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How to Pick a Yoga Style That Matches Your Energy Level - article
Yoga Styles How to Pick a Yoga Style That Matches Your Energy Level
The right yoga style depends on your energy level - some are slow and calm, some are fast, and this guide helps you match one to your day.
Maya IyerJune 18, 20265 min read
Yoga for Anxiety: What Actually Helps, According to the Evidence - article
Stress, Sleep & Emotional Wellbeing Yoga for Anxiety: What Actually Helps, According to the Evidence
Certain practices really do help, according to the evidence - a clear look at yoga for anxiety when your chest is tight and your mind races.
Maya IyerJune 17, 20267 min read
Yoga Nidra for Beginners: What It Is and How a Session Actually Unfolds - article
Yoga Styles Yoga Nidra for Beginners: What It Is and How a Session Actually Unfolds
Lying on the floor with your eyes closed, doing nothing - that is yoga nidra. Here is how a session actually unfolds, and why beginners take...
Maya IyerJune 17, 20267 min read
Types of Yoga: Every Major Style Compared - article
Yoga Styles Types of Yoga: Every Major Style Compared
"Which type of yoga is actually right for me, right now?" If you've just opened a studio schedule and found Vinyasa, Yin, Ashtanga, Kundalin...
Hannah ColeJune 16, 20269 min read
Power Yoga, for When You Want Your Practice to Feel Like a Workout - article
Yoga Styles Power Yoga, for When You Want Your Practice to Feel Like a Workout
Dripping sweat and shaking arms are an odd souvenir from a yoga class, but in power yoga they are the point. The style is built for people w...
Aarti DeshpandeJune 15, 20266 min read
Yoga Beyond the Mat: How a Daily Practice Reaches Into the Rest of Your Life - article
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Yoga Beyond the Mat: How a Daily Practice Reaches Into the Rest of Your Life
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.
Priya RamanJune 15, 20264 min read
Restorative Yoga: The Practice of Doing Almost Nothing - article
Yoga Styles Restorative Yoga: The Practice of Doing Almost Nothing
Restorative yoga is not a workout, not a stretch session, and not a nap with props. It's the practice of doing nothing on purpose - deceptiv...
Priya RamanJune 14, 20267 min read
Hot Yoga and Bikram: What the Heat Does - and Doesn’t - Do - article
Yoga Styles Hot Yoga and Bikram: What the Heat Does - and Doesn’t - Do
The heat meets you at the studio door - thick, humid air that fogs the windows and rivals a sauna. Friends rave about the sweat, and it's fa...
Maya IyerJune 14, 20266 min read
Ahimsa: Understanding Yoga's Practice of Non-Harming - article
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Ahimsa: Understanding Yoga's Practice of Non-Harming
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...
Priya RamanJune 13, 20265 min read
Vinyasa Yoga: What 'Flow' Actually Means on the Mat - article
Yoga Styles Vinyasa Yoga: What 'Flow' Actually Means on the Mat
Vinyasa is simply yoga where the poses flow together, one movement per breath - that's the whole idea behind the word. So when the studio sc...
Priya RamanJune 13, 20266 min read