From a standing split position, place your palms onto the mat directly below your shoulders and gaze at the space between your hands. Stack the standing foot directly below your hip with a slight bend ...

A proper warm-up is required before attempting any of these advanced yoga poses. I suggest giving them a try during or after an active flow. Start slow and ease your way into each move, listening to ...

In this video, we're exploring the age-old question: is yoga actually good for strength and flexibility? Many of us have ...

How to get into Super Soldier Pose (a powerful yoga pose also known as a variation of Vishvamitrasana). Unlock your flexibility with this powerful yoga hip & hamstring stretch, to deeply open your ...

As their name suggests, they are usually reserved for seasoned yogis because they're more challenging to do than your standard downward-facing dog and sun salutations. So if you're up the challenge, ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Yoga can be more than ...

Hold on to your yoga mat because you are about to see some pretty advanced poses, and this isn't from an ordinary yogi — this woman is 39 weeks pregnant. Backbends, handstands, splits, crazy arm ...

Jenny Weinar is a Philly-based body positive psychotherapist and certified yoga teacher who’s passionate about helping clients struggling with disordered eating, chronic dieting, over-exercising and ...

Certain fitness feats—like finishing a 10-K in less than an hour or busting out 20 real-deal pushups—earn you instant respect. In yoga, holding a handstand (without the help of a wall) or bending your ...

It’s not just for beginners, either.

If you’ve mastered the basics of yoga, you might be ready to take on something a bit more challenging—like those gravity-defying holds your 6 a.m. front-row is known for. To help you get started, we ...

If you’re a devoted yogi who never misses a class, you know that even once you nail the five basic yoga poses, class never exactly gets easy. There are always alignment and breath adjustments to focus ...