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My secret place

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YOGA CHANGED MY LIFE

Yoga transformed Janet Tibble from a stressed, cynical, deadline-driven controller to a laid-back, accepting, nonjudgemental free spirit (well, most of the time!)

Yoga on the fly

The first private pop up yoga studio for weary passengers opens in Denver airport

WHAT’S YOUR AFFIRMATION?

An affirmation for creativity and for manifesting your heart’s desires

Get set, go

Largest ever study of its kind confirms physical activity’s benefits to mental wellbeing

Yoga & Aromatherapy

January is a new year, a new cycle. It comes from the

Amazing spaces

Stylish and inspiring studio design ideas and interiors

Om loves

Beautiful things for beautiful people

CRAFT WERK

Performance activewear and leggings from Eagle Rock Werkshop

Planet yoga

Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga

Om yoga & lifestyle

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Om books

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to lose the

Yoga is for every body

Your pictures. Your community

WHAT IS PRACTICE?

Whatever yoga means to you, you just have to show up for it.

Happy New Yoga

Here is a gentle yoga practice to help you ground and reset.

Sarah Hunt

The founder of Disco Yoga, Sarah Hunt has taught pop stars and the models at London Fashion Week, when she was their resident yoga instructor. Originally from Canada, she’s now exploring prenatal yoga after learning she is pregnant. Yoga remains her constant companion through it all

An overview of… Tree Pose (Vriksasana)

This month’s asana improves your balance, proprioception and spatial awareness

IS YOGA FINALLY BECOMING INCLUSIVE?

Salma Haidrani says namaste to the new wave of women shaking up traditional yoga

Snow Fear

Yoga lessons from the ski slopes by Theresa Samworth

The quiet power of yin yoga

Carliann Langley explores the wonderful healing powers of yin yoga, one of the ancient discipline’s more subtle forms

ROCK N YOGA

Talking yoga with Mick Rock, the man who shot the seventies.

YOGA OF DARKNESS

Andhakara Yoga, devised by Ulises Guerra, encourages a unique practice in absolute darkness to help us transcend our obsession with form and achieve a higher spiritual state

WARRIOR AT THE LOUVRE

A Spartan warrior (aka yoga enthusiast David Michigan) pictured in Paris recently could inspire yogi warriors across the globe

Crescent Lunge (Alanasana)

MAN ON THE MAT: WITH DAVID KAM

Yoga Detox

Yes, it includes all the usual ingredients: clean eating

The ENERGY of the beginning

A recipe for New Year resolutions that last

Self-care toolkit

10 ways to look after yourself better in 2018.

Clean up your act

Today is your gateway to the future, so begin to put in place the building blocks for a cleaner, better version of you, starting now

Going places

The nicest way to transform your life in 2018: book yourself onto a yoga, detox or wellness retreat

Tune Up & Refresh

We invite you to Tune Up and Refresh in 2018 with EkhartYoga

Visualising success

Charlotta Hughes explores the power of visualisation — and how it can be used to overcome obstacles before they arise — in making your 2018 dreams come true

Picture this!

How (and why) to create a vision board.

Goal setting that works

Get organised and make 2018 the year that really counts: Karen Meager and John McLachlan, authors of the new book, Time Mastery, show you how

Inner space

Finding freedom from addictions through yoga, meditation and some inner space.

Mind over matter

Any time, any place – any age! Five powerful ways to detox.

Sadhana is everything you do

A meditation for finding relief in a different kind of Sadhana.

Always the breath

Life is forever changing just like the seasons. As we enter another new year, the only constant is our breath, says Lesley Durke

I is for intention

Putting the ‘I’ in intention (or why resolutions are rubbish).

The OF POWER Namasti

Questioning the dominant psychology of our society to unearth our true Buddha nature each and every day. Luke Bache explores the magic contained within a single word

Chakras: an introduction

Yoga therapist Sarah Swindlehurst continues a nine-month exploration of the chakras

Eat drink yoga

Healthy eating goodies

Middle Eastern Promise

Sharing foods, simple pleasures straight from the OM Kitchen

Let’s talk sugar

Know your enemy: nutritionist Sarah Jackson explores the facts behind sugar

Change YOUR focus

Concentration and focus must be encouraged and protected, so we don’t lose ourselves in activities that minimise our world.

Meet the yogipreneurs

How to set up a successful yoga business. Tips for the budding entrepreneur by those who have been there and done it already.

Higher education

Setting up a secondary school with yoga at its heart. By Anil Sarna, lead teacher at the pioneering Hebden Bridge School

My Yoga Biz

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

Spiritual & successful

Let your yoga career provide both financial and spiritual abundance. Michelle Nicklin explains how these concepts are not mutually exclusive

Neck Health

Simple everyday yoga techniques to support a vibrant and healthy life

Silence is Golden

What’s wrong with silence in savasana? Or silence throughout class? When teaching do you use music or do you believe that silence is golden?

Om travel

Awe-inspiring retreats and ideas for yoga explorers

INSIDE OUT

A mind, body, spirit retreat that’ll revive you from the inside out: expect inner and outer transformation during the Kennard’s Academy holistic healing breaks

Making a difference

Yoga retreat experts Azulfit to continue Seva mission work in Goa, India next month