Yoga

Happiness is the best medicine

New research suggests that mood-enhancing activities can serve as a nutrient for the human body

Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard Sunday, May 12, 2013 1:00 PM UTC
Life Pacific Standard, Happiness

Can yoga boost your immune system?

New research suggests that practicing yoga produces internal changes on a genetic level

Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard Friday, Apr 26, 2013 4:42 PM UTC
Life Pacific Standard, Yoga, RNA, oslo

Christian fundamentalists freak out over yoga in the military

The exercise helps alleviate stress for traumatized soliders, but try telling that to the Family Research Council VIDEO

Laura Gottesdiener, Alternet Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 5:52 PM UTC 52
Politics Video, AlterNet, Yoga

I obsess about my perfect boyfriend

My life is great but I worry all the time

Cary Tennis Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 29
Life Since You Asked, relationships

HuffPo donates $40K to yoga group; doesn’t pay masseuses

Plus: Salon finds the volunteer applications!

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Aug 29, 2012 10:35 PM UTC 24
Politics

A skeptic goes to yoga

As a cynical atheist, I surprised myself by falling in love with the ritual and spirituality of the practice

Tracy Clark-Flory Thursday, Jul 12, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 44
Life Yoga

Yoga need not wreck your body

An incendiary New York Times magazine excerpt doesn't tell the whole story

Irin Carmon Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 10:50 PM UTC 47
Life Yoga

My naked yoga class

I want to challenge my own anxiety about nudity. But can I really handle downward dog without any clothes on?

Tolly Moseley Friday, Jan 6, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 75
Life Yoga, Body Wars, Life stories

The “Eat, Pray, Love” guru’s troubling past

Accusations of financial misconduct, sex abuse scandals: The dark history of Elizabeth Gilbert's yoga mentor

Riddhi Shah Saturday, Aug 14, 2010 6:01 PM UTC 137
Life Eat, Pray, Love

Die, smug yoga teacher, die

I wanted exercise and a little peace, not lectures on ethical veganism

Neal Pollack Friday, Aug 13, 2010 12:20 AM UTC 119
Life Life stories, Drugs, Yoga

The yogification of America

How one 19th-century Midwesterner got us all doing the downward dog -- and paved the way for puppy yoga

Whitney Joiner Sunday, May 2, 2010 3:01 PM UTC 53
Entertainment Yoga, Nonfiction, Our Picks, Books

Hot Nude Yoga: Shedding clothes to shed pounds

The naked yoga movement is catching on, and fans say it helps create an intimate -- but nonsexual -- community

RYAN McLENDON, Associated Press Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010 7:12 PM UTC 28
News Yoga

Bacon and yoga, together at last

The New York Times on the gastronomic debate that's really spinning some people's chakras

Thomas Rogers Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010 3:28 PM UTC 12
Life Yoga, Food fights, Food

Why I hate partner yoga

Is having my face in a stranger's crotch really helpful for my meditative state?

Catherine Price Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008 12:33 PM UTC 101
Life India, Yoga

Screw you for not smoking

Last fall, after 13 years of pleasurable puffing, I smoked my last cigarette. I thought quitting would make me feel healthy and hale -- so why the hell is my body falling apart?

Rebecca Traister Wednesday, Mar 14, 2007 11:23 AM UTC 222
Life Yoga, Health

Lost and found

Divorced and depressed, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled the world in search of peace. She came back happy, healthy, and with a story to inspire us all

Lori Leibovich Thursday, Feb 23, 2006 12:26 PM UTC 29
Entertainment Memoirs, Elizabeth Gilbert, Yoga

Yoga with thugs

Can prison inmates and hippies in sweat pants find serenity together?

Russell Morse Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005 3:57 PM UTC
Life Yoga

Machine-washable Zen

Dressing well for the occasion of spiritual enlightenment.

Janelle Brown Monday, Mar 19, 2001 8:12 PM UTC
Life Fashion, Yoga

Sexual healing, jungle style

On a Costa Rican yoga retreat, I got touched like I never could in Chicago.

Deirdre Guthrie Friday, Mar 3, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Life Yoga

What I learned from losing my mind

How a week at a yoga retreat saved me from the perfect parenting frenzy.

Faulkner Fox Tuesday, Jan 12, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Life Religion, Motherhood, Yoga

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