Yoga Sequences

This pose sequence is perfect to help trail runners increase endurance and stability.

Here's how to use the strength of your core and inner thighs to lift into this arm balance.

Focus on deepening hip and shoulder flexibility to get ready for Tittibhasana.

Dare to delve into the depths of your psoas—and just hang out for a while.

Baptiste Yoga Teacher Bethany Lyons explains how to engage the bandhas to work your abs throughout your practice.

Post-sweat, calm your muscles and your mind with this sequence by Bethany Lyons, Baptiste Yoga Teacher and SoulCycle Master Instructor.

Fire up your 
metabolism so it runs more efficiently with 
this rejuvenating sequence.

Yoga poses that build core AND make you a better surfer? We'll take 'em.

Tap wisdom from the mat to motivate you on the road.

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Runners, stay healthy by protecting, stretching, and cross-training with yoga.

Take these cues from yoga and Ayurveda to nourish, restore, and unwind.

A quiet, bound, and balanced posture like Bharadvajasana can help you to find stillness.

Upgrade your running and break your PR with clever, targeted cross-training.

Think you know Sun Salutes? Annie Carpenter's tips could transform them.

5 lessons one teacher learned from his adventures in cross-training. The most important? Yoga still rocks.

We’re all winners, losers, and people. Find out how soccer unites us like yoga.

Top off your July 4th weekend with hiking and Vinyasa in the park. Outside asana at it's finest.

Kathryn Budig offers tips for mastering this tricky, awkward handy position for backbends. #nailit

Kathryn Budig offers step-by-step instruction to master this tricky hand position and get into a deeper backbend.

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Use these barre moves from Elisabeth Halfpapp to hit core muscles your regular rotation of asanas might not.

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Tracey Rich offers advice for determining whether it's your body or your mind that's having trouble letting go.

Stretching sideways can 
activate core muscles, expand breathing, and bring 
feelings of spaciousness and levity.

Build up to Kasyapasana with these opening and balancing poses.

Tara Stiles demonstrates 4 steps to work toward balance in handstand.

Iyengar Yoga Instructor Julie Lawrence gives advice for how to recover gently from an ankle sprain.

Yoga Works' Julie Kleinman offers advice on trying different styles of yoga.

Yoga poses to get in tip-top shape for summer, tone muscles, and love the skin you're in.

It requires a playful leap of faith—but once you are balancing in Crane Pose, you’ll feel a sense of lightness and joy.

Strengthen your shoulders, core and arms to make the most of your paddleboarding workouts. Here are 3 poses to help.

YogaWorks' Julie Kleinman has advice for addressing tough topics with a coworker.

Tracey Rich offers advice for balancing effort and ease in asana practice.

Learn about the different possible chin positions in janu sirsasana and how to choose which is right for you.

Learn how to correct lumbar lordosis and maintain a healthy lumbar curve.

For best results in the forward bend Parsvottanasana, use the alignment principles of backbends.

Practice the joining of opposing forces in Revolved Triangle.

Add these CrossFit exercises into your workout routine to strengthen your practice and mind-body connection.

Yoga Teacher Paige Held reveals her sequence perfect for traveling yogis on the go.

Amy Ippoliti offers tips for tight or injured shoulders that can be applied to any yoga pose.

A rule-follower by nature, Kathryn Budig uses her yoga practice to explore the adventurer within.

This step-by-step approach to Handstand can benefit longtime inversion fans and total newbies.

Yoga teacher to Britney Spears shares a sequence to stay calm + centered, no matter how busy life gets.

Feel grounded and relaxed with this soothing, hip-opening sequence.

Kathryn Budig shares her 4 steps to fold into inverted Padmasana in tripod headstand.

Chant an activating mantra followed by a calming syllable in each pose to stimulate and balance the chakras.

Sculpt strong, lean legs and focus your intention with Malasana.

Get your best summer body with deep core exercises that will power up your practice.

To calm nerves and tone up all over, incorporate these five poses into your practice.

Climbing and yoga both reinforce the mind-body connection. Here, the best poses to get your climb on.

Eric Paskel packs Detroit's Ford Field in his transformative yoga class at Yoga Rocks!

The Girls' star is a big fan of yoga and bodyweight exercises to tighten, strengthen, and lengthen her muscles.

Yoga helps skaters be more flexible and graceful on the ice.

Author and Yoga Journal Live! star Sadie Nardini shares 4 weeks' worth of secrets for creating the fiercest, most fabulous you yet!

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.)

Tomorrow we celebrate the longest night of 2013, a time to put forth your best intentions for the coming year.

He may not understand how it works, but Neal Pollack can attest to the powerful experience of activating prana through yoga.

Erica Rodefer Winters demystifies 5 expressions overheard in yoga class.

Learn how to safely open your heart wide.

Sage Rountree shares 3 steps for creating a home yoga practice to get you through the holidays and beyond.

Try this 3-step approach to work your way from Handstand into Wheel Pose.

"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.

Through Wari Om's radiant photos, practice along with this sequence ending in Natarajasana (Lord of the Dance Pose).

Don't underestimate the art of relaxation. Corpse Pose can be the most difficult pose of your practice.

Yoga gives pro snowboarders 
a leg up—and can improve your ride too.

Yoga Alliance and Prana are offering two scholarships for yoga teachers who work with underserved populations and who want advanced training.

Kathryn Budig walks us through the first steps to creating the exhilarating "wheel" action in Ashtanga Yoga known as Chakrasana.

Learn how to maintain momentum and control in dynamic transitions with a move borrowed from Pilates: The Rolling Ball. Sage Rountree explains.

Tap into flexibility and strength to take your splits off the ground and let them soar.

"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?

Yoga Buzz looks at some of the coolest new props to hit the yoga market.

The physical and mental conditioning of regular yoga practice is a boon to adventure seekers who like to fly through the air.

Use these yoga poses to cool down, stretch, and strengthen your muscles after your run. Nothing ever felt so good.

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.

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.

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.

So you think you can't do yoga? Flexibility develops over time. Practicing Janu Sirsasana is a start.

Try this challenging but fun hybrid pose using the actions of a deep backbend even if your spine isn't that flexible.

Stretch and boost confidence with this snowga practice before strapping on your board or skis.