Intimacy as a Spiritual Voyage
When you commit to a relationship, you are transcending the self to become part of something greater.
Strengthen your relationships with your friends, family, and partner. Learn how yoga can help you build trust, cultivate intimacy, deepen love—and even improve your sex life.
A student tries to crack his girlfriend’s resistance to yoga.
When you commit to a relationship, you are transcending the self to become part of something greater.
How yoga and psychotherapy are complementary tools for intimacy and understanding.
Put your own oxygen mask on first.
Be the friend known for giving the *best* squeezes.
Yoga and relationship luminaries Rina Jakubowicz and Eric Paskel share how they avoid resentment and keep their bond strong.
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.
The seeds of all healthy relationships start in our minds. These meditations can help you cultivate better bonds.
Here's how to get in alignment so you're always operating in sync.
Shifting from thinking about your life from a place of scarcity to one of plenty is a pretty limited version of abundance. Here's a better way.
Four yoga strategies and poses for feeling grounded, free, and loving.
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.
The secret to finding my equilibrium wasn’t in becoming more grounded, it was in the big Pacific Ocean.
Plus, how your yoga practice can help you deal.
Less enamored with your practice these days? Try these tips to spice things back up.
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.
Plus, 10 ways yoga leads to better sex, and a guided meditation that’ll put you in the mood.
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.
Rather than feeling guilty for not rolling out her mat every day, one writer embraced her hiatus from yoga—and it transformed her practice forever.
For so many of us, it’s easy to show kindness, love, and compassion to others—and a totally different story when it comes being as lovely when we talk to ourselves. These 6 practices will change that.
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.
Your relationship with self requires conscious nurturing. In part 3 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley shares how your communication with others can get in the way.
When powerful teachings, charismatic instructors, and receptive students come together in a spiritual community, intimate relationships have the potential to bloom.
Author Stephen Cope considers the contemplative traditions’ aversion to attachment—and penchant for non-attachment (vairagya in yoga)—and asks is attachment really so bad?
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.
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.
As politics become more and more divisive, women’s circles offer empowering connection, community, and a refuge of trust and love. In honor of International Women's Day, consider starting your own.
Give yourself the gift of vibrancy, joy, and health by embracing the following self-care practices.
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.
Discover the Enneagram, a personality assessment that can help you see what’s keeping you from realizing your most authentic, highest self. Here’s how to use it, along with your yoga practice, to change course.
The following sequences draw from ancient Taoist and Tantric energy practices as well as modern science.
Our method for escaping the present moment is shared, societal, and considered a reasonable way of living. In this excerpt from her new book, psychotherapist Nancy Colier offers tips for mindful unplugging and staying present.
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.
How learning to say this one little word more often completely shifted my perspective.
Listen to your body to find your natural limits and healthy boundaries—along with core power, strength, and inner peace.
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?
Spending quality time with family, friends, and community—while also staying open to new relationships—is the secret to a happy, healthy life. One of the most powerful ways to forge more vital, lasting connections: yoga.
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.
Compassion is an essential skill that can be improved over time to transform your life and increase your happiness.
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.
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.
Move through and beyond loss with a practice that opens both heart and mind, offers strength and comfort in the present, and prepares you for the next leap of faith or love.
Mark your calendar -- you might want to be a little kinder to your fellow humans this weekend.
Everyone benefits from a little more lovin' in their lives. Here's how yoga can help.
Here's how to cultivate compassion for others—and why opening your heart helps you too.
It took Erica Rodefer Winters a long time understand the importance of connecting with her local yoga community. But now it's one of the most gratifying parts of her practice.
Caregiving can be a difficult, exhausting task. Katherine Griffin sheds light on how to cope.
Social scientists say that it's harder to make friends as adults. But Neal Pollack has found that yoga has filled his life with many true friendships.
At its essence, compassion is a gift of the spirit—one with the power to change lives, reduce stress, and heal depression.
Every little gift you give of yourself has the potential to make a big impact.
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To live passionately, writer Julia Butterfly Hill says: "Find your purpose and grow with it."
Yogic tradition offers three basic remedies for guilt: Avoid it by practicing ethical mindfulness, purify your psyche of the residue of old actions, and practice self-forgiveness.
One man's experiences of impermanence teach him the art of letting go and allow him to find peace.
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.
Find out how you could be facing fear to create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
This year, you’ll do more than just survive the holidays.
When life hands you a difficult choice, try this time-tested process for discovering your dharma—the right action for this situation.
Sometimes we crave change. Other times we dread it. Either way, we can't escape it. Here are some effective methods for dealing with change.
How can you forgive yourself when the person you wronged won't?
We know what you're thinking: is it really yogic to give and receive gifts? Here's how to deal with the holiday resentment and pressures.
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.
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Meditation and yoga allow you to weather the sudden storms in your relationships.