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Yoga Beyond the Mat: How a Daily Practice Reaches Into the Rest of Your Life — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Yoga Beyond the Mat: How a Daily Practice Reaches Into the Rest of Your Life

A lot of people think yoga is only something you do in a class, on a mat, for one hour. But the practice goes much further than that. This p...

June 25, 2026
Ahimsa: Understanding Yoga's Practice of Non-Harming — pillar item
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...

June 25, 2026
The History of Yoga: From Ancient Roots to Modern Practice — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom The History of Yoga: From Ancient Roots to Modern Practice

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...

June 25, 2026
The Ethics of Teaching and Practicing Yoga: What Every Student and Teacher Should Understand — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom The Ethics of Teaching and Practicing Yoga: What Every Student and Teacher Should Understand

Yoga has grown very fast in the United States over the last twenty years. A lot of people are joining classes, and a lot of people are becom...

June 25, 2026
Ishvara Pranidhana: The Yoga Practice of Letting Go — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Ishvara Pranidhana: The Yoga Practice of Letting Go

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...

June 24, 2026
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A Beginner's Guide to the Eight-Limbed Path — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A Beginner's Guide to the Eight-Limbed Path

A lot of people think yoga is only about physical postures. But the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali go much deeper than that. This old text is one...

June 24, 2026
What Is Dharma? A Clear, Grounded Explanation With Everyday Examples — pillar item
Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom What Is Dharma? A Clear, Grounded Explanation With Everyday Examples

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...

June 24, 2026