November 2015

This Thanksgiving, pass the potatoes with an extra helping of gratitude at your dinner table.

Out with preservative-packed convenience store meat sticks, in with portable, all-natural, artisanal, and gluten-free high-protein snacks.

Listening to your favorite tunes might be helping you stick with daily practice. Plus, pick up four songs to keep you flowing.

Quality time with your pup doesn’t have to be limited to walks and couch cuddles. Here's how to get your dog on the mat.

Practice these backbends and inversions for increased flexibility and strength and feel the freedom of greater range of motion in your chest and shoulders.

To make the 4-day fall Ayurvedic cleanse routine easier, try these go-tos from Larissa Hall Carlson, dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Check out some of the fun items we came across in the making of the November 2015 issue that have become staff go-tos!

With so many yoga studios popping up around the country, it can be hard to find the competitive edge against other businesses in town. Here's how to stand out.

Your yoga session might make you capable of withstanding more. Learn how yoga works on the brain to increase pain tolerance.

A paraplegic yoga teacher shares his practice for finding feeling and healing in body and mind.

Move inward and quiet your mind as you transition step by step into Kurmasana (Tortoise Pose).

Open your hips and increase hamstring flexibility 
and core strength in these prep poses for Kurmasana.

Modify Malasana (Garland Pose) 
if needed to find safe alignment for your body.

Find freedom and flexibility in your groins, lengthen your spine, and create overall balance and strength in Garland Pose (Malasana).

This minor muscle is a major player in backbends. Expand it—and its web of connective tissue—for greater range of motion in your chest and back.

This is a practice for mothers, focused on building your core—physical and 
emotional—to sustain you through the overwhelming love and challenges of motherhood.

This sequence is designed for mothers. The seated poses will fire up your core and help balance out a stressful day of parenting.

Designed especially for mothers, this core work with leg lifts and lunges is for those moments when children push you to your very edge.

This practice focuses on building core—a strong physical core and 
a strong emotional core to sustain you through the love and challenges of motherhood.

A cousin to the fig, it’s much loved in the tropics and is now appearing in American vegetarian dishes as a delicious meat substitute.

Need an energizing snack? Ask yourself these 5 questions to determine your ideal pre- and post-practice mini-meals.

These winning natural hair products from our Natural Beauty Awards will leave your hair feeling silky, strong, and clean.

Our simple, rejuvenating 4-day Ayurvedic
 cleanse is just the thing to set yourself up 
for a joyful, healthful winter season.

With plenty of hip and abdominal work, this sequence is meant to stoke the digestive fire during an Ayurvedic cleanse.

When your chakras are balanced, you can experience clarity, access power, and feel more joyful, fearless, and free.

Find the wisdom 
and confidence 
to achieve your 
goals through this 
centering sequence.

The winners of YJ’s second annual Natural Beauty Awards are in! All are free of harsh chemicals and full of rejuvenating plant compounds.

Keep your skin feeling soft and oil-free all day with these 9 winning natural face-care products from YJ's annual Natural Beauty Awards.

Look fabulous naturally with the 8 winning makeup products in Yoga Journal's Natural Beauty Awards.

Compassion is an essential skill that can be improved over time to transform your life and increase your happiness.

Five readers share a photo the yoga pose they're most grateful for.

A San Francisco–based yoga teacher offers asana as a doorway to creativity.

Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, lifestyle blogger, and TV personality in Los Angeles, Tara Lipinski gives YJ a peek into her practice.