It gets a bad rap, but your ego may be the key to happiness—if you know how to work with it. By Nora Isaacs After practicing for 10 years, mostly in beginning yoga classes, Gwen Merrill thought of herself as a pretty accomplished yoga practitioner. “I was able to do all of ...

While many in the West look to the East for answers on ancient wisdom and spirituality to fight modern stress, Asia Pacific is facing its own crisis – employee health risk. Long working hours and tight deadlines are affecting wellbeing of many in the region’s workforce. More than ever, big ...

Photo: Michelle Graham One key to fully stepping into your own true testing neutral, or at-the-ready neutral—rather than something in-between—is learning how to access the balls of your feet. Written By Tom Meyers In Tadasana, allow your toes to rest lightly on the floor, like a piano player’s fingers rest on the ...

Looking to start a regular morning yoga practice? The first step is to make yourself a morning person—even if you’re not. Here are 6 tips to help.  By Hannah Lott-Schwartz Take these steps to restart and rejuvenate your mornings. Looking to start (or commit to) a morning yoga practice—but don’t exactly bound out of ...

When my husband died 15 years ago, my yoga practice became a way for me to process my grief—one breath, one transition, and one asana at a time. As a result, I was better able to move through my grieving process, rather than getting stuck in it. My fragile heart ...

Looking at the biomechanics of this inversion can teach us how to mitigate injury. Photo Credits: Rick Cummings, Model: Robyn Capobianco Often referred to as the King of yoga postures, Sirsasana I (Headstand) can be a refreshing and energizing inversion that, when practiced consistently, builds strength in the upper body and ...

yogah citta vritti nirodhah I am in yoga when I balance the fluctuations of my mind (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1.2) By Subba Vaidyanathan  Yoga: A state of union (achieved through) Nirodhah: Restoring to a state of balance (the) Vrittis: Fluctuations (of the) Citta: Mind Explained by Subba Vaidyanathan We can achieve a Yogic state of oneness when the fluctuations ...

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize Samadhi (bliss or Nirvana). Absolute freedom from all worries, doubts, attachments and sufferings brings bliss. Sheriann Melwani  This is the last part in a series of eight articles about what "Ashtanga" really means, as derived from Patanjali’s ancient text of wisdom called the Yoga ...

If we can relax our habitual thoughts, we begin to get familiar with the flow of our own experience. We can start to look inside ourselves for growth.  By Cyndi Lee Wish you were better able to accept hot and cold, noisy and silent, joy and sorrow? Cyndi Lee shows us how.  On ...

When the mind experiences uninterrupted focus and merges with the object of meditation, it experiences peace. Dhyana, or prolonged focus or simply put, meditation, is a state of being, rather than something that you “do”. Sherri Melwani. Photo by Luke Elijah This is the seventh part in a series of eight ...

Whether it's a big deadline at work, relationship issues, holiday season busyness, or some other stressor, life can certainly present challenges that turn on our fight-or-flight response. This instinctual physiological stress response can serve us well in life threatening situations. (To wit: the oft-cited running from-a-tiger scenario.) Yet these days, ...