In an ideal world, we’d always think and act from a place of wisdom and oneness. But in the real world, ingrained patterns and personality traits can get in the way. Enter the Enneagram, a personality assessment that can help you see what’s keeping you from realizing your most authentic, ...

How your breathing can improve your health When you find yourself speeding up and stressing out, pause… and take a deep breath. Then take a couple more. By fully focusing on each breath, you bring yourself back to the present, and slow yourself down. Soon you will find that your stress levels ...

Take a moment to think about your breath: Is it deep or shallow? Slow or fast? It’s interesting that it can take a few moments to figure out our patterns of breathing, even though it’s something we’re always doing. The reason most of us can’t pinpoint what’s happening right away ...

We all feel better  after taking a yoga class, yet finding inspiration on the mat when practicing alone can be more difficult. Cultivating a home practice certainly requires commitment, but it also requires softness— a quality that urges us to let go of our physical, mental, and emotional attachment, whether ...

Don’t let common aches and pains keep you off your mat or ruin your practice. Recover faster with these 20 expert-recommended natural fixes No one wants to run to the doctor for every ache, cramp,or cough.Indeed, 75 percent of respondents in a Yoga Journal online survey said they always try a ...

Reconnect with your body with this sequence made just for new mothers. After giving birth to a child, you may be eager to get to your mat. But you are likely to discover that pregnancy and childbirth have weakened your abdominal muscles, and they need reconditioning. The sequence below has been ...

Utkatasana Benefits Strengthens the muscles in your thighs and feet; increases ankle mobility; tones your core muscles. Instruction 1) Stand with your feet together, hands on your hips. To create the stable platform needed for this deep squat, find the center of balance in each foot. Play with shifting your weight between the inner ...

Modern technology offers countless benefits—it’s an ever-growing source of information and inspiration; it keeps us easily connected to our loved ones. But the fact remains, many of us spend hours sitting in front of our computers and hunched over our mobile phones and tablets, and the repetitive movement patterns these ...

Relieve hard-to-release back tension by unlocking your QL muscles. Ever noticed a lingering ache deep in your low back after prolonged sitting or standing? When your back muscles are weak or you have poor posture, intrinsic rectangular muscles between your ribs and hips called the quadratus lumborums, or QLs, work overtime ...

Why not break out of your comfort zone and discover how much richer life can be? Here’s everything you need to start. Its all too easy to find yourself on autopilot, simply going through the same old motions: work, eat, yoga, sleep, repeat. And while sometimes sticking to your routine is ...

In times of crisis, we tend to latch on to whatever strength we can find. Here’s how to tap into your most reliable support Once, when I was feeling particularly vulnerable, my teacher suggested I contemplate a question: “Where does your strength come from?” This is a contemplation I’ve found useful ...

A block can help you integrate the actions of abdominal strength When you see yogis doing an arm balance with finesse, they look as light as a feather. They make the pose look so easy that you might forget how much strength it requires. But the inverse is actually true—to make ...