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Every guide on Yoga.com is researched, written, and checked by a real person who practices what they publish. Read more about how we create our content.

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Hannah Cole

Hannah Cole writes and looks after the yoga.com pose library - the guides that walk through each posture step by step, what it asks of the b...

164 articles
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Marvin Ocampo

Marvin Ocampo writes many of our everyday mobility and posture guides - desk shoulders, stiff hips, the lower back that complains on long dr...

39 articles
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Aarti Deshpande

Aarti Deshpande covers food, Ayurveda, everyday routines, and our retreats coverage. She learned Ayurveda first as a family inheritance - a...

38 articles
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Maya Iyer

Maya Iyer writes our beginner guides and style explainers - what Vinyasa actually is, how Yin differs from Restorative, what to expect the f...

28 articles
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Devon Brooks

Devon Brooks covers meditation, breathwork, and the nervous system. He came to meditation as a skeptic, mostly to prove a friend wrong, and...

24 articles
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Rachel Manuel

Rachel Manuel writes about healthy aging - practicing through your 50s, 60s and beyond, working with stiffness instead of against it, and ad...

14 articles
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Maelynn Aredidon

Maelynn Aredidon builds our practice sequences. Her sequences are built to be done, not admired - most need a mat and not much else, and eve...

14 articles
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Priya Raman

Priya Raman writes about yoga's philosophy and history - the Sutras, the eight limbs, the Gita, and how the old ideas map onto a modern prac...

13 articles
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Sofia Nguyen

Sofia Nguyen covers stress, sleep, and emotional wellbeing. She found the beat the way many readers find these articles - during a long stre...

12 articles
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Albert Panugaling

Albert Panugaling contributes to the healthy aging and wellbeing sections. He writes for readers managing real constraints - time, joints, e...

5 articles
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Shad Klyn Bureros

Shad Klyn Bureros covers basics and breath, with detours into meditation. His pieces tend to start from a question a real beginner would act...

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Frankie Batino

Frankie Batino writes occasional pieces on yoga fundamentals and breathing. Short list of topics, same standard: sourced claims, plain langu...

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Von Mercado

Von Mercado contributes practice guides and the occasional piece on aging well. He favors the unglamorous fundamentals - consistency, rest,...

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Jose Kintanar

Jose Kintanar writes across the site's food, lifestyle, and simple wellness sections, backing up Aarti Deshpande on the food and daily livin...

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