Day 8: Rest and Restore
Bring your mind into the present with a restorative practice.
Take your practice to the next level with our free yoga videos offering pose and alignment tips, sequences for practitioners of all levels, and instruction from master teachers.
Take your practice to the next level with our free yoga videos offering pose and alignment tips, sequences for practitioners of all levels, and instruction from master teachers.
Bring your mind into the present with a restorative practice.
Joy is the antidote to impatience, anxiety, and anger. Here’s how to find more of it in your practice.
Finding just a few moments of silence helps you push the reset button so that you can be radically present.
Make your mat a safe haven—no matter what you do there.
Find yourself doing too much? Here’s how to create space for a refuge to arise.
Drink in this 20-minute pranayama practice led by Judith Hanson Lasater.
How bringing awareness to the breath can change your energy pattern.
Yoga teachers Judith Hanson Lasater and Lizzie Lasater explain how restorative yoga can be as much of a mental practice as a physical one.
Join Alexa Silvaggio for a vinyasa class focused on balancing hustle and flow, on the mat and in your life.
These revitalizing routines will help you balance your energy, relieve stress, and feel fabulous.
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Take a deep breath. No, really. Connect to your inner calm with these powerful anxiety-banishing breathing exercises.
It’s time to make your practice and teaching more accessible. Learn how from De Jur Jones and Jivana Heyman.
Psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and author Dr. Gail Parker shares a bit about herself while answering rapid-fire questions in our 108-second interview.
Too busy to get to your mat? Think again. These quick yet calming yoga practices will revitalize your day and get you moving.
This 30-minute sequence is like a long exhalation at the end of the day. Trust us: Your hips and shoulders will thank you.
Got cranky hips or less-than-stable legs? Try this dynamic yoga practice to stretch and strengthen your lower body.
Join Dr. Gail Parker and YJ Senior Editor Tamara Jeffries for a conversation about yoga’s role in healing racial wounds and how to engage in spiritual activism as a path to inner awareness and social peace.
Free your side body and back—and find calm—with this accessible exercise from Jivana Heyman.
This flow will help you activate and enliven your “whole-body core” and improve your balance and motor control.
This fun practice from yoga teacher Carrie Owerko is a fun way to build strength and agility.
Connect movement and breath in this creative (and accessible) yoga sequence.
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When you’re feeling scattered, turn your attention inward and find your center.
Watch YJ executive editor Lindsay Tucker try a sacred gratitude and cacao ritual created by yoga teacher Christine Olivia Hernandez.
In the final session of this two-part series, Rajni Tripathi explains how to detach the ego from true strength, which is rooted in the creative force of all the women who came before you.
Best-selling author and wellness educator Lalah Delia answers Yoga Journal’s rapid-fire questions about current reads, her favorite mantra, and meditation practice.
Author and spiritual coach, Lalah Delia leads you through a simple, yet effective, mediation you can do every day to call in your highest self.
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Ease up into Half Frog Pose, called Ardha Bhekasana in Sanskrit. This pose strengthens the back while gently opening up the shoulders, chest, and thighs—a loving treat for the entire body.
As the shutdown and quarantine carry on, all we need is just a little patience. This gentle 30-minute sequence can help you slow down and enjoy stillness.
Yoga teacher and clinical psychologist Dr. Melody Moore offers a 50-minute video practice for clarifying your intentions, standing in your power, and seeing things in a new light.
Yoga teacher Natasha Rizopoulos demonstrates how to imprint safe shoulder alignment before you get to Sun Salutations.
This 75-minute, heart-opening, back-bending Forrest Yoga sequence will keep your spine healthy and your heart open.
Yoga Teacher Jordan Smiley shares a 20-minute sequence that helps you get in touch with the wisdom of your body.
This 20-minute Iyengar Yoga sequence will help you strengthen you core, reset your posture, and mitigate the effects of computer and smartphone use.
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Build leg strength and mental resilience with this 7-minute exercise from yoga teacher Derrick "DJ" Townsel.
Use this yummy neck, shoulder, and upper back sequence when your day could use a dose of positivity.
Learn how to get out of the way to access your inner sanctuary (because it’s already there).
Yoga therapist Marsha Banks-Harold teaches an asana practice that will help you feel gratitude for your one precious life.
No. 2: Think of a band as a skillfully administered hands-off assist.
Bring stability and strength to the core of your body with this move from Laurel Beversdorf.
Plus, why avoiding weight-bearing poses alone probably won't help you heal.
Yoga and movement educator Laurel Beversdorf breaks down some common assumptions on alignment.
Keep calm and boost your overall well-being with sessions from our online education teachers.
We know, we know—it feels so good! But here's what Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee say you can try instead for optimal back health.
Yoga teacher Jordan Smiley, founder of the In Body Meant Project, shares a playful sequence to help you break patterns and get better acquainted with your body’s wisdom.
The former NFL athlete has uplifted fans and students with his story. Now he shares what lights him up.
Looking to build physical *and* mental resilience? Get on your mat...
We asked the yoga teacher and former NFL athlete to share one thing folks don't know about him, and it's incredibly endearing.
The former NFL athlete opens up on reinventing stereotypes and what he *does* wish for the yoga community.
One poetic translation of Camatkarasana means "the ecstatic unfolding of the enraptured heart."
Virasana is a balm for tired legs at the end of the day, as well as an alternative to Lotus for seated meditation.
Step-by-step instructions on moving from High Lunge to Warrior III.
Named for a fierce warrior, an incarnation of Shiva, this version of Warrior Pose increases stamina.
Learn the basics of this foundational yoga pose, Virabhadrasana I.
A powerful arm and wrist strengthener, Side Plank takes its two-armed sibling to the next level, as an arm balance.
Extended Triangle Pose is the quintessential standing pose in many styles of yoga.
Find length in your side body, from your heel to your fingertips with Extended Side Angle Pose.
Exploring the concept of sakshi (witness) can give yourself space to consider the issue at hand.
Physical Therapist, Ariele Foster, shows you some powerful techniques you can use to release fascia in areas that hold a lot of tension. Start feeling better right away with just a few tennis balls and a wall!
In Extended Hand-to-big-toe Pose, maintaining solid grounding through the standing foot helps keep you steady.
Uttanasana will wake up your hamstrings and soothe your mind.
Bump up your energy by bending back into Camel Pose.
Upward-Facing Dog will challenge you to lift and open your chest.
Learn to recognize the subtle ways you may be causing harm by taking personal inventory and holding yourself accountable.
Need an energy boost? Urdhva Dhanurasana can help—and strengthen your arms, legs, abdomen, and spine in the process.
Upavistha Konasana is good preparation for most of the seated forward bends, twists, and the wide-leg standing poses.
Want to fly? Fire up your core. Firefly pose is an arm balance pose that requires more core strength than arm strength.
The foundation of all standing poses, Mountain Pose makes a great starting position, resting pose, or tool to improve posture.
Lay Virasana back and to take the stretch in the thighs and ankles up a notch.
Oh, your aching back? Or maybe you can't crack those tight hamstrings. Supta Padangusthasana or Reclining Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose is for you.
Are you living your truth—or what everyone else wants you to be?
They are key to freeing yourself from attachments and suffering.
A classic restorative posture, Supta Baddha Konasana or Reclining Bound Angle Pose can be modified for any level of hip and groin resistance.
When you practice Standing Splits focus on the stretch in your quad and hamstring, not how high you can lift your leg.
Yoga teacher Rina Jakubowicz shares why you should be developing your intellect.
Sphinx Pose is the infant of backbends. It can be practiced with either an active or passive approach.