Students slowing down their yoga practice through a mindful Hatha Yoga class at Ashram Ibiza. There is a familiar rhythm in many yoga spaces today: sun salutations linked in quick succession, playlists building toward a peak, and fast-moving transitions that leave little space for the transformative benefits of a slower, deeper yoga practice. The modern-day yoga workout culture that has become so familiar is not where yoga actually lives. Traditional yoga texts and lineages tell a different...

Most of us come to meditation with the intention of quieting our inner noise and cultivating calm, clarity, and a sense of peace. What we often encounter, especially in the beginning, is a busy mind, a restless body, and a feeling of anxiety that we’re either doing it wrong or will not be able to connect with it at all. The average adult lives in a constant state of ‘doing’. All of this busyness trains the brain to expect frequent stimulation. When that stimulation stops, even briefly, the...

Many people come to yoga with the genuine intention of showing up to classes or sessions regularly and investing real time and energy into their yoga practice. Even more so, after months or even years, yoga practitioners may find themselves moving through the same sequences and their minds following the same patterns, with a deeper sense of real transformation still feeling out of reach. This commonality among many practitioners that progress is not being made can create a quiet frustration...