Yoga is a discipline that helps cultivate silence from mind chatter, and a more flexible body and lifestyle. But these things are not already inherent inside all of us — sometimes they take a lot of work.

By Julia Steinberger

Origins Pausing to breathe before you take that first delicious bite of a meal is just one example of how we may open ourselves to the Divine in our daily activities. Anusara yoga imparts that outlook to students on the yoga mat, with the implicit goal of applying those mat-habits to other parts of our lives. Founder

By Meagan McCrary

Beyond good and evil is a quality that yogis have been developing for some time: compassion. It is this quality that lies at the heart of the yogic discipline.

The rift betwen who you are and what you do for money -- i.e. your job -- often drives many people to begin the yoga practice. How do we reconcile these seemingly conflicted parts of ourselves?

Some days are just right for yoga on the beach, BYOB(each).

The other day one of my students mentioned that he saw a yoga class advertised as having “no chanting, or any of that spiritual stuff.” When does advertising your class worth contradicting the basic principles of yoga?

By Julia Steinberger

By Michael Stusser

by Dana Demas

Picture Iraq war veterans and hopeful mothers-to-be lying together in deep meditative silence, discovering “Pure Awareness.”

According to Richard Miller, president of Center for Timeless Being, a nonprofit educational center in Sebastopol, CA, the scene is not as far-fetched as you might imagine.