This combination of restorative yoga, meditation and essential oil,  will help ease anxiety and insomnia to deliver your best night’s sleep. By Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee Around 15 years ago, prominent yoga teacher Colleen Saidman Yee started having trouble sleeping. She would settle into bed and then toss and turn, a ...

Take a playful approach to building strength and flexibility in your torso with John Schumacher Arm balances require more than Popeye’s strength. Just ask advanced Iyengar teacher John Schumacher. “Hardly anyone can muscle their way into arm balances,” he says. Schumacher describes some of his students as men who are strong ...

Ustrasana (Camel Pose) Benefits Creates length in your quadriceps and hamstring muscles; shows you what it feels like to press down with your feet to open your chest Instruction Step 1:Come to kneel on your shins and the tops of your feet. Step 2 : Lift your chest toward the ceiling, finding length in your ...

Matsyasana(Fish Pose)   Benefits Opens the shoulders and chest; softens the often-tight middle back; stretches the neck and thyroid; offers a balance of opening without grasping, and of relaxing without collapsing . Instruction 1) Sit in Dandasana (Staff Pose), with your legs extended in front of you and your spine long. 2) Slowly roll onto your back. Press ...

  It takes creativity and fearlessness to adventure into our heart’s deepest desires, and this Kundalini Yoga practice passed down by Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga, can help you find both. Through energetic movements that activate and strengthen the lower nerve plexus—the area below the navel that houses our ...

Body of knowledge: Feel more solid and grounded by strengthening your BIG TOES Sometimes the smallest adjustment makes all the difference in how comfortable and stable you feel in a yoga pose. Consider your big toes, for example. You may think they function unconsciously, especially during tasks such as balancing on ...

For many of you, chanting is the final frontier in finding your style and voice. Once you can confidently lead your students in a powerful chant, they'll feel a greater sense of connection within the community you've created. By Kelly McGonigal Connect to Your Power with Chants in Yoga Classes Although you and ...

Don’t make these simple mistakes.   If you’re putting the time and effort into showing up for your yoga practice on a daily basis, you want to make sure you’re not accidentally doing anything to sabotage all that goodness. After all, there are countless little things many of us don’t even think about ...

This twisting variation of Janu Sirsasana takes the classic forward bend to the next level of release. parivrtta = revolved janu = knee sirsa = head Revolved Side Angle Pose: Step-by-Step Instructions Step 1 Sit on the floor with your torso upright and your legs wide. Bend your left knee and snug the heel into your ...

Need a nap? Yoga nidra may be the key to feeling well-rested. Here’s how “yogic sleep” can be even more effective than conventional sleep. Each time you practice yoga nidra meditation, you’re stilling the waves of the mind through conscious entry into the sleep state. How? You start with sensing the body and ...