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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.

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.

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.

You got this.

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.

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.

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.

Feeling discontent, dissatisfied or down? Heart-opening yoga poses, such as Wheel (Upward Bow) Pose, are the perfect Rx.

Of course yoga benefits athletes in many ways, but the breath is the surprising key to avoiding this increasingly common pitching injury.

YJ's “Master Class” column, featuring intelligent sequences leading to challenging peak poses taught by influential teachers, ran for about a decade. Here, six of our favorites.

Athletes (and non-athletes) tend to have a lot of misconceptions about the hips. Here, the anatomy and function of the joint demystified.

Tight or open, your hips need to be strong for injury-free movement. Learn how to build stability in common yoga poses.

These 3 hand mudras will help you keep yoga, learning, and inspiration at the top of your list. Try them with the following mantra: "Magic takes guts."

Camatkarasana, or Wild Thing, is a pose Bryant Park Yoga teacher Sara Clark can't get enough of. It's both a celebration and representation of the dynamic ways our body can move.

Kathryn Budig wants to introduce you to her new love: Karate. Here, two kicks to get you started, paired with the perfect poses for the flexibility and strength required.

NASA rocket scientist/yoga teacher Scott Lewicki balances a highly technical day job with creativity on the mat. Use this innovative practice to find new space in often forgotten muscles.

Just in time for summer, here are Two Fit Moms' top 8 yoga poses to work the core.

Yoga’s hand expressions, mudras, are said to shift energies from what we might be experiencing to how we want to feel. Learn three you can use today.

Alison McCue, who led the Tuesday class at Bryant Park Yoga this week, offers four poses to build confidence (and your sense of humor).

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.

Try this 10-, 20-, or 30-minute yoga sequence to find deeper personal fulfillment in everyday life.

Shiva Rea offers five hand mudras to cultivate heart consciousness in celebration of the Summer Solstice and the First International Yoga Day.

Western research is now proving what yogis have known all along: Breathwork can deliver powerful mind and body benefits. In this three-part series, learn how and why to take better advantage of it both in practice and in life.

Using an aerial silk or hammock allows gravity to help the back leg relax and the spine to curve naturally. You’ll stop fighting gravity, and allow the support 
of the hammock to help you lengthen.

The way you position your hands on the ground is important. Alexandria Crow breaks down what this commonly used cue misses about doing it safely and how you can do better.

Advanced asana doesn't translate to advanced yoga. A longtime teacher explores both the relevance of advanced poses in practice and the potential risks of a purely physical pursuit.

Find energetic and physical balance 
as you deepen your twist and move 
step by step into Noose Pose (Pasasana).

Ground your legs and open your shoulders and chest to prepare you for Rope Pose.

Modify Parivrtta Utkatasana, Revolved Chair Pose, if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

Strengthen and ground your legs and hips, bring length and lightness to your spine and expand your chest in revolved chair pose.

Arm balances are only partially about the arms. Learn how to really take flight in Bakasana and beyond with Kino MacGregor's core-activating sequence.

According to Ayurvedic theory, it is better to drink warmer water after strenuous exercise. Drinking cold water on a hot day can disturb your digestion.

During class, our bodies will experience muscle shaking in response to hard work in a yoga pose. Be mindful of proper alignment and focus on the breath.

New Hampshire clocks in as the most emotionally healthy US state. It has people that face new experiences, share close moments with loved ones and engages in healthy activities.

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Think you don't have time for yoga? Add this vinyasa right into your next workout, between sets of any exercise, to keep things interesting.

“Soft,” “relaxed” glutes never had an inspiring ring to Alexandria Crow till she understood the anatomy behind the alignment cue.

Bryant Park Yoga is back for its 12th season in New York City, featuring instructors curated by Yoga Journal. This week: Bethany Lyons.