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Tulsi, or holy basil, has been used for centuries to support immunity, stress response, anti-aging, and the body's natural detoxification process.

Make home practice a habit by committing to your mat for the next 30 days with fresh sequences and daily practice plans for each week of the month from esteemed teachers and YJ contributors.

Check out Colleen Saidman Yee's author page.

Enjoy robust breathing, a free mind, and a bird’s-eye view with a light heart.

This 
sequence will free up space for energy to flow, helping 
your organs function optimally for greater 
mental clarity and endurance.

Feel 
the relationship between your core and steadiness in preparation for meditation.

While anxiety is natural, yoga and breathing techniques can help students handle the pressures associated with peers, workload and making the grade. Try these 9 yoga tools with your kids for a stress-free start to the semester.

Try these exercises, working with different systems of the body to help you better process your food and relieve specific digestive issues.

Brian Tobin of Laughing River Yoga in Burlington, Vermont, demonstrates Chandra Surya Bhedana, an alternate nostril breathing technique that balances the left and right polarities of the body and helps you prep for meditation.

Practice conscious and healthy cooking with these tips from Natural Epicurean.

Scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the like may actually dampen your mood—and keep you from getting sound sleep.

Lasater explores the meaning of the first sutra and offers a home practice to honor its wisdom.

Yoga teacher Chelsea Jackson Roberts takes us with her on a trip to Barbados that reminded her of the yogic lessons travel can teach.

Maintain your strength and flexibility with weight training to see improved benefits in your yoga classes.

Colleen Saidman Yee, who leads our upcoming Yoga for Inner Peace online course, explains the importance of getting in touch with your roots as part of your personal journey toward inner peace.

Kathryn Budig shares her three favorite PMS remedies—after chocolate. Prepare to prop!

As yoga grows, so do the misconceptions about it. Here, Stephanie Snyder sets the record straight on 8 myths getting between you and your yoga bliss.

Communities across the country, take note: Since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, the Newtown Yoga Festival has set an example for using yoga to bring a community together and heal trauma.

Researchers at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, recently found that red wine, coffee, and tea can actually increase the diversity of bacteria in the gut, which can help ward off illness.

Lasater explains the meaning of ishvara pranidhana to her and its enduring relevance. Join us for her six-week interactive online course on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.

The secret to the ultimate retreat experience isn't what happens when you're there. It's the time you spend beforehand ensuring it's the best fit for you.

Colleen Saidman Yee, who leads Yoga Journal's upcoming Yoga for Inner Peace online course, discusses the importance of letting yourself feel sad, and demonstrates a sequence to release grief and other festering emotions.

The Live Be Yoga team headed to secluded Gambier Island in British Columbia, Canada, last week to meet beautiful Gaia instructor Kate Potter. We could tell right away that Kate was kind; she exudes a sense of pure contentment and delight. What we didn't anticipate was how warmly and swiftly she would wrap us up into her close and genuine group of neighbors.

New myths about what yoga and the poses themselves can do for you are popping up all the time. Here, Yoga Physics founder Alexandria Crow debunks a few of her favorites.

Essential oils have a powerful effect on your mood and health. Figure out which one is best for you.

This mild veg version of an Indian restaurant favorite shows that Indian food doesn’t have to be ultra-spicy to be good.

The Live Be Yoga Tour met 15-year-old yoga teacher Lexi Hidalgo at the Buddha Lounge in Delray Beach, Florida, where she told us how she fell in love with yoga and why she decided to get her certification at age 13.

Do you hear friends saying they're not fit enough for yoga? Here's how to convince them yoga is more than physical exercise.

Trisha Meili, the woman who became known as "the Central Park jogger" after she was brutally beaten and raped in New York City in 1989, says yoga and mindfulness have helped her recover from the traumatic brain injury she suffered as a result of the attack.

Learn more about 10 people making a deep impact in the yoga world.

Every yoga teacher should learn the core concepts of yoga philosophy before building their own teachings.

As we mourn the death of another one of modern yoga’s founding fathers, we’d like to take the opportunity to share and remember him by at least a few of his many wise words.

Vegetarian Vegetables Korma is a delicious combination of spices, nuts and dairy (or coconut milk for vegans).

From opening the body to stabilizing a pose, there are many ways the wall can assist you in your yoga practice. Discover 8 ways to modify, deepen, and explore poses with the one prop everyone has at home.

The YJ editors share their favorites of the yoga gear and healthy lifestyle products that cross their desks. Check back every month to see what they're loving.

Meditate on physical sensations, known as bodysensing, in order to feel calm, grounded, and healthy.

Kathryn Budig has created a career that’s the envy of yogis around the globe, but here she debunks some common misconceptions about what it means to be a big-name, internationally traveling yoga teacher.

Colleen Saidman Yee, who teaches Yoga Journal's upcoming Yoga for Inner Peace online course, demonstrates a rocking sequence for fighting fear and promoting positive thinking.

Will practicing yoga during 
a painful attack help ease the pain—or make it worse?

Readers share their favorite mudras (hand gestures).

The mudras and the Reiki hand positions can be used in tandem with the Yees’ asana sequence or separately to help you find calm.

Urban Zen helps sick patients and their caregivers overcome pain, 
anxiety, nausea, insomnia, constipation, and exhaustion through yoga.

This combination of restorative yoga, meditation, essential oils, and Reiki—
from dream team Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee—will help 
ease anxiety and insomnia to deliver your best night’s zzz’s.

Check out Richard Miller, PhD's author page.

Looking for a one-of-a-kind yoga experience? Try a class in Las Vegas’s High Roller Observation Wheel, 550 feet above the strip.

Yoga Journal co-founder Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, and her daughter, Lizzie Lasater, share five reasons why teachers and students alike should know Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.

The latest yoga trend? Combine the cuteness of cats crawling on your mat with the feel-good factor of your favorite yoga class, and you've got Meowga.

we tested the new crop—so you don’t have to. Use our guide to find your mat match.

It's officially the heart of summer, and with sunny days comes a thirst for adventure: road trips, campouts, and outdoor activities (SUP yoga, anyone?). With all this excitement, it can be easy to let go of your total health and wellness. Here are 5 tips for keeping your energy level high, your mood calm, and your body healthy.

Delhi Dum Aloo is a delicious North Indian vegetarian classic using tomato and potatoes along with a host of spices to develop deep flavor.

In Yoga Journal's upcoming online course, Yoga for Inner Peace, Colleen Saidman Yee offers yogic practices to transform your body, mind, and heart, and support YOU in your personal journey toward inner peace.

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.

New smart jewelry product Leaf Urban helps you predict your stress level by tracking your sleep, daily activity, menstrual cycle, and meditation practice—and looks pretty doing it.

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

Red curry paste is packed with antioxidant-rich chili that adds vibrant color and spicy flavor to late-summer and early-fall veggies. Enjoy one of these curry bowls for dinner.

We spoke with Marc Bauer, master chef at the International Culinary Center, in New York City, to help you find new ways to dig figs.

Like intellectual stimulation or meditation, the right diet can make 
a dramatic difference in smarts and mood—today, and years down the road. Here’s how to fuel your way to clearer, happier thinking.

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.

Eoin Finn, 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.