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,…
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…
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.
Mrya Dennousse, 50, became a grandmother in June. Retirement from the rat race was not part of the plan. If anything, grandmotherhood appears to have given her another reason to keep moving. “I am not your average grandma, you know. I…
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