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In honor of our 40th, we asked veteran teachers to take us back to 1975 and the props yogis were working with then. Here, a brief history of yoga gear.

When your practice causes hamstring injury—and how to manage those injuries with your yoga.

Free yourself from ordinary back pain by doing these five simple poses each day.

Strengthen your lower back, free yourself from back pain in seated poses, and skillfully deepen your forward bends.

Liberate your upper body for better backbending by focusing on your latissimus dorsi muscles.

To enjoy all the benefits a forward bend has to offer, find just the right amount of rounding in your back.

Find proper alignment in Tadasana to balance with ease in Headstand.

Stand strong and avoid injury by learning how to prevent hyperextension of this vulnerable joint.

Avoid injuries on the mat with this practical guide to caring for your knees, hamstrings, and sacrum.

The smartest way to pain-free backbends? Just use props. Here's a sequence to help you bend over backward with ease.

Loosen your spinal muscles and tame your tension with these 5 twisting yoga poses.

Flexible, strong hamstrings are key to any yoga practice. But they're often stubbornly tight. These five hamstring stretches gently lengthen and strengthen them.

Need a new challenge on the mat? An arm balance practice is a great place to start.

By educating yourself on anatomy, you can protect your knees in yoga poses.

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Senior teacher and scientist Roger Cole explains why you might get dizzy during yoga practice and how to prevent it.