Take your yoga practice off the mat and into every aspect of your life for enhanced balance and clarity. Consider this your center for conscious living. We cover the latest in sustainable apparel, healthy recipes, stress-relief techniques, relationship advice, Ayurveda, astrology, and more.
Take your yoga practice off the mat and into every aspect of your life for enhanced balance and clarity. Consider this your center for conscious living. We cover the latest in sustainable apparel, healthy recipes, stress-relief techniques, relationship advice, Ayurveda, astrology, and more.
If you've gotten hurt during a yoga class, you're not alone. A new study found that yoga injuries are on the rise, especially among older adults. Here are 4 ways to avoid getting hurt.
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.
There’s something about the new year that inspires a go-go-go attitude in most of us. But if the urge to take a break and hibernate strikes, give in, says Stephanie Brown, PhD. Turns out, there are some big benefits.
The new year is the perfect time for a fresh start—and meditation can help, says Larissa Hall Carlson, co-leader of Yoga Journal's new course, Ayurveda 101. Here, Carlson shares her favorite New Year's meditation for each dosha.
Need a little LOL in your life? We were honored and privileged to have our third eye awakened by the one and only Ultra Spiritual JP Sears, a YouTube sensation with 100 million+ hits and YJ LIVE! San Francisco keynote presenter.
The following sequences draw from ancient Taoist and Tantric energy practices as well as modern science.
Pack your yoga bag! Here, we’ve picked 13 unique destinations worth booking to kick back and om.
Picking up a crystal can help you switch out of autopilot into the present. Use these 7 charged stones and their associated mindfulness practices to manifest the change you want to see in your life.
Just like we update our diet and pranayamas for each season, we should also tweak our yoga practice, says Larissa Hall Carlson, former dean of Kripalu's School of Ayurveda and co-leader of our new online course, Ayurveda 101.
Hip-hop icon, record mogul, fashion designer, and author Russell Simmons just launched Tantris, a high-end activewear brand and yoga wellness center in West Hollywood. And he credits meditation with helping him create his vision.
If you're on Instagram, you've probably seen some of the innovative takes on traditional asana. These 10 creative practitioners tested their limits this year turning asana into an art form.
This is definitely not your mom's yoga. Two new classes, Rage Yoga in Calgary, Alberta, and Doom Metal Yoga in Portland, Oregon, are breaking the yoga mold, featuring heavy metal, cursing, and yes, beer.
You probably know that your diet should change with the seasons, but according to Ayurveda, even your pranayama should be tweaked three times a year. Here's how to do it.
Think you don’t have time for yoga during the holidays—much less 3-minute pose holds? Yoga Medicine teacher Shannon Stephens makes a case for why yin yoga may be the best practice for your busiest times.
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.
Often during the holiday season we hear that to take care of others we must first take care of ourselves. Here's how to feel more ease and less drained.
John Douillard, co-leader of Yoga Journal's upcoming online course, Ayurveda 101, says nature provides the antidote for winter dryness in the foods that we crave and that are abundant this time of year.
Cut out any awkward conversations and place a card on the edge of your mat so your yoga teachers knows if it's okay to give you hands-on adjustments.
Teaching kids’ yoga classes is different from teaching adults’. Try these five strategies to prepare yourself for a successful, fun-filled class.
In part 1 of our series on teaching trauma-sensitive yoga, teacher Daniel Sernicola offers tips for setting up a safe space for practice.
Ayurveda is meant to support health and prevent disease over the course of a lifetime, but there are many small changes you can make right now to see immediate results, says Larissa Carlson.
If you answer emails at 10 pm, this one’s for you.
Singer-songwriter and sacred chant artist David Newman just released a new single and music video called “Peace and Love” to inspire yogis to get out and vote.
We're only one month away from the launch of our new course, Ayurveda 101 with Kripalu's Larissa Carlson and John Douillard, and we couldn't be more excited! To introduce this extremely user-friendly, seasonal, and sustainable program, we asked course co-leader Larissa Hall Carlson, former dean of Kripalu's School of Ayurveda, for 6 reasons why you need to take this life-changing course.
Longtime yoga teacher and this month’s cover model Giselle Mari is no stranger to change. While many of us might resist the unknown and cling to the past, she’s accepting change with a refreshing passion and inspiring lightheartedness.
A growing number of “yoga rock stars” seem to be repurposing pop songs with positive messages for yogis. Check out our favorite covers and practice to the playlist.
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.
Tap into the power of Ayurveda to get rooted in healthy, lasting habits.
If you’re feeling congested, this sequence of twists, sidebends, inversions, and heart-opening backbends can help clear your lungs and brighten your mind.
These twisting, folding, wide-legged poses aim to provide enough challenge to satisfy any desire for deep stretching, while simultaneously relaxing the body and refreshing the mind.
Explore these meditative, grounding postures to ease tension, replenish juiciness, and invite lasting serenity.
This North Carolina–based teacher and Instagram star is changing the perception of what a yogi looks like.
The six poses, adapted from the Yoga for Climbers online course developed by pro climber and yogi Heidi Wirtz and Climbing magazine, will help you stay strong and flexible so you can climb harder and stay injury free.
Boost energy flow in the body with this dynamic practice, representing the air element to counterbalance Kapha’s earthy and watery nature.
Move built-up fire energy from the belly through the rest of the body to balance the Pitta dosha and combat its tendencies for competition and overheating.
Balancing the air and ether of your Vata dosha with the opposing energy of the earth element can help ease the anxiety, nervousness, fatigue, and digestive issues Vatas are prone to.
Not only is Liz Arch's practice powerful, she also has an incredibly kind spirit despite having been the victim of domestic violence. Find her story here.
Get strong and flexible so you can climb harder and stay injury-free with his sequence is adapted from the Yoga for Climbers online course
Leah Perlman's new book Drawn Together is a collection of the most beloved of these illustrations. Here, she shares 12 of her poignant comics.
After Elena Brower's mother passed this year, she found a deeper connection to her meditation practice and with her family.
Judith Hanson Lasater draws on the teachings of Patanjali to explain how yoga can—and should—play a role in improving our relationships.
In honor of the Fall Equinox, yin yoga teacher Danielle March offers a sequence to help you gain some perspective and insight on your own summer growth.
Do you find yourself heading to yoga class when you're upset or reaching for a box of cookies? What you eat and how you feel about your body is determined by your astrological chart, says astrologer Debra Silverman.
Here’s how to harness the healing power of essential oils using DIY recipes and store-bought blends.
Essential oils have been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Bring these healing therapies home with the DIY blends here.
While anxiety is natural, yoga and breathing techniques can help students handle the pressures associated with peers, workload and making the grade. Try these 9 yoga tools with your kids for a stress-free start to the semester.
Kathryn Budig shares her three favorite PMS remedies—after chocolate. Prepare to prop!
Communities across the country, take note: Since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, the Newtown Yoga Festival has set an example for using yoga to bring a community together and heal trauma.
The secret to the ultimate retreat experience isn't what happens when you're there. It's the time you spend beforehand ensuring it's the best fit for you.
Learn more about 10 people making a deep impact in the yoga world.
Kathryn Budig has created a career that’s the envy of yogis around the globe, but here she debunks some common misconceptions about what it means to be a big-name, internationally traveling yoga teacher.
Readers share their favorite mudras (hand gestures).
The mudras and the Reiki hand positions can be used in tandem with the Yees’ asana sequence or separately to help you find calm.
Get to know our 2016 award winners. Plus, we take you inside a one-of-a-kind yoga teacher training in a women’s prison.
At a high-security prison in Maryland, 16 women are enrolled in one of the first-ever 200-hour yoga teacher trainings behind bars.
An eco-conscious yogi dedicated to protecting our oceans teaches others to revere the natural world.
When yogis come together as members of the 50 million-strong well-being community, we become a powerful constituency, says Kerri Kelly of #voteWELL.
A trailblazer brings together people of diverse backgrounds for yoga, food, and conversation.
This yoga teacher and PhD in psychology is helping people battle eating disorders.
Joe Loizzo, a psychiatrist and Buddhist scholar, brings mindfulness to the public.
A former World Bank official helps yoga nonprofits grow.
Two Kenyan yogis are bringing mind-body practices to child soldiers, at-risk youth, and aid workers in Africa.
As a transgender yoga teacher and community activist, he fights gender bias, both on and off the mat.
Dan Nevins, an Iraq War veteran, uses yoga to help others prevail over injury and trauma.
This game-changing trio is transforming the way patients and health care providers are treated. Learn more about the Urban Zen Foundation and their impact.
Motivate yourself by dedicating a space for yoga inside your home. We have the five tips to create a meditation space that's perfect for you.
These six yoga mats are beautiful and they will help you set an intention for adding more well-rounded creativity in your life.
Struggling to find a career that you're passionate about? Turns out, you've known your true calling since you were a kid, says astrologer Debra Silverman.
Your next creative idea may come from where you least expect it. Here, Mary Beth shares some of her favorite ways to get inspired.
How learning to say this one little word more often completely shifted my perspective.
In honor of the second International Day of Yoga, Yoga Journal is proud to present a peek into the practices of 18 global yogis, photographed in locations around the world by Robert Sturman.
We follow various rules of vinyasa for a reason—but that doesn’t mean that they can’t be broken every once in a while. Steal LA-based yoga teacher Mary Beth LaRue's secrets to inspired sequencing.
In honor of Father’s Day, our writer shares the insight and clarity she found on the mat alongside her father as she was coming of age.
Learn how George Harrison brought bhakti yoga to the West with the now ubiquitous Hare Krishna mantra.
Here, three prominent yoga teachers share the rewards and challenges of their sabbaticals. Plus, advice to help you decide if taking a break is right for you.
Yogi and two-time Olympic medalist in hurdling, who’s going for her third medal this August in Brazil, opens up about her practice.
Mary Lyn Jenkins, a yoga teacher in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida is the winner of Yoga Journal’s 2016 reader cover contest.
Listen to your body to find your natural limits and healthy boundaries—along with core power, strength, and inner peace.
Richard Miller explains how meditating on what it means to just be can help you feel healthy and whole. Try his practice.