13-Minute Yin Yoga Practice to Help You Put Yourself First
Finding presence in your practice is self-care.
There are many types of yoga that have their own unique set of rules and benefits. Here, you’ll find an encyclopedia of yoga sequences by their type of yoga. From Kundalini, Ashtanga, Yin or Prenatal—we cover all the favorites so you can practice them in the comfort of your own home.
Exchange dull uncertainty for a brighter shine.
Finding presence in your practice is self-care.
Because the world needs a collective calm down.
This gentle flow will calm your racing mind.
Your luteal phase may come with lower energy. These yoga practices get you moving without sapping your reserves.
Your ovulation phase comes with a wellspring of energy. These yoga practices make use of your motivation.
Your follicular phase brings stamina. These yoga practices help you step into your energy, mindfully.
Your menstrual phase is a time for slower, mindful movement. These practices help you explore exactly that.
Your changing body needs a little more care.
No, it wasn’t just breathing and stretching.
When fatigue and frustration settle in, perhaps it's time to pause and come back to yourself.
Can you think of a better way to celebrate National Relaxation Day than to practice every variation of this calming pose?
When you make your practice a priority before anything else, it sets the tone for everything else.
A slow stretching practice to help you navigate this thing we call life with a little more ease and grace.
Your nervous system has been working overtime for far too long.
Gearing up for warmer weather and an active season? Add these invigorating poses to your practice.
Building strength isn't as hard as you think. It just takes practice—and these beginner-friendly poses and instructions for how to take them further.
Yes, you can incorporate a strap into your vinyasa practice—and it's easier than you think.
Before you can soar, you need to find and stretch your wings. This practice helps you do both.
Sometimes less is more, even in yoga.
In traditional Ashtanga, certain poses are reserved until you've mastered preliminary postures. Pranidhi Varshney upends this approach and teaches you how to come into backbends, wherever you are in your practice.
And you'll still have 1,430 minutes left in the day.
And help you move from pain to peace.
Stretch into stillness to find relief.
Let stillness be your medicine.
Leave all your worries on the mat.
Sometimes you just need to let the pose hold you.
The relief you feel after moving through these five postures will astound you.
Because we're all looking for some R&R right now.
This soothing practice promises to bring ease and stillness in mind, body, and spirit.
Don't get up! You can practice this prop-supported sequence while lying down.
When you need to approach any situation—or, let's be honest, life—from a calmer place, this quiet practice is your solution.
There's a time and a place for gentle prenatal yoga. This is not that practice.
Sometimes you need to clear out what you no longer need to let in everything that you want.
No props, no problem! All you need for this calming Yin Yoga sequence is yourself and a desire to come to your practice.
Slow down and settle into stillness to find the tranquility you’re searching for.
It's time to find your center. This practice for the full moon brings you back to your truest source of strength and stability—you.
Yes, it's possible to strengthen—and stretch—your abdominal muscles at the same time.
Restore your muscles—and your mind.
If you're searching for some stillness today, this practice can help.
Has fear been holding you back? Your yoga practice can help summon the discernment and courage you need to no longer run from what scares you.
Yes, you can float forward from the back of your mat to the front. All it takes is some props and practice.
Maybe it's not what you do that keeps you awake at night, but what you don't do. These three stretches can help fix that.
You've tried everything else to ease your tension. Maybe it's time to opt for simple stretches that draw on contemporary science as well as thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine.
In this restorative sequence, Dr. Gail Parker suggests using affirmations to deepen the healing power of relaxation.
Challenge your balance and open your heart with this empowering sequence
A former NFL Kicker shares an empowering sequence and meditation to help you bounce back from setbacks and defeat.
Try these 9 yin yoga poses to feel more grounded this winter.
Try these 9 poses to soothe and ground you in gratitude.
These seven poses will help you navigate the shift from pitta to vata season with grounded grace, ease, and calm.
Pregnant mamas, celebrate your journey with a simple practice that grounds and enlivens you.
Support your body in early pregnancy with these soothing shapes.
Yoga teacher Jordan Smiley, founder of the In Body Meant Project, shares a playful sequence to help you break patterns and get better acquainted with your body’s wisdom.
Schuyler Grant, co-creator of Wanderlust and founder of Kula Yoga Project, shares her sequencing strategies for inversions.
Get deeper into your poses and stretches with a best friend or yoga partner.
A practice to help you feel your best.
This quick practice will help you feel empowered, inspired, and less jittery for that important meeting.
We know that life can be overwhelming and stressful sometimes. Here, 30 different sequences that will help during those hectic times (and this week).
Want to to learn how to really embody your breath in order to take bigger, deeper breaths and rest more fully as a result? Read on.
Transform your quarter-life crisis into a calling.
True intimacy is connecting with your most authentic self.
You can’t bypass rage and skip ahead to forgiveness. Anger is a necessary and appropriate response to situations in which we’ve been physically or emotionally harmed, manipulated, or deceived. Here, domestic violence survivor and yoga teacher Liz Arch shares a sequence for releasing anger by truly feeling it first.
There’s no need to wait until you arrive at your destination.
No bolsters, blankets, or blocks? No problem. Here’s how to set yourself up for a supremely relaxing practice, minus the props.
This Kundalini Yoga kriya, or sequence, from teacher Karena Virginia will strengthen your aura and protect you from bad energy.
Who says you can’t relax and recharge at the same time?
These simple postures from Josh Summers will also help enhance the circulation of this vital energy.
If you practice Kundalini Yoga, you know you have 10 bodies, not one. Here's the lowdown on all 10 bodies, plus a sequence to awaken them.
Prenatal yoga teacher Allie Geer demonstrates a self-myofascial release practice to relieve tension and pain during pregnancy and enhance mobility.
Release tension with this restorative sequence from Rodney Yee for encouraging the flow of breath and prana.
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?
Learn how to use a chair and a block in Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose to both ground and expand the posture all at once.
Use this sequence to check in with yourself, quiet fears and negative mental chatter, and ultimately move into a place of deep trust.
We can mitigate some of the shifts in the body that occur during pregnancy, simply by standing well. This practice will wake up the muscles that we need to maintain good structural integrity and a healthy pelvic floor even as big changes are occurring within.
King Pigeon Pose is about balancing stability and fluidity, in both your body and mind. Grab a strap, folding chair, and blanket and let’s get started!
Open your chest and shoulders and challenge your balance as you move step by step into Eka Pada Rajakapotasana II.
Open your hips and stabilize your knees to refine your Warrior I with Carrie Owerko, who leads Yoga Journal's Iyengar 101 course.
Use this mini sequence—from Down Dog to Half Moon Pose—as a fun moving meditation to find core and leg stability that may help you balance, even momentarily, in Handstand.
A chair practice offers the pregnant body support and helps to create the space it so desperately needs. This sequence feels so good that you will want to continue with it—even after baby.
These three fun variations of Utthita Trikonasana (Triangle) show you how to practice and play with this pose.