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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.
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Create a customized yoga sequence, based on Ayurveda, to keep your mind and body healthy and balanced.
Practice dream yoga to transcend fears, boost creativity, and move closer to enlightenment.
Crosstraining with Pilates, Feldenkrais, and Body-Mind Centering can help free up those hard-to-reach stuck places your yoga practice may be missing.
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Before you sidle up to home plate, incorporate some yoga moves for a better chance at hitting a home run.
By throwing your goals off the fairway and practicing being present in the process, you can play a better golf game.
Not only can yoga help strengthen a tennis player's injury-prone joints, it can also silence "inner chatter."
Although yoga and running lie on opposite ends of the exercise spectrum, the two need not be mutually exclusive.
Whether or not you manage a trip to the spa, you'll feel better if you nurture yourself this vata season. Mas Vidal, an Ayurvedic practitioner and the director of Dancing Shiva Yoga & Ayurveda in Los Angeles, suggests these vata-balancing practices for fall and winter.
A new fitness trend teams up yoga with indoor cycling for an inspiring workout.
A trip to an Ayurvedic spa is a little different from the usual soak, scrub, and rub. Here are some tips to guide you:
Feeling weak in the knees? These yoga poses and modifications can help.
Don't let the winter blues get you down. Indulge in some heavenly Ayurvedic treatments and feel warmer, more relaxed, and healthier than ever.
Overworked? Overwhelmed? Meet four people who made radical and not-so-radical changes to ease their job stress—and along the way, transformed their lives.
Yoga and aikido share the goal of a tension-free body that uses energy wisely and efficiently.
Too busy for a massage? Grab some props and try these do-it-yourself tips from expert bodyworkers.
Boosting your immune system may be as simple as kicking off your shoes and taking a stroll.
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This antibacterial Ayurvedic herb helps fight nagging skin problems.
Yoga poses, practices, and dietary advice to transition from winter to spring.
In unexpected ways, yoga can help you lose weight. Our expert tells you how.
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If your allergies are making you miserable, Ayurvedic remedies may help.
Yogic breathing and gentle poses help keep the body's lymph fluid circulating.
New research says you can't blame lactic acid for sore muscles anymore.
More and more patients are rejecting harsh and invasive conventional treatments in favor of alternative therapies. In response, several prominent health institutions are embracing holistic healing.
Here's the lowdown on what to do when you're feeling rundown but want nothing more than to keep practicing yoga while sick.
Craniosacral therapy has similar benefits to yoga and can help release habitual tension in the body.
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Does stress leave you anxious to eat or too lethargic to get off the couch?
Relieve stress with these three tenants of yoga practice.
Although it's not a cure, yoga can help you survive cancer with strength, hope, and vitality.
Suffering from back pain? Yoga can help.
Balance Vata to ease feelings of anxiety and ground your energy.
Would you nibble on chemical preservatives? Then why put them on your skin?
By incorporating yoga into your life, you can reduce the severity and frequency of painful episodes, or ease an ache as soon as it starts.
Allergies can turn even the most beautiful summer day into a sneezing, wheezing ordeal, but Viniyoga can help keep your immune system strong and your head clear.
Open up to these natural alternatives for relief from muscle pains and strains.
Knowing your dosha and prakriti can help you stay balanced and healthy.
Gentle Ayurvedic exfoliation can be a soothing part of your skin-care regimen.
Yoga can be a source of knee pain or the ideal therapy. Here's a primer on keeping the joint healthy on and off the mat.
Reflexology aims to heal the body's ills by putting pressure on the feet. And the aftereffects just might tickle you.
The detoxifying effects of Bikram Yoga may help in treating this deadly liver disease.
Recent research into pain management may help spread the word of yoga's therapeutic benefits.
Certain herbs strengthen both the lungs and the adrenals for deeper breathing.
You can improve your eyesight by regularly performing this series of simple exercises.
This do-it-yourself massage stops stress and stimulates healing.
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A mindful home practice is a healthy practice, because you're in charge: When you're feeling low, you can take it easy, and when you're energized, you can rev it up.
Practice this flowing sequence at home and let it remind you of your connection to things larger than yourself.
Twisting Poses will help restore your spine's natural range of motion, cleanse your organs, and stimulate circulation.
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A journalist in Kabul surprises herself by sharing yoga with her local colleagues—and learning as much as she teaches.
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