Yogic Wisdom

In most fitness-oriented classes, Surya Namaskar gets treated as a warm-up, something to move through quickly before the “real” practice […]

Somewhere in a yoga teacher training syllabus, most students eventually run into the word “kriya,” usually attached to something unfamiliar,

“Ashtanga” tends to cause instant confusion the first time someone hears it used two different ways. Sometimes it refers to

Spend enough time around yoga, especially in Kerala, and Ayurveda comes up constantly. Doshas, daily routines, specific foods for specific

Ask most people what yoga meditation looks like, and you’ll get some version of the same image: sitting cross-legged, eyes

Watch a faster style of yoga class and the postures arrive and leave quickly, one flowing into the next without

Yoga tends to start on a mat. A class, a routine, a practice that fits into the week somewhere between

here is a version of yoga that lives on screens and in magazines which split legs, deep backbends, bodies folded

Asana gets most of the attention in yoga and understandably so. The postures are visible, tangible and easy to talk