Master Your Headstand with 5 Simple Steps

Learn how to stand on your head with 5 simple and unique tools, tips, and tricks.

The 7 Best Yoga Pants to Buy in 2018

Carefully selected by a group of expert yogis, this definitive guide to yoga pants offers the best options for every body.

4 Ways to Connect with Your Core and Stay Balanced, Whatever the Pose

As we deepen our physical connection to our core, we open the doors to our spiritual center as well. On a practical level, how we can explore this connection to our core? Read on for four techniques to help you get started today.

Trust Your Strength and Test Your Balance With This Tortoise to Firefly Transition

So many asanas can become much more accessible and safe to practice when you grab a prop for assistance. Props can help to get your body into a safe alignment, make the asana more comfortable for your anatomy, and just add a little more oomf. So, let’s get into it… how to use a chair for take off into firefly pose (tittibhasana)!

4 Poses To Help You Play Your Way Into A Handstand

Here are a few poses that’ll help you get out of your head, put your ego aside, and open up a playful approach to your asana.

7 Gentle Poses to Explore for a Happy Pregnancy

Your body is working incredibly hard to create a healthy environment for your growing baby. Yoga is a chance to add energy rather than create more demand on your body. It is an opportunity to be empowered and advocate for what feels good and what does not in your unique body. Take time to explore your beautiful body and bond with your baby with these 7 poses.

For the Fun of It: 5 Poses to Cultivate Your Sense of Play

Do you bring a sense of playfulness to your asana practice or does your mind tend to focus only on what the pose will bring you (strength, flexibility, challenge, etc.)? By practicing the following poses, you’ll have the chance to open yourself up to the power of play.

Building a Consistent Yoga Practice (Playfully and With Confidence)

In aspiring to be consistent with our yoga practice, we need to consciously make space, be open to potentially breaking old habits, and rejoice in the possibility of creating new ones. And although we do need the drive to stay committed and disciplined, being consistent enables us to approach our mat with confidence and playfulness. Here’s why

Turn Your Yoga Practice to Yoga Play with this Tortoise to Firefly Transition

This tortoise (kurmasana) to firefly (tittibhasana) transition requires patience and play, allowing for self-exploration, building physical strength, testing mental limits and even having a bit of fun.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Feel Confident With Your Home Practice

While practicing with a yoga teacher is a very important part of the yogic tradition, there comes a time when most students of yoga want to develop a home practice. If you’ve found yourself hesitating, let these steps reveal the confidence that’s already inside of you.

How Yoga Turns Your Physical Limitations into Superpowers

The practice of yoga encourages a dissolution of the ego, so that we can truly feel into the present moment without attachment or aversion, including an acceptance of where our physical body is in that time and space. It is thus a great practice for feeling that our physical limitations are not limitations at all, but instead an experience from which we can feel empowered to find space and strengt

Bend over Backward to Find Your Confident Camel Pose

Ustrasana, or camel pose, is an intermediate backbend that stretches the entire front of the body and strengthens the back. It challenges your ability to be vulnerable, as the entire front body is open. Explore this vulnerability by using breath to relax and explore what feels good. With a bit of patience and awareness, you can cultivate confidence and build up to camel pose wit