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Looking to help yourself (or your students) slow down and shift perspective? Try this comprehensive list of ways to say rest, melt, observe, allow, surrender... you get the idea.

Only when you get quiet can you listen to your deepest truth and desires. Here's how to get in touch with yourself and your intentions for the year ahead.

Challenge your balance and stretch your body in all the same ways as Vasisthasana, while dialing down the difficulty.

When the standard alternatives don’t feel right, try these instead.

Yoga nidra helps prepare my body to claim the relaxation it so deserves.

Our physical, emotional, and behavioral tendencies—both good and bad—aren't ours alone. They're often passed down from generation to generation.

There's a time and a place for gentle prenatal yoga. This is not that practice.

"Lost" by David Wagoner speaks to finding belonging and interconnectedness when stepping into stillness.

Sometimes all it takes is a small act of rebellion—like taking a side bend in a pose that doesn't call for it—to remind you to live a little. Or a lot.

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.

Sometimes you need to clear out what you no longer need to let in everything that you want.

Here's how to own up to your humanness when you make a mistake before the lesson is repeated.

Carrying old wounds and resentments is a burden you don't have to bear. Here are four steps toward forgiving yourself—and others.

No props, no problem! All you need for this calming Yin Yoga sequence is yourself and a desire to come to your practice.

In less than three minutes, you'll feel more centered and energized.

Pratipakṣa-bhāvanam encourages us to look at the bright side. But "good vibes only" overlooks the lessons learned in adversity.

Ever feel as airy and unstable as leaves swirling in the wind? That's your vata dosha out of balance. This slow yoga practice will help settle your energy and bring you back to calm.

Poet Andrea Gibson's "Shine" reminds us that we are all connected.

Go deeper into Savasana by learning more about its Sanskrit meaning.

Here's how to make that couch-to-mat transition a little easier.

And you can do it lying down.

The practical, open approach is designed to develop self-responsibility, self-regulation, and self-awareness.

In my practice, individual liberation is intimately connected to collective liberation. Learning from Indigenous people is a vital aspect of this liberation.

With the arrival of fall also comes vata season, which can bring physical and emotional disruptions no matter your constitution. Here's how to find relief.

All you need is 15 minutes.

If you're searching for some stillness today, this practice can help.

This 15-minute flow will help you feel more stable, grounded, and ready to take on the world.

Yoga can help us modulate our minds so that we can consciously decide which thoughts to focus on—and which to let go.

Explore the final three limbs of yoga to reclaim the true essence of the practice—enlightenment.

In this excerpt from Tara Brach's latest book, "Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness," we reminded to trust the goodness in ourselves—and others.

When she embraced yoga's ethical limbs, Susanna Barkataki's life changed in surprising ways—and for the better.

For a long time, I thought my anxiety defined me. Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra helped me finally recognize that I am not my anxiety.

Maybe it's not what you do that keeps you awake at night, but what you don't do. These three stretches can help fix that.

It's more than what you think.

Discover the signs of blocked energy in the crown chakra, or sahasrara, and how you may benefit from aligning it.

An ancient tradition that continues to deliver benefits in contemporary times.

US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's end-of-class prayer can help you befriend your enemies.

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in the muladhara and how you may benefit from aligning it.

ELXR Yoga combines the demanding asanas of Ashtanga Yoga and the cardiovascular elements of Power Yoga with athleticism, alignment, mindfulness, and motivation.

When life gets frenetic, it can be easy to lose yourself. Here's what you need to remember.

You've tried everything else to ease your tension. Maybe it's time to opt for simple stretches that draw on contemporary science as well as thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine.

Open your vishuddha, the throat chakra, to find your voice and speak your truth.

Tapping into your feminine energy channel can bring your chakras—and your life—into balance.

This spiritual movement has transformed my established practice of yogasana—and connected me deeper to the Divine.

The concept of oneness is a fundamental teaching of the Bhagavad Gita. But ignoring our differences is unethical—and harmful.

Tyagaraja is a little posh, a little blingy, and all about community.

Protecting myself against COVID-19 was my way of showing love for the people in my community.

Avidya—knowing something but misinterpreting or misunderstanding it—can lead to suffering. Here's how to boost your powers of perception.

Rajas, one of the three gunas, can show up as energy and motion—or anger and worry. Here's how to keep this natural quality balanced.

Reaching "yoga expert" status fast is exciting. But a more nuanced, gradual approach to learning will cement your practice.

A devoted yogi contemplates the meaning of the co-opted celebration.

There’s no quick fix for systemic racism. The challenge of unraveling it is the ultimate practice of svadhyaya.

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in your third chakra, the navel chakra or manipura, and how you may benefit from aligning it.

If you're gasping for breath or generating pain to maneuver your body into a posture, ask yourself: Am I providing my body what it is asking for, or am I following a sequence of prescribed postures?

What does namaste mean? How is it pronounced? And when should you use it (and not)? Here's everything you need to know about this widely used—but often misunderstood—yoga term.

Channel more confidence, creativity, and joy in your life with a basic understanding of your body's energy centers.

This ancient healing practice awakens and connects you to the divine energy within yourself, so you can achieve a life full of lightness, joy, and boundless love.

Birth changes everything. This yoga pose, reflection, and recipe—excerpted from the forthcoming book Birthing Mama—will help you stay open and curious as you move from one phase of life to the next.

Three practices to help cultivate patience, trust, and ease while waiting for the arrival of baby.

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in the third eye chakra and how you may benefit from aligning it.

This standing meditation, reflection, and nourishing foot bath—excerpted from the forthcoming book Birthing Mama—will help you feel supported by Mother Earth during the second trimester of pregnancy.

A simple yoga practice and reflection for the first trimester of pregnancy—plus, how to create a pregnancy altar—from the forthcoming book, Birthing Mama.

Expert insights from three yoga therapists.

If yoga is about honoring where we are at, then why do so many of us contort into the most extreme expression of a shape? 

One way to culturally appreciate yoga's roots? Rethinking the way we talk about our practice.

Discover the physical and mental signs of blocked energy in the sacral chakra, svadhistana, and how you may benefit from aligning it.

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The Indian Council for Cultural Relations developed Little Guru to make learning the ancient language easy and entertaining.

“Reverence,” a new yoga and meditation album by electronic dance music duo Tritonal, is an ode to Mother Earth that explores the relationship between trance and transcendence.

When we are grounded, we are able to better engage in the present and forge deeper connections with the people in our lives. Here's how to use grounding in your mindfulness practice.

By surrendering the coveted title of “yoga teacher,” I became the student I had always wanted to be.