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Welcome

Welcome to our February issue. Inside this month, we’ve got everything you need to keep you inspired, from yoga flows to cool yoga clothes.

Contributors

Our contributors this month.

My secret place

Yogi: Karolina Pyrcik

Yoga Changed My Life

Carli Deal first experienced the healing powers of yoga during pregnancy. Now she’s helping others to discover the magic for themselves.

Keep calm and carry on

Switch off the news and focus on the good stuff (i.e. you) if you want to navigate through troubled times.

The Happiness Explorer

How to…tap into your own power.

Living the teachings — understanding yoga’s everyday spiritual meanings

SAMSKARA.

Find your dream teacher

Introducing GuruPro: an app to help teachers, studios and other yoga professionals to connect and work together.

Amazing SPACES

THE SPACE TO BREATHE COLLECTIVE.

Om Loves

Beautiful things for beautiful people. 

Kind to the skin, kind to the planet

Colour Flow Activewear is a UK-based yoga and activewear brand bringing you unique collections that feed your soul inspired by colours, nature and spirit.

Planet yoga

Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga.

om books

The latest books.

Yoga is for every body

Your pictures. Your community.

Different strokes for different folks

Yoga might not be for everybody after all.

A 360º over view of...

Upward-Facing Dog Pose (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana)

Root to rise flow

A grounding yoga flow to help you reconnect with your forgotten feet, boost stability and give rise to lightness and spaciousness within the upper body.

OM meets... VIDYA HEISEL

Vidya Heisel, founder of Frog Lotus Yoga and Suryalila Retreat Centre in Spain, is one of the most experienced yoga teachers around. Here, she tells OM that wisdom, both on the mat and in life, takes time, but the rewards are worth it

Anytime yoga

Three easy moves anyone can do, at any time, to regain their sense of calm and composure during the craziness of the day. 

Everyday wellness

Realistic wellbeing and kindness to oneself: simple and easy ways to introduce more wellness into your world.

Yoga & menstruation

Why you should align your yoga with your menstrual cycle.

All you need is love

Whether you’re a serial singleton, or you can’t keep your wandering hands off ‘the one’, Valentine’s is a great time to prioritise all things love — and yoga can help.

Fall in love with your life... with Tantra

5 keys for an ecstatic life: bringing tantra into your everyday.

The 6 learnings of acroyoga

Six additional things you may learn together in acroyoga beyond the poses.

Couples’ Valentine’s cacao ceremony

Ceremonial grade cacao is the ultimate heart opener: there’s no better way to share Valentine’s Day than with a couples’ cacao ceremony to deepen your connection to each other.

MAN ON THE MAT WITH RAVI DIXIT

NAMASKAR PARSVAKONASANA (HIGH LUNGE PRAYER TWIST)

4 ways yoga improves mental wellbeing

Gents, it’s time to start taking yoga seriously if you’re serious about your mental health.

Feed the fire with hot yoga

Hot yoga has the power to transform your life (but don’t just take our word for it, check out Ayesha Nauth’s remarkable story on page 60). The question is: are you ready to step into the hot room?

6 benefits of sweating

Sweating is good for you…and it’s sexy too! Here are some great reasons why you should get your hot yoga sweat on.

The hot yoga effect

Ayesha Nauth explains in her own words how hot yoga helped her to overcome and to manage the debilitating effects of rheumatoid arthritis on her body.

The hottest pod in town

Hotpod Yoga brings benefits of hot yoga to more people than ever before.

Balance is dynamic: find your ballast

Staying close to the stabilising forces around us allows us to remain present for the dynamic experience of life.

Cultivating mindful awareness to our thoughts and feelings

Working on our mental wellbeing is as important to our overall health as going to the gym to look after our body.

The art of spirituality

Introducing The Spiritual Arts Foundation, a new UK arts organisation dedicated to promoting spirituality through the arts.

eat drink yoga

Healthy eating goodies.

Love vegan

Have yourself a ‘love in’ this month with these fabulous, plant-based recipe ideas for February.

Good gut HEALTH

6 ways to support immunity through good gut health this winter.

My Yoga Biz

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

Ignorance is not bliss

When it comes to anatomy and physiology in yoga teaching, ignorance is definitely not bliss.

Hold your bow steady

Trust in your own unique life path, or Svadharma, writes Louisa Flynn after recently completing her yoga teacher training.

How do you choose to show up for yourself?

Showing up for yourself can be an act of self-love, taking you back to your grounded, more authentic self. Here are two ways you can do just that.

How yoga helped one mum’s cancer journey

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, Jodie Burnett found comfort and solace in her yoga and mindfulness practice. She’s now a qualified instructor and committed to helping others heal.

Adopt don’t shop

Pet rescue has become a big thing in the yoga community, with the ability to supercharge our capacity for love, kindness and transformation.

Fire up and bliss out

Awe-inspiring retreats and ideas for yoga explorers.

Red Sea diving safari

Awe-inspiring retreats and ideas for yoga explorers.

Half a world away

Awe-inspiring retreats and ideas for yoga explorers.

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