In our fast-paced, technology-driven world, quality sleep has become increasingly elusive for many. As people seek natural remedies to improve their sleep, ancient practices like yoga and meditation ...

Yoga seeks to harmonise and bring balance to mind and the body. The practice of yoga is not only helpful to rid of diseases but also to ensure the continuation of our species. An imbalance in your ...

You may perceive yoga as a combination of stretching and breathing techniques for calming and relaxing, but there is much more to yoga than just that. A lesser known and a more subtle branch of yoga ...

Using yogic practices for pain relief is now recommended even by conventional medicine. While incorporating yogic poses from the joint-relieving series for pain management and healing you may ...

For the uninitiated, yogic mudras use the biological map — called the homunculus map — in our brains to manage and manipulate powerful healing reactions in the body The summer has been quite severe ...

There are two mudras in Yoga that are very useful for the asthma condition. These are called the asthma mudra and the bronchial mudra. In addition to yogasanas for asthmatics, you can perform these ...

The Sanskrit word, Mudra,is translated as ‘gesture’ or ‘attitude’. Mudras can be described as psychic, emotional, devotional and aesthetic gestures or attitudes. They are a combination of subtle ...

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 December 2002 issue of Yoga Journal.