Types of Yoga

Master of Mysore: celebrating the life of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga Yoga.

Yoga helps HIV patients strengthen their immune systems and their spirits.

Stick with challenging poses to build your muscles and your confidence.

Bikram Choudhury discusses his famous copyrighted sequence, his spending and his goals for the future.

Upon waking for the last day of the conference, we learned that Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, has passed. The official announcement is posted here, and you can find up-to-the-minute memorial posts and reactions from students worldwide here via twitter. What are some of your best...

There are many ways to cultivate quiet strength in Virabhadrasana I. Here, teachers of five yoga styles reveal the nuances of Warrior Pose I.

Align body, mind, and spirit with nature by practicing this seasonal sequence.

Try this simple Kundalini practice to maintain focus and improve memory.

Bring your Yin Yoga practice to a deeper level by keeping these intentions in mind.

Get your prana moving with this playful morning vinyasa sequence.

Sturdy in his yang incarnation, soothing as a yin avatar, Simon Low provides a pair of enjoyable ways for advanced beginners and beyond to kick back or punch out the stops.

In our speed-driven world, yoga is often fast-paced. Yin Yoga offers an opportunity to slow down and come back into balance.

CNN has done an interesting piece on how yoga is helping inmates in a Mexico City prison. To watch the video, click here. One inmate says he is learning things, like yoga, that he would never have learned on the...

Sharon Gannon and David Life guide this hour-long practice with chanting, fast-paced asana, meditation, and more.

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

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

Yogini Djoeke Van Der Werf led Beirut's first Iyengar Yoga workshop at Mont La Saade in Ain Saade on Saturday, reports The Daily Star. "For the yoga community of Lebanon this is a premier event," said Lina Shuman, the workshop's...

Indians have not embraced yoga, relying instead on medicine for various illnesses, B K S Iyengar told Press Trust of India (PTI). "In India, there are more people who are drug addicts, I mean those addicted to medicines. Everybody wants...

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.

Playing with dance, acrobatics, and more, innovative yogis build trust and create connections.

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

Yoga is full of big-name personalities, and few are bigger or louder than Bikram Choudhury. His new book is no different.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Learn about this ancient guide to spiritual enlightenment.

Ashtanga yoga teacher, Richard Freeman inspires many to take up Ashtanga Yoga through his instructional videos and philosophical books.

Birch's method is the yoga of choice for many athletic Americans.

This mantra meditation from the Kundalini tradition encourages a renewed sense of peace and balance.

These simple poses will settle your nerves and erase stress. Try it in the comfort of your own home.

Use these breathing techniques to induce relaxation during your restorative yoga and meditation practice.

Learn more about the lineage of the intensely physical practice of Ashtanga Yoga.

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Use self-care techniques based on Traditional Chinese medicine to maintain health and energy through the winter.

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The detoxifying effects of Bikram Yoga may help in treating this deadly liver disease.

Sat Kriya is one of the most basic and powerful exercises of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Twists can be heaven for a bad back—if you don't push too hard. Learn how to do these 9 stretches for the spine to ease pain in your back.

Sat Kriya is one of the most basic and powerful exercises of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

The use of props in Iyengar Yoga has been one of the fruits of Mr. Iyengar's innovative genius—and also the object of jokes.

At the 2005 YJ Estes Park Conference, Sri BKS Iyengar encouraged students to keep striving—but to also realize that what we're searching for is already inside us.

Yoga therapy utilizes poses, breathing techniques, and meditation to benefit and improve overall health.

In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar reveals the "heart of yoga" that he personally discovered through more than 70 years of disciplined, daily practice.

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Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa offers advice for practicing yoga during pregnancy.

So what does an ancient parable about snakes and lazy husbands have to do with your yoga practice?

Baron Baptiste details the components of a basic power yoga sequence.

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Integral yoga combines a wide range of yogic practices, such as chanting, meditation, asana, studying spiritual texts, and charity. Learn more about it.

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Differentiate these tissues by understanding the Taoist yin and yang so you can help your students open their bodies appropriately.

Use this primer to a key concept in Taoist philosophy to grasp how yoga affects the crucial tissues of the body, including muscles, bones, and connective tissue.

Learn when yoga therapy might be more appropriate than traditional yoga and how to get started.

Meet Kripalu Yoga. Learn about its lineage and how and where you can start your practice.

Doug Swenson created Sadhana Yoga, a holistic approach to yoga that connects the vital life force energy of exercise with the spiritual flow of the universe.

You don’t have to choose sides.

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Check out Richard Rosen's author page.

Check out Richard Rosen's author page.

To harness the energy of the mind, you must learn to see beyond the content of your thoughts to their very substance.

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If your curved back has you twisted, here are some asanas that will help realign your spine.

Learning how to relax takes time. Fortunately, you can practice on your mat and use these tips anytime.

Don't let the props stop you. Restorative yoga poses revive like nothing else.

Yoga teacher Jaki Nett investigates restorative yoga for fertility. Learn which poses have the best possible benefits to aid fertility and conception.

Find the best prenatal yoga poses for all stages of your pregnancy.

Sarah Powers addresses Yin Yoga's benefits for fertility and conception.

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Prenatal Yoga doesn't seem right for you? Tim Miller gives advice for modifying a more advanced practice for pregnancy.

Tim Miller gives advice for students struggling to master the jump-through in Ashtanga Yoga.

Tim Miller offers advice for learning the chakrasana transition in Ashtanga Yoga

YJ profiles the pranayama practices of six yoga traditions and finds differences ranging from the subtle to the profound.