The Yoga for You

Hint: Telling them to will have the opposite effect! Rina Jakubowicz from Superyogis' Schoolhouse Training offers up ways to introduce kids to yoga.

When a yoga instructor who normally teaches adults tries to teach kids, hilarious, heart-warming comments ensue in this video from Buzzfeed.

Visualization is playing with the imagination, a powerful resource. Use a glitter jar to illustrate to kids how mindfulness—the cultivation of stillness in the face of swirling chaos of life—affects us.

Want to cultivate better communication, focus, and coping skills in your students? We turned to Rina Jakubowicz from Superyogis' Schoolhouse for her tips.

Yoga teacher Shauna Harrison shows us how TRX can benefit both beginners and more experienced yogis. Learn how to incorporate this it into your routine.

Breathe For Change, an organization launched last year by teachers for teachers, is on a mission to save our schools, one teacher at a time, by reducing burnout through yoga and mindfulness training.

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.

Mother's Day is coming up, and what better way to reward yourself for all you give and all you do than a yoga course devoted solely to you and your needs?

Unroll your mat—this short sequence will leave you feeling less harried and more empowered.

Janet Stone is offering YJ readers a series of weekly "mom-asanas" for serenity, strength, and grounding. This week's practice: Going with the flow of motherhood.

Here are 4 yoga-inspired, belly-toning exercises that you can do in the comfort of your own home, on your own time.

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, suggests this 10-minute meditation to help you focus on everything you DO have.

Athleisure wear companies are fast recognizing and responding to the outfitting needs of the growing numbers of kids and teens who practice too. Here, some of the season's fashion-forward looks.

This month, when you're too tired, stressed, and busy to roll out your yoga mat, try finding stillness and peace by practicing one (or all) of these three calming breathing exercises.

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, explains how repeating a mantra can keep moms grounded.

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, explains how to heal your pelvic floor with mula bandha.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis, who leads the White House Yoga Garden teachers, shares 9 family-friendly poses to try in your own backyard.

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, offers tips and a pose for coping with mom stress.

After a long day at school, there's always more to do. Before hitting the homework, take a yoga break to reset mind and body for better focus.

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, explains the importance of re-establishing your connection to your core after childbirth.

Janet Stone offers 7 things to consider if you're feeling the intense weight of change in your body, plus a pose to help you open and soften.

Try this simple flow in the morning or anytime with your kids to jumpstart their day. It only takes 3 minutes!

Did you hang up your boxing gloves when you found yoga? Now there's no need. BoxingYoga is attracting fans from inside and outside the ring, and it's about to throw a punch in the U.S.

When we become parents, we often carry around old expectations about how our yoga practice should look based on our “pre-child” days. But that doesn't mean we have no "time" for yoga.

21-year-old author and nonprofit founder Emily-Anne Rigal says she knows what it is to bully, be bullied, and to overcome both by looking within.

Internationally recognized yoga teacher and mother of two Janet Stone is offering YJ readers a series of weekly "mom-asanas." This week's practice: letting go of mom guilt.

Photographer Robert Sturman honors and celebrates American veterans of war by featuring several active duty and retired service members practicing yoga.

A playful practice 
can bring you 
more joy on and 
off the mat.

As a mother, Janet Stone uses the end of the year as a time to tune back into her sankalpa—her heart’s deepest longing, her intention.

The best remedy for the fast pace of parenthood? Simply taking a deep breath and seeing where it goes.

Energy. Where is it? Try Janet Stone's practice for this week—especially if holiday stress is starting to creep up on you: Make a don't-do list.

We’ve scouted the perfect tokens of affection for the little yogi on your holiday gift list. Honor their loving spirit with these adorably thoughtful finds.

Janet Stone offers mothers a pose, a writing exercise, and a daily ritual to make every day more mindful.

Author Susan Verde’s new book sends kids the message that imagination makes anything possible—and the yoga mat is a perfect place to explore it.

Internationally recognized yoga teacher and mother of two Janet Stone offers moms a pose to build strength from the inside out.

Are you Type A? Is work more central to your day than breath? This 14-minute practice eases stress by boosting endorphins and dopamine—right at your desk.

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.

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I AM Yogi Twist™ Flash Cards, a new game from yoga-teacher-to-the-stars Alanna Zabel, is a fun and silly way to teach kids yoga postures.

The next generation of boys may play with Yoga Joes instead of G.I. Joes, thanks to a designer determined to spread the word that yoga is for guys, too.

While anxiety is natural, experts say certain yoga postures can relieve students’ first-day nerves. Start school stress-free.

Looking for a token of your affection? These yoga-themed gifts can reinforce the values you’re looking to instill in your child.

Yoga is known to help relieve stress and calm the body and mind, but it can be especially beneficial for veterans suffering from PTSD.

It's as easy as ABC. The Letter Sound Yoga app makes learning the sounds of the alphabet active.

Mothers sacrifice sleep, diet, love life to care for their kids. Take a moment to pause and recalibrate yourself for better balance.

Readers share photos of their kids practicing yoga.

Yoga teacher Maggie DiPasquale say music is essential for setting the tone in teen yoga classes and offers tips for choosing songs that move teens.

Every yogi, it seems, has a tale of a bum knee, shoulder, or hip. But getting injured in practice often means something is out of alignment.

If you've struggled with meditation but buy into the benefits, it's time to try yoga nidra. This systematic relaxation brings ease to the very deepest layers of our being.

Deepak Chopra empowers children to find positive ways in which they would like to change the world through mindfulness exercises.

When life gives you lemons, start a lemonade stand for a good cause.

Meet three young yoga teachers using Instagram as an outlet to share their passion for the practice.

Zoe Mantarakis of the Austin, Texas, studio Yoga Illumined has six reasons why every child would love Yoga Camp—and a new camp for Austin kids.

A war correspondent reporting from the frontlines of the world’s largest refugee crisis uncovers the power of yoga—and love.

Grab your kiddos for this sequence from yoga teacher to the stars and author Alanna Zabel's latest children's book, Asana's First Yoga Class.

Take a cue from the White House's Yoga Garden at the annual Easter Egg Roll and strike a few yoga poses in the backyard with your family.

A soothing sequence for little ones (and the adults that take care of them).

In honor of Brain Injury Awareness month, former pro snowboarder Kevin Pearce talks about how key the practice is to his ongoing brain injury recovery.

Bhava Ram teaches teachers how to integrate the benefits of yoga at the cellular level through a gentle and simple body scan in Savasana.

Positive emotions can alter your inner chemistry from stress-fueled adrenaline and cortisol to oxytocin and other healing neurochemicals.

Consciousness is tied to life force (prana). Both are tied to motion and stillness. Linking the breath with movement creates a healing meditation in motion.

Those facing major life trauma often feel disconnected from their physical bodies. Bhava Ram guides them back with the breath.

This five-part series explores the insight "American Sniper" offers into the yoga of war, the mind of a veteran, and the practices crucial to finding the next mission.

Your whole life changes the minute you get pregnant, but it is still important to take care of your mind and body–before, during, and after pregnancy.

This man’s man of yoga in Flagstaff, Arizona, helps military veterans find their inner warrior.

Laura Kasperzak and Masumi Goldman have a practice to wake up even the latest night owls.

In honor of Veterans Day, we asked five veterans to share how yoga helped them cope with depression, stress, sleep disturbances and other war-related issues.

Yoga is first and foremost a peaceful practice, so for soldiers who return home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, it can be the perfect antidote to the atrocities of war.

A unique one-day event is helping the yoga-in-schools movement reach a tipping point.

Yoga teacher Justin Michael Williams talks about body image and how it is represented in today's yoga community.

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A New Age yogi dad shares his tales about fatherhood with YJ and in his new book.

For Shea Mowry, mastering the yoga poses was the easy part. Learning to listen deeply to herself has been the real education.

Toddler through school age, kids are natural yogis. Here are modified poses that you can share with your little ones today.

The Olympic snowboarding champ explains how yoga, meditation, and power stones helped her land the gold.

Yoga helped them, and now three California teens want to share the practice with their peers.

Yoga Dudes for Movember, an online photo contest, aims to promote men's health and get more men to try yoga.

Prenatal yoga can prepare your mind, body, and spirit for motherhood.

When antidepressants stopped working, Neal Pollack's yoga practice helped him manage his depression--minus the negative side effects.