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If you mindlessly breeze through Up Dog countless times per class, protect yourself from injury by taking some time to practice this advanced approach to the basic backbend.

Dana Trixie Flynn, creator of Lotus Flow Yoga and director of Laughing Lotus Yoga Centers in New York City, offers 3 fun body mudras for a fresh start to the year.

Yoga Journal Senior Editor Tasha Eichenseher finds that surrendering control in Rishikesh, India, left her with a liberating after-glow.

Meditation teacher and the best-selling author 
of Real Happiness shares ways to find fulfillment at work—even in jobs we may never love.

Try this energetic four-pose sequence three times on each side to warm up and protect your hips before you head to the barre.

Find stability in your hands and feet and a more extended spine 
as you move step by step into Adho Mukha Svanasana.

Warm up your spine and open your shoulders and chest 
with these prep poses for Adho Mukha Svanasana.

Learn how to modify Supta Padangusthasana to find safe alignment for your body.

Stretch and tone your hamstrings, strengthen your abdominal muscles and increase circulation to your digestive system in Supta Padangusthasana.

Get to know the different ways your muscles contract to power up your asana practice.

A playful practice 
can bring you 
more joy on and 
off the mat.

Last year, 14,700 new yoga teachers registered with Yoga Alliance. But are all of these newly trained teachers well qualified? Experienced yoga instructors weigh in.

A human-rights advocate brings healing yoga and meditation to war-torn Afghanistan.

The former NFL linebacker, philanthropist, and sports analyst for NBC Sports in Atlanta gives YJ a peek into his practice.

Grace Flowers was 20 weeks pregnant during the photoshoot. Carin Gorrell took the opportunity to gather pregnancy, practice, and life wisdom from Grace.

Check out some of the fun items we discovered while making this issue that are now our everyday go-tos.

From acupuncture and aromatherapy to reiki and reflexology, choosing 
the best healing modality for you 
can be tricky. Use this guide to 
13 popular treatments to find your 
alternative medicine match.

No matter where you are in your yoga practice, drink in the delight of having a “beginner’s mind” and let it inspire this practice.

Forget typical self-improvement resolutions—they simply don’t last. What does? Harnessing one of yoga’s profound formulas for setting the right intention and achieving your heart’s desire.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis, who will lead Yoga Journal's upcoming online course Pillars of Power Yoga presents 8 poses to help you set your focus for the year ahead.

See if you can’t makeover your entire flow by focusing on a few foundational poses. This week, try an advanced approach to Uttanasana.

Nicki Doane, co-owner and director of Maya Yoga Studio in Maui, share a teaching from the fourth pada of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra.

Need yoga lesson planning inspiration? Use these tips to stay inspired when creating new sequences for your yoga classes, so you and your students will never get bored.

As a mother, Janet Stone uses the end of the year as a time to tune back into her sankalpa—her heart’s deepest longing, her intention.

Nicki Doane, co-owner and director of Maya Yoga Studio in Maui, shares tips for achieving (and transcending) the superpowers of yoga.

The best remedy for the fast pace of parenthood? Simply taking a deep breath and seeing where it goes.

Your practice choices this year were diverse. Revisit YJ readers' favorite asana sequences from 2015 to see what you might have missed.

This week YJ LIVE! presenter Nicki Doane shares with us teachings from the Yoga Sutra of Pantanjali on the how of yoga.

This Kundalini Yoga sequence supports ideal digestion by increasing energy at the navel point and keeping the digestive organs strong and flexible.

During this busy time of year, it's important to remember what the holidays are supposed to be all about: happiness, or santosha.

If you're feeling too tired to practice, keep in mind that yoga may be the very thing to bring you sound slumber.

Pick your poses. Two Fit Moms offers three ways to relieve holiday stress with yoga—active, passive, or a combo—in this sequence.

Teaching yoga can be draining. Here, six successful instructors share their personal wellness tips, tricks, and routines for maintaining energy.

These five steps will help you get there.

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To feed your spirit is to embark on an inner journey. In these 108 images, Robert Sturman and his subjects inspire us to go inside and explore.

As you meet your true Self, you will begin to transcend attitudes, reactions, and ways of being you were previously accustomed to. Open up to the true you.

Look through illusions of separateness and false perceptions of identity to discover your bigger-picture connection to all things.

In this heat-building sequence, master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis stokes your inner fire and gets you deeper into your body.

If ever there was a time to slow your yoga flow and--let’s face it, take your speed of life down a notch or two--the hectic holiday season is it.

Americans are becoming more spiritual, a new study suggests. Learn how being a "spiritual" person can benefit (and even prolong) your life.

Each discovery on the spiritual path is valuable for growth. Embrace them all. Here, 26 examples from photographer Robert Sturman of people dedicated to that work.

Finishing a teacher training can feel both liberating and intimidating. Take these tips from Gigi Yogini as you start your career as a yoga teacher.

No student should have to withstand knee pain in a pose. Here are simple modifications for five basic yoga poses to offer your students.

Embracing your individuality and truest identity frees the soul. Here, 26 beautiful examples of people doing just that from photographer Robert Sturman.

Discover the meanings and intentions of different stones to help you find the mala truest to your unique, authentic self.

Ever feel like you need a bolt of perspective? Getting outside is a good place to start.

A lot of new yoga teachers feel lost and slightly overwhelmed once the cocoon of Teacher Training has been shed. Learn how to get your yoga teaching career started.

To clear your mind, energize your body, and focus on all you have to be thankful for, integrate these 8 poses into your practice.

These six tips will help you take your private teaching to the next level of professionalism to offer the best experience possible for your clients.

PRESENTED BY CORNING GORILLA GLASS: No one is immune to a bad day, but everyone can do something to turn it around. Learn how to keep your calm like a master yogi.

Prenatal yoga has long avoided certain poses, but new research indicates some of them may be safer than once thought.

Janet Stone offers mothers a pose, a writing exercise, and a daily ritual to make every day more mindful.

Yoga is so much more than asana. The sutras show us how to be our true selves and appreciate every moment—even when life gets crazy.

Seane Corn, co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World and orchestrator of our yearlong Game Changers column is the perfect person to explore social justice.

A practice that combines energizing and calming principles (brahmana and langhana) has a balancing, or samana, effect to quiet that monkey mind.

Keeping your eyes open if your body is listless, your mind dull, or your heart heavy can be a challenge. This 5-pose flow will help awaken your energy for meditation.

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Planting a tree for every yoga mat sold, JadeYoga will hit an eco-friendly milestone early next month—1 million trees.

Community organizer Marianne Manilov, a co-founder of The Engage Network, breaks down the practice 
of creating sustainable 
social change.

Author Susan Verde’s new book sends kids the message that imagination makes anything possible—and the yoga mat is a perfect place to explore it.

Internationally recognized yoga teacher and mother of two Janet Stone offers moms a pose to build strength from the inside out.

Try this profoundly spiritual kundalini meditation video to cultivate patience, wisdom, and renewal of life.

Photographer Robert Sturman shares 21 moving images and quotes from yogis around the world.

A skill that makes everyday movements easier—and safer.

Considering hosting a YTT? Learn from teacher trainer and studio owner Sigrid Matthews' experience. Start with these questions.

Is every yoga teacher and studio owner you know hosting a YTT these days? Teacher Trainer Sigrid Matthews explains what they know that you don't.

Water can enhance the power of a meditation—reverberating a mantra’s sound, calming the mind, and encouraging a feeling of nonattachment and weightlessness.

Leah Cullis, a master Baptiste Yoga teacher who will lead YJ's upcoming online course, Pillars of Power Yoga, explains the importance of finding your foundation, on and off the mat.

Are you Type A? Is work more central to your day than breath? This 14-minute practice eases stress by boosting endorphins and dopamine—right at your desk.

Erin Motz (aka the Bad Yogi) has crashed and burned plenty of times—and she’s proud of every single one of them. Learn what yoga fails taught her about success.

Not everything we fear is worth avoiding. In the case of yoga poses, there are plenty of uncomfortable postures that offer amazing benefits.