Foundations

In this interview with editor-in-chief Carin Gorrell, Briohny Smyth shares how she's rediscovered yoga's healing power since she and her husband, Dice Iida-Klein, began talking about splitting up.

The most common beginner form of Tibetan Yoga is Lu Jong, or “body training.” Experience it's natural connection the elements in these sequences.

Connect to and honor the five elements found in ancient Mayan practices with these movements passed down to Miguel Angel Vergara Calleros and Kat Tudor.

Access health and happiness with ancient yoga practices from around the world that tap into the healing power of nature.

Break a sweat and feel empowered—in 20 minutes or less.

Amid global instability, it's only natural to crave connection, warmth, soothing rituals, and the comforts of home. Enter hyyge.

Use this mini sequence—from Down Dog to Half Moon Pose—as a fun moving meditation to find core and leg stability that may help you balance, even momentarily, in Handstand.

The world's most exclusive yoga experience just might take place high atop the red sandstone peaks of Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park—a remote destination only accessible by helicopter.

A chair practice offers the pregnant body support and helps to create the space it so desperately needs. This sequence feels so good that you will want to continue with it—even after baby.

Mixing new poses into your practice can boost fun and strength. We stole these 10 innovative moves from hybrid yoga styles so you can add a hint of everything from Yogalates to Rolfing to your practice.

Yoga poses are often taught on an assumed thin, fit, able, and fairly flexible body. Discover how Curvy Yoga challenges what you thought you knew about the practice.

Discover the Enneagram, a personality assessment that can help you see what’s keeping you from realizing your most authentic, highest self. Here’s how to use it, along with your yoga practice, to change course.

Don't know Katonah? Meet the upstate New York yoga style that incorporates Taoist principles, Chinese medicine, and sacred geometry.

Things just keep getting worse for Bikram Choudhury. A judge has ordered the Bikram Yoga founder to turn over the proceeds from his business to go toward a $6.8 million judgment his former employee won against him last year.

Study up on your yoga philosophy during this six-week interactive online course on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, one of yoga’s primary texts.

These creative styles will not only activate new muscle groups but also give you a new perspective on the practice. Find out which hybrid is right for you.

Re-ignite your practice by forgoing the familiar in favor of the fresh. Here are some ideas to get you started.

Recommit to your practice this year by forgoing the familiar in favor of the fresh. The best part? All of these fringe benefits to trying new things.

Need a little LOL in your life? We were honored and privileged to have our third eye awakened by the one and only Ultra Spiritual JP Sears, a YouTube sensation with 100 million+ hits and YJ LIVE! San Francisco keynote presenter.

The secret to making change stick when things get tough? Harnessing your discomfort and transforming it into personal power through your yoga practice. Here’s how.

A meditation practice on how to find happiness, even in your darkest hour.

Picking up a crystal can help you switch out of autopilot into the present. Use these 7 charged stones and their associated mindfulness practices to manifest the change you want to see in your life.

In part four of our series on teaching trauma-sensitive yoga, teacher Daniel Sernicola shares five practices to help your students get grounded and cultivate mindfulness.

Think you don’t have time for yoga during the holidays—much less 3-minute pose holds? Yoga Medicine teacher Shannon Stephens makes a case for why yin yoga may be the best practice for your busiest times.

In the midst of post-election protests and fear, yoga teacher Daniel Sernicola shares two heartening stories of how people—and the world—really can change and urges yogis to continue doing our part.

Ready for an emotional-baggage check? To clear out what no longer serves you and make room for what will? Discover how your chakras can help you unpack it all.

Yoga teacher Giselle Mari shows you how to use your chakras to resolve any negativity or emotional issues holding you back so you become a lighter, brighter version of you.

Longtime yoga teacher and this month’s cover model Giselle Mari is no stranger to change. While many of us might resist the unknown and cling to the past, she’s accepting change with a refreshing passion and inspiring lightheartedness.

In this excerpt from her new book, Every Body Yoga, Jessamyn Stanley inspires first-time yogis by getting real about what will get them on the mat. (Even yogis with a long-term relationship with yoga need to read this!)

Shared by familiar names, from Eckhart Tolle to Brené Brown. 

Nicki Doane shares 4 ancient codes of conduct from the Yoga Sutras that seem to be out of fashion right now but she thinks should make a comeback.

A respected teacher shares the one thing that guarantees a peaceful existence.

Coral Brown, a licensed mental-health counselor and senior Prana Vinyasa Flow teacher, shares four great mudras for this time of year.

Meditation is a procedure of cleansing the mind and taking out the garbage in the subconscious. These three Kundalini practices passed down by Yogi Bhajan will help you release conscious and subconscious fears that cause stress, worry, and anxiety.

Leah Perlman's new book Drawn Together is a collection of the most beloved of these illustrations. Here, she shares 12 of her poignant comics.

After Elena Brower's mother passed this year, she found a deeper connection to her meditation practice and with her family.

With so many yoga methods and lineages to choose from, confusion about asana alignment is common. Here, Yoga Medicine teacher Dana Diament uses smart anatomy to debunk some common alignment myths.

Judith Hanson Lasater draws on the teachings of Patanjali to explain how yoga can—and should—play a role in improving our relationships.

Judith Hanson Lasater shares inspiration from the classic yogic text, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, for developing a more mindful relationship with technology.

The four Purusharthas look directly into what moves us, the diverse demands and opportunities of our lives, and remind us that our yoga practice should leave nothing out.

In honor of International Day of Peace, September 21, Brother Priyananda, a Self-Realization Fellowship monk, offers advice for coping with the obstacles to inner harmony.

In honor of the Fall Equinox, yin yoga teacher Danielle March offers a sequence to help you gain some perspective and insight on your own summer growth.

Purna Yoga founder Aadil Palkhivala reveals how nearly losing his beloved wife taught him about the obstacles to the path of yoga.

Spiritual teacher Eiman Al Zaabi shares how the practice of inquiry can both calm the mind and help you find meaning.

Judith Hanson Lasater shares her thoughts on the enduring relevance of the classic text of yoga philosophy, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, for life in the modern world.

A student tries to crack his girlfriend’s resistance to yoga.

There's a lot we can learn from the classic yogic texts about nourishing and honoring ourselves in our everyday lives.

Lasater explores the meaning of the first sutra and offers a home practice to honor its wisdom.

Kathryn Budig shares her three favorite PMS remedies—after chocolate. Prepare to prop!

As yoga grows, so do the misconceptions about it. Here, Stephanie Snyder sets the record straight on 8 myths getting between you and your yoga bliss.

Lasater explains the meaning of ishvara pranidhana to her and its enduring relevance. Join us for her six-week interactive online course on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.

New myths about what yoga and the poses themselves can do for you are popping up all the time. Here, Yoga Physics founder Alexandria Crow debunks a few of her favorites.

Every yoga teacher should learn the core concepts of yoga philosophy before building their own teachings.

As we mourn the death of another one of modern yoga’s founding fathers, we’d like to take the opportunity to share and remember him by at least a few of his many wise words.

Will practicing yoga during 
a painful attack help ease the pain—or make it worse?

Urban Zen helps sick patients and their caregivers overcome pain, 
anxiety, nausea, insomnia, constipation, and exhaustion through yoga.

This combination of restorative yoga, meditation, essential oils, and Reiki—
from dream team Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee—will help 
ease anxiety and insomnia to deliver your best night’s zzz’s.

Yoga Journal co-founder Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, and her daughter, Lizzie Lasater, share five reasons why teachers and students alike should know Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.

Open your chest and find proper alignment after a tough standup paddleboard workout. This beginner SUP yoga sequence will get you started.

Our places of discovery, illumination, and breakthrough are not limited to our temples and our mosques but extend into traffic jams, dirty dishes, and even our trips to the mechanic.

During pregnancy the body changes rapidly, but if we use our yoga practice wisely, we can support these changes, making us strong and flexible in all the right places for easier labor, delivery and recovery.

Improve your balance before you even get on the board with pre-paddle postures from Amelia Travis, founder of Stoked Yogi.

Learn how George Harrison brought bhakti yoga to the West with the now ubiquitous Hare Krishna mantra.

We're all heard that it's unsafe to practice on day 1 of a mensuration period? We explore if the rumors are true.

Yoga teacher Cyndi Lee offers advice on practicing yoga in front of a mirror.

Crystals offer guidance and signs of possibility. Let these 10 stones open you up to a landscape of creativity and inspiration.

Vinyasa teacher Mary Beth LaRue is one of those instructors you just want to practice with in the hopes that some of her vibrant energy will rub off.

There's so much more to yoga than what happens on the mat. When you need a little push in the right direction or a fresh perspective, the Yoga Sutra is your guidebook living with intention.

The fierce founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga shares her ultimate yoga playlist and what inspired her first album, Salt & Bone.

Yoga teacher Eric Paskel takes us inside San Quentin as part of the Prison Yoga Project, where he helps inmates create a "prison break" without ever leaving the prison.

Yoga teacher Shauna Harrison shows us how TRX can benefit both beginners and more experienced yogis. Learn how to incorporate this it into your routine.

If you can stand on one foot, you CAN do yoga on the water. Get your feet wet with SUP yoga tips and poses from Amelia Travis, founder of Stoked Yogi.

Just as nature enters a cycle of renewal, growth and expansion in spring—so does the energy within us. Embrace the opportunity to shed old unwanted layers and make a conscious choice to begin again.

It takes creativity and fearlessness to adventure into our heart’s deepest desires, and this Kundalini Yoga practice can help you find both.

Since filtering what we share on social media has become the norm, Bad Yogi Erin Motz offered to take us behind the scenes of her Instagram account. Steal her best tips for getting real.

Acro yogi Lizzy Tomber helps students and studios find their unique superpowers. Read all about her.

Yoga Journal readers share photos of their 
standup paddleboard (SUP) 
yoga practice to get you psyched for summer.

This sequence helps to diminish many of the common discomforts and imbalances experienced in the low back, pelvis, and hips during pregnancy.

Want to hone your intuition? We went behind the scenes at YJ LIVE! in NYC to bring you this third-eye-activating practice from master teacher Seane Corn.

Backbending while pregnant can bring a range of sensations from most delicious to most painful. These poses will open you up only where you need it most and reduce risk of injury.