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3 Atlanta Teachers Bring the World Home

Sep 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

Yoga and travel have always been linked; historical texts are replete with stories of yogic pilgrimages for study and worship.

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Finding Balance and Stability in Sama-sthiti

Aug 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

In her poem “August,” poet Dorothy Parker famously wrote, “Summer, do your worst.” The month can bring a challenging spate of heat and humidity, sapping energy, spirit and initiative all at once.

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The Yoga of Daily Life
: Dishwashing, Conversations and Traffic Jams as Sacred Practice

Jul 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Graham Fowler

We often speak of yoga as a path to awakening, as a return to our essential nature through the body, the breath and the quieting of the mind.

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Happy 50th, Yoga Journal! We Salute You!

Jul 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

Yoga Journal (YJ) celebrates its 50th year in publication this summer.

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Where Modern Activism Meets Yogic Right Action

Jun 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

June 19, 2025, marks 160 years since federal troops entered Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the end of legal slavery in the United States.

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Three of Atlanta’s Outstanding Yoga Teachers

May 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

Although our honorees teach different styles of yoga and come from very different training environments, they share a very similar approach to their teaching: it’s not about them.

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15 Yoga Poses for Stress Relief

Apr 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Staff

1. Easy Pose: This pose promotes calmness and helps center the mind, reducing stress and anxiety by encouraging steady breathing and relaxation.

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Surviving the COVID Years: Has Atlanta’s Yoga Scene Bounced Back?

Mar 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

But the yoga world, perhaps more than other communities, relied heavily on interpersonal and in-person connection. Breathing, moving, and being together in small indoor spaces for dedicated periods of time was a fundamental part of practicing yoga and its related arts.

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Is Meditation a Cure-All?

Feb 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt, Yoga Editor

Yogic wisdom has long offered key stepping stones along a path to enlightenment, including practices to hone focus, to withdraw the senses from the all-consuming physical world and to experience a subsequent immersion in meditation.

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Sankalpa: Where Intention and Purpose Meet

Jan 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

January 2025 is upon us, and it’s all about intentions and resolutions.

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Hot Yoga: Is There Benefit to a Heated Room?

Dec 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patty Schmidt

Hot yoga became a “thing” in the West in the 1980s. At the time, yoga practices were enjoying an increase in popularity throughout the U.S. due to celebrity support, televised programs and the increased availability of the practice in yoga studios.

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Yoga Nidra: An Introduction to Yogic Sleep

Nov 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

As November brings cooler weather to the Southeast and, for many, an urge to retreat inside, there is no more perfect style of yoga to consider than introspective yoga nidra.

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