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What Are the Proven Benefits of Yoga?

Listen to yoga teacher and healer Lisa Hillary Johnson tell her personal story about how meditation, stillness, and yoga saved her from anxiety and depression.

Yoga instructor Beryl Bender talks about how yoga can help us grow and evolve, and leads a practice that she does daily.

The far-reaching success of Yoga With Adriene challenges its creator, Adriene Mishler, to stay true to what she believes.

Seane Corn shares her seven non-negotiable self-care practices that allow her to be a responsive—not reactive—activist.

Winter brings with it an opportunity for these Ayurvedic self-care practices recommended by yoga teacher Shiva Rea.

Yoga is an ideal preventative for those who have chronic or occasional back pain—or for those who simply want to avoid pain as best they can, says Dr. Loren Fishman, a back-pain specialist who prescribes yoga to his patients.

Army vet Antwan Martin explains how Omega's yoga for veterans retreat helped him feel alive again.

Try this 10-minute yoga practice the next time you're feeling anxious.

Ana Forrest, founder of Forrest Yoga and a leader in yoga and emotional healing, talks to Omega about suffering, fear, and yoga as “fierce medicine.”

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Explore the Practice

Find deeper connection to yourself and the divine through daily spiritual practice such as sadhana. Learn more about practicing Sadhana here.

A morning routine can keep you healthy and happy, so you can be your best self all day long.

Yoga teacher and author Tracee Stanley shares a method to help you create a sacred abode for resting and a way to release the internal resistance to find comfort in this video that takes less than a half-hour.

Attending a yoga retreat is a great way to immerse yourself in practice, follow your favorite teachers, or branch out to try new styles of yoga. Even just a weekend away can help you deepen into poses, get you more motivated to practice at home, and introduce you to people from around the world. 

Two of Omega’s top yoga teachers offer spring yoga practices that can cleanse the mind and body—and prepare you to get back into action after winter. 

Help kids refocus and rebalance mind and body with this quick practice. P.S. It works for adults, too!

There’s a wide variety of yoga styles to choose from at Omega—and probably in your neighborhood, too. Here are three questions to consider when you’re selecting a class.

Colleen Saidman suggests three standing yoga poses to help women of any age build stability and confidence. 

Afro Flow Yoga creator Leslie Salmon Jones draws on dances of the African diaspora in this heart-opening yoga flow.

In this excerpt from Yoga With Weights for Dummies, author Sherri Baptiste explains how to master posture alignment techniques of yoga with weights.

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How Yoga Makes a Difference

Read this excerpt about how yoga fits into a comprehensive approach to treating trauma. Learn more here.

Yoga can increase activity in parts of the brain that support self-regulation and homeostasis, says Avenelle Archille, founder of the mental wellness nonprofit The Anxious Yogi.

Watch: Little Flower Yoga founder Jennifer Cohen Harper breaks down how to help kids navigate these difficult days.

The Yoga Service Conference created a brave space to get real about racial justice and the challenges of bringing yoga to the Black community.

Valorie Patillo, an Omega scholarship recipient to Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman's workshop, shares how a weekend of yoga helped her rejuvenate before returning to her responsibilities as a caregiver for her mother.

Bonnie Claggett had a vision to bring yoga and mindfulness to student athletes. Omega and the Holistic Life Foundation helped her realize her dream.

Motivated by her own success in dealing with trauma, Sue Jones founded YogaHOPE, a nonprofit that teaches yoga to underserved women in life transitions, and then developed the TIMBo (Trauma-Informed Mind Body) program, an integrative mind-body method for healing trauma that is now used worldwide.

Kathryn Thomas, founder and executive director of Yoga 4 Change, describes her journey from a naval helicopter pilot to yoga teacher and how to find the support needed to do the community building work of yoga service.

If you're interested in teaching yoga in schools, here are some important things to consider. Learn more in The Yoga Service Council's Best Practices for Yoga in Schools white book.

Are you ready to step up and play the role of game changer in the world? Off the Mat, Into the World® cofounders Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, and Suzanne Sterling have some advice on where to start. Hint: It begins with you.

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