Wishing you were somewhere else or somebody different, does not serve anyone. Wiping the mirror and seeing what’s in front of you, and, most of all, being present with the situation — that is the stuff of yoga.

By Joelle Hann

In early August 2008, Margot Andersen’s newly-married, 29-year-old son was hit and killed by a car while crossing a busy highway in Chicago. For Margot, a social worker in Chicago schools for more than 13 years, the pain of the sudden, tragic loss was overwhelming. Enrolled in a yoga teacher-training program, and

Considering the energy many of us are feeling this week, some sort of shift is certainly in motion. What we do with that momentum is now up to us.

The very act of validating the effects of yoga and meditation is counterintuitive to people who have transformed their lives due to these techniques. Donna Karan's latest initiative with her Urban Zen Foundation takes one more step forward in validating our own intuition.

By Amelia Glynn

Let’s face it, $700 billion is too large a number and too widespread an issue for any single mind to wrap its thoughts around. I'm curious about the karmic effects of this crisis, looking for guidance not on how to budget my bank account but on dealing with the people around me on a daily basis.

Interview by Kasey Luber

The emotions and thoughts that one expereinces during a yoga class are not separate from the practice — in a sense, they are the practice.

Clear communication is a key component of a happy yoga practice — and a happy life