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Take Om Home

Squaw Valley Ski Resort—high above Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains—is Wanderlust country: Home to the Festival’s 2009 debut, it’s a perfect stomping ground to recalibrate your inner compass. Use these tips from area locals to make the most of summer’s bounty. 

Chrissy Carter

YJ’s cover model talks about her YogaWorks teacher trainings, the definition of self-care, and the mind-body benefi ts of asana.

Learn How To Stay Zen About Your Finances

Our relationship with our finances can spark attachment, avoidance, envy, fear, and more. But when you approach money with the same consciousness you bring to your yoga practice, your financial life can offer profound personal insight and wisdom.

Want to Make Lasting Friends? Try Yoga!

Spending quality time with family, friends, and community - while also staying open to new relationships - is the secret to a happy, healthy life. One of the most powerful ways to forge more vital, lasting connections: yoga.

How To Find Your Neutral

ONE KEY TO FULLY STEPPING INTO YOUR TRUE RESTING NEUTRAL, or at-the-ready neutral—rather than something in-between—is learning how to access the balls of your feet.

Calm WIthin

Calm within Cultivate equanimity in the face of life’s ups and downs, and find deeper access to joy. 

How To Live More Fully

A meditation on impermanence showed teacher Max Strom how to make the most of his life.

Sara Clark

Yoga and mindfulness teacher and this month’s cover model talks haircuts, power, and the value of practice.

Healing Stones

Gems and crystals aren’t just eye candy; they’realso said to bestow healing properties on contact. Tap their powers with these gem-infused products for face and body. 

Kat Fowler

YJ’s cover model talks about fi nding yoga, the realities of self-doubt, and the pure joy that is Nutella.

Chasing Contentment

Seek it and it will evade you. Wait for it, and it’s more likely to come. Judith Hanson Lasater explains the paradox of santosha.

Love In A Dumpling

A LOT OF PEOPLE FIND GOD IN PRAYER, meditation, asana, and service. Fair enough. I found God in dumplings.

Meet Your Next Teacher - Rodney Yee

The iconic yoga teacher— who pioneered accessible asana practices through the creation of instructional DVDs—has become an ardent advocate of restorative yoga, body-scan meditation, and pranayama.

The Art Of Impermanence

How to live more fully by learning to let go.

Treat Yourself

Yoga teacher Noah Mazé, founder of Yogamazé yoga school in Los Angeles, shares his favorite scone recipe. Make a whole batch to share with loved ones over the holidays, or bake a few to enjoy now, and freeze the dough for later.

Fine-Tune Your Life

The four aims are the pillars of a fulfilling life. In this self-inquiry practice by Sally Kempton, you’ll consider where your current priorities lie and how you need to shift them to create a deeply satisfying life. Don’t worry about getting your whole life in order at once; do the exercise each week, and you’ll become more in tune with yourself, more present with the world around you.

Embodying The Sutra

As interpreted by Rodney Yee

Cheat, Drink, & Still Shrink

Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau.

All-Day Ayurveda

No time for yourself? No problem. India’s ancient system of medicine offers quick morning and evening self-care rituals to help you balance your energy and boost your health.

How To Be More Mindful At Work

Meditation teacher and the best-selling author of Real Happiness shares ways to find fulfillment at work—even in jobs we may never love.

5 Steps To Make 2016 Your Year!

Forget typical self-improvement resolutions they simply don’t last. What does? Harnessing one of yoga’s profound formulas for setting the right intention and achieving your heart’s desire.

Jessamyn Stanley

This North Carolina–based teacher and Instagram star is changing the perception of what a yogi looks like.

United by Yoga

Next time you take a yoga class, notice who’s in the room. Chances are it’s a pretty homogeneous crowd (read: white and thin with disposable income, mostly female). But the benefits of the practice know no boundaries of race, gender, size, physical ability, or socioeconomic status. Here, the deeply personal stories of four pioneers who, inspired by their own unique experiences with yoga, are changing the face of the practice and uniting us all in the process.

Meet Your Next Teacher : Shiva Rea

SHIVAREA, THIS MONTH’S FEATURED TEACHER in Yoga Journal’s new online Master Class series, calls herself a movement alchemist. Since earning her master’s degree in world arts and cultures and dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, Rea has spent 25 years honoring and adapting yoga and other ancient movement practices so that her students can experience “a connection to movement meditation in a universal way.” She also developed Prana Flow Vinyasa, which has roots in Krishnamacharya’s yoga system. Here, Rea shares her love of Sun Salutations, a focus of her Master Class with YJ. Read on for her inspiring story and an exclusive practice.

Get to Know Your Glutes

 A strong, supportive bottom is key to a safe, pain-free practice. Here’s what you need to know about the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus muscles; why our sedentary lifestyles are overstretching them; and how to use your yoga practice to balance your backside. 

Meet Your Next Teacher

Sri Dharma Mittra landed in New York City in 1964 and watched firsth and as yoga went from an obscure practice to a commercial mainstay. At 77 years old, he has a few things to say about what he’s witnessed and how yoga is a practice for all ages. We asked him to share his views on the evolution of yoga, and why, as the once-master of contorted asana (see his legendary poster, the Master Yoga Chart of 908 Asanas), he now places so much emphasis on yoga nidra, or yogic sleep.

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Express Yourself

Try this sequence to connect to your authentic Self.

How To Go With The Flow

Wish you were better able to accept hot and cold, noisy and silent, joy and sorrow? Cyndi Lee shows us how.

Salad Days: This Summer, Liven Up Your Plate

This summer, liven up your plate and your palate with these fresh, delicious, and fabulously filling concoctions from new cookbook Around the World in 120 Salads—a global tour of the planet’s tastiest greens, grains, and proteins.