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Pose of the Month: Heavy Legs on the Wall

Do you ever experience a heavy, lead leg feeling? Use this month's pose to loosen and relieve your tired, cramped legs.

How to Become a Yogi

There's no reason to be intimidated by yoga—it offers numerous benefits to endurance athletes. Here are some tips to get the most out of a class.

Using the Great Yoga Wall ™ like this one at the Embody Yoga and Physical Therapy Center in La Jolla, California can enhance the yogi experience.

Hanging Out the Yoga Way

Turn your yoga routine upside down—literally. See how one San Diego studio uses the Great Yoga Wall ™ for injury recovery and deeper stretching.

Pose of the Month: Warrior One

Warrior One pose strengthens your leg muscles and improves your flexibility. Use it as a building block for advancing your yoga skills.

Relaxation Training for Improved Performance

Relaxation exercises offer many benefits when integrated into your overall workout plan. They take little time and can lead to reduced stress and better muscle recovery.

Pose of the Month: Heavy Legs on the Wall

Do you ever experience a heavy, lead leg feeling? Use this month's pose to loosen and relieve your tired, cramped legs.

5 Natural Cures to Heal Your Body

Can alternative remedies offer a better route to pain relief? Here's an inside look at the science behind five natural cures.

Strike a Pose

Find out how to make yoga part of your daily training plan. Use these poses to work your core, build power, and improve your balance.

Plank pose helps build wrist and shoulder strength.

Pose of the Month: Plank Pose

Injury prevention is key to a successful athletic career. Use our pose of the month to build up body strength from your joints to your core.

Improve Athleticism With Flexible Warrior Yoga

Looking to improve in the offseason? Increase your flexibility and balance with a yoga routine made with athletes in mind.

Stare at an object in the distance and focus your body's energy out of your eyes toward your goal.

Find Focus With Your Inner Y'Chi

Learn how to develop full alignment in your mind and body for better focus, speed, efficiency and an improvement in overall health.

Visualizing yourself overcoming any challenges helps with mental preparation.

4 Ways to Make Anxiety a Motivator

Use these training tools to build mental toughness and overcome anxiety with renewed self-confidence.

Pigeon pose releases the stress and tension in your hips.

Pose of the Month: Pigeon Pose

Stress and tension go straight to your hips. Relieve your body's built-up pressure with our pose of the month.

Chronic stress can have negative, physical consequences.

Exercise Your Stress Away

Avoid a stress build up with a workout. Find out how it can relieve your anxiety and keep you healthy in mind and body.

Treasures of Thailand: Finding Serenity

The beaches unspoiled, the massages heavenly, and the charms chaotic and quirky--this country is the place to go to escape the noise and haste and find exactly the kind of serenity you are looking for.

Good Vibrations: Sound Therapy

Many spas are furthering their holistic approach and enhancing well-being with sound therapies. Learn how vibrations from music and rhythm therapy ensure proper healing.

The Sexiest Spas in the World

Steeped in sense-arousing colors, textures, scents and spa treatments, these ten hot spots are all something to talk about.

Finding the right activity is the first step towards sticking with an exercise routine.

A Lifestyle Choice: Getting Fit

About half of all people that start a new exercise program abandon it within three to six months. Find out how to pick the right activity for you, and how to stick with it.