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Everybody wants to be happy. So why do so many of us feel dissatisfied? There’s a variety of reasons that we might feel unhappy or unfulfilled. But in my experience,...

Our breath is like the flywheel that controls and regulates all our physiological processes. The rhythm of our breath regulates our heartbeat, among other things. This, in turn, affects our...

Have you fallen away from your yoga practice? It happens to almost everyone. We get busier. Our schedules shift and we can’t make it to our favorite class. Our favorite...

People come in all shapes, sizes and levels of strength and flexibility. Because of this, B.K.S. Iyengar invented yoga props to help everyone achieve comfort and steadiness in various poses....

Like pretty much everything in yoga culture, there are lots of opinions about how to name yoga poses. Teachers with a more traditional bent often prefer Sanskrit pose names. Newer...

  I began practicing yoga in my mid-20s, way back in 1982. I’ve practiced continuously since then. A whole lot has changed over the decades. In popular terms, today’s yoga...

I remember the first time I was able to hold myself up in Chaturanga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose). After spending a year struggling with lifting my body off the floor,...

What does a yoga community look like? If you go by photos on social media, you’re likely to picture endless sea of yoga mats, their occupants performing mirror-image poses of...

Spring and fall are more than simply transition seasons. While they may often seem way too short, they’re the times when we who live in temperate climates can enjoy the...

Why practice yoga? There is a multitude of different answers to this question. As with any longterm relationship, over time, our practice evolves; it ebbs and flows. Sometimes our practice...

One of the most common questions I hear from new students of mindfulness practice is, “Sitting meditation is really uncomfortable for me. What should I do?” Like anything else, there...

Yoga first became popular in the U.S. in the 1960s. While I was not privy to the practice back then, several friends did practice during that first wave. Judith Hanson...