Rewilding: How to Return to Your Essential Nature
This moving meditation will help you reconnect with all that’s wild and free.
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Tune In and Sleep Better This Winter
Transition into winter feeling calm, grounded, and centered with these self-care tips from the holistic wellness experts at Still Soul Studio in Charleston, South Carolina.
6 Simple Strategies for Quieting the Mind
Slowing down and stepping away, even for a minute, can save your soul. Discover the healing sound of silence and how to live more fully in the present moment.
Preserving the Essence of Ashtanga Yoga: Separating the Guru from the Practice
Kino MacGregor opens up about her teacher, the "father of Ashtanga," Pattabhi Jois and why it’s necessary to update the guru/student relationship.
How to Find Self-Awareness in Your Meditation Practice
Meditation teacher Shivani Hawkins shares tips for how to approach the practice in a way that invites self-awareness and authentic transformation.
Mercury Retrograde Is Here During the Midst of Eclipse Season—These Six Yogis Will Help You Get Through The Chaos
These six yogis you should follow will help you stay in alignment with the stars during this chaotic time.
Yoga Transformed Me After Constant Pressure
After building the perfect life in DC, debilitating anxiety drained Paige Pichler of her power and strength. Here, how yoga helped her start over and feel worthy again.
Why Sticking to Our Daily Routines Helps Us With Unexpected Stress and Fatigue
The supplements these on the go yogis use to stay calm and focused on the road.
Muslim Yogis Share the Parallels Between Yoga and Islam
From honoring the moon, prayer, meditation, and ritual fasting, these five yogis show us how they found the connection between yoga and Islam.
How to Keep Your Knees Safe and Injury-Free During a Yoga Class
Exploring how your knees move can lead to a balanced relationship between stability and vulnerability, on and off the mat.
The Complete Yoga Practice for Total Balance
Find harmony in your body, mind, and soul with this integrative sequence from Alive and Shine Center founders, Aadil Palkhivala and Savitri.
Are You Traveling to India for the Right Reasons?
A scholar of critical race theory and a yoga teacher explore the problematic ways Westerners describe their travels to India.
Yoga Helped Me Face My Fears About Marriage Once and For All
I went to Mexico to rejuvenate, detox, and practice yoga with my boyfriend. Turns out, it would also be where I faced my fears about marriage.
5 Mindful YouTube Channels Every Yogi Should Follow
By seeking inspiration, you may find that others are seeking it as well. Here are five channels that provide perspective and insight on how to stay true to yourself.
The Yogi’s Ultimate Crystal Ritual Guide
Six ways to use your crystals during your meditation or asana practice to make their effects even more powerful.
10 Yoga Teachers Share Exactly How They Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Having trouble getting eight hours of shut-eye? Steal these secrets from some of the country’s top teachers.
5 Poses to Help You Own Your Worth
You are enough. Recognize your worth and own who you are with this sequence.
6 Ways to Lead With Your Heart—Both On and Off Your Mat
The best part? All of these tactics can help you breathe new life into everything you do, and help you connect more deeply with everyone in your world.
Would You Consider Trying Psychedelics to Take Your Practice to Another Level?
Psychedlics are having a moment. Psychiatrists are administering magic mushrooms in medical centers while yogis host ceremonies with psychoactive tea. This resurgence in research and recreational use may have something to teach us about spiritual enlightenment. Here, we explore the potential role of psychedelics within a yoga practice or as therapeutic treatment.
9 Poses to Help You Celebrate the Chinese New Year
It’s the year of the pig! Here’s a practice to help you welcome in a year filled with luck, fortune, self-care, and true alignment with your life’s purpose.
An Annie Carpenter Sequence, Deconstructed
Wish you could jump inside the mind of a master teacher as she designs a sequence? Here, this teacher’s teacher gives us a look at how she created a SmartFLOW sequence to help you keep your hips free and your spine healthy—both on and off the mat.
Dharma Talk: Yoga by the Throat
What does a professional yoga teacher do after he permanently loses his voice? Yoga, of course.
A High-Energy Yoga Practice to Help Relieve Holiday Stress
Remember what the season is really about?
The Business of Yoga: How One Yogi Started a Meditation Group—on Her Front Stoop
Plus, what you need to know if you’re interested in doing something similar.
This Practice Is Exactly What You Need During the Holidays
In just 20 minutes, you'll feel more grounded and ready to tackle that holiday to-do list.
Want to Be More Mindful at Work? These 9 Tactics Actually Work
These smart tips from mindfulness pros will help you stay calm—even when you’re most stressed out.
Slow Flow: 9 Reasons to Go Slow in Your Vinyasa Yoga Practice
From Slow Food to Slow Fashion to Slow Flow—the sustainable yoga movement starts here!
Yogi Assignment: 5 Ways to Put the Yamas Into Practice During the Holidays
The moral and ethical principles that are the foundation of yoga practice—the yamas (social restraints) and niyamas (self-disciplines)—are especially important to follow this time of year. Here’s how to put them into practice.
11 Essential Rules Every Empath Needs to Know
Whether you’re a yoga teacher who easily picks up on energy in the room, or an empathetic person whose friends come to you with their troubles, follow this advice to stay grounded, feel happier, and protect yourself from the emotional swirl happening around you.
How Yoga Transformed This Cover Model’s Life
Asana and meditation teacher and popular podcast personality Rosie Acosta says yoga and a sunny outlook saved her life. Here’s how.
Full Moon Rising: The Art of a Shamanic Celebration
As a new season dawns, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman helps us celebrate changing tides with these ceremonies.
How to Take Yoga Photos Like Robert Sturman
The famous yoga photographer shares his thoughts on how to be more mindful when taking asana images and using your camera to give back.
Up-Level Your Happiness
Not feeling optimally happy lately? These five mindfulness practices can help get you there.
The Good Fight: How Yoga is Being Used Within the Military
Spurred in part by the crushing opioid epidemic, the Department of Defense and other federal agencies have been spearheading efforts to manage and mitigate pain and mental health problems among active service members. Yoga, as it turns out, is one of the rising stars. While those in the trenches say there is a long way to go before yoga can be broadly and systemically deployed within the military, the foundation is being laid for using asana, meditation, and other holistic therapies to make military personnel more resilient.
Your September Yoga Astrology Forecast: How to Make the Most of Your Practice This Month
After a summer filled with retrogrades, eclipses, and supermoons, September is bringing an invitation to settle in—and make yourself useful. Here’s how to use what’s happening in the stars in your yoga practice.
5 Practices Energy Healers Use to Clear Themselves
You use sage or palo santo to clear the energy in your home or yoga studio. Here’s how the pros clear their own energy—and how you can, too.
4 Ways to Take Down Your Inner Critic
You know that little voice that pipes up to tell you that you’re not enough? Well, here’s how to silence it—for good.
5 Secrets to Help You Quit Comparing Your Body to Others During Yoga Class
It can be tough to stop sizing yourself up next to everyone else in the yoga studio—despite knowing that yoga isn’t about comparing your poses to those of other yogis. Here’s how to finally let that go and start focusing on your own practice.
6 Essentials You’ll Want to Bring to Yoga Teacher Training
Going into your first yoga teacher training can be exciting—and daunting. Here are six must-haves to help make your experience even sweeter.
How to Form a New Relationship with Your Anxiety
Whether you suffer from an anxiety disorder or experience bouts of more mild anxiety, here are seven specific ways your yoga practice can help you find relief—both quickly, and over the long haul.
I Took My Baby to Mysore, India, for a Month: Here’s What It Was Really Like
When one yoga teacher traveled to Mysore, India, to study Ashtanga yoga for a month, he brought his wife and baby daughter with him. Here’s how the experience became his biggest teacher.
6 Surprising Lessons I Learned on a Silent Meditation Retreat
When I tell friends that I went on a silent meditation retreat, 95 percent of them say they couldn’t handle not talking. Yet when you commit to quiet stillness, you have the space and time to discover things you fail to see or may have even forgotten about yourself.
9 Top Yoga Teachers Share How They ‘Talk’ to the Universe
Nine leading yoga teachers give us an inside look at how they pray, manifest what they want in their lives, and more.
12 Ways to Move Through Tough Stuff and ‘Return to Life’
How we weather the storms of our lives is the key to surviving and thriving, according to Pam Butler, author of the new book Return to Life. Here are her 12 steps to getting back on track, including yoga, meditation, and pranayama.
Slideshow: Yoga Photographer Robert Sturman Celebrates Earth Day Around the World
In this stunning gallery of photos by Robert Sturman, the acclaimed yoga photographer captures yogis practicing in their natural element in honor of Earth Day. "As an artist, I often think of Rumi’s words, 'I can’t stop pointing to the beauty.’ That feels right to me,'" he says. In the following slideshow, Sturman asks yogis—both renowned teachers and "regular" practitioners—what the Earth means to them in their practice and their lives.
Empowered Kundalini: 5 Ways This Style of Yoga Can Help You Create the Life You Want
Feel like you need a life change, or to craft better, healthier habits and a more consistent practice? Consider Kundalini. Here's why it really works.
The Grounding Sequence We All Need in the Aftermath of School Shootings & Other Scary News
When overcome by feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy in response to hard-to-swallow current events, yoga teacher (and mom) Nancie Carollo turns to the potent practice of surrender.
The Yoga Practices You Need to Get in Touch with Your Feelings
In part 6 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley offers simple practices for surrendering to love—in order to feel everything else.
14-Plus Chances to Practice with a Yoga Journal Influencer in 2018
From Puerto Vallarta to Jerusalem, our YJ Influencers are taking their yoga around the world this year—and you can join them!
The Secret to Getting Out of a Rut & Into Living Your Most Vibrant, Authentic Life
Do you feel stuck? In part 4 of this kriya yoga series, yoga teacher Laura Riley shares three stages of svadhyaya practice to help you live life as who you truly are.
25 Ways to Beat Stress
Do you find it difficult to unwind and settle your mind? Incorporate these tactics into your everyday life to manage stress.
7 Poses that Tap the Powers of Your Chakras to Elicit Lasting Change
Navigate transitions with more calm, confidence, and joy by tapping the powers of your chakras.
How Sangha Drew Kino MacGregor Away from the “Spiritual Desperation” of a Drug-Fueled Party Scene
In this excerpt from her new book, The Yogi Assignment, Ashtanga teacher Kino MacGregor opens up about how a community of yoga friends helped get her on a better path.
Introducing YJ’s Influencer Network: 15 Amazing Teachers to Study with & Follow on Social Media
Meet our YJ Influencers — fifteen expert yoga teachers and social media giants who are dedicated to changing the world through their practices. Get their expert tips, exclusive practices, must-try retreats, and how-to video right here on YJ.com.
2017 Good Karma Awards: 9 Stories to Inspire Your Seva Practice
Sure, you could teach yoga to communities in need. But this year’s Good Karma Award winners exemplify the many other ways to practice seva, or selfless service. Here are their inspiring stories, plus advice to help you find your own path to giving back.
7 Rituals to Turn Your Sun Salutations Into a Moving Meditation
Want a juicier, more meaningful flow? Shiva Rea sets you up with add-on rituals steeped in tradition.
Petitation: Why Your Pet May Be Just What Your Meditation Practice Needs
Struggle to quiet your mind? Maybe your pooch can help. One woman says her pet-centered meditation technique is an effective way to mindfully connect with both your pet and yourself.
The Yoga of Integrity: A Mind + Body Balancing Sequence
Purna Yoga co-founder Aadil Palkhivala shares a practice to help you align your body and mind.
YJ Tried It: I Followed an Ayurvedic Lifestyle for a Month—and Here’s What Happened
After dealing with years of digestive and menstrual issues, Yoga Journal’s web producer sought the help of an Ayurvedic doctor. Here, she shares what happened when she took his advice and overhauled her lifestyle for a full month.
3 Yogi Moms Share How They Stopped Being So Hard on Themselves
Motherhood can be tough, even if you’ve made a career out of staying calm and centered. In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked 3 yogi moms how they cope with the pressures of motherhood, and how yoga can help.
3 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
Tap into the healing power of nature this Earth Day, and every day, with these tips from the experts at the Omega Institute, a 40-year-old holistic retreat center that emphasizes sustainable living nestled in the wooded Hudson River Valley near Rhinebeck, New York.
Yoga for a Broken Heart
If your heart hurts, this powerful meditation can help you transform that energy and let it go.
Calm Heart Meditation
This contemplative meditation can be practiced regularly or whenever you feel overwhelmed, unstable, or emotionally shut down.
10 Ways Yoga Leads to Better Sex
Yoga might be the secret to better sex. Teachers, doctors, experts, and studies say it can be. Discover here how what you do on the mat is practice for what you do in the bedroom.
Unf’withable: A Two-Hour Yoga Playlist to Empower Yourself
DJ Taz Rashid created this playlist for Kathryn Budig's class, UnF'withable. Play it at home when you need a good sweat and rock-solid self-acceptance.
Your Guide to Making Meditation a Way of Life
Meditation isn't a short-term prescription. It's a practice that continues day in and day out for the rest of your life. Here's how to play the long game.
The Mudra You Need to Find Your Deep Soul Glow
Master teacher Sianna Sherman takes us step by step through Padma Mudra.
Yoga Journal’s Pilgrimage to India
How a trek to holy Gomukh, the source of the mystical waters of the Ganges, deepened one writer’s understanding of yoga’s teachings.
12 Yoga Retreats with Your Favorite Teachers in 2017
Feeling the need for a break from the daily grind (and politics)? Retreats deepen your practice, introduce you to new people and places, and provide extra time with your favorite teacher. Here, 12 trips we'd like to book ourselves this year.
7 Expert Tips for Shooting Amazing Yoga Photos Anywhere
Want to take better photos (yoga or otherwise) for your personal website or Instagram? These 7 tips from yoga photographer Robert Sturman will help you stand out from the crowd and wow your audience.
A Tapas-Building Sequence to Fuel Willpower
This sequence will cultivate the curiosity, stamina, and strength you need to move deeper into your yoga practice and make lasting change in other areas of your life.
A Meditation Practice To Let In Joy + Happiness
A meditation practice on how to find happiness, even in your darkest hour.
10 Reasons to Make Time for Yin Yoga When You’re Too Busy
Think you don’t have time for yoga during the holidays—much less 3-minute pose holds? Yoga Medicine teacher Shannon Stephens makes a case for why yin yoga may be the best practice for your busiest times.
A Chakra-Aligning Yoga Practice to Access Your Highest Self
Yoga teacher Giselle Mari shows you how to use your chakras to resolve any negativity or emotional issues holding you back so you become a lighter, brighter version of you.
A Home Practice to Re-Energize and Find Greater Joy
This sequence is designed to help you ease tension by putting your spine through its full range of motion.
30 Quotes That Will Inspire You to Feel Grateful Every Day
Shared by familiar names, from Eckhart Tolle to Brené Brown.
12 Dharma Comics on the Truths of Life, Meditation, and Practice
Leah Perlman's new book Drawn Together is a collection of the most beloved of these illustrations. Here, she shares 12 of her poignant comics.
10 Yin Yoga Poses for Clarity this Fall
In honor of the Fall Equinox, yin yoga teacher Danielle March offers a sequence to help you gain some perspective and insight on your own summer growth.
Daily Practice Challenge: Meaningful Movement & Action
Tyrone Beverly and Coby Kozlowski offer practices to take your yoga more than pose deep. Infuse your asana with empowering affirmations and your life off the mat with yogic principles for authentic transformation.
Daily Practice Challenge: Inversions for Illumination with Clio Manuelian
Los Angeles-based yoga teacher Clio Manuelian offers an inversions-focused plan to prepare the body and mind to open to the insight of meditation.