Anatomy of tree pose, vrksanana. Yoga is popular, and growing. It’s estimated that there are 300 million practitioners worldwide (International Yoga Federation, December 2020) and 36 million Americans practice yoga (Good Body, December 2020). And there are probably 336 million reasons why people practice. The medical community embraces yoga. Yoga therapy is prescribed as an effective treatment for addiction recovery and trauma healing. Whether you’re treating a medical condit

One of my yoga teachers reminded us every year, “Don’t even make New Year’s resolutions. They’re so self-defeating!” (Thank you, Amy!) I...

By now many of the findings from Dan Buettner’s 2008 book The Blue Zones have become best practices for health and wellbeing into...