Yoga Journal Has Been Sharing Wisdom for 50 Years. Now You Can Access Our Archives.

To commemorate Yoga Journal’s 50th anniversary, we’ve launched our Archives series, a collection of celebrated YJ articles dating back to 1975. These glimpses of past content enable you to revisit and rediscover yoga through the lens of previous decades. Maybe you want to know how Ram Dass felt about psychedelics in the 80s or what it was like to spend a week practicing with B.K.S. Iyengar in India. Interested in the Eastern and Western approaches to intimacy? Or how to channel a legendary Hindu goddess when you need more confidence?

The Archives series gives you access to the ways in which yoga has been thought about, written about, and interpreted in past years—lending you even more insight into how the practice has become what it is today.

The Archives are only a small part of YJ’s legacy. Throughout the last five decades, Yoga Journal has evolved from a simple community newsletter to an internationally recognized name in the yoga space thanks to the thousands of yoga teachers, students, writers, editors, photographers, and other experts and enthusiasts who have shared their knowledge, experiences, and endless curiosity as to how this ancient practice applies to everyday life.

And Yoga Journal remains relevant, in no small part, thanks to you and your appreciation for how yoga shapes your life in ways you sometimes least expect (and most need).

Even 50 years later, the knowledge found on these pages remain timeless. We invite you to use these articles to reflect on yoga’s past, consider its future, and of course, fully embrace where it is now.

Explore the Archives:

Seeing What Is and Going Beyond It (1975)

Remembering Alan Watts (1979)

A Conversation With Lilias Folan (1979)

The Great Chakra Controversy (1985)

Disappointment is Hell (2000)

Come to Your Senses (2004)