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Find The Perfect Yoga Prop To Support A Strong And Healthy Back

There’s a tool at your local hardware store that can be the perfect yoga prop to support a strong and healthy back— especially if you suffer from pain or other issues.

Try An Ayurvedic Cleanse. Bring On The Ghee!

What really happens when you eat according to the seasons and down ghee straight from the jar every morning? Yoga Journal’s digital strategist, Samantha Trueheart, reports.

Jessamyn Stanley

This North Carolina–based teacher and Instagram star is changing the perception of what a yogi looks like.

Kat Fowler

YJ’s cover model talks about fi nding yoga, the realities of self-doubt, and the pure joy that is Nutella.

Chasing Contentment

Seek it and it will evade you. Wait for it, and it’s more likely to come. Judith Hanson Lasater explains the paradox of santosha.

Love In A Dumpling

A LOT OF PEOPLE FIND GOD IN PRAYER, meditation, asana, and service. Fair enough. I found God in dumplings.

Meet Your Next Teacher - Rodney Yee

The iconic yoga teacher— who pioneered accessible asana practices through the creation of instructional DVDs—has become an ardent advocate of restorative yoga, body-scan meditation, and pranayama.

The Art Of Impermanence

How to live more fully by learning to let go.

Treat Yourself

Yoga teacher Noah Mazé, founder of Yogamazé yoga school in Los Angeles, shares his favorite scone recipe. Make a whole batch to share with loved ones over the holidays, or bake a few to enjoy now, and freeze the dough for later.

Fine-Tune Your Life

The four aims are the pillars of a fulfilling life. In this self-inquiry practice by Sally Kempton, you’ll consider where your current priorities lie and how you need to shift them to create a deeply satisfying life. Don’t worry about getting your whole life in order at once; do the exercise each week, and you’ll become more in tune with yourself, more present with the world around you.

Embodying The Sutra

As interpreted by Rodney Yee

Cheat, Drink, & Still Shrink

Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau.

Space To Breathe

Celebrating five years of service, the nonprofit Exhale to Inhale brings free, trauma-informed yoga classes to rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters in New York and California.

Take Om Home

Squaw Valley Ski Resort—high above Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains—is Wanderlust country: Home to the Festival’s 2009 debut, it’s a perfect stomping ground to recalibrate your inner compass. Use these tips from area locals to make the most of summer’s bounty. 

Meet Your Next Teacher : Shiva Rea

SHIVAREA, THIS MONTH’S FEATURED TEACHER in Yoga Journal’s new online Master Class series, calls herself a movement alchemist. Since earning her master’s degree in world arts and cultures and dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, Rea has spent 25 years honoring and adapting yoga and other ancient movement practices so that her students can experience “a connection to movement meditation in a universal way.” She also developed Prana Flow Vinyasa, which has roots in Krishnamacharya’s yoga system. Here, Rea shares her love of Sun Salutations, a focus of her Master Class with YJ. Read on for her inspiring story and an exclusive practice.

Meet Your Next Teacher

Sri Dharma Mittra landed in New York City in 1964 and watched firsth and as yoga went from an obscure practice to a commercial mainstay. At 77 years old, he has a few things to say about what he’s witnessed and how yoga is a practice for all ages. We asked him to share his views on the evolution of yoga, and why, as the once-master of contorted asana (see his legendary poster, the Master Yoga Chart of 908 Asanas), he now places so much emphasis on yoga nidra, or yogic sleep.

Chrissy Carter

YJ’s cover model talks about her YogaWorks teacher trainings, the definition of self-care, and the mind-body benefi ts of asana.

Rachel Brathen

YJ’s cover model talks about motherhood, #metoo, and the future of yoga (and it’s not online or on social media).

Tapping The Source

I SAT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE WOODEN PEW with my hands crossed in my lap and started repeating Hail Marys out of habit. It’s practically impossible to go to Malta, a tiny island country just 50 miles south of Sicily, without visiting more than a few of its 359 churches. And, apparently for me, it was also impossible to sit in one of the country’s most beautiful cathedrals and not pray, despite it having been more than 20 years since I’d gone to church regularly.

Embodying The Sutra

As interpreted by Erika Halweil

How To Find Your Neutral

ONE KEY TO FULLY STEPPING INTO YOUR TRUE RESTING NEUTRAL, or at-the-ready neutral—rather than something in-between—is learning how to access the balls of your feet.

Calm WIthin

Calm within Cultivate equanimity in the face of life’s ups and downs, and find deeper access to joy. 

How To Live More Fully

A meditation on impermanence showed teacher Max Strom how to make the most of his life.

Sara Clark

Yoga and mindfulness teacher and this month’s cover model talks haircuts, power, and the value of practice.

Healing Stones

Gems and crystals aren’t just eye candy; they’realso said to bestow healing properties on contact. Tap their powers with these gem-infused products for face and body. 

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Express Yourself

Try this sequence to connect to your authentic Self.

How To Go With The Flow

Wish you were better able to accept hot and cold, noisy and silent, joy and sorrow? Cyndi Lee shows us how.

Teaching Moments

The nonprofit Khushi Charitable Society offers free schooling, meals, and health care support to kids from low-income families in Rishikesh, India.

Reflections From The Road

Yoga teachers and students share lessons they've learned through traveling.