Ayurveda

Ayurveda usually prescribes cooked, easily digestible foods for optimal health. But what about in the heat of summer? Talya Lutzker explains how to find the right ayurvedic balance, just right for you.

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Restorative poses as well as calming forward bends and slow, deep breathing can help with high blood pressure.

Decades after a paralyzing stroke, yoga restores Gale-Ann Maier's strength and stability.

Yoga creates near-ideal conditions for public arousal, writes Neal Pollack. Read his sage advice to men new to the practice on how to deal with unexpected desire during class.

Nourish your body and mind with Earth's natural herbs and elements.

Seeking a path to good health? Get outside.

"Time and time again, my students who complain of neck pain at the start of class report improvement by the end of class," writes Baxter Bell, MD. Here he examines why yoga helps.

With a month of winter to go, Ayurvedic practitioner and chef Talya Lutzker offers advice for staying healthy the rest of this kapha season, with a delicious recipe for root veggie soup and soup "cookies"!

Baxter Bell explains how yoga can help musicians counteract imbalances caused by playing their instruments and boost their creativity and focus.

Katie Silcox explains the importance of dinacharya, or daily routine, for making changes, and offers a morning routine to set your day right and put you on the path to health.

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Baxter Bell disagrees with New York Times writer William Broad that men are more prone to being injured in yoga.

Baxter Bell describes an alternative to the dorsiflexed position in Upward-Facing Dog for yoga students with ankle injury.

Baxter Bell describes the symptoms and causes of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and explores how a yoga Headstand practice might affect it.

Tips for boosting your immunity and staying healthy this winter season. Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you have to get sick.

Katie Silcox offers Ayurvedic tips for getting a good night's sleep.

When your practice causes hamstring injury—and how to manage those injuries with your yoga.

Need a break during your cycle? Try this gentle sequence for menstruation.

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Baxter Bell finishes his discussion about the back by looking at the role of "core" muscles, and how to leverage your yoga practice for full and balanced back care.

In this post, Baxter Bell, MD continues his discussion on low back pain, offering ways to create traction with a friend or on your own.

Untangling yourself from the grip of addiction can seem impossible, but yoga can lift you to higher ground.

Let this sequence be your go-to practice. By adapting the poses for different life stages, you can rely on it for decades.

Five habits that will help you feel great today and in the future.

Ayurvedic practitioner Katie Silcox offers tips for staying healthy and feeling your best this fall season.

If you suffer from low-back pain, your posture may provide clues as to why. In his continuing exploration of yoga for back pain, Baxter Bell explains how.

In the first of a series on back pain, Baxter Bell dives more deeply into a recent study that explored yoga for chronic low-back pain.

The NCCAM releases information on brand new research about yoga. Baxter Bell shares the good news.

Baxter Bell describes a small hip-lifting action that can relieve pain in this joint.

There are host of reasons men—like women—should do yoga. Here, Baxter Bell explains, and offers some tips for men new to the practice.

The three doshas of Ayurveda—vata, pitta, and kapha—affect your health and well-being. Determine yours with this quiz.

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Baxter Bell explains what "sciatica" actually is, and suggest some strategies and poses that may help.

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Flight delays, or any unexpected and unwanted change in plans, is a great opportunity to practice yoga. Baxter Bell speaks from experience.

To burn off any lingering kapha energy of winter, Baxter Bell recommends adding some stimulating pranayama and asana into your springtime practice.

Baxter Bell explains what happens in the spine during poses like Paschimottanasana, and suggests modifications for the 90 percent of us who could benefit from some assistance.

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A young yoga practitioner injures herself and then learns to listen to her body instead of her head by taking the word 'should' out of her practice.

Baxter Bell describes a program of asana, pranayama, and other gentle practices to help you sleep.

Yoga proves to be an ideal approach to self-care for cancer survivors.

Prepare for surgery with mind-body techniques that may help you recover faster.

Baxter Bell offers a yogic prescription for sufferers of the autoimmune disease lupus.

Yoga poses and a bonus dietary tip to help reduce the effects of seasonal allergies.

There are a lot of reasons why someone might struggle with the step-through action done in Sun Salutations. Here, Baxter Bell offers an alternative.

Decades after millions of western women embraced the practice, yoga is evolving to meet the modern man.

Your yoga mat is an ideal place to cultivate the yogic qualities of concentration and discernment. Baxter Bell explains how.

The controversial NYTs book excerpt about yoga and injury made some valid observations, says Baxter Bell, MD. But what the author neglected to mention is yoga's many rewards.

Use yoga to stay centered and grounded this holiday season. Here's why you should practice more.

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Yoga and a plant-based diet may be the best choices for bone health.

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Warm your body from head to toe and calm overwrought vata with abhyanga.

How to stay grounded when life is a whirlwind.

Yoga can transform your reactions, improve your health, and help you embody grace under pressure.

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Free yourself from ordinary back pain by doing these 5 simple poses each day.

You can add vocalization to almost any pose to develop your sound and calm your emotions

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Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

Strong and supple pelvic floor muscles help you stay high and dry.

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Yoga Journal interviews Stephen Cope, founder and director of Kripalu's Institute for Extraordinary Living.

Brings your body and mind back into balance by practicing these simple yoga routines.

Find the power that comes from honoring your own personal truth and the universal truth of our oneness.

Get a good night's sleep by retiring old habits and starting a gentle, bedtime yoga practice.

If agni is healthy, you have tremendous energy throughout the day.

In a quest to be slim, one woman loses more than mere pounds and, through yoga, finds herself.

Yoga can ease the chronic pain of fibromyalgia.

Use restorative yoga to combat seasonal affective disorder, a form of winter depression triggered by a lack of sunlight.

Open your heart on the mat and bring happiness into the world.

One of the things I've learned from my yoga practice is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Sure yoga can help you rehabilitate an overstretched muscle, but it can also teach you had to move...

Yoga helps HIV patients strengthen their immune systems and their spirits.

Ease allergies by giving the immune system a yoga boost.

A gentle, forward-bending practice can bring relief to those people struggling to manage high blood pressure.