3 Ways to Lower Stress with Yoga
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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.
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.
Facing Cancer with Courage
Although it's not a cure, yoga can help you survive cancer with strength, hope, and vitality.
A Yogic Approach to Back Pain
Suffering from back pain? Yoga can help.
Bathing for Stress Relief
Balneotherapy can elevate your bathing ritual into a therapeutic experience.
Gotta Lotta Vata?
Balance Vata to ease feelings of anxiety and ground your energy.
5 Ayurvedic Natural Skin Care Ingredients for a Radiant Glow
Would you nibble on chemical preservatives? Then why put them on your skin?
Turning to Yoga for Headache Relief
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.
Breathe Easy
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.
Ayurveda’s Sore Muscle Soothers
Open up to these natural alternatives for relief from muscle pains and strains.
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Getting to Know the Three Doshas
Knowing your dosha and prakriti can help you stay balanced and healthy.
Slough It Off: Ayurvedic Body Scrubs for Radiant Skin
Gentle Ayurvedic exfoliation can be a soothing part of your skin-care regimen.
Avoid Knee Pain and Injury with Yoga
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.
Sole Purpose
Reflexology aims to heal the body's ills by putting pressure on the feet. And the aftereffects just might tickle you.
New Hope for Hepatitis C
The detoxifying effects of Bikram Yoga may help in treating this deadly liver disease.
Minding Your Pain
Recent research into pain management may help spread the word of yoga's therapeutic benefits.
Can Yoga Heal Hernias?
Yoga poses might help take the pressure off the abdominal wall.
Herbal Solutions for Breathing Difficulties
Certain herbs strengthen both the lungs and the adrenals for deeper breathing.
4 Easy Exercises for the Eyes
You can improve your eyesight by regularly performing this series of simple exercises.
DIY Ayurvedic Head Massage
This do-it-yourself massage stops stress and stimulates healing.
Use This Native Indian Herb To Fight Heart Disease
Fight heart disease with guggul, an Ayurvedic herbal remedy that lowers cholesterol.
Beyond Brushing
Nourishing your hair with Ayurvedic herbs also calms the mind.
Bringing Health Home
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.
Bringing Connection Home
Practice this flowing sequence at home and let it remind you of your connection to things larger than yourself.
Let’s Twist Again
Twisting Poses will help restore your spine's natural range of motion, cleanse your organs, and stimulate circulation.
Short and Sweet
Check out Judith Hanson Lasater's author page.
Yoga: Awakening the Inner Body
Check out Annie Buckley's author page.
Bhakti Bliss
Check out Alan di Perna's author page.
Yoga Diary: Far from the Madding Crowd
Check out Samantha Mabry's author page.
From Behind the Lens
Check out Erin Hull's author page.
A Push for Peace
Check out Joel Smith's author page.
Recommended Poses for Parkinson’s Disease
Check out Peggy van Hulsteyn's author page.
The Yoga Journal Makeovers – Part 1
Check out Andrea Ferretti's author page.
Fierce Presence
Check out Kaitlin Quistgaard's author page.
The Secret to Change? Starting Over
If you want to make lasting change in your life, practice starting over.
A Reporter’s Unexpected Yoga Experience
A journalist in Kabul surprises herself by sharing yoga with her local colleagues—and learning as much as she teaches.
A Day Unspent
Check out Andrea Kowalski's author page.
The Art of Practicing Generosity Without Ego
Practicing generosity not only makes you feel good but it connects you with the essence of who you really are.
Life Support
Check out Megha/Nancy Buttenheim's author page.
Find Forgiveness for Yourself
How can you forgive yourself when the person you wronged won't?
Integrative Dentistry for a Natural Smile
A new style of dentistry focuses on making patients —and the planet —feel better.
How to Deal with Holiday, Gift-Giving Resentments
We know what you're thinking: is it really yogic to give and receive gifts? Here's how to deal with the holiday resentment and pressures.
Learning More than Language In Italian Class
At a language school in Umbria, a writer learns to speak from the heart.
Healing Soups
Check out Dayna Macy's author page.
Off the Mat and Into the World
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Power of One
Check out Nora Isaacs's author page.
How to Stress Less, According to This Ancient Tradition
Check out Timothy McCall MD's author page.
When Yoga Becomes Psychotherapy
Check out Dan Charnas's author page.
Yoga Diary: Marathon Chanting
Check out Emily Anderson's author page.
A New Conviction
Check out Jaimal Yogis's author page.
5-Step Meditation for Planning Your Perfect Vacation
Amid the cacophony of everyday life, it's not always easy to hear the inner voice that can guide you to the right vacation for right now.
How One Cyclist Managed Sciatica with Yoga
Intermittent bouts of sciatica disrupted Candy Doran's cycling career. After discovering yoga, she's back in the saddle.
Intimacy and Ecstasy
Check out Lorie A. Parch's author page.
Through the Looking Glass
Check out Elizabeth Gilbert's author page.
Spa Supplies
Check out Melanie Haiken's author page.
Eat to Compete
Check out Rachel Seligman's author page.
Plant Powered
Check out Rachel Seligman's author page.
Don’t Be Bamboozled
Check out Magdalena Winter's author page.
Get Healthy, Happy Feet at Home
Learn how to get healthy, happy feet with an at home spa.
Tropical Turnabout
Check out Jennifer Pirtle's author page.
Fuel for the Future
Check out Dayna Macy's author page.
Flexible and Fit
Check out Sierra Senyak's author page.
Kitchen Wisdom
Check out Lauren Ladoceour's author page.
Yoga Diary: Kind of Loving
Check out Michelle Gillan's author page.
Max Strom Yoga: Strength Grace and Healing with Max Strom
Check out Richard Rosen's author page.
Opening to Change, Forgiveness, and Lovingkindess with Bob Stahl, Ph.D
Check out Alan di Perna's author page.
Picture of Peace
Check out Richard Rosen's author page.
Tight Shoulders? 3 Gomukhasana Trouble Spots
Is Gomukhasana nearly impossible for you? These tips can help you come closer to clasping your hands.
Inspired Style
Check out Molly Culbertson's author page.
Happy in Your Own Skin
Whatever your struggle, yoga can help you feel happy in your own skin.
Paradise Found
Check out Kaitlin Quistgaard's author page.
Learning To Let Go On a Mother-Daughter Retreat in Mexico
A mother uses a yoga retreat with her daughter to help in learning to let go of her parental guilt.
Share Your Opinion: Vegetarianism
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Yoga + Rock Climbing: Find Your Climbing Edge Through Yoga
A seasoned rock climber conquers her fear of falling through yoga.
New Year, New Tradition
Check out Jaimal Yogis's author page.
4-Step Meditation to Beat Holiday Stress
Try this calming meditation to keep holiday stress at bay.
Better Bedding
Check out Jaimal Yogis's author page.
Try This Airplane Meditation for a Centered Flight
Use this Kundalini meditation in flight to ease the stress of travel.
Bamboo Nation
Check out Jaimal Yogis's author page.
Spirited Away
Check out Janelle Brown's author page.