What You Need to Know About Holi, the “Festival of Colors”
This festive event has a history and culture as colorful as you might imagine.
From the beginning of yoga, to the yoga sutra, to modern types of yoga, we answer the yoga history questions you’ve always been wondering about the ancient practice.
This festive event has a history and culture as colorful as you might imagine.
YJ Senior Editor Tamara Jeffries set out to answer some perennial questions about whether yoga is secular or spiritual. What she discovered: It’s both. And more.
It’s not just about pleasure or sex. Tantra promises a closer connection to the divine through deeper intimacy with others.
This spiritual movement has transformed my established practice of yogasana—and connected me deeper to the Divine.
A devoted yogi contemplates the meaning of the co-opted celebration.
How Georgia State University professor Dr. Stephanie Evans uncovered pictures of the iconic Civil Rights activist practicing asana.
A scholar of critical race theory and a yoga teacher explore the problematic ways Westerners describe their travels to India.
A yoga movement and dance teacher examines her experiences with kirtan—from Sikh temple on Sundays with her family to concerts and festivals with hundreds of people in the crowd.
A myriad of historical information exists, so let’s start with building a foundation.
Learn more about the birthplace of Ashtanga Yoga and Iyengar Yoga.
A first-generation Indian-American yoga and mindfulness researcher and teacher reflects on what feels misrepresented and appropriative to her in modern yoga.
Tasha Eichenseher, Yoga Journal's Brand Director, responds to the comments about the two covers.
Getting inked with one of these designs may have personal meaning, but are they divorced from the broader cultural significance that makes these symbols so powerful and enduring?
Yoga historian Philip Deslippe looks at the insight a few unusual yoga-themed pieces of pop culture can offer into the popular perception of the practice in America over the last century.
In the age of Instagram, yoga historian Philip Deslippe takes a look at how yoga has in fact embraced new forms of media and technology since its debut in the West. The question now: What will be next?
Most people think hippies and Hare Krishnas were among the first American yogis, but in fact dozens of people with remarkable backgrounds were teaching the practice in the U.S. decades earlier. You won’t believe you’ve never heard these fascinating stories before.
You deserve to reap the profound rewards of the humble (yet powerful) Namaskar.
This two-minute primer traces Namaskars—and the pieces missing from modern practice—back thousands of years.
Yoga teacher Carola Lovering left YJ LIVE! New York with some existential questions about the practice of asana. Here she breaks down how a modern-day yogi can make sense of what we’re really doing on the mat.