Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom
Gentle, evidence-informed movement and guidance, gathered under one pillar.
What Is Yoga? A Beginner's Guide to Starting Well
Never unrolled that mat you bought? This straightforward beginner's guide covers what yoga is, what it does for you, and how to get started the right way.
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Yamas and niyamas - what do yoga's ten ethical guidelines actually teach? They come before the poses, and many students never hear about the...
After class ends and the mat rolls up, yoga keeps working on you. See how a daily practice reaches into the rest of your life.
The red pen had been living in the mug with the dead highlighters for months, and I grabbed it without thinking. The journal page looked lik...
I propped my phone against the water bottle and got the mat in the frame, the purple so new it still had the fold-crease down the middle. Th...
Yoga in the United States has grown fast - new students, new teachers, new studios. That growth raises ethical questions every student and t...
The columns had seventeen rows now, each possibility branched into sub-possibilities, the pen's blue ink gone thin where she'd pressed too h...
Go deeper than the postures - Patanjali's Yoga Sutras map the eight-limbed path, and this beginner's guide walks you through the basics.
The leather was cracked along the spine, the color of old mustard, and it fell open to October because that must have been the month he reac...
Tight shoulders, stalled creativity, and swallowed words all point to the same source in yogic tradition -
The navel chakra is, in yogic tradition, the energy center behind your belly button - home to both that hollow, unsettled feeling in your gu...