Yoga and Love

Novelist Sonali Dev wrote a swoonworthy book for Jane Austen fans and yoga lovers alike.

Let stillness be your medicine.

The true cause of fear in your relationships stem from one of four distinct states. Learn what they are, and how to get past them.

Here's how to get in alignment so you're always operating in sync.

Learn how partner yoga can positively impact your relationship with your partner.

Yacht parties and bikini bodies got you down? Here's how to get out of the funk.

In her new book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, yoga teacher Jennifer Pastiloff examines how facing loss, grief, and vulnerability allowed her to find endless love, self-acceptance, and wild happiness.

Executive editor Lindsay Tucker spent a week in Southern France with author Jen Pastiloff on her On Being Human Retreat. Here are a few ways she learned to open up and love herself more—and you can too.

I went to Mexico to rejuvenate, detox, and practice yoga with my boyfriend. Turns out, it would also be where I faced my fears about marriage.

Try an affirmation practice to create a more satisfying sex life and spiritual life.

Looking for a getaway with your sweetie that involves yoga, meditation, and lots of healthy eats? Read on and start planning.

In their new book, Better Apart, yoga teacher Elena Brower and attorney Gabrielle Hartley share their tips on how to emerge from divorce stronger and more resilient than before. Here, they share their thoughts on co-parenting with patience, respect, clarity, peace, and forgiveness after you separate.

It’s all too easy to put ourselves down. Here’s how to use your practice to stop, once and for all.

Even after a disagreement has ended, the effects can linger. Here’s how to foster communication and love after a fight.

In part 6 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley offers simple practices for surrendering to love—in order to feel everything else.

Remember when you distributed love notes to every single kid in the class on Valentine’s Day? Imagine how the world would be different if adults spread that kind of light.

Adults tend to think of Valentine’s Day as a time to revel in romantic love, but what if instead you used this day to simply celebrate another kind?

Taking us with her on a profoundly personal journey, Kathryn Budig reflects on everything that’s led her to now—the most authentic place she’s ever been.

When powerful teachings, charismatic instructors, and receptive students come together in a spiritual community, intimate relationships have the potential to bloom.

Summer lovin’ is going to be a blast for Aries and Libra, but other signs will need to buckle down and do some hard work on their relationships, says Debra Silverman, astrologer to yogi Seane Corn and author of The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition. Click through our slideshow to see what's written in the stars for your romance this summer.

For anyone who has ever thought, “If only my partner were a yogi...,” we asked six top yoga teachers to share what it’s like to live, love, and teach together.

Yoga teacher Mary Clare Sweet is paving the path from bridezilla to bride-ZEN-a. Here, she shares the yogic wedding planning method she’s leaning on leading up to her big day.

Yoga teacher Rina Jakubowicz shares three poignant and personal lessons about love, life, and herself she learned from her divorce.

What better relationship to practice unconditional love with than your mother?

Yoga might be the secret to better sex. Teachers, doctors, experts, and studies say it can be. Discover here how what you do on the mat is practice for what you do in the bedroom.

Curious how you and your partner match up between the sheets? Here is astrologer Debra Silverman's cheat sheet of each sign's turn-ons and turn-offs.

Give yourself the gift of vibrancy, joy, and health by embracing the following self-care practices.

Valentine's Day is coming up, and if you're single or stuck in a going-nowhere relationship, you might want to start looking for a date whose profile resembles your own, says Debra Silverman, yogi Seane Corn's astrologer and the author of The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition.

We talked to New York City yoga teacher Kat Fowler to get her favorite ideas on how to cultivate self-love.

The following sequences draw from ancient Taoist and Tantric energy practices as well as modern science.

In the midst of post-election protests and fear, yoga teacher Daniel Sernicola shares two heartening stories of how people—and the world—really can change and urges yogis to continue doing our part.

In honor of National Coming Out Day (October 11), yoga teacher Daniel Sernicola shares his coming out story.

Judith Hanson Lasater draws on the teachings of Patanjali to explain how yoga can—and should—play a role in improving our relationships.

We challenged writer Ryan Peacock to crack his girlfriend’s resistance to yoga. Can he sweet-talk her into taking six classes in a week—and actually liking them?

Yoga classes can provide prime conditions for intimate relationships 
to bloom, thanks 
to physical proximity and a shared trust. But is it professional
—or ethical?

Here are a few simple ways to carry the nourishing effects of yoga off the mat and into your relationships.

Turns out, how you feel about Valentine's Day—and your love life in general—is influenced by your sign, or more specifically, your "element," says author and astrologer Debra Silverman.

Writer Crystal Fenton shares her story of using patience and practice to turn the end of a relationship into an opportunity to evolve.

Harness the transformative power of language to design your own personal mantra and makeover your internal dialogue for authentic empowerment.

Some couples’ therapists are now offering partner yoga as a treatment for improving sex lives and forging stronger bonds.

Want to strengthen your relationship? These four simple partner poses will help you get close and connected within minutes.

Here, insights and 
evidence from academics, yogis, and other experts in the fields of 
conscious living, social criticism, and neurology for the answer.

Yoga helps you access the present moment as well as your personal power and potential, getting you in touch with your physical, spiritual, and emotional sides.

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Everyone benefits from a little more lovin' in their lives. Here's how yoga can help.

If your heart hurts, this powerful meditation can help you transform that energy and let it go.

Appearing with his partner for a YJ story presents Steven Thomas Saftig the opportunity to model the kind of relationship he wished he saw growing up.

Yoga can open you up in all sorts of ways, and that's good, but it can also leave you vulnerable. To protect a newly opened-heart, turn right back to your practice.

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May we use this Valentine’s Day season as a chance to fall deeply in love, yogi style. Katie Silcox tells us how.

In our culture, we associate one day of year with love, Valentine's Day. We most often direct this love toward another person. But us yogis like to practice Bhakti Yoga--known as the yoga of love and devotion--every day of the...

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Image: Brant Ward/The Chronicle I'm not sure where it came from, but the idea that yoga teachers should never date yoga students seems to be prevalent in the yoga community. It was taught as ethics in my teacher training course...

Gather your girls, a few pink feather boas, and a gaudy beauty pageant sash that says "Bachelorette!" It's wedding season—and with that comes the rehearsal dinner, the bridal shower, the next-day brunch, and of course the infamous bachelor/bachelorette party....

Relationships and love can be difficult and painful. Here's a yogi's guide to dealing with the ups and downs of  love in a healthy way.

Seems Ogden, the Yoga Guy on YouTube, isn't the only one looking for love in yoga class. According to an article in London's Guardian, "classes such as 'social flow' yoga (after which students go for cocktails) are already up and...

Your guide on how to create a green wedding, plus tips on how to make your day eco-friendly.

Applying buddhist teachings to emotional healing with relationships, marriage, and lust.

As much as we might like to, we can't force love to happen. But we can understand its many levels and connect more easily to its source.

Ancient texts insist celibacy is a must on the yogic path, but few modern yogis opt for such an ascetic lifestyle.