This is Your Brain on Meditation
What's actually happening to your brain when you meditate?
You’ve read about the benefits of a daily practice. But what exactly is happening inside your body to produce these profound effects? Thanks to research done using fMRI scans of the brain, we know. Here, Rebecca Gladding, MD, a psychiatrist and co-author ...
Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya II (Eka Pada Koundinyanasana II): Step by Step
Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya II tones the belly and spine, strengthens the arms and wrists, and gives your self-confidence a big boost.
Step 1
Start in Adho Mukha Svanasana, hands shoulder width apart. Step your left foot far forward, past the outside of your left arm, and place it on ...
7 Truths About Eating Disorders Every Yoga Teacher Needs to Know
Here’s what a yoga therapist (and anorexia survivor) says are the most important things to remember when someone who suffers from an eating disorder comes to your class.
In my 20-plus years navigating the highs and lows of anorexia recovery, yoga has facilitated a great deal of my healing and empowerment. ...
Full Moon Rising: The Art of a Shamanic Celebration
As a new season dawns, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman helps us celebrate changing tides with these ceremonies.
When I lived in San Francisco in 1980, I was introduced to shamanic ceremonies. I loved this practice, which taught me how to receive my own spiritual guidance by traveling outside of time and space ...
Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya I (Eka Pada Koundinyasana I): Step by Step
Eka Pada Koundinyasana I or Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya I has a lot going on—the twist, the legs going their separate ways, oh, and the arm balance. Master it.7
Pose Dedicated to the Sage Koundinya I: Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1
Come into it from a standing position. First bend your knees ...
10 Tricks to Outsmart Belly Bloating during Summer
Summertime brings warm weather, long days, BBQs, bikinis—and often a bloated belly. We consulted Dr. John Douillard, founder of LifeSpa to understand why bloating seems more prevalent during the summer months and what you can do to feel (and look) your best this summer.
What Causes Belly Bloating During Summer?
Dr. Douillard explains ...
4 Ways to Take Down Your Inner Critic
You know that little voice that pipes up to tell you that you’re not enough? Well, here’s how to silence it—for good.
In the darkest recesses of your brain lives the ankle grabber of the mind. It’s your inner critic—the tiny voice that pipes up to plant a seed of self-doubt. ...
The Upside of Doing Nothing
There’s something about the new year that inspires a go-go-go attitude in most of us. But if the urge to take a break and hibernate strikes, give in, says Stephanie Brown, PhD. Turns out, there are some big benefits.
"In our society today, doing nothing is often associated with being lazy ...
Want to Be More Mindful at Work? These 9 Tactics Actually Work
These smart tips from mindfulness pros will help you stay calm—even when you’re most stressed out.
Whether you work in an office, work from home, or even work in a yoga studio, it’s likely your job causes some stress and anxiety at times. As human beings, it’s basically impossible not to ...
Guard Your Heart
Here's how yoga not only opens your heart, but also protects your ticker in the long run.
Yogis know the poses that "open" the heart, but did you know that regular practice can also help protect your ticker over the long term?
1. Love how you feel after class? That's your stress ...
Feel the Feels: A Mindful Breathing Practice for Tough Emotions
Once you know how to breathe mindfully, you can use the practice to help you through challenging times.
Once you know how to breathe mindfully, you can use the practice to help you through challenging times. It’s not about denying feelings or changing them; it’s accepting them exactly as they are, ...
This is the Reason I Take the Subway 45 Minutes Uptown to Work Out—Even Though There’s a Gym On My Block
Here’s why one yogi opts for inconvenience, all in the name of her meditation practice.
“Wait, what? Why?” is often the response I get when people discover that I belong to a gym on the Upper East Side, a 45-minute commute—each way—from my Brooklyn home.
It makes no sense.
My neighborhood is chock-full ...