In April, the Live Be Yoga Tour visited Eisenhower Elementary in Flint, Michigan, to observe the Crim Fitness Foundation's Mindfulness and Yoga programs in local schools, and to see how the community is using yoga to transcend and cope with the water crisis there.

We look at three of the riskiest poses commonly practiced in yoga and how to modify them for your and your students’ safety.

The Live Be Yoga Tour team stopped by Tranquil Space Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., to practice calming night yoga with Kevin Waldorf Cruz.

During pregnancy the body changes rapidly, but if we use our yoga practice wisely, we can support these changes, making us strong and flexible in all the right places for easier labor, delivery and recovery.

In April, the Live Be Yoga Tour visited Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre in Toronto to take Lisa Messina's vinyasa class featuring tabla player Anita Katakkar. The theme of Lisa's class was community, or the unified feeling of practicing together.

In honor of the second International Day of Yoga, Yoga Journal is proud to present a peek into the practices of 18 global yogis, photographed in locations around the world by Robert Sturman.

Yogi Bethany Lyons shares how she takes the magic of yoga off the mat by keeping things fun and simple. By drinking TY KU, she can go off the beaten path and enjoy life. (presented by TY KU)

We follow various rules of vinyasa for a reason—but that doesn’t mean that they can’t be broken every once in a while. Steal LA-based yoga teacher Mary Beth LaRue's secrets to inspired sequencing.

Improve your balance before you even get on the board with pre-paddle postures from Amelia Travis, founder of Stoked Yogi.

Celebrate the summer solstice and second International Day of Yoga with Shiva Rea's Prana Flow pranams, a healing movement meditation featuring whole-body prostrations to the earth.

Miraval is a luxury spa and resort with five-star service and amazing food, but what sets this place apart is the unique personal growth experiences they offer.

In honor of Father’s Day, our writer shares the insight and clarity she found on the mat alongside her father as she was coming of age.

What does it mean to "sit with discomfort"? In Stephanie Snyder's meditation, you'll dissolve emotional blocks to experience deep joy.

Naturalist John Muir once said, "The sun shines not on us but in us." With this sentiment in mind, Two Fit Moms honors the summer solstice with this heat-producing flow.

Learn how George Harrison brought bhakti yoga to the West with the now ubiquitous Hare Krishna mantra.

Here, three prominent yoga teachers share the rewards and challenges of their sabbaticals. Plus, advice to help you decide if taking 
a break is right for you.

Yogi and two-time Olympic medalist in hurdling, who’s going for her third medal this August in Brazil, opens up about her practice.

This humble teacher is 
reinvigorating yoga’s spiritual side. Kristin Laak tells us about her journey to India and how it has influenced her practice and life's purpose.

Mary Lyn Jenkins, a yoga teacher in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida is the winner of Yoga Journal’s 2016 reader cover contest.

Listen to your body to find your natural limits and healthy boundaries—along with core power, strength, and inner peace.

Learn how to prep for—and properly prop—Supported Shoulderstand, for a happy, healthy neck.

While visiting the Miraval Wellness Spa & Resort in Tucson, Arizona, the Live Be Yoga Tour team had the fortunate opportunity to meet Anne Parker, an Emotional Intelligence (EQ) expert and psychotherapist who taught us about achieving "coherence" and inner balance.

Move step by step into Garudasana with strength and balance. Eagle Pose improves balance and stretches your calves and upper back.

Stretch your legs and hips, strengthen your core and upper back, and improve your balance in these 3 prep poses for Garudasana (Eagle Pose).

Here are some easy ways to modify Utkatasana (chair pose) if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

The benefits of chair pose are endless. It strengthens the muscles in your thighs and feet, tones your core muscles, and increases ankle mobility.