What Does Your Favorite Yoga Pose Say About You?
Every yogi has one particular pose you love above all others. It's the pose that you keep wishing the teacher would call out next. Here's a guide to what a propensity for a certain pose might have to say about you.
How to Get Comfortable in Uncomfortable Situations
I'll bet there is something you'd like to do that you've been putting off for a long time. Whatever it is, I'll also bet that a fear of awkwardness is one of the main things holding you back.
Finding the Best Yoga Class for You
Gyms, fitness studios, health clubs and wellness centers around the world are adding yoga classes to their schedules, but how do you find the right class for you?
Yoga for Detox
Most forms of vigorous exercise stimulate all three systems of elimination to some extent, thereby helping the body in its quest to detox. But yoga is particularly well-suited to keeping the waste-removal departments of the body functioning well.
How to Choose a Mind-Body Exercise
Are you looking for something different in your workouts—exercise that will engage your body and mind in a new way? Mind-body exercise is an increasingly popular choice.
Yoga-on-the-Go Guide
How many times during your last trip did the serene thought of a few rounds of Sun Salutation float into your mind? We’ve tracked down the most useful and portable yoga goods to help you keep up your practice while trekking the world.
Build Stress Resilience with Ayurveda
In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease and illness. Instead of stress reduction, Ayurveda prescribes a series of stress-prevention techniques.
Sculpting Your Arms with Yoga
Whether you’re already studying yoga or want to begin a practice, this discipline is arguably one of the best for sculpting your upper body into tank-top material.
Top 5 Ways to Lose More Weight with Your Existing Workout
You’ve established a healthy workout schedule, working up a sweat three to five times a week—but why aren’t you losing weight?
How I Stay So Happy: Q&A with Patricia Moreno
What keeps this powerhouse personal trainer so darned joyful — and how the rest of us can get our hands on whatever she eats for breakfast.
Kick Off Your Detox with a Restorative Twist
Twist your torso to help your body detox. Here’s how to do a restorative seated yoga twist to give your cleanse a gentle and painless jump-start.
Beat the Blues with Heart-Opening Yoga
Feeling blue? Yoga instructor Kate Hanley explains how to do simple yoga poses that open the chest -- a surprisingly simple and effective way to lift your mood.
How to Lose Weight with Yoga
Experts weigh in on the best ways to put specific yoga styles, poses and side-effects to work helping you lose weight and get healthier.
QUIZ: What Kind of Yogi Are You?
How can you find a yoga practice that suits your personal tastes, abilities, and quirks? Take this quiz to find the yoga style that appeals to your unique personality.
Never-Boring Yogawear Guide
From your top to your shoes to your yoga mat bag, fun and funky yoga fashion statements look cool-and-groovin' and work with your body and your style, on the mat or on the street.
10 Essential Yoga Poses: How-To + Video with Rodney Yee
Step-by-step instructions plus video how-to with yoga expert Rodney Yee for 10 essential yoga poses including Downward Dog, Warrior I, II and II, Cobra position, Triangle, Tree, Fish Pose and more.
6 Easy Ways to Work Healthier
From improving your ergonomics to reducing eye strain and releasing stress fast, these six tips and solutions can make your corner of the office a healthier place to be.
Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.
Cancer Survivors Thrive with Yoga
In Laura Kupperman’s Yoga for Survivors class, sore shoulders and tight hips are likely the least of students’ complaints. But here they find help with exactly what cancer has brought them today.
Om in a Combat Zone: Story of Two Women Marines
Downward Dog in a war zone? Amid surprise attacks and artillery fire in Iraq, two women Marines are creating their own peace with yoga.
Study: Ab Crunches Work 38% Better on a Ball
How and why using a ball can sculpt abs faster with less strain and effort — plus a how-to guide to three abs exercises supercharged with a stability ball or fitness ball.
Face Yoga: Fountain of Youth?
Face yoga students are abandoning face-lifts and Botox for Downward Dog. Here’s the good, the bad and the need-to-know on face yoga and its anti-aging benefits, plus four poses with photos and instructions to help you see if it’s for you.
Yoga Therapy: The Next Wave in Yoga
Can yoga fix your bum knee? Your bad back? Western doctors are referring patients to yoga therapy as an alternative to physical therapy. Here's what you need to know about this growing, but still fledgling, healthcare approach.
Improve Your Sex Life with Yoga
Yoga is a true physical and mental workout, so it's no surprise it can help you have better sex. Find out how Yoga can improve your sex life and make the next time a real mind-body experience.
Yoga as Cross-Training
Being physically fit today is about finding a physical and mental equilibrium that will allow you to be a lifetime athlete. Yoga may just be the yin you need for your yang.
Yoga & Men
What does yoga have to offer men? Acclaimed yoga instructor Rodney Yee discusses the benefits men can reap from this centuries-old practice.
Hoop Your Way to Weight Loss: Top 5 Tips from a Hoop Workout Expert
Hooping expert Betty 'Hoops' Shurin shares her best advice on how to get serious fitness results at home -- and have some serious fun -- with her Dance Hoop Workout for grownups.
Mariel Hemingway's Secrets to Healthy Living
In her new book, actress, yogi and survivor Mariel Hemingway shows you a 30-day plan to help you derive "more health, more peace and more pleasure" from the life you already have.
Why Conscious Fitness Is the Key to Losing Weight
We've all heard the phrase "No pain, no gain." But, as it turns out, huffing and puffing your way through a workout may not be the best way to burn off excess weight. Yoga and Pilates instructor Suzanne Deason gives her take on why mind-body fitness is more likely to help you take off pounds for good.
Which Styles of Yoga to Try?
Although most physical forms of yoga practice share similarities, knowing the nuances can help you get started on the right foot, fit your practice to your priorities and physical condition, expand your awareness and make your yoga practice more rewarding.
50 Ways to Reuse Your Yoga or Fitness Mat
Garage-band soundproofing, tree ornaments, crib mobiles, draft dodgers, workbench grippers ... We asked users to tell us about the resourceful, earth-conscious ways they reuse a yoga or fitness mat when it's time for a new one. Add your own ideas!
Ana Caban's Story: A Dancer's Evolution Into Pilates
Background on this wildly popular instructor whose work has been highlighted by Self and Pilates Style, and whose fans and clients can't praise her enough.
13 Pilates FAQs: Expert Ana Caban fills you in
What's with the torture devices? What are "hundreds"? Is this going to make your abs ache? The skinny on the fastest growing exercise method in America, from one of America's best-loved Pilates teachers.
Making Peace with Your Age: Patricia Walden's words of widsom
Yogi Patricia Walden shares how yoga supports a woman's body, mind and spirit through all the stages of her life, from puberty to child-bearing years to menopause. An excerpt from The Woman's Book of Yoga & Health.
Patricia Walden: Teaching the World What Saved Her Life
"We have the opportunity to find our Self with a capital "S" through yoga," says this revered yoga veteran. Featured in Time for her work with yoga and healing, Patricia takes special interest in yoga for women and for depression, sharing what finally turned her life around during a very dark period in her early adulthood.
Cameron Shayne: Sculpting Celebs, Cultivating Spirit
Bullied as a kid and inspired by episodes of "Kung Fu," Cameron was drawn early to the martial arts -- beginning (against a friend's advice) with taekwondo and its explosive, spinning kicking techniques. His diverse study and practice in Eastern mind-body arts inspired him to synergize yoga, martial arts and meditation to create his holistic Budokon training system, whose devotee list reads like People magazine: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Meg Ryan, Renee Russo ...
"Yoga was the key to the puzzle!"
After trying seemingly everything, Natasha lost 75 lbs. -- from 189 lbs. to 114 lbs., and from a size 20 to a size 4 -- by doing yoga and meditation at home. Here is her story in her own words.
Mariel Hemingway: Front and Centered
Finding peace wasn't always easy for Mariel Hemingway. In her book Finding My Balance, Mariel narrates a life story filled with painful memories compounded by a career that puts incredible pressure on women to look a certain way. But through yoga, Mariel was able to firmly plant her feet.
Study Shows Yoga Boosts Kids' Grades
A California State University study shows that yoga improves self-esteem, physical health and grade point averages among children.
Yoga boosts attendance, test scores at Accelerated School
Named 2001 School of the Year by Time magazine, this charter school in South Central Los Angeles -- one of the toughest, poorest, most gang-ridden regions in the country -- is earning high marks for its integration of culture and the arts into its curriculum. On the syllabus: yoga classes with Leah Kalish.
