Meditation

Yoga and meditation teacher to the stars Alanna Zabel says you can quiet your mind in a mere 3 minutes. Try these 5 steps for a mental vacation.

Feel guilty about praying for favors, especially mundane ones like a new job? Don't.

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Daily meditation is one of the smartest thing you can do to promote your own wellness. Here are 3 tips to get started.

Celebrated yoga teacher, life coach, author and natural beauty expert shares her tips for creating a life you love.

Yantra is an ancient tool used for meditation, in which the meditator gazes upon sacred geometric images to focus the mind.

On Saturday night, join yogis across the country as they celebrate Earth Hour, a global event to reduce environmental impact.

Adam Levine has piles of talent, but he attributes much of his success to his daily yoga practice. Here his teacher shares a favorite meditation.

Kathryn Budig talks kundalini, manifesting, and fashion with the Spirit Junkie author and international speaker.

The best way to age? As gracefully as possible. Here, a few tips to slow the clock.

A 5-minute meditation on the question "Who Am I?" can help you look beyond your ego's definition of you and discover what lies beneath.

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Meditation is as integral to a yoga practice, but for some of us, it can be more challenging than a complicated arm balance.

A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist investigates the impact of yoga and meditation on gene expression related to stress and immunity through a new NIH-funded study.

From instant calming to greater self-awareness, Erica Rodefer Winters has found pranayama to be an incredibly important part of her regular yoga practice.

When it comes to money matters, yoga hasn't provided Neal Pollack with any answers. But it's proven to be a steady lean-to during both good and bad times.

Elena Brower explains how giving back and meditation can help you believe in yourself.

Sage Rountree offers suggestions for supported seated poses when you struggle with tight hips.

Sally Kempton answers some of the most frequently asked questions about meditation.

It's not always easy, but there are potent yogic lessons to be learned from embracing the feelings of disappointment. Dhumavati, the goddess of disappointment, can help. Sally Kempton explains how.

We're often encouraged in yoga class to practice ujjayi breathing, or Victorious Breath. But, as Katie Silcox explains, this strong, heating pranyama technique should only be used at certain times in your practice for very specific purposes.

In an effort to stay present to all the really great things in her life, Erica Rodefer Winters has started a happiness journal. It's working.

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Tantra and meditation teacher Sally Kempton explains how invoking the energy of Hindu goddesses in your practice activates their power within you.

"Use your practice as a seat from which to view your own habits, and to choose which are best continued and which should be abandoned," writes Sage Rountree.

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Katie Silcox explains how to tune into the prana body and remove obstacles to your own luminescence.

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Keeping the weight off doesn't always mean eating less. Use this practice to change how you think about food.

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Meditating on what she's grateful for, journaling, and setting intentions, helps Erica Rodefer Winters start the day on the right foot.

When life doesn't go as planned, try this guided meditation to connect to surrender to a source bigger than yourself.

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It's easier than you think to establish a regular meditation practice and reap its many rewards.

A study finds that physicians who practice mindfulness meditation communicate better.

Far from home, a military wife rediscovers the heart of her practice.

Establish a place of refuge and weather even the toughest of times with grace.

When you treat every act as sacred, you feel the effects in every part of your life.

A proven antidote to anxiety, yoga nidra has been adopted by veterans, recovering addicts, and average stressed-out people.

Open to your body's subtle sensations and discover a spacious new world within.

Interested in beginning a meditation practice, but don’t know where to start? Here are 4 must-know techniques, plus why each one might be right for you.

Studies show that regular yoga practice makes the "willpower" systems of the brain bigger, better connected, and more efficient.

There are lots of things to love about the practice of kirtan. It's a chance to practice devotion, experience a meditative trance, or even explore your connection with the world and a higher power. For some people, one of...

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Connect with your inner light and share with the world.

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You always have time for meditation. Here's how.

Hunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human...

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Science has spoken. A new study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging shows that subjects who meditated 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress....

Yogis have known for centuries that a yoga practice makes us feel calm and centered. But science is finally catching up with what we've all experienced on the mat and the cushion:  yoga changes our brain chemistry, which in turn...

Here are 5 reasons to start meditating.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.

Om shrim mahalkshmyai namah! Reverence to the power of sri, the great goddess Lakshmi!

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

To encourage a meditative state, find the right gazing spot.

Practice limitless awareness and let yourself be as infinite as the heavens.

Take advantage of meditation training wheels as tools to teach your mind this new skill.

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

See your inner and outer worlds as one with this open-eyed meditation.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. Follow these easy steps for instant calm.

Think about it: Meditation is well worth your time if it can help your brain work more efficiently.

When you feel depleted, practice this meditation to replenish and conserve your energy.

You don't have to work for happiness. It's already here to be experienced in every moment.

Yogajournal.com contributor Sara Avant Stover wants you to breathe better. She posted a blog at huffingtonpost.com about how to access and improve your breath in five simple steps. "In school we learn skills like how to add fractions and write...

Reports the News Observer, "The ancient practice of yoga is finding a new following -- among doctors and medical researchers who work to discover its benefits for a variety of illnesses. 'There's been an explosion of data using yoga as...

Connect with your creativity and spirit in this simple meditation.

For a sense of ease that can permeate your whole life, try practicing mindfulness meditation techniques on the mat.

Get in touch with your inner strength with this meditation on the goddess Kali.

Try this simple Kundalini practice to maintain focus and improve memory.

A recent study by Emory University neuroscientists suggests that Zen Buddhist meditation may help treat depression, attention deficit disorder, and anxiety, reports The Kansas City Star. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression are characterized in part by “excessive rumination” or runaway thoughts,...

There's nothing like nature to bring you back to your Self and connect you to your senses.

One man's experiences of impermanence teach him the art of letting go and allow him to find peace.

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