What You Need to Know About the Sacral Chakra
Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in the sacral chakra, svadhistana, and how you may benefit from aligning it.
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What Is Karma, Really?
The idea that karma is a moral justice system in which positive thoughts bring good things and negativity is curse is not accurate. Here's why it's important to understand the true meaning of karma.
Want to Learn Sanskrit? There’s an App for That
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations developed Little Guru to make learning the ancient language easy and entertaining.
7 Delicious Toast Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Toast is not just for breakfast anymore. Here’s how to turn a humble piece of bread into a crispy, fuss-free power meal, day or night.
How Ayurveda Can Help Boost Fertility
Trying to conceive? Learning about your body—and trying these Ayurvedic practices—can improve your chances.
The Power of Being Grounded
When we are grounded, we are able to better engage in the present and forge deeper connections with the people in our lives. Here's how to use grounding in your mindfulness practice.
7 Tricks to Help You Ace Your Yoga Transitions
Challenge yourself, boost your strength, and deepen your mindfulness with these preparatory pose drills.
How to Find Sukha In Your Practice—And Your Life
Sukha means embracing where we are and reminding ourselves that it can be found everywhere.
6 Doctor-Approved Tips for Enjoying More Mindful Meals
Bringing a yogic approach from your mat to your meals can help you feel uplifted and give you the energy to be more present in your life.
Does Mindfulness Make You Selfish?
New research suggests there may be a reason that meditation starts with “me.” Depending on your worldview, mindfulness practices may make you less likely to act in a way that benefits others.
3 Tips for Smart Yoga Sequencing
Designing a yoga class is a skill every teacher should master. Here's how to build a sequence your students will love.
I’m an MD and Yoga Teacher. These Are the Best Face Masks for Yoga
The COVID-19 vaccine may be in distribution, but you still need to mask up for in-person classes. Here are our picks for ones that won't slip during your practice.
Searching for the Fountain of Health
In this excerpt from Ken Dychtwald's new book, "Radical Curiosity," he offers a glimpse into how our relationship with medicine has changed through the decades.
How to Use Yoga to Prevent (and Heal) a Hamstring Injury
Hamstring tears and strains are common among yoga practitioners, and overstretching can make it worse. Here's how to alter your practice to ensure a speedy recovery.
Unlock Your Backbends With Yoga Blocks
Stretch away back tension and build core strength with these eight poses—all assisted with a yoga block.
How to Spot the Symptoms of a Pitta Imbalance (and Feel Better!)
If the heat leaves you hankering for shade, your may have a pitta imbalance. These Ayurvedic practices can help you keep your cool.
10 Lifestyle Tips to Ease Back Pain
Yoga is a great start, but to truly alleviate and correct your back pain, you'll need a full-body solution.
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10 Fresh Health and Wellness Finds
Celebrate Spring with these fresh finds!
How to Create a Minimalist Wardrobe
Modern Minimalist founder Devin VonderHaar offers six tips on how to curate your closets—and give yourself a better peace of mind.
What Every Yogi Needs to Know About Flexibility
While yoga isn’t about becoming more flexible, having a good understanding of what flexibility is, and why it’s important, can take your practice to the next level.
12 Ayurveda-Inspired Body + Beauty Products to Try Now
Up your self-care routine with these products for face, body, and bath.
Get to Know the 8 Limbs of Yoga
Patanjali's eight-fold path offers guidelines for a meaningful and purposeful life. Get to know this prescription for moral and ethical conduct, and self-discipline.
What to Eat Before and After Yoga, According to Top Nutrition Experts
Here’s how to stop eating mindlessly—and instead learn to eat mindfully— for your best yoga practice ever.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Practice: The Draw of the Senses
On a beach trip, Rina Deshpande is reminded of pratyahara, the retracting of the senses.
16 Spring Ayurveda Tips to Revitalize Your Energy
Feeling sluggish, unmotivated, and dull as we shift to spring? These holistic tips can help!
Does Everyone and their Mother Really Need to Do a Yoga Teacher Training?
Yoga leaders discuss the explosion of teacher training programs over the last decade, the pros and cons for students, and alternate models for students who wish to deepen their practice.
5 Sustainable Ingredient Superstars
Between regular gas emissions and a global health crisis, the planet has taken a big hit recently. Here are 5 eco-friendly foods to consider.
Teach Your Kids About Yoga with These Books
Introduce your kids to mindfulness and yoga with these fun and educational illustrated children's books.
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Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita with Anusha Wijeyakumar
Register now for a four-week on-demand workshop to deepen your knowledge of yoga philosophy!
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Self Love Practices That Also Boost Heart Health
Prioritizing heart health is a self love practice you might be missing. These 4 exercises will give your mood—and your ticker—a boost.
Draw Out the Best in Your Teaching by Sketching Yoga Sequences
Use scribing to enhance your teaching for yourself and your students.
Props to You: Gear to Help You Personalize Your Practice
Make your yoga practice more accessible by using props to adapt asana to your body. Yoga- for-all-bodies advocates Dianne Bondy and Kat Heagberg show you how with ideas from their new book, Yoga Where You Are: Customize Your Practice for Your Body and Your Life.
Try Partner Yoga For a Unique Valentine’s Day Treat
Try a new, surprisingly intimate way to connect with your partner this Valentine's Day. This simple sequence can inspire loving touch and closeness with your sweetheart—or even a dear friend.
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Costa Rica Takes Sustainable Travel to the Next Level
How a regenerative vacation helps you and the country.
A Super-Bowl-Inspired Flow to Build Resilience
A former NFL Kicker shares an empowering sequence and meditation to help you bounce back from setbacks and defeat.
Exiting Full Wheel and Other Deep Backbends With Grace
Ease or prevent back pain with these 10 poses
How Blue, Green and Other Types of Light Can Improve Your Health
How to harness the natural healing power of the sun’s rays.
Mindful Money Management Tips to Inspire Financial Security
Whether you want to pay off student loans, stick to a budget, or start investing, you can learn to manage your money mindfully on the mat with these 9 poses that stimulate financial stability.
Join Our “Raise Your Vibration” Fitness Challenge
A 6-week mind body fitness plan that combines yoga asana, mindfulness practices, nutrition, wellness and mental clarity to help participants achieve holistic results.
Everything to Know About Yoga and the Five Elements of Nature
Here’s what you need to know to honor the elements, and connect to the healing power of earth, water, fire, air, and ether in your yoga practice.
Go Higher with Lalah Delia
Best-selling author and wellness educator Lalah Delia on raising your vibration to find your highest Self
3 Secrets for Setting New Year’s Intentions That Work
Here’s how to effectively focus your energy toward authentic transformation.
Product Review: 2nd Wind Yoga Mats
Enjoy an eye-catching, supportive haven for your yoga practice with these heavy duty mats
12 Ways to Give and Give Back with Intention This Holiday
YJ’s holiday gift guide is a little different this year, since 2020 was a year like no other.
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Open sinuses, calm headaches, and boost your mood with this miracle oil
Heal Thyself
A new trend promises better mental wellness without the help of Western medicine. Is it unsafe—or just what we need?
Product Review: Colorfulkoala 28-Inch High Waisted Pattern Full Length Leggings
Pull on these yoga pants for your next class or pair them with a baggy shirt for a casual go-anywhere outfit.
What it Means to be a Compassionate Leader
Yoga and mindfulness can teach us how to be benevolent leaders who foster deep listening, tactful truth-telling, clear communication, and inclusivity.
Let’s Create Safe Spaces for Transgender and Nonbinary Yogis
Jordan Smiley, founder of Courageous Yoga in Denver, talks about the mission to create a safe and inclusive environment for the transgender and nonbinary community to practice yoga.
Parents, This Relaxing, Empowering Yoga Flow’s For You
Try these 9 poses to soothe and ground you in gratitude.
Boost Your Motivation and Willpower with This Sequence
Here are 10 yoga poses to help you recharge and strengthen your resolve.
Coronavirus, the Butterfly Effect, and the Myth of Your Insignificance
Contributing editor Jennifer Davis-Flynn reflects on the reverberating and unpredictable effects of acts of harm and love during a global pandemic. Plus, self-care practices to fuel your compassion.
Recommit to Your Practice: National Yoga Month 2020
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The Meditation Lizzo’s and John Legend’s Choreographer Can’t Live Without
Emmy-nominated artistic director Jemel McWilliams says his yoga and meditation practices are helping him through the pandemic.
Criminal Justice Advocate and Yogi Steven Medeiros is Taking Life’s Challenges in Stride
Here, the above-the-knee amputee waxes on forgiveness, his yoga practice, and living life to the fullest.
We Are All Grieving Right Now. Here, How to Feel Whole Amid Uncertainty
Yoga teacher Karena Virginia discusses the collective grief of COVID-19 and what it can teach us. Plus, six tips to jumpstart your own deep healing process.
The Energy of Your Food May Be Affecting Your Health
For thousands of years, classical Chinese medicine has used nutrition to treat imbalances. Here, we make the practice’s principles of energetics-based dietary therapy more digestible.
Reiki 101: Everything You Need to Know About This Energy Healing Practice
What is Reiki? Yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner, Lara Rosenbaum, lays out the basics of this powerful energy healing modality from Japan.
How to Get a Natural Glow, the Ayurvedic Way
Learn to glow within by balancing the three mind-body energies in Ayurveda.
My Other Yoga: Stand Up Paddleboarding—Your Perfect Pandemic Escape
With trips and events cancelled this summer, you may be looking for new ways to relax and rejuvenate. Writer Elizabeth Marglin explains how SUP yoga on a lake can be a gateway to Zen.
Want to Strengthen Your Immune System? Science Says Do More Yoga.
The anti-inflammatory and anti-stress effects commonly associated with yoga, meditation, and pranayama may be an effective adjunctive treatment for COVID-19.
8 Yoga Hammocks for Turning Your Practice Upside Down This Summer
Find yourself stuck in the same asana sequence? Bring your practice to new heights with these yoga slings that you can set up nearly anywhere.
Frazzled Nerves? Try These 3 Breathing Practices for Cooling Off and Calming Down
Pranayama can be a simple way to find balance and beat the summer heat.
Vastu 101: How to Make Your Home A Healing Sanctuary
Use this ancient system of architecture and design to bring positive energy into any physical space.
Understanding the Gunas Can Help You Find Balance and Insight
Learn how to regulate these three energetic qualities with food, movement, meditation, and more.
Stand Taller With These 9 Side Body Stretches
Breathe easier and improve your posture with this liberating yoga sequence.
The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Yoga Online: 10 Digital Platforms You Should Consider Right Now, Plus Pro Audio, Lighting, and Camera Tips
Keep calm, troubleshoot tech, and teach on: Here's what yoga teachers are leaning on for their classes, trainings, online courses, and community conversations, so you can build something that lasts beyond the pandemic.
Olympian Tianna Bartoletta’s Morning Yoga Sequence
These 11 poses help keep this track star feeling balanced, graceful, and resilient.
Yogi Olympian Tianna Bartoletta is Ready to Defend her World Title
The three-time Olympic gold medalist's dreams for the 2020 games were derailed by injury, illness, and the global pandemic. Today, she's taking it all in stride, thanks to her yoga practice.
Do Politics Belong in Yoga?
Yogins United, a collective of yoga and Buddhist teachers, says yes. The organization is a new initiative to help yogis get out the vote this November.
The Future of Yoga: The Change We Need
We look at what diversity, equity, job security, and teaching could look like in a post-COVID era.
Why Adriene is My COVID-19 Buddy—and Everyone Else’s
The wildly popular YouTube teacher is helping us feel connected, even as we shelter in place.
11 Tools for Channeling Your Creativity
Invoke the muse with these must-haves for creative projects.
Yoga Journal Podcasts: The Practice
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Struggling With Self-Promotion? How One Yoga Teacher Learned to Unleash Her Voice with Authenticity and Ease
Here, author and yoga teacher Barrie Risman shares her story—and five exercises to help you embrace marketing as an act of generosity and service.
To Pay or Not to Pay for Yoga During the Coronavirus Shutdown
With classes offered on free platforms, including Zoom and Instagram Live, people are grappling with if and how to compensate teachers.
A Simple Meditation to Ignite Your Creativity
Live a more expressive life with this connective practice.