Yoga Bodies Real People, Real Stories, & the Power of Transformation

BOAT POSE VARIATION I have been practicing Ashtanga yoga for twenty years. It is a pretty strenuous form of yoga that is very ch ...

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CONTINUED NEXT PAGE HALF-SCORPION VARIATION I got into fitness during a very difficult time in my life. Working out offers a pat ...

“I’m going to play sports.” “I’m going to work my way up the food chain.” I figured I could never have a professional, white-col ...

Loch: Lion Pose is claws, tongue out, and angry-looking eyes. You’re less mad when you’re done ’cause of the eyes. Doing those e ...

Ava When I was about ten, I started noticing that something was different about me. I wasn’t as tall as other people, and my bod ...

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CROW POSE I was in a yoga workshop when my phone started vibrating. I could hear it from my mat. It was a new phone; I had just ...

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CONTINUED NEXT PAGE EXTENDED HAND-TO-BIG-TOE POSE AND COBRA POSE (NEXT PAGE) Last year I was in a very dark place. I lost my aun ...

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feel more comfortable. He said, “Look, this is me.” He used to weigh three hundred pounds. I felt like I was around other people ...

STANDING FORWARD BEND Shane ...

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DOLPHIN POSE The first few years out of a PhD and into a teaching job are hectic, because you’re learning to teach and putting t ...

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Angela In your sixties, you’re on a cusp. You start con- fronting your mortality and thinking, “What will happen to me ten years ...

REVOLVED STANDING FORWARD BEND I have always been very hard on myself. I grew up with an internal voice that constantly question ...

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SHOULDERSTAND I got interested in yoga when I was probably fif- teen years old and spending a couple of days vis- iting my uncle ...