5 Things Not to Say to Someone Who Does Yoga

As students of yoga, we work on becoming comfortable in our own skins. Part of this is not really caring what anyone else thinks about our lifestyle choices, including what ignoramuses have to say on the subject of yoga. Yet most of us aren’t yet so blissed out that we can’t be annoyed by the […]

California: Judge Allows Yoga in Schools

Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors A judge ruled Monday that the Encinitas Union School District can teach yoga, siding with administrators who argued that the practice was a secular way to promote strength, flexibility and balance and rejecting pleas of some parents who […]

Useful Yoga Poses

By Ann Pizer, About.com Guide Updated December 07, 2011 About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board Everyone needs a party trick! (Feel free to substitute the arm balance of your choice.)

What's The Best Time To Do Yoga?

Question: What’s The Best Time To Do Yoga? Answer: Some yoga traditions, such as the Ashtanga system of Pattabhi Jois, advocate doing yoga asanas early in the morning, if possible before the sun rises. In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iynegar advises doing yoga early in the morning or late in the evening, noting that there […]

How to Choose a Yoga Style

Question: How to Choose a Yoga Style Answer: If you are brand new to yoga, you may want to take a few hatha classes to learn the basic poses. However, hatha is usually slow-paced, so if you are the kind of person who likes to move around more, don’t get turned off. There are many […]

Yoga Exercises for Back Pain 2: Basic…

1. Push back to Child’s Pose. 2. Separate the knees as wide as your mat and let the belly sink down between the knees. 3. Rest here 5-10 breaths before coming back on to all fours and repeating the entire sequence. Why Child’s Pose? from Back Pain Guide Anne Asher. Links Back to main Yoga […]

Marichi's Pose – Marichyasana I

Type of Pose: Forward Bend Benefits: Stretches the shoulders, spine, and hamstrings Instructions: 1. From staff pose – danadasana, bend your right knee and place the sole of your right foot close your your right buttock. 2. Keep the left leg extended and engaged with the foot flexed. 3. Hug your right knee towards your […]

Ask Aunt Yoga Advice Column – Namaste Etiquette

Question: Ask Aunt Yoga Advice Column – Namaste Etiquette Dear Aunt Yoga, My yoga instructor is wonderful and at the end of every session she ends with praying hands, then bows and says namaste. I say it back to her, only because the other students do, but I am always compelled to say thank you […]

Tree Pose – Vrksasana

Type of pose: Balancing, standing Benefits: Strengthens legs, improves balance. Instructions: 1. Come to stand in tadasana. 2. Feel your weight equally on all four corners of both feet. 3. Begin to shift the weight over to the right foot, lifting the left foot off the floor. 4. Bend the left knee, bringing the sole […]

Yoga Panties

I’ll admit that I am a bit of a purist when it comes to underpants. My philosophy can be summed up (with apologies to food writer Michael Pollan) as: Wear underpants. Not thongs. Mostly cotton. Until recently, these preferences caused me no trouble. But then I began to notice something. Yoga pants were getting tighter […]

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