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  • Can Yoga Prevent Dementia?

    It’s a well-known fact that yoga and meditation can be incredibly beneficial for the brain. However, until recently, little was understood about the relationship between yoga and dementia. Recent studies have shown that yoga may be...

  • How Yoga is Helping Prison Inmates

    Statistics show that roughly 65 percent of inmates return to prison within the first three years after their release. Overcrowded prisons and a lack of rehabilitation services makes it difficult, if not impossible, for inmates to...

  • A Yogi’s Guide to Finding your Dharma

    The primary quest of a yogi is to discover, follow, and live their dharma. The essence of dharma (right action or duty) is doing the right thing and doing it all the time. This “right thing”...

  • Demystifying Om: Origins, Benefits, and Alternatives

    For many the iconic image of a yoga class is a group of people chanting “om,” the oldest Sanskrit mantra used to focus the mind and connect to the divine. While chanting om can be a...

  • Finding a Yoga Teacher Who Resonates with You

    Remember that yoga class you took years ago that just blew your mind? The one where you left feeling that you had finally found what you were searching for; that elusive sense of inner connection, a...

  • Trending: Silent Yoga Discos

    When I arrived to my first Silent Yoga Disco, it looked deceitfully innocent. Yogis sat patiently on Baker Beach, the Golden Gate Bridge glistening behind them. It looked like the average outdoor yoga class, but I...

  • Breathing Through the Challenges of Pranayama

    Pranayama, breathing exercises that are an integral part of hatha yoga, are too often pushed to the outskirts of a practice. As a teacher I rarely incorporate specific breathing exercises into my classes other than Ujjayi...

  • Qualities of Great Yoga Teachers

    A friend of mine once told me that a yoga teacher’s job is not to teach students their practice but to guide them through their own. As a seasoned yogi and certified teacher, this got me...
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Yoga News & Opinion

The Roundup! Breastfeeding, Goats, and BallerYoga

This month's yoga link roundup includes stories that are funny, unusual, and serious. Sometimes we need a mix of all...

Breathing Deep: Yoga Practice in the Salt Cave

Salt has medically documented and proven healing properties, but the idea that just sitting in a room filled with salt...

The Best New Music for Yoga: September Edition

This month’s collection of music for yoga is quite the eclectic mix. Most of these albums were not written specifically...

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Yoga Philosophy in Action

Beauty and Abundance: Invoking Lakshmi in Your Yoga Practice

In the Hindu pantheon, the mother goddess Lakshmi is a symbol of beauty, prosperity and good fortune. The wife and...

The Art Of Practicing Self-Compassion

According to the Yoga Sutras (1.33), one way to purify the mind and increase serenity is to practice compassion (karuna)...

Meditation: From Dharana into Dhyana

As many who have tried meditation probably know, the journey to stillness requires a lot of patience. The scriptures of...

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The Importance of a Daily Yoga Practice

My youngest daughter is fond of saying: “If you want to be a runner, you have to run; and if...

Breathing in Asana

Our natural tendency is to hold the breath or use stress induced breathing (short and shallow) while holding a posture,...

7 Tips For Minding Your Yoga Manners

Is my mat welcome in class? It’s a question each of us might ask, whether we’re unrolling our yoga mats...

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Mindfulness and Meditation

Yoga and Meditation Linked to Enhanced Brain Functionality

Lost your keys—again? You aren’t alone. After unknowingly dropping my keys in a return shipment, I (luckily!) received them in...

Why Silence is More than Lack of Noise

Yogis are no strangers to silence. When we sit in meditation, lay down for savasana, or just pause to take...

Change Your Brain through Meditation

Western medical scientific research is finding ways to prove that meditation results in physiological changes. Beyond smoothing the never-ending waves...

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Video: When Kids Try Yoga for the First Time

Studies have shown that kids who engage in yoga are more in-tune with their bodies and emotions. Perhaps, they are slightly funnier...

Inspiring Video: Yoga Beyond the Poses

In this beautifully produced video, yoga teacher Kino MacGregor practices Ashtanga yoga along a river in India as soothing chanting plays in...

Inspiring Video: Yoga on the rooftop

Yet again well-known yoga photographer and videographer Alessandro Sigismondi captures the beautiful grace of movement with his video: Yoga on...

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New to Yoga?

To get the most out of our site, we suggest you take some time to explore before jumping into the practice. Browse our yoga 101 section for general info on the history and types of yoga, then start exploring asanas the physical postures used in hatha yoga. Remember to breathe and always start your yoga practice with a brief meditation. If you are new to yoga, please read our Yoga for Beginner's page

Ahimsa / Non-Violence

Ahimsa, the yogic practice of non violence must be adhered to when engaging in the practice of hatha yoga. Respect your body's limitations and inner wisdom, if something feels wrong or dangerous, please do not do it. Please consult your health care practitioner before starting a yoga, pranayama or other exercise program.

Yogic Wisdom

The challenge, and the opportunity, that Yoga presents to us is the possibility of breaking the conditioning cycle. We do this by becoming aware of the depth and pervasiveness of our patterns and, at the same time, by working to change them. And true transformation begins at the moment that we become aware of our actual condition.
- Gary Kraftsow

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