Amidst the allegations, the apologies, the assumptions and awkwardness of business as usual, Anusara teachers are finding their voice and many are speaking out to express their disappointment, sadness and, for some of these teachers, their resignation. Noah Maze, Bernadette Birney, and others follow the early departures of Christina Sell, Elena Brower, Darren Rhodes, Amy Ippoliti [...]

January 2012 is Yoga Freedom Month. Did you know? The yoga community has come together in unity in the past to support varying causes from cancer cures to rebuilding Haiti. Yoga Freedom Project, a new organization co-created by Off the Mat NYC leader Heather Snyder, is on a mission to unite the yoga community to [...]

Thoughts from Yoga Journal’s editor-in-chief Kaitlin Quistgaard, Kripalu’s David Surrenda, Sharon Gannon and more. There’s been such a barrage of responses from the yoga community over that article, that the New York Times took it upon themselves to host their own debate. (perhaps to quell the flood of letters to the editor?) Is it tiresome? [...]

The yoga community is on the defensive and they’ve already made some pretty pointed counters [Is The New York Times Wrecking Yoga? The Community Responds] to the New York Times article heard round the yoga world. Basically everyone and their Maha mothers are voicing their rebuttals and opinions about yoga “wrecking your body.” Here are a few [...]

by Risa Sheppard I hear and read a lot from Pilates instructors about how to move the body in an anatomically correct way. What “cues” to use while they are explaining to their clients how to “properly engage the transverse abdominus with the multifidus, while we are engaging the glutes,” etc. etc. That is great. [...]

This workout will help you build—or rebuild—strength and stability anywhere, even if you only have a few minutes here and there to spare (and not even a mat is required). We are all guilty of making up excuses to blow off a workout here and there. Granted, we’re also the first to admit that there [...]