Types of Yoga

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A droopy butt is a common side effect of pregnancy but you can prevent it—or correct it—by strengthening the right muscles.

Next time you find yourself bogged down with emails and to-dos, take 10 minutes to disconnect from the computer screen and practice this short yoga sequence.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis demonstrates five poses that will help you discover your imperfections and have fun in the process.

Most women know they should be strengthening their pelvic floors, but what about lengthening? Try this 10-step practice for strong and supple muscles to support childbirth, your vital organs, and even your love life.

In this excerpt from her new book, Snatnam Kaur invites you to make mantra a part of your morning ritual. Start here, using her audio recording for guidance.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis, who leads YJ's online course Pillars of Power Yoga, demonstrates 10 poses that will help you love and accept your body.

You aren't realizing the full benefit of your workout routine unless you're giving equal attention to recovery.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis, who leads YJ's online course Pillars of Power Yoga, demonstrates 6 common pose mistakes and how to tidy them up for spring.

This practice helps dissolve the urge to react, so you can use your frustrations and irritations as productive learning tools.

Eddie Modestini, who leads YJ’s online course, Vinyasa 101: The Fundamentals of Flow, reveals 5 little-known facts about vinyasa yoga.

Yoga Medicine founder Tiffany Cruikshank offers her favorite bedtime ritual to settle the nervous system in preparation for deep sleep.

Practicing yoga and meditation in water brings us back to basics.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar, breaks down the three essential segments every vinyasa practice should have.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis demonstrates an energizing sequence for vitality from Baron Baptiste's book, Journey Into Power.

Got two minutes? A short restorative practice can help edit and transform negative inner narratives that reinforce anxiety and depression.

Stimulate chi and restore vitality with a practice focusing on Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridian pair, primary organs that move water through the body.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis created this fun and challenging sequence to boost your core strength and mood as you flip your world upside down.

Feeling small and limited? Gabrielle's three-minute meditation will help you blast through limitations and magnify your energetic vibrations.

Did you hang up your boxing gloves when you found yoga? Now there's no need. BoxingYoga is attracting fans from inside and outside the ring, and it's about to throw a punch in the U.S.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis demonstrates an advanced core-strengthening and spirit-lifting sequence with Leap Frog hops.

Like it or not, you can't avoid people or parts of yourself that seriously frustrate you. The key to peace? Feeling even more connected to them through this meditation.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis offers a "Twist and Flow" sequence, which will fire up your core and unlock your inner power.

We spend hours in front of our computers and phones, and the repetitive movement patterns can cause neck and shoulder strain. This sequence will help.

Chronic stress
and anxiety wreak havoc on your body. What can help you reset? Yoga.

With a growing body of research proving yoga’s healing benefits, it’s no wonder more Western doctors are prescribing this ancient practice. Learn what's behind the trend.

To celebrate #HeartMonth, dedicated to raising awareness of cardiovascular health, this energizing sequence will get your heart pumping as it opens your body, strengthens your core, and clears your mind.

Leah Cullis offers 10 poses that tone your abs and strengthen your core, helping you tap into your personal power on and off the mat.

Try this energetic four-pose sequence three times on each side to warm up and protect your hips before you head to the barre.

Grace Flowers was 20 weeks pregnant during the photoshoot. Carin Gorrell took the opportunity to gather pregnancy, practice, and life wisdom from Grace.

Master Baptiste Yoga teacher Leah Cullis, who will lead Yoga Journal's upcoming online course Pillars of Power Yoga presents 8 poses to help you set your focus for the year ahead.

This Kundalini Yoga sequence supports ideal digestion by increasing energy at the navel point and keeping the digestive organs strong and flexible.

Pick your poses. Two Fit Moms offers three ways to relieve holiday stress with yoga—active, passive, or a combo—in this sequence.

Prenatal yoga has long avoided certain poses, but new research indicates some of them may be safer than once thought.

Try this profoundly spiritual kundalini meditation video to cultivate patience, wisdom, and renewal of life.

Leah Cullis, a master Baptiste Yoga teacher who will lead YJ's upcoming online course, Pillars of Power Yoga, explains the importance of finding your foundation, on and off the mat.

Movement in your body leads to movement in your life. Shrink Session founder Erin Stutland combines the mindfulness of yoga with heart-pumping cardio.

Bikram Choudhury’s sequence of 26 yoga poses and two breathing exercises is not entitled to copyright protection, an appellate court affirmed last week.

When your chakras are balanced, you can experience clarity, access power, and feel more joyful, fearless, and free.

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Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A study found that yoga helped cancer survivors feel better physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

We asked Guru Jagat to demystify Kundalini, explain why it is trending, and tell us what is next in her effort to bring this practice to the masses.

Is it safe to get your om on at that time of the month? Teens, learn what yoga can teach you about listening to your body and practicing self-care.

Steal these three three core-building balance moves from The YogaSlackers to cultivate slackline-ready strength.

Eddie Modestini, who will lead Yoga Journal’s upcoming online course, Vinyasa 101: The Fundamentals of Flow, explains how vinyasa yoga benefits your body, mind, and spirit.

Take 10 minutes today to relax into this restorative posture, Viparita Karani (Legs-up-the-Wall Pose).

Try this sun salutation version from Kundalini teacher Joan Shivarpita Harrigan to feel reinvigorated and newly inspired on your mat!

A yoga therapist and recovering addict helps others find self-acceptance and sustainable recovery.

It depends on why you’re feeling dizzy. For instance, if the dizziness is due to dehydration, it can be alleviated or avoided.

When the square footage of your mat starts to feel small, consider taking your practice outdoors with these 5 adventure sports perfect for yogis.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of K. Pattabhi Jois, shares 3 key lessons he learned from the founder of Ashtanga Yoga.

Take your practice to the water. Kathryn Budig has these three simple poses to get your feet wet with standup paddleboard yoga.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar, shares the most important lessons he learned from the late guru.

Understanding the anatomy of the spine is essential for both yoga teachers and practitioners. Injury-proof your practice with these three key tips.

How do you know if the option you’ve chosen is best for you? This fun and revealing guide can help you pick the right class.

How do you know if you've been in a pose too long? When you start to "sag," says Eddie Modestini, who will lead Yoga Journal's upcoming Vinyasa 101 course.

When it comes to injury prevention, what 
you do between poses may be as important as the poses themselves. Here’s how 
to flow safely through tricky transitions.

Some students equate a good yoga class with a fast one. But there are signs when it's time to slow down.

Every yogi, it seems, has a tale of a bum knee, shoulder, or hip. But getting injured in practice often means something is out of alignment.

Kathryn Budig wants to introduce you to her new love: Karate. Here, two kicks to get you started, paired with the perfect poses for the flexibility and strength required.

NASA rocket scientist/yoga teacher Scott Lewicki balances a highly technical day job with creativity on the mat. Use this innovative practice to find new space in often forgotten muscles.