Q+A: How Can I Heal Myself With Meditation?
The following meditation, when done regularly, brings self-esteem, self-love, and self-healing into the body. You can do it sitting down, but I suggest lying down with some support under your spine, such as a folded blanket or a bolster. I find that the heart can heal easier when it feels ...
After Asana: Grow Your Gratitude for All 8 Limbs of Yoga with Age
As asana becomes less accessible, we can grow into a deeper appreciation for the limbs of yoga that live off the mat. Discover how they can guide us through the aging process.
Nimble and spry, our youthful bodies alight atop the yoga mat. Pliable and limber, our frames fold, bend, and ...
Practice Kriya Yoga: Self-Awareness
Can kriya yoga help battle depression?
Patricia Walden, a senior Iyengar teacher, and Timothy McCall, M.D., author of the book Yoga as Medicine, prescribe Patanjali's kriya yoga as another way to bolster your awareness. Kriya yoga centers around three practices, tapas (discipline), svadhyaya (self-study), and ishvara pranidhana (devotion), which are designed ...
Fixes for Envy: Using Your Yoga Practice and the Sutras
Recognize when criticism turns into envy and use the yoga sutras and your yoga practice to figure out how to handle it.
The moment was a perfectly ordinary one in Pat's life. She and a friend were discussing their mutual acquaintance, Emily—a mother of two who manages a nonprofit while getting ...
How to Use Ayurveda to Get Healthier Every Time You Eat
Ayurvedic experts offer five simple tips that you can start using now to improve your digestion—and your health.
Last year, I spent a week at an Ayurvedic spa in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains and learned immediately that in Ayurveda, the quality of your digestion is the biggest key to your ...
Locust Pose (Salabhasana): Step by Step
Salabhasana or Locust Pose effectively preps beginners for deeper backbends, strengthening the back of the torso, legs, and arms.
Grouped among the so-called “baby backbends,” which includes Dhanurasana (Bow Pose) and Sea Monster Pose (described in the Variations section below), it is an unassuming pose that, like other seemingly simple poses, ...
Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-kindness Meditation
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
(Scroll down if you want to learn how to do the metta meditation)
By Sylvia Boorstein
Loving-kindness, listed ninth in the traditional list of the 10 Perfections of the Heart (also known as the ...
Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose(Viparita Karani): Step by Step
There's a general consensus among modern yogis that Viparita Karani or Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose may have the power to cure whatever ails you.
(vip-par-ee-tah car-AHN-ee)
viparita = turned around, reversed, inverted
karani = doing, making, action
Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose: Step-by-Step Instructions
The pose described here is a passive, supported variation of the Shoulderstand-like Viparita Karani. For your ...
What I Learned About Relationships After Road-Tripping with a Total Stranger
Yup, these two yogis hopped in a van and embarked on life on the road for six months. As he makes his way through the tour's fourth stop in Tampa, ambassador Jeremy Falk reflects on the yoga of relationship and shares two ways to maintain a working friendship that’s mindful, ...
6 Surprising Lessons I Learned on a Silent Meditation Retreat
Using three pillows, two blankets, and a floor chair with back support, I have built the perfect meditation throne. It is Day 2 of my week-long silent meditation retreat and I am ready to drop in for the morning session. Fifteen minutes into it, everything goes to pot. My shoulders ...
What If You Tried These 3 Tips to Grow Into the Best Version of Yourself?
If you want to reach your full potential, Baron Baptiste suggests starting with self-inquiry.
The act of being open to discovering something you haven’t seen before is the first step in turning your life into something greater. But you have to know where to look. The best place is within. I call ...
Tao Porchon-Lynch Shares 7 Secrets to Aging Gracefully
The best part? You can incorporate all of these insights into your own daily practices, starting today.
Tao Porchon-Lynch just turned 100. Here’s am inside look at how the oldest living yogi lives.
Secret No. 1: Wake up before the sun. “I wake up before the sun rises because I like to ...