Q&A: What’s the Right Chin Position in Forward Folds?
Learn about the different possible chin positions in janu sirsasana and how to choose which is right for you.
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Browse our extensive yoga sequence library to find a home practice that fits your schedule and interests.
Browse our extensive yoga sequence library to find a home practice that fits your schedule and interests.
Find the Backbend In this Forward Bend
For best results in the forward bend Parsvottanasana, use the alignment principles of backbends.
A Delicate Balance: Revolved Triangle
Practice the joining of opposing forces in Revolved Triangle.
4 CrossFit Moves Yogis Should Try
Add these CrossFit exercises into your workout routine to strengthen your practice and mind-body connection.
10 Perfect Poses for Yogis on the Go
Yoga Teacher Paige Held reveals her sequence perfect for traveling yogis on the go.
Shoulder tightness, pain, or injury? Here’s the yoga that helps.
Amy Ippoliti offers tips for tight or injured shoulders that can be applied to any yoga pose.
7 Steps to Defy Gravity and Balance in Handstand
This step-by-step approach to Handstand can benefit longtime inversion fans and total newbies.
Stress-Busting Sequence
Yoga teacher to Britney Spears shares a sequence to stay calm + centered, no matter how busy life gets.
16 Yoga Poses to Find Instant Calm and Peace
Feel grounded and relaxed with this soothing, hip-opening sequence.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Lotus in Tripod Headstand
Kathryn Budig shares her 4 steps to fold into inverted Padmasana in tripod headstand.
7 Poses + Chants for Your Chakras
Chant an activating mantra followed by a calming syllable in each pose to stimulate and balance the chakras.
How Yogis Do Squat: Malasana
Sculpt strong, lean legs and focus your intention with Malasana.
7 Poses for Core Strength
Get your best summer body with deep core exercises that will power up your practice.
5 Oscar-Worthy Yoga Poses to Prep for the Academy Awards
To calm nerves and tone up all over, incorporate these five poses into your practice.
6 Poses to Make You a Rock Climbing Star
Climbing and yoga both reinforce the mind-body connection. Here, the best poses to get your climb on.
Allison Williams’ 3 Barre Poses Every Yogi Needs
The Girls' star is a big fan of yoga and bodyweight exercises to tighten, strengthen, and lengthen her muscles.
Lace Up + Let Go: 3 Yoga Poses for Figure Skaters
Yoga helps skaters be more flexible and graceful on the ice.
Actor Chris O’Donnell’s Workout Secret Revealed
The NCIS star and Batman's former wingman doesn't miss a beat when it comes to fitness. (Hint: A yoga mat and a killer playlist might be involved.)
A Solstice Practice
Tomorrow we celebrate the longest night of 2013, a time to put forth your best intentions for the coming year.
That Old Prana Magic
He may not understand how it works, but Neal Pollack can attest to the powerful experience of activating prana through yoga.
5 Confusing Things Heard in Class
Erica Rodefer Winters demystifies 5 expressions overheard in yoga class.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Camel
Learn how to safely open your heart wide.
3 Steps to a Balanced Home Practice
Sage Rountree shares 3 steps for creating a home yoga practice to get you through the holidays and beyond.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Tick-Tocks, Part II
Try this 3-step approach to work your way from Handstand into Wheel Pose.
Listening to Your Body
"Your time on the mat can be like a language lab, giving you opportunity to listen to your body, to make mistakes, and to correct them compassionately," writes Sage Rountree. Find out how to tune in and respond to what your body has to say.
Joy to the World: Lord of the Dance
Through Wari Om's radiant photos, practice along with this sequence ending in Natarajasana (Lord of the Dance Pose).
The Subtle Struggle of Savasana
Don't underestimate the art of relaxation. Corpse Pose can be the most difficult pose of your practice.
Snowboarding Pros Stay Balanced with Yoga
Yoga gives pro snowboarders 
a leg up—and can improve your ride too.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Tick-Tocks, Part I
Kathryn Budig walks us through the first steps to creating the exhilarating "wheel" action in Ashtanga Yoga known as Chakrasana.
Build Core Strength, Learn Control
Learn how to maintain momentum and control in dynamic transitions with a move borrowed from Pilates: The Rolling Ball. Sage Rountree explains.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Standing Splits
Tap into flexibility and strength to take your splits off the ground and let them soar.
Setting Intentions and Goals
"Intention serves to inspire and focus you mentally and spiritually. Goals, on the other hand, help you apply the right physical effort to the task at hand," writes Sage Rountree. Do you have an intention and goals for your practice?
Watch + Learn: Down Dog
Master this go-to pose and you’ll increase flexibility, strength and balance—and gain confidence in your practice. So unroll your mat and channel your favorite family canine.
Yoga Helps You … Jump Out of Airplanes?
The physical and mental conditioning of regular yoga practice is a boon to adventure seekers who like to fly through the air.
4 Perfect Post-Run Yoga Poses
Use these yoga poses to cool down, stretch, and strengthen your muscles after your run. Nothing ever felt so good.
When to Ignore Your Yoga Teacher
As a yoga teacher and a longtime student, Erica Rodefer Winters has learned that her body is the best expert about what is right for her.
Change Your Mountain Pose
Sometimes a little shift can make a big difference in how things feel. Sage Rountree explores what happens when you shake up a traditional asana.
Take Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose Further
This Master Class works toward the final step of Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose. Let the ebb and flow of your breath help you find your way into this challenging forward bend.
Not Flexible? You Need This Seated Forward Bend
So you think you can't do yoga? Flexibility develops over time. Practicing Janu Sirsasana is a start.
Kathryn Budig Challenge Pose: Hollow Back
Try this challenging but fun hybrid pose using the actions of a deep backbend even if your spine isn't that flexible.
Accepting Beginner Status
Intimidated at first by her lack of experience in yoga class, a young woman learns to relish the learning process.
Back to Basics
Erica Rodefer Winters confronts her ego and finds that focusing on the basics of yoga to be the best teacher of all.
Comfort with Discomfort
Discomfort can be an opportunity for mindful observation, writes Sage Rountree. Here she offers a few tools to help you tune in.
6 Best Yoga Poses for Snow Sports
Stretch and boost confidence with this snowga practice before strapping on your board or skis.