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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.
Yogi and two-time Olympic medalist in hurdling, who’s going for her third medal this August in Brazil, opens up about her practice.
If our kids are any indication, we at Two Fit Moms think it’s likely that your kids want to practice yoga with you. So this week, in honor of Mother's Day, we are offering our best tips for making it work.
In this excerpt from her new book, Snatnam Kaur invites you to make mantra a part of your morning ritual. Start here, using her audio recording for guidance.
We asked seasoned yoga teachers Coral Brown and Giselle Mari how they weave yogic principles into asana classes without alienating or confusing their students.
Internationally recognized yoga teacher and mom Janet Stone offers YJ readers 5 tips for being more present with your kids.
We spend hours in front of our computers and phones, and the repetitive movement patterns can cause neck and shoulder strain. This sequence will help.
This Kundalini Yoga sequence supports ideal digestion by increasing energy at the navel point and keeping the digestive organs strong and flexible.
These five steps will help you get there.
Janet Stone offers mothers a pose, a writing exercise, and a daily ritual to make every day more mindful.
Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine focus on treating the “whole person,” not just a symptom. We’ve spoken with the American Osteopathic Association for their tips on how yoga and osteopathic medicine are intimately linked.
This practice focuses on building core—a strong physical core and a strong emotional core to sustain you through the love and challenges of motherhood.
Use asana, mantra, and mudra to help bring into focus the subtle and not-so-subtle ways this niyama plays out in your life.
Think of Kundalini Yoga as a technology you can use to activate your innate vitality and health through movement, mudra (ritual gesture), and mantra (sacred sound).
This Kundalini practice, passed down by Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga, is designed to do increase your energy and metabolism.
We dove into Yoga Journal's 40 years of archives and pulled some beginner classics. Here, an introduction to this timeless practice.
Begin with 10 minutes of foundational poses to remember why you are perfect exactly as you are.
Begin with 10 minutes of foundational poses, then add complexity to each posture in the 20 minute sequence, allowing yourself to honor your current practice.
Try this 30-minute sequence to allow yourself to honor the perfection of your practice and expand into more-advanced forms.
Do you sit down for meditation and wonder if you're doing it right? Learn all about the universal meditation posture here.
Seated meditative poses support you as you drink in and recharge, and Warrior Poses, inversions, and backbends help you find strength as you pour out offerings to the world.
Helping others can be energizing and exhausting all at once. It’s important to practice techniques that help you refuel and take care of yourself.
This balancing, restorative sequence encourages you to “drink” as you “pour.” Seated meditative poses support you as you drink in and recharge.
For a long time, just being involved in yoga made you a rebel. Now, these teachers are challenging the norms and changing the practice.
Use this hip-opening and forward-folding practice for the second chakra to unleash creativity as you cultivate fluidity in your pelvis.
Cultivate a sense of earthiness, radiance, and stability through asana, breath, and meditation in this first chakra flow.
Cultivate the sweet spirit of gratitude in your heart center with this powerful sequence.
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Get in touch with your energy centers and channel more creativity, confidence and joy into your life.
Learn how to tap the parasympathetic nervous system by connecting with nature from this California yoga teacher.
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Kathryn Budig talks kundalini, manifesting, and fashion with the Spirit Junkie author and international speaker.
In a follow up to his first post on the knees, Baxter Bell addresses knee injuries and how your yoga practice, done mindfully, can help.
Keep young and aging bones healthy with these yoga poses.
Open your shoulders to improve your posture maintain healthy and agile shoulder joints.
So you want to practice at home but you don't know how to begin? Here are nine ways to start.
Head to the wall for deeper twists to lengthen and open up your front body.
Let music move you through this chakra-focused, confidence-boosting flow.
Connect with the warmth of the sun as you nourish your body and spirit with this revitalizing sequence.
A young yoga practitioner injures herself and then learns to listen to her body instead of her head by taking the word 'should' out of her practice.
Try out this twisting sequence to rejuvenate your spine and boost energy.
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.
Protect your knees and eliminate pain and discomfort with this variation on Pigeon Pose.
Feel energized and soothed as you let your body and mind flow like water.
Strengthen your lower back, free yourself from back pain in seated poses, and skillfully deepen your forward bends.
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Get a good night's sleep by retiring old habits and starting a gentle, bedtime yoga practice.
A sidebending practice can open areas you don't often stretch and leave you feeling more balanced all over.
Yoga can relieve tension before it goes to your head.
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Get your prana moving with this playful morning vinyasa sequence.
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Tune in to the infinite and tune up your body with this energizing Kundalini sequence for optimum health.
This mantra meditation from the Kundalini tradition encourages a renewed sense of peace and balance.
Anjali means "offering," and in India this mudra is often accompanied by the word "namaste."
These basic “poses” can improve your vision (and help you concentrate and relax). Plus, learn how to train your third eye.
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Although it's not a cure, yoga can help you survive cancer with strength, hope, and vitality.
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"I practice yoga regularly at home. I sprained my knee in an accident recently, and I'd like to know how to rehabilitate it."
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Try this series for a practice that promises to increase flexibility.
Yoga teachers, there are so many ways to sequence a class. Here's your primer, complete with 9 sample sequences, each with a different target.
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Patanjali's basic advice in the Yoga Sutra may sound simple, but many find sitting in meditation painful and difficult. Here's how you can bring ease to your seated posture.
Esther Myers teaches us how to sit comfortably.
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Ready for an upgrade? These mats can take your practice to the next level—and will last for many years of use.
Because your YTT probably didn't teach you as much detail as you would have liked on how, exactly, to put together a sequence.
When you make your practice a priority before anything else, it sets the tone for everything else.
Practicing satya, the principle of honesty, can help you be true to yourself and bring power and authenticity to your life.
There's a subtle art to practicing backbends that won't pinch your low back. Here's how to navigate it.
There’s a lot of controversy in yoga around whether you can safely move from “closed hip” to “open hip” transitions. The answer? It’s complicated.