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What Is Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga? with Kino MacGregor

2011

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You Are Here: The Five Koshas, or 'Layers' of the Body, Constitute a Map for Navigating the Inner Journey.

Within yoga, a different guide is needed—one that charts the landscape of the self. The koshas, “layers” or “sheaths,” make up one such map, charted by yogic sages some 3,000 years ago.

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Shiva Rea
2017
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Dharma Mittra: No Yama, No Yoga

Dharma Mittra’s Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures has inspired students for almost 25 years. It hangs in homes and studios all over the world.

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Anna Dubrovsky
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“It’s the Ultimate Commitment to Self Love”: How Adriene Mishler Put the Heart Back into Yoga

Most of us have tried some form of yoga over the years. But how many have turned that toe-dipping into a truly beneficial daily practice?

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Molly Flatt
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Why Every Athlete Should Do Yoga

In truth, I wish I had discovered yoga during my prime swimming years back in the 1980’s. Because there is no doubt in my mind that it would have made me a much better athlete, not to mention human being. —Rich Roll

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Rich Roll
2012
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Iyengar Yoga 101: What Is It, Health Benefits & How to Practice

While Iyengar might not be as common a name as vinyasa or yin, it's actually the most widely practiced (and arguably the most accessible) style of yoga in the world. But what makes it different from other types—and why is it so loved by beginners and advanced yogis alike?

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Amanda Tarlton
2020
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Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga

In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice.

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Michelle Goldberg
2014
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How to Create a Sankalpa

The yoga tradition offers a refreshing alternative to the New Year’s resolution: the practice of sankalpa, or resolve.

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Kelly Mcgonigal
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Restorative Yoga for Chronic Pain

Modern science and yoga agree: our present pain and suffering have their roots in our past pain, trauma, stress, loss, and illness.

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Kelly McGonigal
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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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What Is the True Purpose of Yoga?

In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as “the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.

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Deepak Chopra
2013
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