I took a break from teaching yoga a few years ago because I lost my voice. Not literally. Written by Linda Sparrowe I’d been teaching vinyasa for years but had started looking forward less and less to my classes, and I found all sorts of excuses to sidestep my own practice. My ...

For the last 18 years of my 22 years as a yoga teacher, my schedule has included traveling some 250 days a year. I’ve been to 48 out of 50 states in the U.S. and visited more than 35 countries, which means I’m on countless airplanes and in as many ...

An eco-conscious yogi dedicated to protecting our oceans teaches others to revere the natural world Eoin Finn is like the Thoreau of yoga: As founder of the Blissology school of yoga, which centers on the simple idea of sharing happiness, he believes that to find bliss you must “seek quiet solitude ...

Travel and Adventure host for Discovery Channel, Environmentalist, formerMTV star, Ford Supermodel and YJSG cover model tells us, in her own words, why more than anything else—she’s a yogi. Written by Denise Keller , 2016 My first experience on the yoga mat was a series of Surya Namaskaras (sun salutations) when I ...

Celebrity Chef & Owner of restaurants and lifestyle brands says yoga regulated his life and changed him into a more relaxed man I started yoga about ten years ago because of music. There was a guy teaching yoga classes in a fitness center and I was training on the other side ...

Writer Selina Sheth chronicles her ongoing journey of yoga and shares how her practice continues to help her reach for her true self. By Selina Sheth I’m a writer by profession and lately I’ve been reading what is every storyteller’s bible for structure and character development: Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With ...

It was in one of India’s most renowned yoga institutes that Anil and Meena discovered each other. “I had joined the ashram because yoga was my passion and something I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Anil reminisced. “I don’t remember when I first saw her–but I do ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of uncertainties for me. During  the circuit breaker (lockdown) in Singapore, I felt anxious, sometimes sad and angry. By Shruti Sharma Reader Contribution  I had discontinued my yoga practice and physical exercise for a while so I thought restarting it might help. I began with cardio exercises ...

YJSG interviews True Yoga’s Rohit Mistry, 39, a yoga teacher and cancer survivor whose practice helped him pull through his chemotherapy sessions 10 years ago What made you want to teach yoga? Yoga is a system that helps you on your path to self-realization. I had been practicing Bikram Yoga regularly for ...

At 64, she’s one of Singapore’s longest-serving yoga teachers who connects yoga with her heart I started yoga in 1970. I needed to exercise because of my secretarial work. Ever since I started, yoga had me wanting to keep learning more and more. Yoga gives me strength and vitality in my ...