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A personal affirmation practice can boost your problem-solving skills when you’re stressed and afraid to take the next step. Here's how to create yours.

Seane Corn interviews this yoga service leader for the scoop on her journey to a career in somatic therapy and healing yoga.

Modify Janu Sirsasana if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

Learn whether you are Vata-, Pitta-, or Kapha-dominant and how to stay in balance through seasonal changes for lasting health and peace of mind.

Feeling up to it? Try yoga teacher Claire Missingham's tips for moving into Parivrtta Svarga Dvijasana.

How to gain strength, flexibility, and confidence for inversion yoga poses. Here, the prep tips and video you need to defy gravity.

Want to recapture the childlike wonder you used to feel on Christmas morning? Get into the spirit by giving yourself the gift of yoga.

Creatives within the yoga community showed YJ what inspired and charged their innovative energy this year.

Masumi Goldman and Laura Kasperzak's twisting, hip-opening, feel-good flow melts the stress of the day and sets you up for sleep.

Start the year off strong by taking on Yoga Journal's top challenge poses of 2014.

The #yogainspiration world showcases some pretty amazing shots. Here are nine of our favorites of the year.

Try yoga teacher Claire Missingham's ideas for adding some flair to your Vrksasana.

Our expert weighs in on observing your feelings and letting them go—even when your practice or class gets irritating.

Need help getting started with inversions? Try these 6 poses from Two Fit Moms.

Every modification has its time and place, but you can add new challenge to old asana by removing training wheels you may be relying on.

Get your dose of antioxidants and soothe your sweet tooth with raw chocolate.

Let your appreciation for the people in your life lead in this heart-wide-open variation of Vasisthasana.

When a crisis hits, you have to dig deep. Yoga helps people tap into reserves of inner strength to find new hope, resilience, and happiness.

A sequence to unwind everyday stress and upper-body tightness created by all of our digital devices.

This sequence unwinds everyday stress and all of the upper-body tightness created by our digital devices.

Unfold and extend step by step into Svarga Dvijasana.

Learn to find your center of balance and open your hamstrings for this challenging pose.

In honor of Veterans Day, we asked five veterans to share how yoga helped them cope with depression, stress, sleep disturbances and other war-related issues.

Our expert weighs in on weight training, and whether or not it'll give you the extra push you need in your practice.

Yogis always find a way to extend the month’s gratefulness beyond the edges of our stuffed plates and back onto our mats.

The adept Ashtangi walks us through the key steps to mastering this tricky transition.

Feeling out of whack? Combine Ayurvedic wisdom with warm, soothing teas to balance your doshas for the season.

Instinctively and correctly, yogis believe that seasonal foods like pumpkin are part of Mother Nature’s medicine cabinet.

You love LÄRABARs and you love lollipops … so what could be better than combining them into a delicious LÄRApop?

When life hands you lemons, you drink … lemon water!

Can’t wake up without your morning Joe? Get your java flavor fix with LÄRABAR’s dairy-free Cappuccino bar.

The famous Ashtangi breaks this tricky transition down in a step-by-step guide.

Here’s another reason to feel proud that LÄRABAR is your favorite snack bar: LÄRABAR uses cocoa and coffee sourced from farmers who are Fair Trade Certified™ by Fair Trade USA.

Between work and life, most of us don’t have very much time to linger around the breakfast table anymore. But you can have exactly the morning meal you’d love to have at home by packing a wholesome LÄRABAR!

Even if you’re on a special diet, such as vegan or gluten-free, there’s no need to miss out on all the Halloween fun.

Rock climbing and yoga reinforce the mind-body connection through similar types of movement. Become a better climber with these six poses.

Environmental activist and author Joanna Macy gets into what compassion really means—and how to apply it in daily life.

How can you get your chocolate fix without overdoing it on calories and added sugar? LÄRABAR features chocolate in several of its wholesome snack bars:

You want to know what’s in the food you eat … especially when it comes to GMOs. That’s why LÄRABAR has enrolled its products, which have always been made without GMO ingredients, in the Non-GMO Project.

What you eat matters when it comes to staying healthy.

Our Home Practice teacher and Beyoncé’s lead guitarist 
Bibi McGill talks about sacred music, her love of kale, 
metaphysical experiences, 
and the state of yoga today.

As the yoga community expands, so do our values around food. With ahimsa in mind, four teachers share how they eat for body and soul.

Ayruveda offers these simple yet powerful tips for letting your inner radiance shine through and bolstering your ojas, or inner-energy reserves.

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Try these subtle, yet safe tweaks to Chaturanga if you struggle with the pose.

As the courts debate yoga in schools, Deepak Chopra, Cyndi Lee, and more weigh in on this ongoing dispute.

Get the story behind the story in this interview with the writer of our October 2014 feature.

Explore the 30+ nutritious and delicious meals in our Vegan Challenge recipe box.

LÄRABAR Alt is at the forefront of the pea protein trend, as Americans look for more ways to add more vegetable protein to their diets.

Looking for the perfect vegan snack to pack in your yoga bag? LÄRABAR Original Fruit & Nut Bars, Jŏcalat, and ALT are made entirely from plant-based foods.

LÄRABARS can satisfy your cravings for apple pie, pumpkin pie and more.

Plant-based diets, like the vegan diet, can be great for your body, the planet, and local farmers.

How will you celebrate the power plant's second annual holiday?

It’s now officially fall, meaning it’s the perfect time to catch some gorgeous fall colors on a leaf-peeping hike.

You eat well, try to get enough sleep and exercise, and still find yourself “crashing." Luckily, LÄRABAR can give you that energy “boost” you need.

Some yogis believe diet is key to practice the Yoga Sutra's principle of Ahimsa, or non-harming.

Hiking can improve a yogi’s cardiovascular health and bring greater lung capacity for deeper, fuller breaths.

"Whole eating" means eating whole, unprocessed foods that are picked or raised from their natural habitats. Here's how to build a meal with whole foods.

Get our girl's seven-step secret to flying by softening into your power.

Did you know that your morning routine actually begins the night before? Follow this 13-step plan to feel refreshed when you start the day.

Believe it or not, even Lara Merriken, founder of the super-healthy Lärabar brand, used to be a junk-food junkie -- until she discovered how natural foods enlivened her mind, body and spirit.

Looking to stay fueled on the go, and stick to your gluten-free diet? Lärabar products contain energy-boosting nuts like almonds and walnuts, and every bar is gluten-free.

Before yoga class, snack on a healthy whole food, like a sweet potato, or try these gluten-free options.

Fall is typically the time when you trade your splashy summer wardrobe for a more subdued palette. But activewear designers are breaking all the rules this season by thinking pink.

We tackle your top concerns about going meat- and dairy-free.

Our by-the-numbers guide shows the benefits of a plant-based diet, even if you do it just one day a week.

Kathryn Budig's Modifications for Safe Alignment in Standing Forward Bend

Baptiste Yoga Teacher Bethany Lyons explains how to engage the bandhas to work your abs throughout your practice.

The community activist and founder of New York's Queer and Trans Yoga classes on what yoga needs now.

Kathryn Budig talks art and asana with the yoga community’s resident photographer.

Join yogis across the country Tuesday, August 26, in a practice dedicated to the master.

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Power up your meal plan with these ultra-healthy superfruits. Plus, four ways to add them to your summer diet.

A quiet, bound, and balanced posture like Bharadvajasana can help you to find stillness.

Olivia Wilde, Jared Leto, JLo, Bey and Jay, and more stars have recently tried plant-based diets. What might be in it for you?

We’re all winners, losers, and people. Find out how soccer unites us like yoga.

Kathryn Budig offers step-by-step instruction to master this tricky hand position and get into a deeper backbend.

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Does your dad still need convincing that yoga is for men, too? From stress reduction to improving flexibility, here are four reasons to get your father to the mat.