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Become an A+ yoga student by copping a humble attitude and minding your manners.

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Not just for beginners, Extended Triangle Pose can unlock tension in your legs, hips, and spine.

Head-of-the-Knee Pose fosters flexibility in the hamstrings and spine while calming the nervous system.

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Learn how to do Downward-Facing Dog Pose properly for the ultimate full-body stretch.

You spend most of your life in forward bends. Give your body the backbend it craves with bridge pose.

A twist like beginner-friendly Bharadvajasana I can bring release no matter what your level of ability.

This is no easy chair. Sit back and power up in Chair Pose.

Let Warrior II teach you how to bring more wisdom, courage, and unwavering focus into every action.

More than a rest stop, Child's Pose requires you to surrender to gravity and a state of nondoing.

Mastering the actions of Urdhva Hastasana can help you move into more advanced poses.

Spread consciousness throughout your body, head to toes, surface to core in Cobra Pose.

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Reclining Big Toe Pose provides a safe stretch for tight hamstrings —and opens the door to a host of other asanas.

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Meditators of all levels are drawn to silent yoga retreats for spiritual awakening and peace of mind. Here, 10 meditation centers that support silence.

This five-part meditation clears the heart and quiets the mind.

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New research shows that yoga can relieve both psychological and physical symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. It also appears yoga can lift levels of an antidepressant-like hormone, allopregnanolone, typically low in chronic sufferers. Dr. Ratna Sharma, a physiologist at the All...

The Asian Classics Input Project, an organization dedicated to locating, cataloging, and disseminating Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts, has created a CD of yogic texts including the Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, and more. The CD was given away to 1,000...

Yoga is being used help children who have apraxia, a condition that affects their speech and fine motor skills. Patients don't just do asanas, they also make sounds in coordination with their breathing. Yoga has also been used to help...

The Papworth method, developed 40 years ago, has recently been proven to relieve asthma symptoms, depression and anxiety according to an article published in the journal Thorax. The technique includes a sequence of breathing and relaxation exercises developed in the...

Teaching meditation in public schools could have positive benefits, but does it cross the line?

By now you may know that traditional yoga mats, made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC), can be hazardous to your health and the environment. The manufacturing of PVC products releases harmful dioxins into the atmosphere, and even more dioxins can leech...

Yoga will now be mandatory for students in Kerala, India. "Taking into consideration the widely accepted advantages of yoga and its effect on individuals, the education department would soon see that this is made part of the school curriculum in...

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It was only a matter of time . . . During the month of June, the Salt Lake City dance company, SB Dance, performed "Yoga the Musical," a full-blown musical with an original book, music, lyrics, and choreography. The show...

According to a Washington Post article, Hillary Clinton's support team, self-described as Hillaryland, is a tight knit group of women that does yoga together once a week: "They have a personal connection virtually nonexistent among professional male colleagues. Even rarer:...

This fall, a team of British academics, yoga teachers and practitioners will join forces to find out if a 12-week course of Iyengar Yoga can be used to treat lower back pain. More than 260 people between the ages of...

A juvenile court is Colorado is sentencing juvenile drug offenders to mandatory weekly yoga classes. Mary Jo Berenato, juvenile magistrate for the 8th Judicial District, believes over time these troubled teens will turn to yoga instead of drugs when faced...

The findings of a new study conducted at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and McLean Hospital show that practicing yoga may elevate brain gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels. Low GABA levels are associated with depression, anxiety, epilepsy, and even Alzheimer's. Complete...

According to entertainment news sources, "Saturday Night Live" alumni Mike Myers was kicked out of an L.A. yoga class because he couldn't stop laughing. Why? The yogi on the mat next to him was gassy. The actor explains, "This guy...

Which poses or pranayama do you find most helpful with headaches?

"Yoga, Inc.," the documentary about the commercialization of yoga by filmmaker John Philp, made its debut at the end of April at Hot Docs, the documentary film festival in Toronto. Clips are available at youtube.com. Although most of the controversies...

Yet another study that proves yoga does a body good: At Penn State they have found that women going through menopause who practice yoga feel better than those who don't. Yoga was "effective in enhancing positive mood and decreasing negative...

Yoga Works' Julie Kleinman offers advice for dealing with disruptive students and new students.