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After getting the chance to explore so many incredible places around the country on the 2017 Live Be Yoga Tour, here are 5 tips I’ve found that help me make the most out of an outing.

Try this strap trick to increase postural awareness in the upper back and shoulders—and relieve the excess tension that accumulates there.

Learn how crystals can work in tandem with your chakras to bring harmony and higher awareness to your life.

Here's what to do when you don't know what to do.

Even though this adventure has just ended, 3 things stood out about the critical place yoga occupies in American culture today.

In this six-part series, our writer introduces the concept of internal activism through kriya yoga as the ultimate yogic tool for weathering personal, political, and natural disasters. First, learn how to become an internal activist.

You can use mantras, chakras, and asanas to embody this spiritual gift on the mat.

Taking a cue from Ayurveda, writer Annelise Hagen explores the benefits of breast massage typically overlooked by Western bodywork. Learn how to incorporate it into your self-care routine.

Learn how to use a chair and a block in Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose to both ground and expand the posture all at once.

Breasts are intimately connected to a woman’s overall well-being and heart, yet proactive tips for keeping breast tissue healthy are scarce. Fortunately, your yoga practice can help.

Sutra 1.12 introduces two essential elements of yogic philosophy: effort and non-attachment. When practiced together, they can serve as a spiritual and practical roadmap for navigating almost every aspect of life with greater equanimity.

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We've placed way too much importance on what our practice looks like on the outside, and not enough on the inside, says Live Be Yoga Tour ambassador Rosie Acosta.

When it feels like life is spinning out of control, teacher Sara Clark recommends opening your energy channels to raise your vibration and increase your stress resilience.

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Navigate transitions with more calm, confidence, and joy by tapping the powers of your chakras.

Practice this sequence, designed to relieve chronic pain and increase flexibility.

Here's how to strengthen and gain mobility in your upper back

Strengthen lower back muscles, tone abdominal muscles, stimulate organs, and improve your posture in Salabhasana.

Modify Shalabhasana as necessary to find safe alignment in your body.

Strengthen your back and core and improve balance with these prep poses for Peacock Pose.

Build endurance as you move step by step into Mayurasana.

When powerful teachings, charismatic instructors, and receptive students come together in a spiritual community, intimate relationships have the potential to bloom.

Variations on classic poses helps create new pathways within your nervous system and open you up to possibility.

One yogi takes us along on her transformative journey through the ultimate 21-day Ayurvedic cleanse, panchakarma.

In this dharma "talk," Judith Hanson Lasater delves into the paradox of santosha.

Yoga teacher Kat Fowler talks about teaching in New York City, the realities of self-doubt, and the pure joy that is Nutella.

Plus, she shares a practice to enliven manipura chakra through Deepak Chopra's Law of Intention and Desire.

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When it’s simply not enough to dedicate a yoga practice or #prayfor____, this sequence is designed to ground and focus you, open your heart, and prime your body to be of functional service to those in need. From there, yogis, ask yourself how you can take your practice off the mat.

Adulting is hard, but so is kid-ing. In fact, kids are more stressed than ever. Meditation can give them perspective on their thoughts and feelings the same way it does for us. Try this practice from yoga teacher and author Susan Verde with your child.

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YJ Influencer Lauren Taus shares the 10 most poignant life lessons she picked up this year on the playa.

Charitable organization Exhale to Inhale is partnering with studios, gyms, and teachers across the country this month to raise awareness of the prevalence of domestic violence. Learn how you can help.

Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Carrie Owerko offers an alternative approach to One-Legged Crane Pose II. Go ahead, take flight.

Incorporate these poses into your daily routine to strengthen your core muscles and help you maintain a strong and flexible spine.

YJ Influencer Hemalayaa Behl shares how you can harness the most intense mental and emotional energy to raise your vibration.

As the Las Vegas shooting further assaults our sense of peace,  yogis have an opportunity to raise our vibration and use our off-the-mat practice to make the world a more peaceful place.

LiveBeYoga tour ambassador Rosie Acosta shares how she's modified her daily practice since a summer bike accident.

Supta Padangusthasana safely opens the hamstrings and releases the lower back.

Modify Supta Padangusthasana as necessary to find safe alignment in your body.

Stretch your hamstrings and open your hip flexors with these prep poses for Half Moon (Sugarcane) Bow Pose.

Steady your balance and stay open to possibilities as you move step by step into Half Moon (Sugarcane) Bow Pose.

We talked to Deafhood Yoga founder Rajarajeshwari about the challenges of teaching yoga without the spoken word and what she's doing to solve them.

“There never was one yoga...Going forward yoga will continue to defy definition and attribution.”

Carrie Owerko shows us how repetition and novelty are both important in daily practice.

In the age of Instagram, yoga historian Philip Deslippe takes a look at how yoga has in fact embraced new forms of media and technology since its debut in the West. The question now: What will be next?

School starts and work begins to pick up after the summer ends. Here are some tips to stay centered, grounded, and joyful.

Learn how Colleen Saidman Yee developed a better connection with her intuition and works through indecision.

Infuse your yoga practice with energy, stability, and balance by combining asana with high-intensity interval training.

The trendy go-to remedy for a tight IT band—foam rolling—can actually do more harm than good. Here’s why, plus 3 yoga poses that’ll help you keep this thick fascial tissue healthy.

Can't make up your mind? Take it to the mat to create space in the mind and body, and open your heart to infinite possibility

In this excerpt from her new book, The Yogi Assignment, Ashtanga teacher Kino MacGregor opens up about how a community of yoga friends helped get her on a better path.

Aromatherapy can play a role in helping to open each energy center of our body. Take this quiz to find out which chakra might be out of alignment and a scent to help restore balance.

"I think one of the most important things we, as teachers, need to do to help keep yoga moving forward in a positive direction is be diligent in continuing our learning and personal growth."