Yoga Poses, Exercises & Tips to Improve your Living

Fitness

Challenge Your Body From Head to Toe With the Scorpion Pose

By Mattie Schuler; December 20, 2024

Balancing yoga poses are an invigorating challenge. Balancing poses where you are also upside down are even better! Scorpion pose, or vrschikasana in Sanskrit, is...

Fitness

How to Do Camel Pose in Yoga (Ustrasana)

By Stepfanie Romine; January 5, 2024

Camel pose (ustrasana, as it’s known in Sanskrit) seems simple: You kneel down, arch your back, and grab your heels. But this backbend and chest...

Fitness

Intensify Your Yoga Practice With the Dolphin Plank

By Elizabeth Millard; September 12, 2023

You’d be hard-pressed to find a yoga class without at least a few downward facing dog, and upward-facing dog poses, and that’s for a good...

Wellness

7 Uplifting Yoga Poses to Regain Your Self-Esteem

By Brit Yeager; August 28, 2023

Yoga has a way of making you feel om-azing, thanks to its many benefits. A regular practice boosts confidence, increases strength, and offers mental clarity on dark...

Fitness

How to Get a Feel-Good Stretch from Puppy Pose

By Brit Yeager; April 5, 2024

Puppy pose, often referred to as “melting heart pose,” is a cross between downward-facing dog and child’s pose. It is the perfect yoga backbend for beginners, as it is gentle on...

Fitness

What You Need to Know About the Brain Tingles from ASMR Meditation and Yoga

By Linnea Zielinski and Stepfanie Romine; July 7, 2023

Scroll through any social media platform these days, and you’ll quickly run into autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos. These videos have proliferated across Instagram,...

Fitness

4 Easy Inversions for Yoga Beginners

By Page Grossman; August 28, 2023

If you’ve scrolled through Instagram recently, you’ve probably seen fitness influencers trying their hand at impressive yoga inversions like headstands and handstands. But the benefits...

Fitness

What Is Savasana, and Why Is It So Important?

By Brit Yeager; May 12, 2023

Dealing with stress is an everyday struggle. From money to relationships to work responsibilities, it seems like there’s always something to worry about. Luckily, there...

Fitness

What Is Cardio Yoga and Is It an Effective Workout?

By Jenessa Connor, CPT; August 22, 2024

Love yoga but also love tough workouts? With cardio yoga, you don’t have to choose. If you prefer adding pulses to your warrior poses, love...

Fitness

Best Time for Yoga: Before or After a Workout?

By Stepfanie Romine; July 17, 2023

Yoga is an awesome mind-body practice with benefits for strength, balance, mobility, and more. For those combining it with other forms of fitness, however, it...

Fitness

How to Do Triangle Pose in Yoga (Trikonasana)

By Stepfanie Romine; March 8, 2024

A classic standing posture, triangle pose is found in many traditional styles of yoga, including ashtanga yoga and Iyengar yoga. Known as trikonasana in Sanskrit (triko = triangle; asana = pose), triangle pose...

Fitness

6 Stress-Reducing Yoga Poses to Get You Through the Holidays

By Elizabeth Millard; January 5, 2024

For many, the holidays mean long to-do lists and not enough time to plow through them. They are stress-inducing even for the most relaxed. But...

Fitness

How to Do Warrior 3 Pose in Yoga (Virabhadrasana III)

By Stepfanie Romine; March 7, 2024

When it comes to multitasking, few yoga postures have as much to offer as warrior 3 pose (known in Sanskrit as virabhadrasana 3). This standing balancing pose is challenging...

Fitness

108 Yoga Sun Salutations: Is It Worth Trying?

By Stepfanie Romine; August 28, 2023

You’ve probably experienced sun salutations (surya namaskar) if you’ve participated in a vinyasa yoga (flow). Sun salutations help bridge the connection between the mind and body...

Fitness

7 Best Yoga Poses to Do After Your Run

By Lauren Bedosky; March 21, 2023

Running is a great cardio workout that can help you lose weight, keep your ticker strong, and boost fitness. But if your usual M.O. involves going...

Fitness

19 Benefits of Yoga — Backed by Science

By Stepfanie Romine; July 11, 2024

When it comes to yoga, the answer is (almost always) yes. Yes, yoga “works.” Yes, yoga is actually a good workout. Yes, yoga can help weight loss. Yes, you can...

Fitness

You Asked: Can Yoga Make You Taller?

By Lauren Bedosky; August 30, 2022

If you walk off your yoga mat feeling like you’ve added to your vertical real estate, you’re not alone. All that stretching and twisting can...

Fitness

Feel Your Best With Standing Side Bend Pose

By Mattie Schuler; March 8, 2024

Standing Side Bend pose is a foundational yoga posture that helps stretch the muscles of the side body while also helping to stretch and tone...