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One woman learned that saying yes is the secret to living a happier, more exciting life.

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

Going on yoga service trips is challenging and knowing what to expect before you go on a service trip will help you get the most from your experience.

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

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Surfing gives yogis an external experience of yoga. And yoga gives surfers a leg up when they're on the board.

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Prep your body to work in your garden and celebrate your connection to the earth by taking your practice outside.

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

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

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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.

Part workshop, part yoga party, a yoga festival is just the place to enjoy practice, community, and fun.

Yoga teacher Rod Stryker explains how yoga can help you unlock your life-force to feel happier and energized all day.

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

Yoga teacher and hip-hop artist Nicholas Giacomini sets lyrics about Hindu gods to a funky beat on his album, Elephant Power.

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Overwhelmed by vata? Use these grounding yoga practice sequence.

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Practice giving without expectation and enjoy a bountiful sense of connection.

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

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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...

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To live passionately, writer Julia Butterfly Hill says: "Find your purpose and grow with it."

Because if you're human, chances are you struggle 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.

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Throughout all the years of hair coloring and styling, embracing gray pride left her feeling free and refreshed.

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On a surfing retreat, the yogic principles of effort and surrender help novice surfers enjoy the ride.

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Master of Mysore: celebrating the life of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga Yoga.

T.K.V. Desikachar brings to the practice a full spectrum of yoga therapy, philosophy, and Ayurveda learned from his father, T. Krishnamacharya.

One of the first to rock out in yoga class, Steve Ross aims to bring the love and joy of music and asana to all his students.

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Cultivate an intimate connection with a four-legged friend, and with yourself, on a yoga and horsemanship retreat.

Once you find balance in Half Moon Pose, radiate and extend in all directions to strengthen your legs, hips, and core.

Could you give up speech if you knew it would immeasurably enrich your life?

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

Ease allergies by giving the immune system a yoga boost.

Pack your mat and hit the trails on an invigorating backpacking and yoga retreat.

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Boost your performance and stay injury free with this yoga practice guide for volleyball, softball, and soccer players.

The newest professional athlete to give yoga a try is basketball star Shaquille O'Neal. The Cleveland Cavaliers center tried a class in suburban Cleveland, according to the Associated Press. He needed two mats to accommodate his 7-foot-1, 325-pound frame. (The...

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

Yoga can relieve tension before it goes to your head.

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Menopausal hormone shifts can rearrange your body and mind in unnerving ways. Let yoga bring you back into balance.

We all know the first yogis did not have stretchy pants to highlight their, um, alignment. They didn't have yoga mats, props, or hardwood floors either. In the beginning, yoga was not about the stuff. Fast forward a few...

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Elise Browning Miller always wanted to help others—yoga taught her to care for herself, so that she could.