breathing

This simple technique will help you finally master lengthening your inhalations and exhalations.

We trust our breath to keep us alive, to help us through panic or pain, and support our meditation and yoga practices. But that’s not all it can do. Here's how your body moves with your breath.

Connect and learn through moving meditations, Sanskrit, and the power of pause.

Everyday stress doesn't stand a chance against these breathing exercises.

Expert-approved ways to manage stress, fight anxious thoughts, and address your fears.

Yoga straps are utilized in yoga classes and at home to aid in obtaining a pose (if you can’t quite reach it) and also with therapeutic stretching to gently gain missing mobility throughout the body. Straps play an integral role in helping beginning yogis find their pose and for seasoned yogis fine-tuning their form, all while minimizing the risk of injury. Yoga mat straps are a convenient way to secure your yoga mat in a rolled-up position as well as to carry it in hand or over the shoulder.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis explains how learning how to breathe helped her tap into her power on and off the mat.

Turn to this pranayama practice in times of transformation to invoke Kali and free yourself from anything that's holding you back.

Sometimes music can give you the energy boost you need in your practice or your sport. But learning to tune in to silence is equally important.

A new study finds that twice-weekly yoga helps people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Erica Rodefer Winters confronts her ego and finds that focusing on the basics of yoga to be the best teacher of all.

Staying present is a basic tenet of yoga, but as most of us know, it's difficult to be mindful all the time. Erica Rodefer Winters shares some tips about mindfulness that she's been able to incorporate into her busy schedule.

We're often encouraged in yoga class to practice ujjayi breathing, or Victorious Breath. But, as Katie Silcox explains, this strong, heating pranyama technique should only be used at certain times in your practice for very specific purposes.

No matter how busy you are, you can always come back to the present and back to yourself.

Every activity requires a balance of finding the correct form and using the right kind of breathwork to propel the motion. Sage Rountree explains.

Your breath is a window into your mental and emotional state. Erica Rodefer Winters tells explains how she follows her breath's signals to come back into balance.

Sage Rountree explains how yogic breathing can help you when swimming.

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Yogis are pretty much infamous go-getters. But how do you know when you're trying too hard?

YJ profiles the pranayama practices of six yoga traditions and finds differences ranging from the subtle to the profound.

Meditation invokes a shift in consciousness, whether in stillness or motion.