How to Use Yoga to Prevent (and Heal) a Hamstring Injury
Hamstring tears and strains are common among yoga practitioners, and overstretching can make it worse. Here's how to alter your practice to ensure a speedy recovery.
Yoga Anatomy
Learn more about the anatomy of the body to better understand safe and stable physical alignment in yoga poses. Pick up in-depth knowledge to take to the mat to fine-tune and deepen your practice.
Shoulder Alignment Secrets for a More Comfortable Downward-Facing Dog
Many yoga teachers and students find Down Dog uncomfortable because they hold a fundamentally flawed understanding of how the shoulder joint moves.
What Every Yogi Needs to Know About Flexibility
While yoga isn’t about becoming more flexible, having a good understanding of what flexibility is, and why it’s important, can take your practice to the next level.
Yoga Anatomy: Use Yoga to Ease Neck Tension from Slouching
The vast majority of us tend to adopt this shoulders-hunched, neck-craned-forward posture regularly throughout our day thanks to our desk-bound jobs. Learn how yoga can reverse its effects.
Know Your Knees to Help Prevent Pain and Injury
How to protect your knees during your practice.
Everything You Need to Know About Fascia and Yoga
Your fascial system is as important as any other system in your body. Practicing yoga can keep it healthy—and even reshape it for better flexibility and stability.
Flexibility and Yoga 101: What it Means to be Flexible and Why It’s Not Always a Good Thing
New science tells us that our body’s connective tissue, or fascia, determines our baseline flexibility. But practicing yoga can change our muscles’ functional length and our joints’ range of motion. Here's how to use yoga to find a safe level of flexibility and stabilize your joints.
Yoga Anatomy: Safely Care for Your Body as You Practice Forward Bends
Stretch Your hamstrings, calves, back muscles, and glutes with Uttanasana.
The Key To Releasing Stress And Paving The Way To Better Poses? Caring For Your Psoas
Use yoga shapes to strengthen and stretch this important core muscle.
The Science of Stability
How your body finds its footing in balancing poses.
This 1-Minute Fascial Release Technique Will Change Your Perspective on Stretching
Feel how activating one part of your body causes a chain reaction of physical and even neurological awareness and change.
The New Science on Proprioception and Interoception
This quick anatomy lesson will help you understand both concepts and how they relate to stretching in yoga poses.
How Much Stretch Is Too Much Stretch?
Find the sweet spot between too much stretch in yoga, which can cause injury and nervous system stress, and not enough stretch, which may not activate the physiological benefits of your asana.
Learn About Your Core And How to Strengthen Those Muscles
Well-trained abdominal muscles are pliable, not chiseled or hard, and adapt quickly to change.
Spine Anatomy: How to Prevent and Alleviate Back Pain
Don’t miss these strategies for supporting spinal health and keeping pain at bay.
8 Ways Yogis Can Support Their Foot Health
It’s no surprise to most that our feet are the foundation of our yoga practice. But dissimilar to the foundation of a building, our feet must also be flexible and buoyant. Below are some tips to support your foot health.
Discover Your Brain-Foot Connection
We all know our feet are the foundation of our yoga practice. But why exactly are they so important and how do they play a bigger role in our life? We set out to discover how much of an impact our feet have on our bodies and our mind.
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.
Perfect Posture is a Myth—Here’s Why
Defining the ideal posture for each pose is not possible.
4 Common Postural Patterns That Cause Yoga Injuries
Plus, how to fix each to stay safe when you practice.