A Yoga Sequence to Celebrate the Summer Solstice
These uplifting, balancing poses are perfect for honoring the longest, lightest day of the year.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Chakras
Channel more confidence, creativity, and joy in your life with a basic understanding of your body's energy centers.
A Calming Yoga Sequence to Help You Slow Down
The poses in this slow-flow sequence help soothe tension by gently activating, stretching, and releasing the psoas muscle, a tissue where we often unconsciously store stress.
A 6-Step Yoga Sequence to Prepare You for a Nap
Need a nap? This short practice helps you settle down for a much-needed midday rest.
Breathe In Calm, Breathe Out Fear
Next time you’re overwhelmed, nervous, or afraid, try mindful breathing and meditation.
How to Jump-Start Your Kids’ Yoga Practice
Friday, April 9 is International Kids' Yoga Day! Here's how to make yoga fun and approachable to get your little ones on the mat.
How to Use Tapas to Make Your Practice More Sustainable
Tapas (the burning away of impurities) is about so much more than building strength and stamina.
Making Yoga Accessible to All
Jivana Heyman, author of Accessible Yoga, explains how it's important to adapt a pose to the person instead of the other way around.
This Kaiut Yoga Sequence Will Help You Reconnect With Your Body’s Inner Wisdom
This sequence, developed exclusively for Yoga Journal, can be done anywhere. All you need is a mat, a bolster, two chairs, and access to a wall.
Hurty Hips or a Cranky Low Back? Try This Sacroiliac Joint-Inspired Sequence
A wonky SIJ is a "yoga problem" and also can crop up postpartum. Try this sequence to stabilize, stretch, and strengthen the tissues supporting this vital joint.
Social Media Bringing You Down? Try This Freeing Flow
Unravel texting-Induced tension and reconnect to you with these 8 liberating poses.
Exploring Kaiut Yoga
A sequence exploring Kaiut Yoga, an alternative to the fitness influence in the yoga industry helping people reconnect with their body’s inner wisdom.
Elevate Your Meditation Practice by Engaging Your Senses
Take your meditation practice to the next level with these products to help elevate the senses.
Honor the Winter Solstice With This Soothing Yoga Sequence
Try these 9 yin yoga poses to feel more grounded this winter.
Invigorate Your Body and Mind With This Warming Sequence
Try this dynamic yoga flow to balance your energy
Feeling Overwhelmed? Try This Soothing Sequence
Release emotional stress and feel lighter with these poses.
Yoga Props 101 + A Sequence to Enhance Your Practice
Learn how props can offer you the support you need to enhance your practice.
Yoga by the Numbers: The Stats on Yoga and Mental Health
Plus, a practice to help you find peace of mind.
Screen Time Overload? Combat Eye Strain With This Restorative Yoga Sequence
Soothe tired eyes and a stressed out mind with these grounding poses
Finding Bliss in the Mundane
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Cameron Allen talks about experiencing joy, or Samadhi, during some of the most basic everyday tasks of life.
Combat the Effects of Excessive Sitting at the Computer with this Sequence
Feeling zapped from excessive sitting, social scrolling, and information overload? Try this sequence to activate an open heart in order to create spaciousness throughout your body and being.
Warm Up for Your Workout with this Sequence
Live Be Yoga Tour Ambassador Cameron Allen shares a sequence to warm up your muscles before a workout.
A Home Practice for Liberating Your Soul
Rejuvenate your body and mind with this heart-opening flow.
How to Implement Dharana—Yoga’s Sixth Limb—In All Aspects of Your Life
From practice plans to reading goals, Cameron Allen breaks down how to bring this form of concentration into your life.
How to Find Your Best Meditation Seat
Try these 3 poses to support your contemplative and meditative practices.
This Practice is Scientifically Proven to Boost Your Balance
New research shows that just two weekly 90-minute yoga sessions can improve balance and motor learning as you age. Here, the asana sequence researchers used.
A Sequence to Create and Hold Space
As we continue with social distancing to protect ourselves and others during a pandemic, we have become more aware with this idea of “taking up space” in the world. This sequence is designed to help you safely inhabit both internal and external space.
A Short Sequence to Find Steadiness and Comfort in Yourself
This Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu-inspired sequence from Yoga Journal's Live Be Yoga Tour Ambassador Cameron Allen will help you find calm during these unpredictable times.
A Yoga Doula Shares a Nurturing Self-Care Sequence
Expectant mamas (or anyone) can use this centering practice to relax and de-stress.
A Yoga Sequence for Resilience (Especially for Caregivers)
Use this practice to care for yourself and process emotions, thoughts, and sensations. Cry if you need to, laugh if you want to—so you can develop the tools you need to stay present and care for yourself and others.
The Effortless, Calming Magic of Mantra and Music, According to Science
How your favorite sounds can lift you up and calm you down in uncertain times, plus a playlist and mantras for stress relief and peace of mind.
Practicing at Home and Have No Yoga Props? No Problem.
Try this empowering sequence that uses household items as props to soothe anxiety and balance your energy.
This Yoga Sequence for Healthy Joints Will Help You Age Gracefully
These 13 poses will alleviate aches and pains and support balanced movement—keeping you young at heart.
Take Your Spirituality and Sexuality Back This Valentine’s Day
Four yoga strategies and poses for feeling grounded, free, and loving.
Learn About Trauma-informed Yoga with Hala Khouri
Start to feel safe and centered with practices that emphasize grounding and breathing.
The End of an Era for NYC Yoga
Jivamukti Yoga closes its doors in New York City on December 22. Here, dedicated students share their stories of the iconic studio that helped bring Western yoga into the 21st century.
A Twisting Practice to Connect to Your Steady Center
Bring yourself back to "the good place" within that isn't swayed by anxiety, fear, insecurity, and distraction.
Learn About Sivananda Yoga and Then Try This Classical Sequence
Try this classical Sivananda Yoga sequence which is designed to help practitioners develop self-awareness through self-mastery.
Heart-Opening Sequence to Expand Your Aura
This sequence from Live Be Yoga ambassador, Brandon Sprat, will help you open your heart and expand your aura to attract more goodness into your life.
Try This Sequence to Confront Your Fears and Unleash Your Inner Warrior
I always felt that yoga offered more than a great stretch or workout. It gave me a way to connect with others and myself at the same time. You can find a bit of that feeling in this sequence.
This Meditation Helps You Overcome an Overactive Mind
Dealing with racing thoughts? Giving too much attention to detrimental thoughts? Priya Jain, owner of Seventh Chakra Yoga in Huntington Beach, California, shares a mantra and mudra meditation practice to help cultivate discernment.
Mercury Retrograde Is Here During the Midst of Eclipse Season—These Six Yogis Will Help You Get Through The Chaos
These six yogis you should follow will help you stay in alignment with the stars during this chaotic time.
Balance the Body, Mind, and Heart with Practices from Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
Get grounded and then open your heart with these two sequences from the master Ashtanga Yoga teachers.
My Trip to Cuba Taught Me About Selflessness
A trip to Cuba taught me the importance, and deeper meaning, of Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga.
This TCM-Inspired Sequence Is Helpful after Abortion or Miscarriage
Try this gentle practice of acupressure, asana, and meditation to support your healing process.
These 2 Essential Breath Practices Will Help You Create Space Within to Access Intuition
At his home yoga studio in Salt Lake City, Santosh Maknikar brought his community together for a complete yoga practice, including kriya and pranayama practices he incorporates into his daily life and trainings.
A Cyndi Lee Sequence, Deconstructed
Combining asana and Tibetan Buddhism, the founder of OM Yoga Center gives us a glimpse into how she sequences slow flow vinyasa classes with a contemplative touch.
Anatomy of the Spine: What You Need to Know About Your Spinal Curves
How to maintain an optimal (natural!) spinal curve to breathe better, stand taller, and sit longer—on and off your meditation cushion.
The Best Clothing for Meditation: 17 Soft, Loose, and Super-Comfy Picks at Every Price
In fact, these clothes are so happy-making, you’ll never want to take them off.
The Yoga Sequence Every Woman Needs If She’s Going Through a Hormonal Imbalance
When we're talking about hormonal imbalances in women, stress management is a good place to start. This yoga sequence will calm your nervous system and detox your organs.
3 Things I Learned After Taking a Break from My Yoga Practice
Rather than feeling guilty for not rolling out her mat every day, one writer embraced her hiatus from yoga—and it transformed her practice forever.
7 Best Meditation Cushions to Support Your Yoga Practice
Take a (comfy) seat on one of these props created by seasoned sitters.
4 Ways to Take Down Your Inner Critic
You know that little voice that pipes up to tell you that you’re not enough? Well, here’s how to silence it—for good.
Did This Week’s Immigration News Make Your Head Spin? Take Action with This International Day of Yoga Practice
Seems like there's no better time than International Day of Yoga to remember our interconnectedness with all human beings—and do something to help promote the well-being of everyone. Here, master teacher Amy Ippoliti shows us how.
The 10 Most Life-Changing Things Yoga Teachers Have Ever Said to Me
Sometimes, your yoga teacher gets it completely right.
3 Ways to Modify Dandasana
Modify Dandasana if necessary to find safe alignment in your body.
Yin Yoga 101: The Frustration Ends Now! 3 Steps to Practice Yin Meditation
If you've tried to meditate and wound up feeling frustrated or disappointed, a Yin approach can help.
TCM-Inspired Sequence to Help You Cope with the Springtime Blues
Spring is a time of regeneration, growth, and expansion. However, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), spring can also be a time when feelings of irritability, frustration, or anger sink in. This free-flow sequence can help.
Sequence for Overcoming Fear with #YJInfluencer Denelle Numis
This empowering sequence from #YJInfluencer Denelle Numis will help you overcome fear and take on your next big challenge.
Kundalini Sequence to Awaken the Ten Bodies
If you practice Kundalini Yoga, you know you have 10 bodies, not one. Here's the lowdown on all 10 bodies, plus a sequence to awaken them.
Prenatal Yoga Practice to Relieve Pain, Enhance Mobility, and Restructure Fascia
Prenatal yoga teacher Allie Geer demonstrates a self-myofascial release practice to relieve tension and pain during pregnancy and enhance mobility.
The Bandha Approach You Haven’t Tried—That Could Change Everything
This gentle way of accessing the six bandhas (energetic locks) during your practice will help you experience more freedom in your body and bliss in your life.
A Katonah Yoga Sequence to Live a More Abundant Life
Practice Sian Gordon's grounding Katonah Yoga sequence to find the stability you need to clearly see where you want to go and the best way to get there.
Rodney Yee’s Restorative Yoga Sequence to Prepare for Pranayama
Release tension with this restorative sequence from Rodney Yee for encouraging the flow of breath and prana.
How Deepak Chopra’s Law of Pure Potentiality Can Transform Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Chopra Center Vedic Educator Edie Flaiz teaches the Law of Pure Potentiality by quieting the mind to allow you to directly experience your infinite, unbounded, essential nature.
Struggling to Make a Decision? Try This Restorative Sequence First
Can't make up your mind? Take it to the mat to create space in the mind and body, and open your heart to infinite possibility
The Future of Yoga: 41 Teachers, Only 1 Way to Go
With our community more than doubling in the last decade, yoga is quickly evolving. (Goat yoga gone mainstream? Couldn’t have called it.) This National Yoga Month, we asked respected teachers across the yoga spectrum: what’s happening now and what’s next? Despite wildly different styles, many shared unified perspectives—and predictions.
A Prenatal Yoga Sequence to Worry Less and Trust More
Use this sequence to check in with yourself, quiet fears and negative mental chatter, and ultimately move into a place of deep trust.
A Home Practice to Find Peace and Possibility
Learning to hold both peace and possibility in our hearts can help us balance the art of actively creating with letting go and trusting the process.
Meet the 2017 Live Be Yoga Tour Ambassadors Before They Take Off
Last year’s Live Be Yoga Tour was so inspiring, we’re doing it again—only this time it’s all about capturing a snapshot of the unique yoga culture in each city we visit. To help us out: our intrepid new ambassadors, Rosie Acosta and Brant Williams.
A Home Practice for Happy, Open Hips
Maintaining flexibility and stability in the hip joints is crucial for lower-back health and cultivating overall freedom and ease in our bodies.
A Detoxifying Kundalini Yoga Sequence for Radiance
When our digestion is clear and healthy, it is reflected in our complexion and our radiance. The following set of exercises is amazing for the tummy. It balances the intestinal flora and aids digestion.
A Chakra-Aligning Yoga Practice to Access Your Highest Self
Yoga teacher Giselle Mari shows you how to use your chakras to resolve any negativity or emotional issues holding you back so you become a lighter, brighter version of you.
A Home Practice to Re-Energize and Find Greater Joy
This sequence is designed to help you ease tension by putting your spine through its full range of motion.
Elemental Yoga: A Fire-Moving Yoga Practice for Pitta
Move built-up fire energy from the belly through the rest of the body to balance the Pitta dosha and combat its tendencies for competition and overheating.
3 Kundalini Yoga Meditations to Release Anxiety
Meditation is a procedure of cleansing the mind and taking out the garbage in the subconscious. These three Kundalini practices passed down by Yogi Bhajan will help you release conscious and subconscious fears that cause stress, worry, and anxiety.
Daily Practice Challenge: Yoga for Inner Peace with Colleen Saidman Yee
Check out Colleen Saidman Yee's author page.
Yoga for Inner Peace: A Stress-Relieving Sequence
You'll feel calmer and more relaxed in minutes.
Yoga for Inner Peace: Rocking Sequence for Positive Thinking
Colleen Saidman Yee, who teaches Yoga Journal's upcoming Yoga for Inner Peace online course, demonstrates a rocking sequence for fighting fear and promoting positive thinking.
Goodnight, Insomnia: An Urban Zen Sequence for Better Sleep
This combination of restorative yoga, meditation, essential oils, and Reiki— from dream team Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee—will help ease anxiety and insomnia to deliver your best night’s zzz’s.