Beyond The Mat

Partner yoga can provide a fresh perspective. Whether you are practicing with your honey or your best friend, working with another person helps you change preconceptions about what you can...

Now is the time to set a foundation for your practice that will keep building and growing for the next 51 weeks, even when you don’t believe it.  Remember, yoga is...

Runners can use their yoga practice to balance strength, increase the range of motion, and train the body and mind.  Breath is a prime example.  Yoga focuses so intently on...

You don’t have to be in a national park or a flower garden to use the outdoors to enrich your practice. Just being outside of the place you usually practice...

Recently somebody crossed me. They belittled me, put me down and attacked me. (well it felt like an attack at the time although I did admit after to being a...

Maybe you’re one of the millions more who feel frustrated or stuck in an unhappy place in your life. It may seem you have no choices. Yoga is a powerful...

Whether you meditate regularly or not, you’re familiar with the power of a word or phrase to focus yourself.  In many yogic traditions, mantas are held to have a power...

Due to their larger size, many men have a hard time staying on their yoga mats.  With Yoga Paws, you don't need to worry about fitting on a mat, because a mat is not...

It’s a sense of physical deadlock that can go on for what seems like forever until you’ve labeled yourself the student who can’t touch her nose to her knees or...

Before you promise yourself that THIS will be the year you lose weight, stop smoking, get your Registered Yoga Teacher Certification, or visit India, set aside a few hours during...

Yoga can be a powerful tool for putting eating in its proper—and honored—place in life. A recent study led by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center showed that...

Yogic breathwork and asanas help calm mind, body, and spirit. Recent studies suggest that yoga increases alpha waves that are associated with relaxation. It also reduces cortisol, the hormone released...