Yoga Poses

Looking for a fun summer challenge? Here are 10 advanced poses perfect for tackling on the beach, or wherever your summer takes you.

Starting to slouch? These stretches will help.

For one yoga teacher, trying something that felt like the complete opposite of her alignment-focused asana style turned out to transform her yoga practice—and her life.

These simple moves will powerfully balance your legs, pelvis, and spine whether you're at your desk, out and about, or on the mat.

Whether you have chronic low back pain, herniation, osteoporosis, or trouble with your SI joints, these supported variations will help you enjoy the benefits of Triangle Pose with ease.

Learn how to incorporate sun salutations, meditation, and healthy eating to optimize your happiness.

Learn how to move from Padmasana to Urdhva Kukkutasana safely with these prep poses to strengthen your shoulders and abdominals.

Set the foundation for a receptive state of mind with Urdhva Kukkatasana. Plus, learn how to find stability, balance, and focus in this pose.

Try these tips for adjusting Padmasana (Lotus Pose) to find safe alignment for comfortable hips and knees.

Open your hips and help center your consciousness with teacher Ty Landrum as he walks you through these 6 simple steps to Padmasana (Lotus Pose).

Follow these steps and learn how to ensure the proper safety protocol when teaching this energizing inversion.

Pamela Stokes Eggleston lost herself when caring for her husband, a U.S Army veteran and Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient. Now, she’s on a mission to teach other caregivers the yogic practices that helped her find her soul again.

This relaxing "fourth trimester" yoga sequence can help you reconnect with your body and calm your mind in those early months with a new baby.

Practice this hip-opening sequence regularly to help you release energy from unprocessed grief.

Learn what muscles are activated when you jump back to Chaturanga or Plank Pose, and how to do it safely.

Modify Dandasana if necessary to find safe alignment in your body.

Experience a surge of energy as you move step by step into Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, or Upward-Facing Dog.

Strengthen your arms and core in these prep poses for Urdhva Mukha Svanasana.

Find lift and expansion by strengthening your back, hip flexors, and quadriceps.

Feel like you have a cold coming on? Nip it in the bud with these immunity-boosting tips.

Maintain a neutral pelvis, and quiet your mind as you move step by step into Hanumanasana.

Stretch your hamstrings and hip flexors in these prep poses for Hanumanasana.

Modify Parsvottanasana as necessary to find powerful alignment and stability.

Stretch your hamstrings, tone your glutes, and maintain a balanced pelvis with these alignment principles and actions.

Do inversions make you anxious—and excited to try them? Work through those nagging fears and you’ll reap all the juicy benefits. Here, 8 top yoga teachers share their best tips for how to find the courage to go upside down, or to try a new inverted pose.

Strengthen your legs and core and improve circulation with these prep poses for Ubhaya Padangusthasana

Modify Paschimottanasana as necessary to find safe alignment in your body.

Stretch the back of your entire body, open your hips, and create a state of inner calm.

Strengthen your abdominals as you move step by step into Ubhaya Padangusthasana.

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.

Start to understand, lengthen, and strengthen your teres major—a little-known muscle that can be the key to protecting your shoulders when you go upside down.

Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is a deep relaxation practice that helps relax the physical and emotional bodies so that healing can occur.

Try some of these sleep-friendly tips to promote a healthier sleep and good night's rest for you and your family.

There are certain practices that you can introduce into your home to make it a happy and safe place to live.

Learn how to practice simple changes to your diet and lifestyle to eliminate anxiety.

Keeping up with a busy life usually means our health gets pushed aside. Here are a few ways to keep your healthy eating habits in check.

Do you find it difficult to unwind and settle your mind? Incorporate these tactics into your everyday life to manage stress.

Strengthen your shoulders and back as you move step by step into Visvamitrasana.

Stretch your hamstrings and hip flexors in these prep poses for Visvamitrasana.

Modify Utthita Parsvakonasana as needed to find safe alignment in your body.

Strengthen your legs, knees, and ankles, stretch your hamstrings, and tone your abdominals.

YJ Influencer Laura Burkhart offers the story of her own chronic pain and hip injury as a caution to yogis and encourages you to get honest about your own practice.

In this excerpt from his new book Yoga Therapy: Foundations, Methods, and Practices for Common Ailments, Mark Stephens offers methods for warming up and massaging the wrists to reduce pain in yoga practice.

Take a closer look at seven subtle-body healing modalities, and how to find one that will help you boost the benefits of your yoga practice.

Drum roll, please...

Learn how master teacher Rodney Yee discovered the power of pranayama to quiet the mind and why it's a focus of every asana class he teaches.

These short practices from Yoga Medicine teacher Shannon Stephens can have profound effects on the way you experience stress and life's toughest moments.

Long day? Feeling sluggish? Try these poses from YJ Influencer Meredith Cameron to create space in your upper body to soften, flush, and balance your organ system.

So you overate or overstressed… This short sequence focuses on processing and letting go to counteract holiday excess, leave you feeling lighter, and make some space for joy.

YJ Influencer Laura Burkhart shares the surefire strategies she’s used to end her decade-long battle with insomnia.

You can rock Plank pose, but did you know that your diaphragm might be your secret weapon when it comes to strengthening your core?

In this excerpt from her new book Deep Listening, Jillian Pransky offers a practice for creating space to let yourself be just as you are.

Using a chair as a launch pad to toggle between Kurmasana and Tittibhasana is a great way to build mobility and challenge your balance. Ready to give it a try?