Yoga

Is Yoga Teacher Training Right for Me?

Five certified yoga teachers share their experiences with Life Time’s yoga teacher training program.

By Emily Ewen

Personal Development Yoga

How to Do Happy Baby Pose

Open your hips, stretch your inner thighs, and relax with this restorative yoga pose.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Recovery Yoga

Jonah Kest on the Power of Yoga

Jonah Kest shares insights on the power yoga has to support, nourish, and transform our lives.

By Experience Life Staff

Mindfulness/Meditation Yoga

What Are Good Stretches to Do After Sitting All Day?

Long stretches of sitting — especially in cramped spaces like cars and airplanes — can wreak havoc on the body. Bring your body back to life with these four moves.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Yoga

How to Do the Spinal Rock

Use this fun drill to mobilize your spine, massage your back, strengthen your core, and prevent injury. Plus, discover four progressive variations.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

PUMPING IRONY: Can Poor Balance Later in Life Increase Your Risk of Death?

A new study suggests that poor balance may dramatically raise the risk of death — especially among the elderly. The conclusions, however, are about as rickety as my tree pose.

By Craig Cox

Active Aging Pumping Irony

3 Moves to Stretch Your Inner Thighs

Mobilize your adductors to improve pelvic positioning and protect against inner-knee and lower-back pain.

By Lauren Bedosky

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

How to Do the Seated Twist

Twisting can help stretch muscles of the torso, restore spinal mobility, stimulate circulation, and support digestion.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: To Step or to Jump?

What yoga has taught our fitness editor about the importance of transitions.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Attitude/Mindset Fitness Tips

The Power of Restorative Yoga

Learn how restorative yoga can help you find a renewed sense of calm — on and off the mat.

By Nicole Radziszewski

Recovery Yoga

Various people in military uniform doing yoga

Yoga for Veterans: Q&A With Daniel Libby, PhD

The founder of the Veterans Yoga Project shares how past and present military members are benefiting with self-regulating tools like yoga and meditation.

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Mental Health Stress

A woman using both of her hands to massage her jaw line.

Does Face Yoga Actually Help Tone Your Facial Muscles?

Experts weigh in on this anti-aging trend — and offer a few exercises you can try at home.

By Julie Dulude

Healthy Aging Personal Care/Beauty

Mother and daughter doing yoga together.

The 5-Sequence Family Yoga Workout

Follow these family-friendly yoga sequences that are designed to challenge the minds and bodies of all ages.

By Lindsay Payne

At-Home Workouts Body-Weight Workouts

How to Do a Kneeling Backbend

Known as Camel Pose in yoga, discover how to move safely into this front-body stretch for an invigorating experience.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

How to Do the Cat-Cow

This two-part flow warms and unwinds the body, stretches the core, and mobilizes the entire spine.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

Post-Election Stress-Relief Yoga Workout

Feeling the weight of extra stress right now? Try this quick yoga designed to reduce mental stress and anxiety, as well as tension in your shoulders, neck, jaw, and hips.

By Tory Schaefer

Stress Yoga