Carin Gorrell

Los Angeles-based teacher Sesa O'Connor talks to YJ about her spiritual upbringing, raising a little yogi solo, and the booming yoga industry.

Lauren opens up about about the recent loss of her father to pancreatic cancer and how her yoga practice helped her navigate his final months.

Trust your gut. Follow your instincts. Do what your heart tells you. There are so many ways we talk about heeding our intuition, and yet for many of us it remains a challenge. Below, Los Angeles–based yoga teacher Caley Alyssa shares ways to boost self-confidence and tune in to the voice within—both on and off the mat.

Part of our mission at Yoga Journal is to expand the conversation and include a more diverse group of yogis in print and on the web.

Last year’s Live Be Yoga Tour was so inspiring, we’re doing it again—only this time it’s all about capturing a snapshot of the unique yoga culture in each city we visit. To help us out: our intrepid new ambassadors, Rosie Acosta and Brant Williams.

Los Angeles-based SmartFLOW teacher trainer Tiffany Russo reminds us how our yoga practice can help us all stay grounded and cultivate community again.

In this interview with editor-in-chief Carin Gorrell, Briohny Smyth shares how she's rediscovered yoga's healing power since she and her husband, Dice Iida-Klein, began talking about splitting up.

Meet February cover model Heather Lilleston, cofounder of Yoga for Bad People.

Ever wish you could pack up your mat, hit the road, and 
travel around the United States practicing yoga? Now's your chance to live your dream!

Longtime yoga teacher and this month’s cover model Giselle Mari is no stranger to change. While many of us might resist the unknown and cling to the past, she’s accepting change with a refreshing passion and inspiring lightheartedness.

Not only is Liz Arch's practice powerful, she also has an incredibly kind spirit despite having been the 
victim of domestic violence. Find her story here.

After Elena Brower's mother passed this year, she found a deeper connection to her meditation practice and with her family.

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

Mary Lyn Jenkins, a yoga teacher in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida is the winner of Yoga Journal’s 2016 reader cover contest.

Summer’s in full swing, and the living just got easier thanks to these fab items. Here's the top 5 things the editors love this month.

Vinyasa teacher Mary Beth LaRue is one of those instructors you just want to practice with in the hopes that some of her vibrant energy will rub off.

We're excited to introduce Tarah Stuht and Taylor O’Sullivan, the ambassadors for our Live Be Yoga Tour in partnership with Gaia.

Alexandria Crow learned the hard way about yoga injuries. Now, she focuses on therapeutic yoga to heal and transform her body.

Here’s what’s trending this month among Yoga Journal editors (and their little ones at home).

Yoga Journal editor-in-chief Carin Gorrell gets candid about her own fears and insecurities pre-YTT. Sound familiar?

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

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.

We had such fun creating this year’s holiday gift guide, we couldn't help but add a few of our favorite things to our own wish list.

Check out some of the fun items we came across in the making of the November 2015 issue that have become staff go-tos!

Here’s a deep dive into the deep pose from Nikki Costello, that you can and should return to long after the 21-Day Yoga Challenge is over.

Find energetic and physical balance as you twist into Rope Pose.

Congratulations on completing our 21-Day Yoga Challenge! We we hope you’ve fallen in love with yoga that you want to adopt a daily practice habit.

Try this simple 5-step meditation on the question “Who am I?” to look beyond your ego’s definition of you and discover what lies beneath.

If you’re tossing and turning in bed at night, or have trouble calming your mind before going into meditation, spend a few minutes doing Nadi Shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing.

Feeling stressed or anxious at work but don’t have time to slip away for a calming lunchtime yoga break? We've got you covered.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious when work stresses come into play. Try this practice as a solution to all of your stress woes.

We hear this question a lot: Is yoga enough to get stronger in inversions and arm balances, or should I start lifting weights too? We have the answer.

Try one of these smoothies before your practice to enhance your endurance, ease any digestive woes, or rev your energy levels when you need a pick-me-up.

Take 10 minutes today to relax into this restorative posture, Viparita Karani (Legs-up-the-Wall Pose).

Try this sun salutation version from Kundalini teacher Joan Shivarpita Harrigan to feel reinvigorated and newly inspired on your mat!

Find inspiration in this affirmation to keep you on track with our 21-day yoga challenge.

Find inspiration in this affirmation to keep you on track with our 21-day yoga challenge.

To keep your body twisting and turning with ease, try this Simple Reclining Twist from teacher Barbara Benagh.

Keep your energy steady and strong for today’s yoga practice by eating small portions—often.

Try to cultivate self-compassion by including this reflection in your meditation or yoga practice.

Coordinate movement with your breath to really bring your poses to life. Learn how to pair breathing with different types of poses.

After a long day parked at your desk, are your hips telling you tales of tight, achy woe? Open your hips and boost flexibility with these poses.

Teachers often advise students to start their practice by setting an intention. Here's how to find the right intention to carry you through your practice.

We discovered all of these great finds in the Yoga Market at a YJLIVE! Event. Just one more reason to join us at our events—yoga goodies at discount prices!

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.

Come celebrate yoga and the history of YJ with us this summer. We're kicking off a 40-day countdown to our big anniversary with the best of our archives and so much more.