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How to Stop Competing in Your Yoga Practice

Yoga is about working on the inside and being where we are, at that moment.

Yoga In The Front Row

…. that moment that I have to face the truth…MY spot on the back row just left of center has been taken! And to make it worse, the only spots still open are in the front row.

Supermoon Salutations

Yoga Digest gets creative with a supermoon sequence of supermoon salutations. Click here to celebrate the supermoon – yoga style!

10 Ways Yoga Straps Can Deepen Your Practice

Props are for students who can’t do the “full pose”, right? Wrong! Rather than being training wheels for beginners to rely on, yoga props can deepen our practice in unexpected ways.

Shine Some Light on Reverse Warrior Pose!

Reverse Warrior Pose is an intense stretch along the side body. Click here to learn how to do it properly and the amazing benefits!

How to Avoid those Embarrassing Moments on Your Yoga Mat

Don’t overestimate your abilities. In yoga class the other day, the burly guy right behind me tumbled out of handstand and narrowly missed landing on me, his flailing feet grazing

The Basics of Sun Salutation A and Sun Salutation B

There are many ways to vary your sun salutations when you teach vinyasa yoga. What are the basics? Here are some simple postures to follow for sun salutation variations. Sun

The Synchronization of Breath & Movement: Cat/Cow

Cat/Cow It is very common to begin a yoga practice,  after the initial establishment of breath, by moving through cat and cow pose. With a nice stable base in table

For the Love of Yin

In our own daily lives, many of us tend to lean toward the yang side of the spectrum: working long hours, exercising hard, and moving along dynamically in a fast-paced world. Yin yoga is an opportunity to balance some of that active yang energy by nurturing stillness in the body.

5 Poses to Increase Flexibility

As we age, we lose water in our tissues and intervertebral discs, our muscles and tendons lose elasticity,  and we start to experience the all too familiar feeling of “stiffness