Living the teachings — understanding yoga’s everyday spiritual meanings

Welcome

Welcome to our January 2023 issue.

Contributors

Our contributors this month.

My secret place

Yogi: Holly Crosland Photographer: Adam Flanagan Location: Dovestone Reservoir in the Peak District, UK

N@maste

Love OM magazine and want to tell the world? Here’s your chance.

Yoga Changed My Life

Yoga helped Katie Brown navigate the stresses of working on a daily newspaper and the trials of motherhood. Now she’s sharing the magic with others.

Sleep health fixes

5 low-cost exercises to help you sleep better.

The Happiness Explorer

How to…improve the way you see your life.

Amazing SPACES

THAXTED YOGA.

om loves

Beautiful things for beautiful people.

Olra Activewear

Olra is a fitness apparel online retailer based in the UK, founded by Charlotte Robertson, who was inspired to create versatile activewear made with movement in mind. Each product is designed with gorgeous detailing to make you look and feel great!

Planet yoga

Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga.

Yoga is for every body

Your pictures. Your community.

Working towards Pincha Mayurasana

8 postures working towards Pincha Mayurasana, feathered peacock or forearm balance pose, with Ruben De Monte of The Yoga Class.

A 360º over view of... Tree Pose (Vrksasana)

Tree pose

OM meets... LIZ UNDERWOOD

Featured on our cover this month, Liz Underwood blends somatics, rhythmic movements, restorative yoga and yoga nidra into her classes, courses and retreats. But, she tells OM, any movement is better than none at all!

Yoga: a survival guide for 2023

If you want to thrive and not just survive in the year ahead, then it’s high time you turned to yoga. Here’s why…

THE POWER OF THE BREATH

How to improve your life through the way that you breathe.

Building a better and stronger lower back

A short yoga sequence for nurturing and caring for your lower back.

Yoga for menopause and perimenopause

How does perimenopause and menopause affect our yoga practice?

New Year Stronger You

The health and happiness of your future life starts today. Let’s make it happen.

New Year, Strongest You

Simple wellness tips for building a happier, stronger you in 2023.

A beginner's guide to strength training

With strength training hailed as one of the best and most effective ways to build a healthy body and mind, PT and wellness founder Rachael Sacerdoti applies her expert knowledge for the most informative guide to lifting weights for the first time

Beyond DETOX

How to get back on track for optimum health after the fun of the festive season.

The dopamine detox

It’s time to switch off the smartphone and rediscover the simple joy of doing nothing.

New year, new yoga

Treat yourself to some new yoga gear this month to give your practice lift-off!

Soup cleanse

If a juice cleanse seems too chilly in the midst of winter, then try a soup cleanse for the ultimate comfort food healthy reset.

Stone Cold Sober Festival

Ditch the booze and achieve enlightenment in Devon this summer at the Stone Cold Sober Festival.

MAN ON THE MAT

VASISTHASANA (SIDE PLANK)

Mental FITNESS

The importance of mindfulness, meditation and fitness. Lee Hawker-Lecesne looks at how as a nation we are witnessing an exponential growth of mental health problems and how to challenge anxiety, depression, and obesity through mindfulness, meditation, and mental/physical fitness

The Self-Care Club

Join the club: cultivating self-kindness, nurturing self-talk and putting self-care on top of our priorities list, as we learn the importance of caring for ourselves, as well as each other.

Yoga, self-care and me

Yoga teacher, Esther Marie, explains in her own words how her practice evolved to embrace self-care and self-love above and beyond asana practice in the face of physical health challenges.

7 essential self-care tips

Finding time for self-care in all the hustle and bustle of the modern world is essential.

Manifestation, meditation and mindfulness

For the ultimate self-care adventure this year, book yourself onto a yoga retreat for a total mind-body rejuvenation.

Worry, be gone!

Useful tools and techniques to overcome a worrying mind.

Self-nurturing for the whole family

Four practices that you and your children can do together to nurture self-care.

Savasana: the hardest yoga pose?

For those with a busy mind, Savasana can be a challenge, but if you’re seeking a little selfcare on the yoga mat, then it’s a pose worth mastering.

Satisfy your soul

Soothe mind, body and soul with these essential self-care goodies.

Subtle intention, sustainable change

Embodied Living: Mindfulness & Yoga for Life’s Everyday Challenges

Look into the light

Trataka and Ceromancy are two ancient candle practices that can easily be combined.

Colour therapy

How colour can enhance your yoga practice and your life.

eat drink yoga

Healthy eating goodies.

Let’s go vegan!

Plant-based recipes from the book, ʻNourishing Vegan, Every Dayʼ,

Health food trends: 2023

Whole Foods Market’s top food trend predictions for 2023

Seeking balance with medicinal mushrooms

How the healing powers of an ancient remedy are making a comeback in the modern era.

Focus-finding yoga flow for children…and their parents!

A yoga flow sequence to help children (and adults) find focus.

Teacher zone

A deeper understanding of yoga... for teachers, by teachers

My Yoga Biz

Tips from the experts to help you grow the yoga business of your dreams.

Different is good

Yoga is for every body: celebrating our anatomical variations.

Yoga therapy for motor neurone disease

My experience as a yoga therapist working with motor neurone disease (MND).

Tackling trauma

How a US non-profit is helping to tackle the trauma tsunami with yoga.

Honouring your threshold

Nothing will work unless you do, so be sure to take good care of yourself.

om books

Interesting books to explore.

The amputee yoga teacher

After losing her right leg in the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia, Fiona Callanan has tapped her inner strength and resilience through Rocket Yoga.

11 Incredible places to meditate

Awe-inspiring retreats and ideas for yoga explorers.

My first yoga class

Whatever fears you may have going into your first yoga class, don’t worry… Tina McAra has been there, done it, and lived to tell the tale.