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The official Twitter for Yoga Journal. Your source for yoga poses, sequences, philosophy, & more. Find us on Facebook and Instagram @YogaJournal .

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Walking out of yoga class like 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼
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This is MESMERIZING 😍😍😍 via @nadimcherfan (insta)
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“Video by Aaron Huey @argonautphoto | Nurses from across the University of Washington system in Seattle pause for a brief yoga and stretching session during drive-thru testing for COVID-19. - Via National Geographic (Instagram).
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✨Never stop giving up on your goals! ✨ 🎥: @yogavered (insta)
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brb, getting my dog 🐕 🤣 📸: moderntarzan (instagram)
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Whose kid is this? 🤣
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Happy Easter to anyone celebrating today! Here’s some bunny asanas to get into 🐰 🐰 🐰 🎨: unknown #Easter2019
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You do not need to be super flexible to do yoga. All bodies are yoga bodies. Props and assists don’t make you any less of a yogi. Your personal journey to the mat is your own. A reminder if you needed to be affirmed in your practice.
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My Grandmother used to say, “God Teaches through Experience”. Traveling to India & Experiencing the colors, people and natural beauty has awakened a new understanding of myself, my Art & the Truths of the world.” 🙏🏾 via: Will Smith (insta)
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“Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down.” - Jigar Gor
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“Yoga is a feeling, it has no shape”- @embracewhatis (via Instagram)👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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If you are reading this right now, you’ve made it this far. You’ve overcome so much, and that’s a testament to your resilience ✨ -via @drthema
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Yoga, indeed, changes you — on a molecular level. Researchers double down on claim #yoga changes the expression of your genes.
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Mid-week mantra: it’s okay to take a break and do absolutely nothing.
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Yoga changes you—on a molecular level. Researchers double down on claim #yoga changes the expression of genes.
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Yesterday was world meditation day! A reminder to take some time out each day to 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️ #worldmeditationday
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Happy Sunday! Affirmations for your week ahead ✨
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One of the most important muscles stretched during a sidebend is the quadratus lumborum (QL). #yogaanatomy
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"There is no pose in yoga that everybody can do, and no one can do every pose."
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A new study found #hathayoga significantly reduced male veterans' depression symptoms. #yogaforvets #yogaforveterans
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Thinking of you today 🙏🏽 🎨: unknown #MothersDayWeekend
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A research study found twice weekly #hathayoga classes significantly reduced male veterans' depression symptoms. #yogaforvets #yogafordepression
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They had a significant reduction in depression symptoms after the eight-week program. #yogaforvets #yogaforveterans
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Listen to your body—not the voice in your head telling you what you "should" be able to do. #yoga #bewithwhatis
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Chelsea Werner reminding us all to take a moment to stretch out the stress! 🤸🏼‍♀️
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The surprising key to soothing #sciatica + lower back pain is a muscle you may never have heard of—the piriformis.
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"There is no pose in #yoga that everybody can do, and no one can do every pose."
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“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” – The Bhagavad Gita.
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We officially dubbed this 2017's most necessary "Pose of the Year." #savasana
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If you are struggling with mental health right now, please consider some gentle poses to get you through the moments.
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✨Self care isn’t just about bubble baths and spa days. Self care also includes self examination and unpacking the ways in which we perpetuate traumas onto one another. In order to feel better, we have to be better.✨
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Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.
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Worrier pose 75% of the time 😅 👩🏽‍🎨: @gemmacorrell
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List of Yoga Poses: A-Z Asana Guide—this all things #asana guide is exactly what you need to get you through the holiday.
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Friends: a shoulder to cry on, a back to balance on. 👭 🎥: @Lauralouiseyoga (insta)
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One of the most important muscles stretched during a #yoga sidebend is the quadratus lumborum (QL)—here's why.
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😴 😴 😴 More sleeping tips here: 🎨: @plantingromance (insta)
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The goal: to help kids better manage their emotions and give them a solid foundation to become mindful leaders of tomorrow.
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Sleep-Better Yoga: This twisting, hip-opening, feel-good flow will melt the stress of the day. #yogaforsleep #yogaforstress
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Imagine what would happen if there was MORE of this in the world.
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Learn how to release one of the most chronically tense muscles: the #psoas .
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✨Rosa Parks practicing yoga in Detroit, 1973.✨ In slide 3, Parks’ personal notes about yoga practice, dated Jan 1981. Photos and notes courtesy of the Library of Congress. More on @yogajournal Instagram
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"There is no pose in yoga that everybody can do, and no one can do every pose."
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"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had." RIP Gabriel García Márquez http://t.co/nJUEe9HH6j
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A new study found twice weekly #hathayoga classes significantly reduced male veterans' depression symptoms. #yogaforvets #yogafordepression
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The 7 areas in the body where trauma is most likely to be trapped + how to release it.
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Commit to Daily Yoga Practice—start the new year with this 28-day #yoga sequence. #newyearnewyou
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Tight hips? Try this exercise to identify hip weaknesses and imbalances.
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“We become grounded in practice when it is done uninterruptedly for a long time, with devotion” (Yoga Sutra 1.14)" 🌿 #YJRepost Thank you for sharing your journey with us @gymhairdontcare_
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These 10 "simple" poses + practices may just be the best tools #yoga has to offer, with huge benefits for your body and mind at any age or stage of life.
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✨A beautiful reminder to be mindful of the things we say, do, and act around our little ones. They are watching and learning from us through example. ✨ 📸: @RachelBrathen
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✨Weekends are for:✨ Slathering your hair and body in coconut oil. 🥥 A good vinyasa flow in nature. 🧘🏽‍♀️ Trips to the Farmers’ Market. 👩🏽‍🌾 And staying completely unbothered. ✌🏽
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The science of #selfcare —even 10 to 15mins of #yoga a day can re-pattern dysfunction in the body.
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Dozens of Mexican yoga lovers took their class to the border wall in a symbolic gesture of unity.
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“Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” — Rolf Gates
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A new study found #hathayoga significantly reduced male veterans' depression symptoms. #yogaforvets #yogaforveterans
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Yoga is an excellent anti-aging tool, capable of relieving symptoms and in some cases improving medical outcomes. It doesn’t matter where you’re starting from or how old you are—movement and yoga can help.
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“Inhale the future. Exhale the past.” –Unknown
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"Kindness is like snow - It beautifies everything it covers. ✨❄️Kahlil Gibran" 🌿 #YJrepost Thank you for sharing your #snowga with us @yogawesermarsch
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If you’re sitting at a desk most of the day for work, here’re 11 deep hip openers that will massage, open, and lubricate the hips for maximum comfort, and ultimate transformation.
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In #UpwardFacingDog , the most vulnerable body parts are the low back + wrists—here's what you should know. #yogatips
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One of the most important muscles stretched in a #yoga sidebend is the QL—here's why. #yogaanatomy
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One of the most important muscles stretched during a sidebend is the QL—here's why.
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“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self”- Bhagavad Gita
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Drop the story.
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A reminder to put down the phone and get on the mat 🧘🏾‍♀️ 🎨: Positively Present (Instagram)
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Why Down Dog is the perfect pose to observe + correct your body's imbalances.
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✨Let go of other people’s illusion of who they want you to be. ✨
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A new study found #hathayoga significantly reduced male veterans' depression symptoms. #yogaforvets #veteransday
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When you meditate, your brain jumps from one thought to the next. One of the reasons for this “monkey mind” is that this part of the brain is always active—unless we learn how to activate other areas (which is what a regular meditation practice does)
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Your mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Your mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Your mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Your mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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Doing #SunSalutations with a block can help you find the contraction of muscles into the centerline of the body, creating integration and protecting the spine.
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“I like your ‘om’ tattoo—can you tell me about the 5,000-year history behind it?”
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Here, 8 poses to open your lungs and help you stay calm and strong as we head into flu (and coronavirus) season.
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One of the most important muscles stretched during a sidebend is the quadratus lumborum (QL).
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It’s okay to take a moment to breathe.
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Twisting can increase blood flow to the spinal area—delivering pain-fighting, healing, anti-inflammatory oxygen.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
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There is a lesson in everything. 🙏🏻 📸: unknown
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