Relationships

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.

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

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.

Whether you’re on the mat or on the couch, these are our favorite quarantine-appropriate podcasts for these strange and stressful times.

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.

Are you single and looking for true love? Or in a relationship, but hoping to establish a deeper, more intimate connection with your partner? These yogic practices can help, along with the following tips for finding your soul mate from Keen.

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

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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.

Are you in the market to meet someone new, who shares your interest in yoga, meditation, or just being a more evolved human? There's no better time than now, when you're setting your heart's intentions for the new year. Here are MeetMindful CEO Amy Baglan's five rules for mindful dating online and in real life that she swears by.

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?

So, just how handy is yogic breathing during childbirth? Is 9 months of prenatal yoga actually realistic? And can you meditate your way through contractions?

Strala Yoga founder Tara Stiles shares how her practice contributed to her pregnancy and recovery and the benefits a baby with a yogi mom receives. (Read: Good vibes galore.)

Senior Prana Vinyasa teacher and psychotherapist Coral Brown opens up about her trying pregnancy, nonexistent prenatal asana practice, and the wonder of bringing another being into the world.

Aruba-based yoga teacher Rachel Brathen, aka Yoga Girl, gets real about her pregnancy, letting go of her control-freak tendencies, and how pranayama isn’t actually an effective substitute for pain medication during labor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Amid global instability, it's only natural to crave connection, warmth, soothing rituals, and the comforts of home. Enter hyyge.

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.

On Thanksgiving, while you're giving thanks for your family, friends, food, shelter, and practice, don't forget to be thankful for YOU, says astrologer Debra Silverman. Here's why.

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.

Yoga teacher Candace Moore has a theory: if you honor and let your most authentic self shine, you can achieve anything. Try living by her 10 commandments, excerpted from her new book Namaslay, to test it.

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

Readers share proof that animals love yoga, too.

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?

YJ senior editor Meghan Rabbitt shares how learning to say this one little word more often empowered her to makeover her entire life.

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.

Have you ever thought that your relationships could make you live a green life? A study shows that socializing could lead to a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

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.

Big night out? Nerves are normal. Fortunately, yoga can help you to relax and put your best self forward.

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.

How are you—really? If you ask everyone but yourself, start there. Then try these 10 tips, culled from Kathryn Budig, Tara Stiles, and more gladiators of the mindfulness movement.

Allow our yoga advice to fuel your love life. Let your practice deepen your knowledge of love and enrich your ability to share it with your partner.

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.

Bring your gratitude to life with a simple note. How this little act of kindness is proving to have larger benefits.

Build a stronger community by circling up with your fellow yogis. Here's how to make good on this yoga trend.

New research shows that breaking out of your routine to form deeper relationships can deepen your search for meaning in life.

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.

If you suspect someone you suspect may be engaging in dangerous weight-control behaviors, it may be difficult to approach them with your concerns—but could also be life saving. Here’s how.

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.