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Fight frenzied Fall energy with this grounding sequence designed for the outdoors. Go ahead, get your feet dirty and feel the earth between your toes.

The latest hybrid in the yoga-plus-sports trend, equestrian yoga, is designed to connect human and horse in the great outdoors.

Use Kathryn Budig's three-pose prep to wake up Parsva Bakasana's key players in your body and get geared up for takeoff.

Ever try a yoga pose and feel like your body just doesn’t make that shape? Erin Motz has three ideas to help you get your Flying Pigeon off the ground.

Let’s set the record straight about what really goes on at yoga festivals and events. No, you don’t have to speak Sanskrit fluently.

Kick off fall by resetting your intentions. Then link them with these three strong poses to seal in your new aims for the season.

Here’s a deep dive into the deep pose from Nikki Costello, that you can and should return to long after the 21-Day Yoga Challenge is over.

Find energetic and physical balance as you twist into Rope Pose.

Congratulations on completing our 21-Day Yoga Challenge! We we hope you’ve fallen in love with yoga that you want to adopt a daily practice habit.

As simple as Mountain Pose seems, it is immediately grounding—and portable! Keep this pose in your pocket to pull out and practice anywhere this fall.

The Olympic hopeful for U.S. Women’s Rugby shares how yoga helps her recover from the "elegant violence" of rugby and keeps her in the game at 40-plus.

The 24-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning snowboarder reveals how yoga helps her balance on and off the slopes.

Gwen Lawrence, the yoga coach for the New York Giants who has also worked on and off for the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, and New York Yankee players including Alex Rodriguez, as well as many other athletes and celebrities, explains how she amps up her yoga game with weights, tackles tight spots, and challenges even the mightiest NFL players with Frog Pose.

Christen Press, the 26-year-old professional soccer forward who helped the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team win the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in July, explains how yoga and meditation “quiet the distractions” in her life and make her a more dynamic athlete. Plus: Her twice-daily Vedic meditation ritual.

Here, Johnston offers 3 hybrid moves that will get you out of your yoga rut AND give you a metabolic boost. Remember to warm up with Sun Salutations before beginning.

Cristi Christensen, co-founder of Yoga Surf Camp, a 180-minute workshop that combines beachfront yoga with surf lessons at Exhale Center for Sacred Movement in Venice, Calif., says yoga gives surfers the focus they need to charge a wave full force and the strength and flexibility they need to stay up. Plus: Must-do poses for building a strong core.

Dana Santas explains how her yoga-based moves help prevent injury and give players the full range of motion they need to excel in their sports.

Is it safe to get your om on at that time of the month? Teens, learn what yoga can teach you about listening to your body and practicing self-care.

Steal these three three core-building balance moves from The YogaSlackers to cultivate slackline-ready strength.

If you’re tossing and turning in bed at night, or have trouble calming your mind before going into meditation, spend a few minutes doing Nadi Shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing.

Feeling stressed or anxious at work but don’t have time to slip away for a calming lunchtime yoga break? We've got you covered.

On rainy days like the one we had today here in NYC, it's easy to succumb to feeling sluggish and blah. Here is a short, energizing flow designed to invigorate the body and calm and focus the mind. You’ll feel simultaneously alert, relaxed, and ready to make the best of your rainy day!

Kathryn Budig breaks down the components of this advanced arm balance then wraps it all together with how-to instructions for getting into this elusive peak pose.

We hear this question a lot: Is yoga enough to get stronger in inversions and arm balances, or should I start lifting weights too? We have the answer.

Take 10 minutes today to relax into this restorative posture, Viparita Karani (Legs-up-the-Wall Pose).

Try this sun salutation version from Kundalini teacher Joan Shivarpita Harrigan to feel reinvigorated and newly inspired on your mat!

Find inspiration in this affirmation to keep you on track with our 21-day yoga challenge.

If you’ve been working up the nerve to try Handstand what better time to push your practice to that next level than during the 21-Day Yoga Challenge?

Sniff sniff ... the last weekend of summer is almost here. Tackle back-to-school stress with Two Fit Moms' amped-up Sun Salutation, which will give you the energy you need to get the kids out the door on time.

In the next 3 poses, let's breathe, connect, and link body to mind to let go of expectations, the real killer of the moment.

If you feel discomfort, such as sudden and sharp pain that may indicate a serious injury, gently get out 
of the pose and tell your teacher.

Find inspiration in this affirmation to keep you on track with our 21-day yoga challenge.

In an increasingly fast-paced world that demands more of our attention and time, everyone is looking for a way to increase their energy. This Kundalini practice

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.

People ages 21 to 41 who ate 5 to 10 grams of whole, dried shiitake mushrooms every day for four weeks experienced increased activity in their germ and disease-fighting cells.

Try these three books for a careful study 
of the history of modern yoga and its relationship 
to the South Asian traditions of yoga.

After a receiving diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, this Ohio-based athlete discovered that yoga 
helps keep his symptoms at bay and felt he had to share its healing power with others.

Inversions are a rite of a passage, testing your mental and physical boundaries. Learn how to conquer your fear.

This sequence efficiently activates the endocrine system, boosting your metabolism and creating new levels of youthfulness to balance your body and mind.

Play with balance and strength as 
you move step by step into Eight-Angle Pose (Astavakrasana).

Work on balance, arm strength, and hip opening 
in these prep poses for Astavakrasana.

Modify Intense Side Stretch (Parsvottanasana) if needed 
to find safe alignment for your body.

Stretch your outer hips and hamstrings, lengthens your spine and encourage quietude and self-reflection in Intense Side Stretch (Parsvottanasana).

Practice these four poses pre-hike to improve strength and stability for a safer journey and post-hike to ease any tight spots.

Yoga can’t reverse bunions that have already formed—only surgery can—but practicing certain poses can slow their advancement.

It depends on why you’re feeling dizzy. For instance, if the dizziness is due to dehydration, it can be alleviated or avoided.

To keep your body twisting and turning with ease, try this Simple Reclining Twist from teacher Barbara Benagh.

Keep your energy steady and strong for today’s yoga practice by eating small portions—often.

Try to cultivate self-compassion by including this reflection in your meditation or yoga practice.

Coordinate movement with your breath to really bring your poses to life. Learn how to pair breathing with different types of poses.

After a long day parked at your desk, are your hips telling you tales of tight, achy woe? Open your hips and boost flexibility with these poses.

Teachers often advise students to start their practice by setting an intention. Here's how to find the right intention to carry you through your practice.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar, who will lead Yoga Journal’s upcoming online course, Vinyasa 101: The Fundamentals of Flow, reveals how often you should roll out your mat if you want to become a "serious" yogi.

These 9 poses will help you say goodbye to summer and transition into fall with grace.

Learn vegans and vegetarians can reap similar nutritional benefits for bones, teeth, tissues, and organs as fans of bone broth enjoy.

Big night out? Nerves are normal. Fortunately, yoga can help you to relax and put your best self forward.

These three mudras will bring you back home to your source, connect you with your heart, and plug you back into your deeper power.

When the square footage of your mat starts to feel small, consider taking your practice outdoors with these 5 adventure sports perfect for yogis.

Alexandria Crows teaches Bow Pose in her "new, backwards way," to target all the tight and weak places that might be holding you back.

Take your practice to the water. Kathryn Budig has these three simple poses to get your feet wet with standup paddleboard yoga.

Yoga poses inspired by the warrior goddess Durga will help you enhance every part of your life.

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Sure, you could eat watermelon or take a dip in the pool, but yoga can help your body and mind chill out, says Kristen Kemp of Powerflow Yoga.

It turns out, you don't have to commit to a full hour of yoga practice to reap its many benefits.

The Dharma Yoga creator shows off his latest innovation—a wheel-shaped prop to assist you in backbends and inversions. See how to use it.

How do you know if the option you’ve chosen is best for you? This fun and revealing guide can help you pick the right class.

A yoga practice 
can be an important recovery tool 
for tennis in order to stretch tight muscles and encourage tissue resiliency.

Learn to balance as you move step by step into Pincha Mayurasana.

Increase your shoulder flexibility and develop greater strength with these prep poses 
for Pincha Mayurasana, forearm balance.

Modify Dolphin if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

A feeling of youth, even as you age, requires a flexible spine. In order to stay agile, practice forward bends, backbends, and twists regularly.

In order to stay agile as you age, make forward bends, backbends, and twists a regular part of your practice. Start here.

This sequence emphasizes moving safely into backbends that open the heart and shoulders and challenge balance.

How do you know if you've been in a pose too long? When you start to "sag," says Eddie Modestini, who will lead Yoga Journal's upcoming Vinyasa 101 course.

The following five poses root down into the ground, allowing you to expand and create more space within your body and mind.

When it comes to injury prevention, what 
you do between poses may be as important as the poses themselves. Here’s how 
to flow safely through tricky transitions.

Tame anxiety with this short meditation and seated sequence.

Struggling with arm balances? The secret lies in the hands and forearms. Learn how to support your weight throughout your inversion practice.

For the first time, yoga classes will be offered at the Special Olympics World Games kicking off this Saturday, July 25th, in Los Angeles.