Fixes for Envy: Using Your Yoga Practice and the Sutras
Recognize when criticism turns into envy and use the yoga sutras and your yoga practice to figure out how to handle it.
The moment was a perfectly ordinary one in Pat's life. She and a friend were discussing their mutual acquaintance, Emily—a mother of two who manages a nonprofit while getting ...
How to Use Ayurveda to Get Healthier Every Time You Eat
Ayurvedic experts offer five simple tips that you can start using now to improve your digestion—and your health.
Last year, I spent a week at an Ayurvedic spa in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains and learned immediately that in Ayurveda, the quality of your digestion is the biggest key to your ...
Locust Pose (Salabhasana): Step by Step
Salabhasana or Locust Pose effectively preps beginners for deeper backbends, strengthening the back of the torso, legs, and arms.
Grouped among the so-called “baby backbends,” which includes Dhanurasana (Bow Pose) and Sea Monster Pose (described in the Variations section below), it is an unassuming pose that, like other seemingly simple poses, ...
Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-kindness Meditation
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
(Scroll down if you want to learn how to do the metta meditation)
By Sylvia Boorstein
Loving-kindness, listed ninth in the traditional list of the 10 Perfections of the Heart (also known as the ...
Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose(Viparita Karani): Step by Step
There's a general consensus among modern yogis that Viparita Karani or Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose may have the power to cure whatever ails you.
(vip-par-ee-tah car-AHN-ee)
viparita = turned around, reversed, inverted
karani = doing, making, action
Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose: Step-by-Step Instructions
The pose described here is a passive, supported variation of the Shoulderstand-like Viparita Karani. For your ...
What I Learned About Relationships After Road-Tripping with a Total Stranger
Yup, these two yogis hopped in a van and embarked on life on the road for six months. As he makes his way through the tour's fourth stop in Tampa, ambassador Jeremy Falk reflects on the yoga of relationship and shares two ways to maintain a working friendship that’s mindful, ...
6 Surprising Lessons I Learned on a Silent Meditation Retreat
Using three pillows, two blankets, and a floor chair with back support, I have built the perfect meditation throne. It is Day 2 of my week-long silent meditation retreat and I am ready to drop in for the morning session. Fifteen minutes into it, everything goes to pot. My shoulders ...
What If You Tried These 3 Tips to Grow Into the Best Version of Yourself?
If you want to reach your full potential, Baron Baptiste suggests starting with self-inquiry.
The act of being open to discovering something you haven’t seen before is the first step in turning your life into something greater. But you have to know where to look. The best place is within. I call ...
Tao Porchon-Lynch Shares 7 Secrets to Aging Gracefully
The best part? You can incorporate all of these insights into your own daily practices, starting today.
Tao Porchon-Lynch just turned 100. Here’s am inside look at how the oldest living yogi lives.
Secret No. 1: Wake up before the sun. “I wake up before the sun rises because I like to ...
5 Secrets to Help You Quit Comparing Your Body to Others During Yoga Class
It can be tough to stop sizing yourself up next to everyone else in the yoga studio—despite knowing that yoga isn’t about comparing your poses to those of other yogis. Here’s how to finally let that go and start focusing on your own practice.
Learn how to stop comparing yourself to ...
Intense Side Stretch Pose (Parsvottanasana): Step by Step
Intense Side Stretch Pose is done with the hands on the floor.
(parsh-voh-tahn-AHS-anna)
parsva = side, flank
ut = intense
tan = to stretch or extend (compare the Latin verb tendere, “to stretch or extend”)
Intense Side Stretch Pose: Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1
Stand in Tadasana. With an exhalation, step or lightly jump your feet 3½ ...
How to Attract Contentment with Judith Hanson Lasater
In this dharma "talk," Judith Hanson Lasater delves into the paradox of santosha.
In 1991, I took my second trip to Moscow to teach yoga. On our first day there, I was sitting with a group of American yoga teachers, having lunch in the cafeteria in our hotel, when we were ...