This travel piece captures the excitement, zeal and fear surrounding every climber’s ambition, and highlights why more than 30,000 people go to Tanzania every year to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest free-standing mountain and Africa’s highest peak. It also reflects on the importance of bringing your body, breath and ...

Photo Credit: Valerie Faneco The way I came to yoga is not different from the way most people come to it: a corporate job, too much stress... and the realization that “something is missing”. By Valerie Faneco This article was written in 2018 This realization happened to me when I was living in ...

Jasmine Danino This article was first written in  2018. Our beautiful baby Luna was born on the afternoon of January 2, 2018, the day of the first full moon of the year. When I wrote the column “My Story My Calling” in October 2017, I talked about how my husband and I ...

“Action is movement with intelligence, the world is filled with movement, what the world needs is more conscious movement, more action,” said B.K.S. Iyengar. Photo Credits: Jal Yoga I vaguely remember the beautiful pastures and my grandfather riding his horse through the thick green grass and disappearing into the sunset while ...

Photo Credits: Vinod, Balag Studio Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati is an extraordinary woman who was leading an ordinary life before her backpacking trip to India 22  years ago. She was raised in a Jewish family in Hollywood, California, and graduated from Stanford University. She was completing her Ph.D. when she went ...

A hundred years ago, a wise Sufi mystic, poet and scholar, Rumi, said, “The wound is the place where light enters you.” I never knew what this meant until I reflected upon my own personal life experience and realized that it is through one’s own suffering and adversity that we ...

Yoga teacher at Jal Yoga in Singapore and a former Orthopedic and Traumatology technician, Lorena believes that you should let your heart guide you on the mat. Why do you do yoga? Yoga makes me feel good. For me, yoga is the science of happiness. It makes me feel happy, healthy, young, ...

Prominent Yoga Teachers share personal stories of sexual abuse. Whether you’ve been personally affected or simply want to do what you can to help, here’s a place to start. By Yoga Journal Staff This article was published in 2018. Mary Taylor ( Ashtanga Yoga Teacher and Former co-owner of the Yoga Workshop) In light of  ...

As a clinical psychotherapist from New York, Sherri is naturally drawn to mind and body wellness practices and enjoys assisting others in their own process of self-reflection. She’s a disciple of Sri Dharma Mittra, who has been her guru since 2011. His teachings inspire her to share the importance of ...