When we practice backbends in yoga, we tend to let the name trick us into thinking that we should only bend our lower back. I often see students approach Upward-Facing Dog Pose trying to increase the ...

Trainer, author, and fitness model Kirk Charles, NASM-CPT CES, knows that as you get older, life can get more complicated. But that shouldn’t prevent you from being on top of your game. He’ll help to ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the November-December 1983 issue of Yoga ...

In the 21st century, people tend to gravitate towards measures and options beneficial to health and well-being. In addition, urban and rural populations have accepted the urgent need to adopt modern, ...

Upward-Facing Dog is one of four moves in a traditional vinyasa, which is called for countless times in any given flow-based yoga class, so having proper form is incredibly important. And yet I see so ...