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This Year's Winter Harvest Takes the Cake

Celebration calls for cake

Pride and Joy

is teaching us to honor our highest selves—and tearing down patriarchal ideology in the process.

Trending Question: Can You Actually Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor?

Do Kegels really work?

Yoga Helped Me Master the Art of Sucking at Snowboarding

How yoga helped a budding snowboarder

Heal THY-SELF?

A new trend promises better mental wellness without the help of Western medicine. Is it unsafe—or just what we need?

Finding Enchantment in Imperfectness Can Heal Us All

Look intently with Beauty Hunting

Brainspotting Therapy Helped Me Find My Blind Spots—and Face Them Head-On

Brainspotting Therapy Helped Me Find My Blind Spots—and Face Them Head-On

5 Mindful Tips to Beat Stress and Boost Your Immune System

Feeling strong and often uncomfortable emotions during challenging times is completely natural. And while it may be tempting to suppress anger, sadness, grief, and frustration, mental health experts say that doing so can physically stress your body and negatively impact your immunity and well-being.

A Sequence for Liberating Your Soul

My name is Alicia Crysta Easter, which means “noble anointed one of dawn.” (ostre was a Germanic goddess of spring.) I am the daughter of Cynthia Geneva Lawson and granddaughter of Eleanor Cecilia Lawson. I am a yogi, Black woman, teacher, podcast host, candle designer, liberator, Black joy beam, writer, facilitator, lover, sister, and friend. I stand on the shoulders of the 10,000 ancestors who came before me, and I do not take my presence here lightly. I am honored to be a pair of shoulders to stand on for those who come after me. My ability to fully claim who I am came through the practice of yoga.

4 Steps to Help Manage Overwhelming Emotions

This challenging year has depleted our emotional well-being in unpredictable ways. During times like these, failing to remember our innate unbreakable wholeness—and its qualities of indestructible joy and peace—can cause us to overidentify with our emotional responses. Our egos may translate physical illness, emotional trauma, or even day-to-day challenges as “something’s wrong with me.”

Struggling with Self-Promotion? How I Learned to Unleash My Voice with Authenticity and Ease

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The Ultimate Guide To an Injury-Free Practice

Yoga can be a source of deep healing. It can also cause injuries or irritate existing sore areas. We asked some of the world’s leading yoga teachers how to practice safely—now, and for years to come.

We Tried Dopamine Fasting, and It Helped Us Appreciate the Present

Amid a pandemic, it’s traveling at warp speed.

The Power of Placebo

The placebo effect remains one of medicine’s greatest mysteries. Here’s what we know about how it works and how we can use it to help our bodies heal.

Is Partner Yoga the New Couples Therapy?

No pair is immune to the challenges of coupledom. While counseling may be the typical go-to resource for guidance, some counselors with yoga backgrounds are taking sessions to the mat, encouraging people to bolster their relationships with asana, pranayama, and meditation through partner yoga therapy.

10 Questions With Jemel McWilliams

The Emmy-nominated artistic director and choreographer is the creative genius behind some of Lizzo’s, Janelle Monáe’s, and John Legend’s best dance moves. Now, amid worldwide tour cancellations, his yoga and meditation practices are helping him keep both feet on the ground.

Yoga Nidra for Releasing Grief

Meditation

STANDING TALL

Criminal justice advocate Steven Medeiros is taking life's challenges in stride.

Rise and Shine with Whole-Wheat Muffins

Sweet or Savory Maple Squash Muffins

The Qi of Food

For thousands of years, classical Chinese medicine has used nutrition to treat imbalances. Here, we make the practice’s principles of energetics-based dietary therapy more digestible.

Harmony at Home

Use principles of Vastu, the ancient system of architecture and design, to make your home a healing sanctuary.

Yoga – Home Practice

Cool Down with Pitta-Balancing Moves and Refreshing Summer Eats

The Long Jump Ahead

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Tianna Bartoletta’s dreams for the 2020 Games were derailed by injury, illness, and the global pandemic. Now, she’s ready to defend her title.

Engage Your Subtle Body with Energy Medicine Yoga

I found Energy Medicine (EM) two decades ago during a particularly dark period in my life.

Thrive

Understanding the Gunas— the Three Energetic Qualities That Make up All of Life— Can Help You Find Balance and Insight

This Ancient Mantra Meditation Can Curb Stress in Just 20 Minutes

Vedic Meditation is a technique that traces its roots to the Vedas, ancient Indian texts that are the foundation for yoga and Ayurveda.

Beat Smoothie Fatigue with These Immunity Boosting Breakfast Pops

Reinvent the breakfast parfait by freezing its basic ingredients

The Key to Releasing Stress and Paving the Way to Better Poses? Caring for Your Psoas

If you sit a lot, your hip flexors, including your psoas major, may be tight. You may feel a profound release after working with High Lunge or a variation of Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose, in which you rest your calves on a chair seat.

Pranayama to Soothe Frazzled Nerves and Cultivate Clarity

Your breath provides a window into your current energetic state: Shallow, labored breaths, like those you experience during a tough workout, indicate an activated, heated sympathetic nervous system (your fight-flight-freeze response).

Facing The Music

Remembering the revolutionary sound that helped bring meditation to the West.