Many, many people enjoy the benefits of Ashtanga Yoga the world over, maybe even you. Yet practicing Yoga is much more than just mastering some poses, or Asanas. Yoga, at its core, is an ...

Friends of Asian Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's department of Learning and Interpretation host world-renowned yoga instructor and practitioner Sri N. V. Raghuram as he introduces the Yoga ...

Together the eight limbs of yoga complete a system for purifying the mind, body, and spirit in hope of achieving Samadhi, a state of insight or bliss. The first four limbs that I wrote about last week ...

An exercise called Ashtanga yoga may get boost from a new movie. Madonna’s new movie “The Next Best Thing” could do for Ashtanga yoga what John Travolta and “Saturday Night Fever” did for disco–or ...

One of the reasons I became fascinated with yoga was because of the mental practices woven into the physical class. My first yoga instructor encouraged me to adopt an attitude of nonviolence, not only ...

We enter the studio in silence and roll our mats out in near darkness. A few candles cast a dim glow on our teacher, who sits in meditation, wrapped in a blanket. In a dreamlike state, our bodies ...

Contrary to the popular belief that yoga is merely a set of exercises involving contorting the body into various postures, it is, in fact, a far more comprehensive practice that encompasses both body ...