YJ Editors

According to the year's top articles, you all focused on self-improvement in 2021.

You weren't the only one with tight hips this year!

Bound Angle Pose, or Baddha Konasana, opens the deepest part of the hip muscles.

Open wide into Prasarita Padottanasana to increase flexibility by leaps and bounds.

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, a well-known backbend, will challenge you to lift and open your chest.

Use these tips to help cultivate calm or reset your emotions next time you find holiday stress getting in your way.

Plow Pose (Halasana) reduces backache and can help you get to sleep.

Padmasana creates an essential foundation for meditation practice, while stretching the front of the thighs and ankles.

A compact arm balance, Crow Pose and Crane Pose tone the abs and the arms, strengthen in the core, and focus the mind.

You need strength, flexibility, and endurance, and unwavering concentration for Eagle Pose.

Named for a legendary warrior, Virabhadrasana 2 strengthens your quads, shoulders, and core—not to mention your stamina and inner resolve.

It might look straightforward, but there's more to Dandasana than meets the eye.

A simple pose that's anything but easy.

There's a general consensus among modern yogis that Viparita Karani or Legs Up the Wall Pose may have the power to cure whatever ails you.

This breath-centric meditation calls on the power of the moon to heal your body, nourish your energy, and create a deep sense of ease.

Adho Mukha Vrksasana boosts energy and confidence, and can literally give you a new perspective on life.

A standing posture centered around balance, Virabhadrasana III will strengthen your legs, ankles, and core.

Standing on your head in Salamba Sirsasana strengthens the whole body and calms the brain.

One of yoga's most widely recognized poses, Adho Mukha Svanasana strengthens the core and improves circulation, while providing a delicious, full-body stretch.

When's the last time you reminded yourself that you can do difficult things?

Chaturanga Dandasana is not merely a push-up. This pivotal yoga pose is instrumental—so it's important to practice it properly.

Extended Triangle Pose is a quintessential standing pose that stretches and strengthens the whole body.

Setu Bandha Sarvangasana can be whatever you need—energizing, rejuvenating, or luxuriously restorative.

Find length in your side body, from your heel to your fingertips with Extended Side Angle Pose.

Bump up your energy (and confidence!) by bending back into Camel Pose. Ustrasana counteracts slouching and relieves lower back pain with a generous, heart-opening stretch.

Lift your heart—and your energy—by bending back into Ustrasana. This pose counteracts slouching and relieves lower back pain with a generous, upward stretch.

Virabhadrasana 1 is a foundational yoga pose that balances flexibility and strength in true warrior fashion.

Take a break. Balasana is a restful pose that can be sequenced between more challenging asanas.

YJ contributors share how they move through changes in their own lives.

Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose, or Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana, offers a deep, vivid stretch to the side body paired with loving and heart-opening movement.

Boat Pose, or Paripurna Navasana, requires you to balance on the tripod of your sitting bones and tailbone to build mental and physical focus, inspiring a full-body awareness.

Savasana is a pose of total relaxation—making it one of the most challenging.

It seems so simple as to hardly be a pose. But this basic posture contains the secrets of how to hold yourself in countless other poses.

We see you! Logging hours and hours of screen time can wreak havoc on your eyes. Here are some yoga exercises that can help.

Bend back into the shape of a bow to feel energetically locked, loaded, and ready to take aim.

Tap into the warrior power of the Hindu goddess with this practice from Sianna Sherman.

Yes, Baby Bakasana is a thing. And if you haven't tried it, here are four simple steps to get you there.

Cultivate compassion and get your energy flowing with these chakra meditations.

A 22 minute meditation for self care with Amina Naru, cofounder of Retreat to Spirit and the founder and director of Posh Yoga.

Pamela Stokes Eggleston, cofounder of Retreat to Spirit and the founder and director of Yoga2Sleep, shares her 17-minute evening self-care routine.

Amina Naru shares a 25-minute self-care routine for letting go.

Acknowledge your fears so you can move past them to find a place of abundance and security.

Sitting all day can do a number on your body and mind. These practices will help you work out the kinks in your back, relax your stiff shoulders, and create space in your mind and body.

Try this Yoga Nidra practice for whole body relaxation taught by Chelsea Jackson Roberts.

An 8-minute meditation for cultivating sustainable energy.

A 30 minute practice exploring alternate nostril breathing.

Cyndi Lee, the first female Western yoga teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching, shares a 12-minute mindfulness meditation.

Strengthen your sense of compassion with this 12-minute meditation for loving kindness.

Find a sense of peace and calm with this sound bath meditation.

Maybe it's not what you do that keeps you awake at night, but what you don't do. These three stretches can help fix that.

When you wake up feeling less than fresh, these self-care practices can give you the boost you need.

Activate your heart chakra with this Kriya meditation with Alan Finger.

It's more than what you think.

Discover the signs of blocked energy in the crown chakra, or sahasrara, and how you may benefit from aligning it.

Support your adrenals with this 10-minute meditation with women’s health and Chinese Medicine practitioner Maria Villella

Clear stagnant energy with this yin yoga meditation.

Explore Yoga Nidra, or full-body relaxation, with master teacher Dharma Mittra, founder of Dharma Yoga in New York City

Find greater self compassion with this 16 minute meditation led by Alicia C. Easter

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in the muladhara and how you may benefit from aligning it.

Prepare your body for rest with this guided Savasana with Gail Parker

Colleen Saidman Yee teaches a five-minute meditation to help you gracefully navigate chaos.

Call on the Hindu goddess Lakshmi in this 9-minute mantra meditation

This 16-minute Central Channel breathing practice will help you cultivate awareness of subtle energy.

Whether you're going on vacation or just getting out of town for the day, these nine products will power your journey.

This 1-minute pranayama meditation will dissolve anxiety and stress and boost your energy.

These variations of Firefly can help you work up to the full expression of the pose—or just enjoy them on their own.

Learn how to fly in Tittibhasana with this video practice—exclusive only to Outside+ members.

You've tried everything else to ease your tension. Maybe it's time to opt for simple stretches that draw on contemporary science as well as thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine.

Open your vishuddha, the throat chakra, to find your voice and speak your truth.

Poses to help relieve that aggravating sensation.

Connect and learn through moving meditations, Sanskrit, and the power of pause.

Three Yoga Journal contributors share how they overcome life's challenges.

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in your third chakra, the navel chakra or manipura, and how you may benefit from aligning it.

What does namaste mean? How is it pronounced? And when should you use it (and not)? Here's everything you need to know about this widely used—but often misunderstood—yoga term.

Channel more confidence, creativity, and joy in your life with a basic understanding of your body's energy centers.

This meditation from ISHTA yoga founder Alan Finger will help you access samadhi—a total absorption in meditation and the state of oneness.