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11 Ways to Improve Your Yoga Practice

October 23, 2018

The tradition of yoga holds great depth and diversity, providing us with endless opportunities to explore and grow. While improving strength and flexibility are two obvious places to focus in order to progress in yoga, there are many other, more subtle, paths and tools that can help you become more proficient in your practice. This list of 11 ways to improve your yoga practice is not meant to

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Asana: Yoga Poses

Explore over 125 yoga asanas in our yoga pose index. All of our posture pages have full instructions and multi-photo illustrations. Our four main categories of yoga poses are listed below, but you can find many others in our main section.

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Yoga and Meditation for Grieving

January 9, 2020

Grief is a healthy and natural response to loss and it’s something we all have to move through at some point in life. Grief can refer to the emotional pain of losing someone as well as the physical response which can include things like trouble sleeping, loss of appetite, extreme fatigue, and aches in the body. Yoga and meditation are excellent techniques to process feelings of grief. They

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Creating a Ritual for Your Home Yoga Practice

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When people hear the word ritual, they might envision an ornate ceremony, a favorite holiday or an elaborate religious service. But creating a ritual is something you can do in your own home. For example, perhaps you have a morning ritual as simple (and profound) as drinking your coffee or tea out of a favorite mug in silence. Or maybe you take 10 minutes to write or take a walk during your

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Yogic Wisdom

“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.” ⏤ Hatha Yoga Pradipika
“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.” ⏤ Gary Zukov
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, but hope for the patience to win my freedom.” ⏤ Rabindranath Tagore
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ⏤ Lao Tzu

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Rituals of the West mark the return of spring as a time to air out and scrub our homes. After hibernating for months, most of us welcome a breath of fresh air and the chance to toss out winter’s clutter. The Western tradition of spring cleaning suggests that cleansing starts on the outside, whereas ancient yogic traditions emphasized that cleaning starts on the inside. When we purify our

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