Foundations

As a yogi should you be speaking the truth? Sally Kempton talks about finding your real truth and how to tell it like it is.

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True transformation is a radical process. Here's how to navigate the shift gracefully.

The perfect microcosm of yoga, Downward-Facing Dog Pose can change your entire practice—maybe even life.

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Relationships and love can be difficult and painful. Here's a yogi's guide to dealing with the ups and downs of  love in a healthy way.

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Yoga deepens our understanding of the links between our states of mind and our bodies, and vice versa.

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Tune in to your body, connect with community, and embrace the birth.

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Help your third-trimester students use yoga to ease physical discomfort and prepare for labor.

Iyengar Yoga may help improve stability in aging people.

Help your students get the most out of their practice during these middle months.

If you teach yoga regularly, you will have a pregnant student in your class at some point. Learn what to do to encourage a healthy first trimester.

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To experience a profound opening of the heart, imagine yourself near life's end.

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When it comes to music, students of Kundalini instructor Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa never know what to expect.

Prana Flow Yoga creator Shiva Rea turns up the music to offer inspiration and rhythm to yogis moving through the 108 rounds of Sun Salutations she leads as part of her ongoing Global Mala Project.

Q: I am very fond of chanting—my students do not all have the same reaction.

Lois Steinberg, Ph.D., details the practices taught to her by Geeta S. Iyengar for all phases of the menstrual cycle.

Three Kundalini meditation teachers share techniques for tapping into the flow of energy within you—and moving toward spiritual awakening.

Shiva Rea offers tips from yoga and Ayurveda for calming nervous energy and anxiety.

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Sadness can be a powerful doorway into the heart. The next time you feel loss or sorrow, try this practice for transforming sadness.

T.K.V. Desikachar cites these five categories to understand the mind.

Battling depression can feel like a fight for your life. Yoga can help you stop struggling.

Find out what happened when three everyday people turned to yoga to change their lives.

Tracey Rich explains how to best use your evening yoga practice to slow down, focus inward, and transition from day to night.

Yoga doesn’t have to be so serious. Lighten up and have fun with these 6 Laughter Yoga exercises.

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Saul David Raye's true calling? To be a father, healer, and yoga teacher—in that order.

You've tried everything and still aren't where you want to be. So stop struggling and let life move through you with spiritual surrender.

Learn about the healing power of voice in your throat chakra and different ways to get familiar with your voice.

As more yoga teachers incorporate music into their classes, practitioners debate the merits. Is it a distraction or an enhancement?

Grace aside, most of us cannot leapfrog from injury to forgiveness with ease. A process is necessary, and it begins by turning toward your own hurt.

When you forgive a long-held grievance, you open the door to true freedom.

Find out why traditionally dawn and twilight are the most powerful times for asana practice.

What do cows have to do with yoga philosophy?

You have to find yourself before you can find your soul mate.

Find out how you could be facing fear to create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.

It's easy to get mired in sadness. But it's also possible to let sorrow move through you and open you to the light within your heart.

The yoga tradition often compares the human body to a field. Find out why.

Learn why this ancient Indian text has had such a powerful and lasting influence on Western writers, thinkers, and yogis.

Vishnu lives in luxury, but the Hindu god abandons his opulent ways to save the world from evil.

If you hope to find lasting happiness, you must first answer the question, what is your priority—your inner or your outer life?

When was the last time you wore a pair of jeans to yoga class? I'm guessing never. Montreal's Second Denim (secondclothing.com) would like to change that. The company's Yoga Jeans ($120), designed to stretch as you move into Downward-Facing Dog...

Bow Pose works against hunched shoulders by opening them from the front and strengthening them from the back.

Her name is Gurmukh, she wears a turban, and she carries a gong, but this Kundalini teacher isn't the ascetic you'd expect.

Learn how yoga found a home in America from these yoga pioneers.

Ancient Tibetan yoga practices are slowly being introduced in the West, but teachers remain cautious about revealing their secrets.

By making it a conscious, controlled action, pranayama begins to transform breathing into a spiritual practice.

Tune in to the infinite and tune up your body with this energizing Kundalini sequence for optimum health.

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More and more Westerners are embracing Tantra as a means for transforming day-to-day experiences into a cause for blissful celebration. Can it change your life?

When life hands you a difficult choice, try this time-tested process for discovering your dharma—the right action for this situation.

Learn about this ancient guide to spiritual enlightenment.

You can change the world, or at least your experience of it, by discovering how mindful speaking can change our realities.

This Hindu goddess, consort of Shiva, proves that dignity and smarts prevail.

Invoking your inner goddess isn't a girl thing—it's a chance to tap into the deepest source of empowerment, creativity, and happiness.

Time spent alone doesn't have to be lonely. Embrace it as a chance to connect with what's truly essential.

A personal crisis can be a gift on the path to spiritual maturity. Learn to accept this gift, and you'll feel reborn.

Maybe. Here's what you need to know to manage desire—whether it's for ice cream, a mate, or true happiness.

One woman's story of finding her happiness through owning less and living more will inspire you to kick your material habits to curb.

Sometimes we crave change. Other times we dread it. Either way, we can't escape it. Here are some effective methods for dealing with change.

You can break free. A yoga teacher and psychologist shares her blueprint for transforming negative habits.

Free yourself from destructive emotional patterns and behavior. We can help you do it with these six simple steps.

Though he never visited the United States, this Indian guru had a profound influence on yoga in America.

Yoga teaches us that happiness is always available to us, no matter what our circumstances. To tap into it look within.

Learning to focus on sukha, rather than dukha, when you practice can lead to liberation and bliss.

Impermanence is the truth of life. Embracing it in our most basic daily activities can be the key to everyday ease.

From the monkey to the warrior, learn the myths behind the asana names to infuse your practice with history.