In this quick #shorts video, we'll show you how to do the challenging tortoise pose in yoga. This pose is great for opening ...

Flow classes are having their moment as the practice du jour at New York City yoga studios. So it’s easy to forget the yoga schools that go their own way... Bikram Choudhury (at left) and K. Pattabhi ...

The Royal Path is Patanjali’s comprehensive Yoga protocol devised two-thousand years ago in India to target body, mind, and spiritual refinement. Even then, the need to be mindful of oneself as a ...

Ashtanga yoga features a vigorous practice founded and popularised by yogi Sri K Pattabi Jois (1915-2009) in Mysore, India. The Sanskrit word for ashtanga is “eight-limbed”. Ashtanga’s focus is on ...

Who doesn’t want to look good and stay fit? Wish there were a magic trick to achieve that? Well, there is, say yogis who swear by it. Yoga, when made an integral part of one’s lifestyle, has several ...

James Brown and yoga -- an unlikely parallel -- but Ashtanga yoga titan David Swenson channeled the Godfather of Soul while teaching backbends in Little Rock. "Just think of him snapping those legs ...

Over the years, yoga has branched out into myriad forms such as aerial yoga, hot yoga, vinyasa etc. Touted as the toughest is ashtanga yoga, which R Sharath Jois is a renowned expert in, with over 28 ...

First there were power breakfasts. Then power candy bars. Now, please welcome power yoga. “Power” is yoga’s equivalent of the 6-mile run or the hours-long mountain bike ride. Regular yoga is slow and ...

Kirtan literally means chanting the divine names. Kirtan is sung in a group comprising devotees, with a lead singer. The fixed tunes, repetition of words and phrases lend a kind of tonal mesmerism. In ...