Lois Ring, of Carthage, sits front and center with members of her water aerobics classes at the Fair Acres Family Y in Carthage as they get ready to clean up from Ring's 93rd birthday party. Heather Winesburg (left), of rural Joplin,…
When Raj Panjabi was asked to help lead the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he drew on his experience working in the community of Chelsea, Massachusetts Volunteers in Chelsea, Mass., distribute aid to members of the community. In the…
The Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium’s first Black Olympic medalist talks about women in sports, and how much her Barnard experience shaped her Olympian journey. Olympian and Barnard graduate, Erinn Smart, ’01, returned to her alma mater to help inspire girls and young…
Even though I now practice the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series calmly, I still remember the shock of my first encounter with it. “Wait, I have to do a pose like this?” “Will I really be able to do this?” At…
Sunset over Bolotana, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia. (CREDIT: S. Jay Olshansky and Marisa Montibeller) Women in the Sardinian village of Bolotana show an unusually favorable pattern of survival after age 70. Researchers estimated that 13.8% would reach 100 under the…
I have been attending hot yoga since October. It would take a long time to explain why I chose hot yoga. First, I want to write down how I feel after a lesson, and record the changes in my body…
For many people, practicing yoga is much more than a way to get exercise. Rooted in the Indian Vedic tradition (a predecessor of Hinduism), yoga postures are deeply symbolic, and understanding their spiritual meaning offers us a new way to…
It can be challenging to allow yourselves to feel joy when we are also experiencing other challenging emotions. Adaptive & accessible yoga teacher Rodrigo Souza reminds us that slowing down and tuning into what is happening for us in the moment…
In Yoga Journal’s Archives series, we share a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article about Urdhva Prasarita Padasana first appeared in the March-April 1995 issue of Yoga Journal. Find more of our Archives here.
Women in the Italian village of Bolotana are three times more likely to become centenarians once they reach 70 than their American counterparts, according to a new study that may point to the discovery of a new longevity hotspot. Bolotana is…
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