In this issue

Travel India
Glimpse the beauty of ritual
in these illuminating photos
from the birthplace of yoga.
By Andy Richter, Lift Your Energy
Learn the subtle skills
required to engage
your bandhas, and feel
lighter, more stable,
and more secure.
By Esther Ekhart...

Rachel Brathen

YJ’s cover model talks about motherhood, #metoo, and the future of yoga (and it’s not online or on social media).

2 mins

The Gift Of 'I Don't Know'

How to find more freedom by embracing uncertainty.

4 mins

A Lesson In Letting Go

IT TOOK ME UNTIL MY THIRD DAY in Cambodia to realize what was different. I’d traveled to Southeast Asia before.

3 mins

Tapping The Source

I SAT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE WOODEN PEW with my hands crossed in my lap and started repeating Hail Marys out of habit. It’s practically impossible to go to Malta, a tiny island country just 50 miles south of Sicily, without visiting more than a few of its 359 churches. And, apparently for me, it was also impossible to sit in one of the country’s most beautiful cathedrals and not pray, despite it having been more than 20 years since I’d gone to church regularly.

3 mins

Embodying The Sutra

As interpreted by Erika Halweil

2 mins

Protect Your Shoulders In Inversions

Start to understand, lengthen, and strengthen your teres major— a little-known muscle that can make or break healthy shoulders when you go upside down.

2 mins

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