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Thought leaders discuss where yoga is heading and how to create a new, more accessible platform to better serve students and teachers in the pandemic era.

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.

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 Unify launched this fall with the intention of up-leveling teacher qualifications and making yoga safe and inclusive. Can it succeed?

Insight Timer, a popular guided meditation app, launched a donation-based livestream yoga platform last month for an audience of 18 million.

Stretch Your hamstrings, calves, back muscles, and glutes with Uttanasana.

So you've completed your yoga teacher training—now what?

The company will close all remaining brick-and-mortar studios and continue its business operations exclusively through its digital platforms.

With a wealth of trainings available today, yoga teacher mentor Barrie Risman examines how to shift the culture of yoga education overload and reclaim the path of engaged learning.

Teacher and author Barrie Risman shares why this is the time to reflect on how the yoga community will rise from the ashes, both individually and collectively.

Many of us used to come to class for the social connection. The experts weigh in on what we’ve lost, or not, in terms of community and the healing benefits of the practice.

It’s a critical step in making the practice accessible to everybody.

If you’re sitting and stressed, it’s time for a psoas muscle release.

A growing coalition of nearly 2,000 CorePower Yoga instructors have signed a petition demanding better pay and benefits as well as putting an end to the company’s alleged history of racial discrimination.

Keep calm, troubleshoot tech, and teach on: Here's what yoga teachers are leaning on for their classes, trainings, online courses, and community conversations, so you can build something that lasts beyond the pandemic.

How your body finds its footing in balancing poses.

Here, we offer a catalyst for reflection in the form of verse from Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.

How one man's practice freed his Black masculinity.

We look at what diversity, equity, job security, and teaching could look like in a post-COVID era.

Unionize Yoga—the first-ever yoga teachers’ union—reaches a severance agreement with major studio chain YogaWorks.

One lone wolf shares how she found her voice and community through a 200-hour training.

The meaning behind these sacred hand gestures.

As Georgia re-opens its economy, yoga studio owner Octavia Raheem implores us to stop scrambling to be productive in the way that mattered yesterday.

As coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpass 1 million, several Atlanta-area yoga studios say it’s still too soon.

Here, author and yoga teacher Barrie Risman shares her story—and five exercises to help you embrace marketing as an act of generosity and service.

With classes offered on free platforms, including Zoom and Instagram Live, people are grappling with if and how to compensate teachers.

The decision to close the four remaining New York locations effective April 19 highlights the uncertainty facing yoga teachers, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

These young yogis—representing Gen Z—are changing the world through peace, love, and compassion

With studio closures, dramatic lifestyle changes, and a real fear of losing income, here are concrete things you can do to keep teaching, contribute to collective health and wellbeing, and feel better about the future during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here, inspiration and practical tips for turning these uncertain times into an opening to make progress on your life’s work—or unfinished business.

The coronavirus crisis has hit yoga studios hard. Here’s how you can help them weather the storm.

With cancelled events and a real fear of losing income, here are 10 things you can do to keep teaching, contribute to collective health, and feel better about the future during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deep cleaning of props and cancellations are taking hold to help ease anxiety and keep students safe, while teachers worry about the consequences.

Jivamukti Yoga closes its doors in New York City on December 22. Here, dedicated students share their stories of the iconic studio that helped bring Western yoga into the 21st century.

Well-trained abdominal muscles are pliable, not chiseled or hard, and adapt quickly to change.

It is never too late to start over. Here, a story of professional transformation, guided by yoga. Plus, tips for teaching to older adults and a practice to keep us all healthy and agile as we age.

Jana Long’s top six tips for leading a class with adults over 60.

In her new book, Revolution of the Soul, social activist and yoga teacher Seane Corn details how ill and awkward she felt during her first yoga class and what kept her going back for more.

Nicole Cardoza is making the world a little bit nicer by bringing yoga to kids in schools and altering the face of wellness.

These yoga teachers are using their platforms to give back to the community in necessary and inspiring ways.

Don’t miss these strategies for supporting spinal health and keeping pain at bay.

These six yogis you should follow will help you stay in alignment with the stars during this chaotic time.

Transformation Yoga Project leads trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes in Philadelphia addiction treatment centers and prisons.

There are new standards for registered yoga schools and teachers. Here’s what’s changing.

Today, we’re highlighting people from around the world who are incorporating yoga into their lives.

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.

Teachers, researchers, scholars, and activists weigh in on modern yoga and how we might practice with more integrity and respect.

Inspired by her conversation with Tiffany Cruikshank, YJ ambassador Lauren Cohen shares several thought exercises to help yoga instructors recommit to the path of teaching.

On our path to healing, we can seek to practice without as much appropriation. Here’s how.

The nonprofit Khushi Charitable Society offers free schooling, meals, and health care support to kids from low-income families in Rishikesh, India.

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.

Exploring how your knees move can lead to a balanced relationship between stability and vulnerability, on and off the mat.

Interested in learning more about trauma-sensitive classes, but not sure if it's right for you? SoulWork shares their tips for making the decision.

Yoga and Buddhism teacher Jacoby Ballard shares thoughts on travel and how the compassion and generosity that a yoga practice fosters can help create peace, regardless of where you roll out your mat. You don’t have to go far to feel connected to the world.

From being called “exotic” to hearing fellow teachers mock Sanskrit, a yoga teacher explores the hurtful things she’s experienced in the studio.

We caught up with her to talk about her burgeoning business and why Grenada will always be her baby.

We caught up with the accessible yoga advocate to chat about her new yoga app and why she’s taking it on tour as a multi-city conference event.

Do what you love and you never work a day in your life? More like do you what you love and you will work every day! Here’s how not to burn out.

Yoga and abundance don’t always feel like they belong together. One yoga teacher shares the lessons she learned about accepting wealth and tearing down financial barriers that weren’t serving her.

After one yogi took her 200-hour yoga teacher training, she decided to volunteer at a senior citizen home instead of finding a paid job teaching yoga. Here’s how it’s changed her practice—and her outlook on life.

Eight tips that’ll help you knock it out of the park when it comes to Instagram, Facebook, and more.

The best part? All of these tactics can help you breathe new life into everything you do, and help you connect more deeply with everyone in your world.

Defining the ideal posture for each pose is not possible.

Plus, how to fix each to stay safe when you practice.

Combining asana and Tibetan Buddhism, the founder of OM Yoga Center gives us a glimpse into how she sequences slow flow vinyasa classes with a contemplative touch.

How to maintain an optimal (natural!) spinal curve to breathe better, stand taller, and sit longer—on and off your meditation cushion.

We examined the science behind five high-tech meditation aids to find out if they're worth the hype.

How I make it happen so you can figure out if you can do something similar, too.

When you’re time-crunched, it can be tempting to sneak out of yoga class before this final resting pose. Here’s why you should reconsider.

After five surgeries and a lifelong battle with her health, one writer unexpectedly found strength and healing through yoga, friendship, and physical and emotional support.

Celebrating five years of service, the nonprofit Exhale to Inhale brings free, trauma-informed yoga classes to rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters in New York and California.

Looking to brush up on your leadership skils in a fabulous locale? These yoga leadership retreats will having you kicking ass—at the office, at home, and wherever you roam.

An increased awareness of the effects of gravity can help you figure out which muscles to use and which to release in order to move more deeply and more safely into a pose.

The right name can mean the difference between a small turnout and a well-attended class. Here’s how to choose the best name for the yoga class you’re offering.

Wish you could jump inside the mind of a master teacher as she designs a sequence? Here, this teacher’s teacher gives us a look at how she created a SmartFLOW sequence to help you keep your hips free and your spine healthy—both on and off the mat.

Yoga Journal set out to talk to some of today’s preeminent voices in Western yoga about leadership in yoga—what it looks like, how it has evolved (or devolved), and what the yoga community needs right now.