Inspiration & Transformation

Filing your annual tax return can fray the nerves of even the calmest yogi. Here, five tips straight from the yoga playbook to breeze through April 15 with grace.

Daily yoga keeps Victoria's Secret's Miranda Kerr toned and transcendent. Here, her teacher shares her 5 go-to poses.

Kathryn Budig shares her favorite go-to recipe for salads and dip.

Hip-hop made him famous. Yoga and mediation have made him successful. Now with a new book out about meditation, Russell Simmons shares the secrets of his practice.

On Saturday night, join yogis across the country as they celebrate Earth Hour, a global event to reduce environmental impact.

Inversions frighten some people but it's well worth the effort to befriend these poses. Ana Forrest teaches us how.

Photographer Robert Sturman spent much of 2013 traveling and photographing yogis. Here's what he saw.

Clive Mayhew explains his transition from business success story to founding a nonprofit that brings yoga to in-need populations around the globe.

Teaching yoga to the blind isn't really different from teaching yoga to anyone else. But you better be ready with descriptive cues, as one teacher discovers.

Residents of an assisted care facility in New Mexico who do chair yoga join Yoga Journal's Talent Search.

Studies show that regular yoga practice makes the "willpower" systems of the brain bigger, better connected, and more efficient.

The benefits of yoga have been embraced in many circles—even professional bull riding. Buzz reports.

There are many ways to live your yoga out in the world, but one of the most profound is to dedicate yourself to the service of others. If you've ever been drawn to the yoga of service, but wondered...

You may have seen the video of Yoga for Wine Lovers, which features an agile yogi practicing advanced poses while simultaneously downing a bottle of red wine. We're not sure when it happened, but yoga and wine have become a...

Summer's here. This means extra time with kids, lazy days at the beach. Why not give them some books on the themes that yogis hold dear? We Are Like the Sky by Elisabeth Rose Wilds was inspired by the author's...

James Fox began teaching yoga to prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in California nine years ago, where he founded the Prison Yoga Project. Recently, he's been traveling around the country training others how to teach in a prison setting....

Last October, yoga teacher Lisa Rueff headed to Haiti to help out after the earthquake.  "Haiti has truly captivated my heart," she told Buzz. "The Haitian people exemplify gratitude, strength, and perseverance.  Amidst so much heartache, the Haitians choose to...

In the age of YouTube, it's fun to sit back and watch a video of twins talking or a cat using the potty. But KarmaTube wants videos to do more than entertain: they view video as a medium to inspire...

In today's world of breakneck technology, I've noticed that everyone is talking about "integration:" How do you get your Facebook Page and Twitter  account to work together? How can you sync up your iPhone with your computer address book? How...

In our culture, we associate one day of year with love, Valentine's Day. We most often direct this love toward another person. But us yogis like to practice Bhakti Yoga--known as the yoga of love and devotion--every day of the...

Last week, I started walking through the door of my Pilates class. Just as the door almost shut behind me, I heard the sound of funky world music coming from another room. I gave the teacher an apologetic glance, backed...

Sometimes we humans make things harder than they have to be.  I truly understand this while putting my kids to bed. If they are having trouble, the evening can go downhill, rapidly. I struggle to find a solution: Cry it out?...

It's starting. The creeping feeling of holiday time, where everything speeds up, whipping up into a final frenzy. As if things weren't going fast enough already. During my meditation yesterday, I heard a voice loud and clear. A question, really....

No matter how hard we try, we can't escape the cycle of life and death. In Hinduism, this eternal cycle is called Samsara. This continuing loop of life, death, and rebirth is at the heart of everyday living. Lately I've...

It's easy to make your yoga teacher into a minor deity. Some teachers seem to have that indescribable "thing" that we so desperately want--poise, calm, a knowing. Not to mention great abs and a perfect Handstand. That's why we turn...