6 Yoga Brands You Can Trust

The yoga market is a crowded place, with new brands popping up all the time hoping to take advantage of yoga’s popularity to part you from your hard-earned cash. Some of these offer great, innovative products and should have staying power, but more than a few will be here today and gone tomorrow. I want to […]

Prenatal Yoga – The First Trimester

The first three months of pregnancy are a time of major changes in your body. Long before any outward manifestation begins to get in the way of doing poses, things feel different on the inside. This is the challenge of first trimester yoga. But this is also the challenge that is at the core of […]

Ask Aunt Yoga Advice Column: Foot Cramps During…

Question: Ask Aunt Yoga Advice Column: Foot Cramps During Yoga Dear Aunt Yoga, I am writing to you because my foot often cramps up during yoga class, especially in poses like pigeon and hero where the foot is tucked under. Is there anything I can do to prevent these cramps? They are painful and a […]

Yoga and Fat Burning

What is Fat Burning? Fat burning has become a popular catch phrase for marketing classes at the gym and exercise videos. Most people who are seduced by the idea of burning fat want to lose weight or tone their bodies. When it comes to weight loss, it really doesn’t matter if your body is burning […]

Practical Yoga Advice From the Far Side of 40

When Yoga Journal ran an article not long ago suggesting modifications for yogis over 40, I’ll admit that I was a bit put out at first.  As a quadragenarian with over a decade of practice under my belt, I was not about to cede all the fun poses to the twenty-somethings. My outlook may have been skewed […]