Greetings Reader, The ancient meditation cave of the legendary sage Vasiṣṭha, for whom the yoga pose vasiṣṭhāsana — Side Plank — is named, would be hidden deep in the hilly forest that surrounds the upper course of the Ganges River were it not for all the signs that tell you how to get there. About 14 winding miles up the Badrinath Highway from Rishikesh, Vasiṣṭha’s Cave is a popular place of pilgrimage. I had the good fortune to visit it on one of my trips to India. It’s dark. Really dark....

Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month, we're going to explore questions around gender identity and spiritual identity. Gender identity is a person’s deeply felt, internal sense of being male, female, a combination of both, or neither. It is entirely distinct from sexual orientation (who you are attracted to) and one's medical classification of sex given at birth. Spiritual identity is a person’s sense of who they are in relation...

Hi Reader, Yoga’s effects extend far beyond muscles, joints, flexibility, and strength. A single yoga practice can leave us energized or peaceful, focused or expansive, grounded or inspired. The same posture can feel completely different from one day to the next. Why? According to the yoga wisdom tradition, what we experience in practice is shaped not only by the physical body, but also by subtle layers of energy, awareness, emotion, and consciousness that exist beneath the surface. In Yoga’s...