6 Gym Moves to Transform Your Yoga Practice
A dedicated, regular yoga practice is great. But what’s better is the yogi who cross-trains. Flexibility and strength go together like cat-and-cow pose. One without the other creates imbalances...
Kelly DiNardo
About the Author
Kelly is a journalist, author, runner, yogi, skier, globetrotter and dog-lover. She has been teaching yoga since 2002 and is the owner of Past Tense, a Washington, D.C. yoga studio where her team reminds her how much fun it is to be a little twisted and encourages an upside-down approach to life. She is the author of “Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique” and “Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat.”
A Well-Kept Secret to Successful Stress Reduction
Yoga, meditation, breathwork. There are lots of ways to cope with stress and anxiety. Sophrology, popular in parts of Europe, like France where it’s used in schools, businesses and...
What You Need to Know About Flexibility
Thumb through the ‘gram and the millions of photos shapeshifting yogis, and it’s easy to think flexibility means being able to contort into circus-style shapes. But flexibility is too often...
A Relaxing Massage-Yoga Combo to Ease Tension
For thousands of years, scientists have focused on — human organs, muscles, bones, and connective tissue like tendons, ligaments and joints — and paid little attention to the fascia surrounding...
Shaking Meditation: The New Way to Relieve Stress
Hang onto your meditation cushion because there’s nothing still about the newest meditation technique to reduce stress and calm the mind. In fact, shaking meditation involves purposefully creating...