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Watch + Learn: Down Dog
Master this go-to pose and you’ll increase flexibility, strength and balance—and gain confidence in your practice. So unroll your mat and channel your favorite family canine.
DC Studios Offer Discounts
In the face of an ongoing government shutdown, some DC area studios are offering free or discounted classes to help ease the strain.
5 Poses to Boost Creativity
Feeling uninspired? Try these five poses to get the creative juices flowing.
Yoga Helps You … Jump Out of Airplanes?
The physical and mental conditioning of regular yoga practice is a boon to adventure seekers who like to fly through the air.
11 Simple Ways to Get Better Sleep
From simple lifestyle changes to breathing techniques and relaxing poses, these tips can help you sleep soundly.
Transcending Borders, Transcending Boundaries
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A Meditation On Money
When it comes to money matters, yoga hasn't provided Neal Pollack with any answers. But it's proven to be a steady lean-to during both good and bad times.
Reduce Suffering: How Yoga Heals
Yoga practice and philosophy can help free us from suffering, even in life's most difficult moments.
Yoga Teachers Take to Instagram
Yoga teachers connect with students and spread the teachings far and wide with the popular social channel.
4 Perfect Post-Run Yoga Poses
Use these yoga poses to cool down, stretch, and strengthen your muscles after your run. Nothing ever felt so good.
When to Ignore Your Yoga Teacher
As a yoga teacher and a longtime student, Erica Rodefer Winters has learned that her body is the best expert about what is right for her.
Change Your Mountain Pose
Sometimes a little shift can make a big difference in how things feel. Sage Rountree explores what happens when you shake up a traditional asana.
Yoga Helps Menopausal Women Sleep
A new study finds that regular yoga practice may help normalize sleep patterns in women going through menopause.
Yoga Ethics Debate Heats Up
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Age Better With Yoga: Part I
Baxter Bell examines growing evidence that a regular yoga practice is key to feeling your best as years pass.
All-Day Ayurveda: Give Your Daily Routine a Makeover
No time for yourself? No problem. India's ancient system of medicine offers quick morning and evening self-care rituals to help you balance your energy and boost your health.
The Benefits of Prenatal Yoga
Prenatal yoga can prepare your mind, body, and spirit for motherhood.
Take Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose Further
This Master Class works toward the final step of Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose. Let the ebb and flow of your breath help you find your way into this challenging forward bend.
Not Flexible? You Need This Seated Forward Bend
So you think you can't do yoga? Flexibility develops over time. Practicing Janu Sirsasana is a start.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Hollow Back
Try this challenging but fun hybrid pose using the actions of a deep backbend even if your spine isn't that flexible.
Accepting Beginner Status
Intimidated at first by her lack of experience in yoga class, a young woman learns to relish the learning process.
Homemade Sea Salts
Give the gift of beautiful, nourished skin with homemade sea salts.
Back to Basics
Erica Rodefer Winters confronts her ego and finds that focusing on the basics of yoga to be the best teacher of all.
Comfort with Discomfort
Discomfort can be an opportunity for mindful observation, writes Sage Rountree. Here she offers a few tools to help you tune in.
Green Your Home: 5 Healthy Habits
Reduce your exposure to potentially harmful chemicals at home with these easy changes.
How to Create an Inspirational Home Altar
Famous yogis share how they make space for gratitude and inspiration in their home altars.
Searching for Your Happy Place?
The latest science offers simple tips to find that sweet spot where life is good. Try these surprising tricks to adjust your mood and become truly happy.
Mood-Boosting Essential Oils
Essential oils can shift your mood from focused to energized to relaxed—and inspire your practice.
5 Ideas for Being Mindful
Staying present is a basic tenet of yoga, but as most of us know, it's difficult to be mindful all the time. Erica Rodefer Winters shares some tips about mindfulness that she's been able to incorporate into her busy schedule.
6 Best Yoga Poses for Snow Sports
Stretch and boost confidence with this snowga practice before strapping on your board or skis.
NFL Team Mandates Yoga
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Soft to the Touch
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Elena Brower on Believing in Yourself
Elena Brower explains how giving back and meditation can help you believe in yourself.
Yoga Cool Down
Try these 4 poses post-run to stretch and unwind.
Yogi on the Run
After years of telling herself "I'm just not a runner," Erica Rodefer Winters takes some pointers from her yoga practice and enters, and finishes, her first road race.
How to Find a Comfortable Seat
Sage Rountree offers suggestions for supported seated poses when you struggle with tight hips.
How to Outsmart Your Insomnia
Can't sleep? Yoga practice and philosophy can help you let go and find rest.
Knees Gone Bad?
In a follow up to his first post on the knees, Baxter Bell addresses knee injuries and how your yoga practice, done mindfully, can help.
Steel Your Abs: Upward Extended Foot Pose
Add Upward Extended Foot Pose (Urdhva Prasarita Padasana) to your practice for flat abs.