Featured Yoga Articles
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Building A Strong Foundation Starts With Your Feet!
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Referring to the integral structure of any construction - the... -
The Yoga Sutras: Climbing the Ladder Of Involution
Making major changes in your life can sometimes feel like waging an inner battle, especially when trying to transform unhelpful but powerful habits. It’s a human condition that Patanjali addressed 2,000 years ago in Yoga Sutras... -
New Study Touts Yoga’s Benefits For Breast Cancer Survivors
Yogis love to proselytize, but nothing emboldens the yoga community more than when a major medical study corroborates what yogis already know: that yoga does the body good. Add to the growing body of evidence a... -
5 Ways To Find a Balanced Yoga Practice
Under the influence of the widespread health and fitness trend in today’s society, more strong, fast-paced vinyasa style yoga classes are being offered. After sampling 14 classes during a 5 day stay in New York City... -
Brahmacharya: Self-Control Or A Search For Truth?
Compounding the outcry around Lululemon’s hypodermic-laced Brahmacharya shopping totes is a blog post by Lulu employee Sandy Wei, who observes that without Brahmacharya, she’d overeat, play with puppies, take selfies, indulge in excess social media, and... -
Does “Yoga Body” Contribute to Self-Objectification?
Recent blogs have deplored objectifying media depictions of the “yoga body,” a taut, flexible, and slim physique that’s the perceived result of yoga practice. However, Jennifer Daubenmier in 2004 found yoga to be associated with lower... -
The Importance Of Having a Practice Community
A practice community, sometimes known as a sangha in Buddhist circles, is a group of people that support you in your chosen lifestyle. Most often this support comes as a result of a shared set of... -
Spring Cleaning: Get Back In Balance
As spring approaches, you may feel the urge to set the stage for new growth by cleaning house or cleansing the physical body. Shaucha or purity is one of the foundational principles of yoga, and ancient...
Yoga News and Opinion
Get To Know Your SI Joints!
Remember singing Dem Bones when you were a wee tyke? “The hipbone’s connected to the backbone” isn’t a bad beginning to anatomy lessons, but for those who practice asana, a few more details are helpful. The part of the backbone where the hipbones connect is the sacrum, and the connection is the sacroiliac joint, or SI joint for short. Refining your awareness of the...
Is Yoga Research Tantamount to Discredited Prayer Research?
Slate contributor Brian Palmer recently dubbed yoga “the new prayer: the risk-free, cost-free solution to all of your medical problems.” Scientific evidence to date, contends Palmer, is vastly outpaced by the cultural myth of yoga’s effectiveness, and yoga’s benefits are unlikely to outperform those of exercise. Yet while yoga and prayer have shared origins in spiritual or religious traditions, there are wide-ranging implications should...
Are We “Abusing the Buddha?”
Mindfulness is all the rage, if you haven’t noticed; since January, related articles have been published in Time Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Yet does popularity come with a price? Buddhist teacher and social activist Michael Stone is concerned that the secularization of mindfulness and dissemination to “institutions of organized violence” (i.e., military, police) sacrifices the ethics of traditional...
New in Yoga Lifestyle
Should You Try A Gluten-Free Diet?
Over the last several years, “gluten-free” has become a ubiquitous term and a rapidly expanding specialty food category. Yet, there...
What Is a Sattvic Diet?
Have you ever noticed the effects of the food you have eaten on your yoga practice? Obviously some foods create...
What Kind Of Yoga Practice Fits Your Dosha?
Yoga asana is the main yogic tool for balancing the physical body and creating a flow of energy that enables...
Be Inspired to Practice Yoga!
Be Inspired To Pick Up and Jump Back!
In this beautifully produced video, ashtanga yoga practitioner Paige Warthen demos and discusses how to do the “picking up and...
Awesome Half Moon Sequence Video
This time lapse video of yoga teacher Christine Genge has filled me with enough inspiration to last months, and some...
Fun Yoga Sequence Video from Australia
Siberian born power vinyasa teacher Masha G. has filmed a short, fun, inspiring, and challenging yoga sequence. Shot in Victoria, Australia, the...
Yoga Reviews
Antarayaami – Knower of All Hearts by Nina Rao
Nina Rao started singing Sanskrit bhajans when she was 9 years old, learning from her grandfather in India....
The Mantra Project, Vol. One: Daughter of the Mountain
Yoga, meditation and chanting teacher Suzin Green’s fourth album is intricate, ethereal and delightful. I’m excited that Daughter...
Tending the Heart Fire by Shiva Rea
I expected the first book from yoga superstar Shiva Rea to be filled with flowing yoga sequences and physical...
Yoga for Beginners
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...
What You Need to Start Yoga
One of the great things about yoga is that you don't really need anything to practice yoga. But we do...
Why Practice Yoga at Home?
Home yoga practice: we all know we should be doing it, but why bother, when we could just attend a...
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