Balance

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

Forget typical self-improvement resolutions—they simply don’t last. What does? Harnessing one of yoga’s profound formulas for setting the right intention and achieving your heart’s desire.

As a mother, Janet Stone uses the end of the year as a time to tune back into her sankalpa—her heart’s deepest longing, her intention.

During this busy time of year, it's important to remember what the holidays are supposed to be all about: happiness, or santosha.

Pick your poses. Two Fit Moms offers three ways to relieve holiday stress with yoga—active, passive, or a combo—in this sequence.

Ever feel like you need a bolt of perspective? Getting outside is a good place to start.

Janet Stone offers mothers a pose, a writing exercise, and a daily ritual to make every day more mindful.

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.

Author Susan Verde’s new book sends kids the message that imagination makes anything possible—and the yoga mat is a perfect place to explore it.

Internationally recognized yoga teacher and mother of two Janet Stone offers moms a pose to build strength from the inside out.

Pancha-what? Our writer takes us along on a 10-day traditional Ayurvedic retreat, as part of her journey toward healing. Discover this ancient detox method.

Police officers, firefighters, and others who face extreme stress and trauma on a regular basis can find peace in asana, breath, and affirmation.

With so many yoga studios popping up around the country, it can be hard to find the competitive edge against other businesses in town. Here's how to stand out.

A paraplegic yoga teacher shares his practice for finding feeling and healing in body and mind.

Compassion is an essential skill that can be improved over time to transform your life and increase your happiness.

A San Francisco–based yoga teacher offers asana as a doorway to creativity.

What’s the recipe for a great city for yogis? 
Start with renowned teachers and studios, 
mix in a supportive community and healthful amenities, and then sprinkle in some fun, innovative events. 
These 10 are blue-ribbon winners.

Spending quiet time in wooded areas is considered medicine in Japan, and the practice—Shinrin-yoku—is catching on here.

Get advice from the world's best yoga teachers on how to craft a special yoga practice space in your home.

This excerpt from Pema Chodron's new book Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better offers wise advice for the times in life in when things don't go the way you wanted them to.

While anxiety is natural, experts say certain yoga postures can relieve students’ first-day nerves. Start school stress-free.

Is your practice playlist getting stale? Good news: Yogi-musician Trevor Hall's new album just dropped. Unroll your mat, cue up a sequence, and listen to it right here.

Mothers sacrifice sleep, diet, love life to care for their kids. Take a moment to pause and recalibrate yourself for better balance.

A onetime lawyer shares how yoga can help sustain human-rights advocates and workers.

Tame anxiety with this short meditation and seated sequence.

If you’re traveling without a mat or don’t have the space to roll one out, you can still stretch your whole body with these 8 standing poses.

When life gives you lemons, start a lemonade stand for a good cause.

Meet three young yoga teachers using Instagram as an outlet to share their passion for the practice.

Grab your mat and practice with yogis around the world for the first-ever International Day of Yoga on June 21, the summer solstice.

Learn more about the personal journey and vision of Melody Moore, PhD, RYT, who founded the Embody Love Movement in 2012 to use yoga as a transformational tool for embracing inner beauty.

A clinical psychologist shares how yoga can help people embrace their emotions and embody self-love.

Zoe Mantarakis of the Austin, Texas, studio Yoga Illumined has six reasons why every child would love Yoga Camp—and a new camp for Austin kids.

Yoga Journal Brand Director Kristen Dollard was Bryant Park Yoga's featured teacher this week—until her class was rained out. Here's how she still got into a yogic state of mind.

Get inspired by stories of yoga's power to heal the wounds of grief, physical disability, emotional trauma, and disease.

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

A trio grows a yoga foundation 
for inner-city youths to help them get in touch with who they really are and build empathy and compassion for others.

Rising yoga star, scholar, and our June Home Practice teacher Chelsea Jackson talks about her work with teenage girls in Atlanta, and the importance of diversity and embracing who you are.

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

A war correspondent reporting from the frontlines of the world’s largest refugee crisis uncovers the power of yoga—and love.

Learn more about the personal journey of Andres Gonzalez and the brothers Ali Shah Rasool and Atman Ananda Smith, founders of the Holistic Life Foundation.

Sianna Sherman introduces you to Durga and teaches you how to summon her strength in practice and in life.

Everyone loses steam at some point. Our business-savvy yoga experts have tips to keep your career on track.

Discover your inner deity as you deepen your physical, mental, and spiritual practice with knowledge of mythic feminine power with master yoga teacher Sianna Sherman.

These 5 yoga teachers launched the careers of their dreams in tiny studios (and even one tour bus), and went on to accomplish truly amazing things.

The upside of outside: New research is finding a link between open air and happiness. Here, four ideas for making it a daily habit.

Research makes a strong case for taking your practice into the wild as the weather warms—or at least your backyard.

Prepare yourself for a very different experience when you unroll your mat in yoga’s motherland, Rina Jakubowicz says. Here’s what to expect.

Take a cue from the White House's Yoga Garden at the annual Easter Egg Roll and strike a few yoga poses in the backyard with your family.

Coral Brown offers a preview of all that a trip to yoga’s motherland could open your eyes to.

Author 
Mariam Gates' new bedtime story for little yogis is available April 1.

A soothing sequence for little ones (and the adults that take care of them).

Kino MacGregor says whether you find your guru there or not, just traveling to India will teach you more than you can imagine.

Yoga Gardens transforms a Chicago food desert into a mecca for organic produce and an urban asana oasis.

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

Jacoby Ballard talks about the tools and practices he uses to support and welcome marginalized groups into the yoga community.

A yoga and Buddhism teacher reveals ways to transform your personal struggles into an opportunity for healing others.

This wellness retreat, known for group hikes, healthy-cooking workshops, and yoga classes, is just a couple hours from famously wicked Las Vegas.

Teacher Tommy Rosen gives us an insider's look at the scene at the IYF in Rishikesh, India.

Have an anxious or traumatized pet? Some say chanting yogic mantras helps dogs and cats feel safe and soothes their frazzled nerves.

Looking to add a little va-va-voom to your Valentine's Day? This Iyengar Yoga hybrid uses a pole to aid alignment and may be just what you need to mindfully mix things up.

Bringing her Hispanic roots, love of ancient yogic texts, and passion for creative movement, this Miami native has rocked the yoga world.

Corn interviews Tessa Hicks Peterson, PhD, assistant professor of urban studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and an activist for social justice and antibias education.

How a desert sanctuary helped Jean Weiss return home with an open heart, a more supple and integrated body, and renewed motivation to remain balanced.

A social-justice educator shares tips on how to move from raising your consciousness about inequalities and biases to taking actions that improve the world.

Writer Heidi Hillman suspects her daughter is a Zen master in disguise. Could the key to the practice of parenting be maintaining a curious, student's mind?

Yoga teachers Tommy Rosen, Kia Miller, Nikki Myers, Rolf Gates, and Vinnie Marino talk about their addictions and how coming to the mat helped their recovery and renewal.

DJ Drez spinning A Tribe Called Quest provided the beats for MC Yogi's Saturday night class/concert at YJ LIVE! SF.

Elena Brower offers this 4-step practice to bring your dream into focus.

As Haiti's redevelopment begins to take root after their natural disaster, yoga is here to stay.

You have the willpower and strength to kick bad habits for good. Find them with Kundalini Yoga.

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

Yoga teacher and somatic counselor Hala Khouri explains why, if you want to heal the world, you have start by healing yourself.

Our Home Practice teacher and founder of the Africa Yoga Project Paige Elenson talks about running a social enterprise in Kenya.

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.

Here's how to get into the spirit.

Have a to-do list that could rival Santa's? It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the holidays, which is why you need yoga more than ever.

Want to play more of a leadership role at work and beyond—in a way that really feels true to you? Try this meditation.

Teacher Liz Lindh created this sequence to boost energy, promote mental clarity, and rid the body of toxins after overeating.

It changed my life.

It’s easy to forget what the holidays are about. Yoga can help you remember.