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Yoga teachers and scholars offer insights about the role of traditional, long-term student-teacher relationships amidst scandals and social media.

The smoke incense produces can negatively impact health, according to recent research. Learn how you can still get the benefits.

This New Jersey-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author loves to keep her classes fresh, sweaty, and fun. Her yoga bag follows suit, with a few surprises inside.

There is still time to come together with like-minded yogis, celebrate your practice, and get centered before summer festival season is over.

Waiting for a phone call, in line at the grocery store, or for your kids to get out of school? Try this meditation during those in-between moments and feel alive.

Take your practice to the water. Kathryn Budig has these three simple poses to get your feet wet with standup paddleboard yoga.

Yoga is known to help relieve stress and calm the body and mind, but it can be especially beneficial for veterans suffering from PTSD.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar, shares the most important lessons he learned from the late guru.

Social media–savvy yogis are opening up their personal lives to give you in-the-moment yoga inspiration, puppy cuddles, and stunning beach views.

The Natural Gourmet Institute's easy smoothie makes a refreshing breakfast or the perfect post-yoga shake to relieve sore muscles and restore energy.

Yoga poses inspired by the warrior goddess Durga will help you enhance every part of your life.

The Yoga Journal LIVE! presenter and Maya Yoga co-founder reveals the gear she dons in and out of yoga class.

Sharon Salzberg writes that by practicing kindness with others and yourself, over and over again, and this is who you become, this is what feels most natural. Start now.

It's as easy as ABC. The Letter Sound Yoga app makes learning the sounds of the alphabet active.

A honeymoon that celebrates your love of yoga AND your passion for your partner? Pack your matching yoga mats, now.

Follow along in the video below to learn how to process your feelings and find peace in the present moment.

You got this.

Reflecting on 40 years, we asked Alexandria Crow which alignment cues have passed their prime. She makes a strong case for retiring these five.

There’s no yoga style quite as persistently recurring as the stretchy, body-hugging one-piece. We celebrate its return (again) to the studio.

Understanding the anatomy of the spine is essential for both yoga teachers and practitioners. Injury-proof your practice with these three key tips.

As we celebrate the magazine’s 40th anniversary, we’re also commemorating 20 years of unforgettable YJ events. Take a look back at 20 sweet memories.

Sure, you could eat watermelon or take a dip in the pool, but yoga can help your body and mind chill out, says Kristen Kemp of Powerflow Yoga.

Meet 12 teachers who have spent 40-plus years sharing their practice to help authenticate yoga in America today.

The beach-loving Hot Yoga Fusion teacher and entrepreneur dishes on her daily essentials.

It turns out, you don't have to commit to a full hour of yoga practice to reap its many benefits.

Learn more about Marianne Elliott and the organizations she is a part of.

The Dharma Yoga creator shows off his latest innovation—a wheel-shaped prop to assist you in backbends and inversions. See how to use it.

How do you know if the option you’ve chosen is best for you? This fun and revealing guide can help you pick the right class.

Here, some creative culinary inspiration for three nutrition-packed varieties, plus tips for buying and storing them.

Here are a few products that didn’t find their way into the pages of the magazine, but that we think you’d love to know about, too.

The true meaning of 'ohana (family) awaits at this yoga retreat center set among black sand beaches, volcanoes, and pineapple-coconut ice cream.

Transform envy into a positive practice for finding—and fulfilling—your greatest potential with these six steps from Sally Kempton.

Mothers sacrifice sleep, diet, love life to care for their kids. Take a moment to pause and recalibrate yourself for better balance.

A onetime lawyer shares how yoga can help sustain human-rights advocates and workers.

A yoga practice 
can be an important recovery tool 
for tennis in order to stretch tight muscles and encourage tissue resiliency.

Learn to balance as you move step by step into Pincha Mayurasana.

Increase your shoulder flexibility and develop greater strength with these prep poses 
for Pincha Mayurasana, forearm balance.

Modify Dolphin if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

A feeling of youth, even as you age, requires a flexible spine. In order to stay agile, practice forward bends, backbends, and twists regularly.

In order to stay agile as you age, make forward bends, backbends, and twists a regular part of your practice. Start here.

This sequence emphasizes moving safely into backbends that open the heart and shoulders and challenge balance.

Twisting poses are a top cause of SI joint injury. Learn how 
to safely anchor yourself before moving into your next twist.

How do you know if you've been in a pose too long? When you start to "sag," says Eddie Modestini, who will lead Yoga Journal's upcoming Vinyasa 101 course.

The following five poses root down into the ground, allowing you to expand and create more space within your body and mind.

Are health warnings scaring you off certain foods? Get the real facts on three dietary controversies currently making headlines.

Seva means selfless service, and that is what these 14 honorees are all about: using yoga to help others in their local and global communities.

Tari Prinster found the benefits of yoga after her cancer diagnosis. Now, she's working to educate teachers on safe yoga practices with cancer patients.

When it comes to injury prevention, what 
you do between poses may be as important as the poses themselves. Here’s how 
to flow safely through tricky transitions.

Tame anxiety with this short meditation and seated sequence.

For those suffering from 
anxiety, yoga can be a lifeline. 
Here’s why doctors are 
increasingly recommending 
it as a complementary therapy.

Readers share photos of their kids practicing yoga.

This teacher in Washington, DC, 
integrates Rolfing with yoga to help his students move more freely.

Marlon Yates, actor and founder of the Brothas Capable 
of Accomplishing Anything foundation in Los Angeles, is a yogi.

If you’re traveling without a mat or don’t have the space to roll one out, you can still stretch your whole body with these 8 standing poses.

Meditation is one part of the practice that has the potential to keep deepening with age. Here are 10 guided meditations to return to for years to come.

Findings suggest that dogs process verbal content separately from emotional parts of speech, meaning your canine best friend actually pays attention to you.

Meagan McCrary is a 500 E-RYT and writer with a passion for helping people find more comfort, clarity, compassion, and joy on the mat and in life.

Learn more about Mark Stephens, author of three international bestsellers: Teaching Yoga, Yoga Sequencing, and Yoga Adjustments.

Yoga teacher Maggie DiPasquale say music is essential for setting the tone in teen yoga classes and offers tips for choosing songs that move teens.

Without breath, the prana we cultivate through yoga practice would have no real avenue for circulation; the breath is everything. Try this easy breathing meditation to foster a more effective practice.

Some students equate a good yoga class with a fast one, but moving too quickly can lead to injuries. Here, master teacher Eddie Modestini offers three signs it's time to slow down.

The yoga we practice today wouldn’t exist without 
these 14 pioneers, whose work first made yoga 
accessible to 20th-century Americans.

Struggling with arm balances? The secret lies in the hands and forearms. Learn how to support your weight throughout your inversion practice.

For the first time, yoga classes will be offered at the Special Olympics World Games kicking off this Saturday, July 25th, in Los Angeles.

This green—better known as a garden weed—has a nutrition profile capable of competing with the best superfoods.

Take a look through 40 years of American yoga and how the practice has transformed our culture.

What once was old is new again … again. These Colonial-era drinks are trending as a light and refreshing sweet-tart solution to summer’s heat.