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Explore yoga tips, poses, meditation guides, and gear insights from Hugger Mugger. Learn, deepen your practice, and find inspiration for your yoga journey.
Stepping Back from Anger
Stepping back from anger isn’t easy. When people who you love are taken from life too soon or when life doesn’t go as planned,...
Meatless Monday: Chopped Kale Salad
The greens in my back yard are at their peak now. With 12 kale plants ready for picking, it’s kale salad season again. I...
Stand TALL
I’ve often wondered about my attraction to sunflowers. I think they attract me because they’re tall, bright, beautiful and come in so many varieties,...
Meatless Monday: Garden Pizza
A few days ago I opened my last pint of garden tomato sauce. Last fall, I made two different kinds of sauce with overflow...
How to Use a Pranayama Pillow
One of the first bolster-type pillows that Hugger Mugger made back in the 1980s was the pranayama bolster. Made to BKS Iyengar’s specifications, the...
Carving a Path into the Unknown
How do you carve a path into the unknown? Stepping into the unknown—whether it’s a new pose or a new stage in our lives—is...
Pranayama: Linking Body and Mind
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali outline an eight-limbed framework for yoga practice. These limbs, in their written order, include: Yama: Ethical precepts, including non-harming,...
Setting Intention
Make a Vision Board! Many of us set intentions before we begin our yoga practice, start a new year, or even at a new...
Meatless Monday: Spring Galette
I love trying new recipes and new techniques. Today’s Meatless Monday recipe includes several new techniques—using a mandoline and making crust in a food...
Sustainable Yoga Practice
Happy Earth Day! This Friday, April 22nd, we’ll celebrate the spectacular planet we live on and recommit to living in a way that allows...
Celebrate Earth Day with Hugger Mugger!
On April 22, 1970, the modern environmental movement was born. The very first Earth Day, conceived by then-Senator Gaylord Nelson, drew 20 million activists...
Meatless Monday: An Unusual, but Magical Combination
When I first saw this recipe in Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, I was intrigued. I wasn't sure how this unusual combination of...