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You, dear readers, are a various crowd. You switch to yoga to strengthen and stretch, to challenge and calm, to remind yourself of your potential in some moments and your patience in others, and to flee out of your life situation or find ease in it. A few of you even aspire to enlightenment. (Uh, we’re still working on that last one).
Your varied personalities and approaches to the practice are pretty apparent within the articles you read and shared through the last twelve months. At a look, it seems you’re an achy, stressed-out, kind, and curious lot who love the Beatles. You’re also in reformation, education, and meditation, and the answers you seek veer from the sensible to the aspirational.
The thread throughout these varied topics is self-awareness—in all its many shapes and forms. These interests reiterate what so lots of us appreciate concerning the practice of yoga, which is that it just about meets you wherever you might be and whatever your situation.
12 most-read articles on Yoga Journal in 2022
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1. 6 Essential Stretches for Tight Hamstrings and Hip Flexors
Nothing happens in isolation. Quantum physics explains this. Yoga embodies this. Which means that while you complain about those achingly tight hamstrings, you should ask for those who’re also stretching hip flexors. These stretches show you ways.
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2. 6 Yoga Poses for High Blood Pressure
The road from this text that surprised our editors most? “In line with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, nearly half of adults have hypertension, yet many individuals don’t even know they’ve it.” Yoga may help. Here’s how—and the science behind it.
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3. I All the time Pause and Take a look at Students’ Feet Before I Teach Yoga. Here’s Why
The subtle and unexpected physical and emotional cues that one teacher reads as students settle onto their mats.
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4. Former Tennis Pro Boris Becker is Taking—and Teaching—Yoga in Prison
When a German tabloid reported that the three-time Wimbledon champion was leading others in “a special form of yoga and meditation” at Huntercombe Prison, we became inquisitive about the thread between the mental tenacity demanded by the tennis circuit and offered by yoga.
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5. 6 Essential Stretches for (Intense) Lower Back Pain
Our instinct, after we experience breathtakingly intense lower back pain, is often to stay still or pretend we are able to go about on a regular basis life as usual. These are actually the worst things you may do. Here’s what you should try as a substitute.
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6. 80-Yr-Old Paul McCartney’s Yoga Practice May Be The Most Inspiring Thing I’ve Seen
Rock stars love yoga, too. Including octogenarian ones who’re former members of the Beatles.
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7. 12 Yoga Poses for Strong Legs
In the event you care to walk, run, hike, bike, ski, practice yoga, or otherwise fully engage with life, you would like strong legs.
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8. “I Thought I Was Just Keeping a Journal. I Was Actually Tapping Into My Higher Consciousness.”
What happens when writing and meditation merge?
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9. The Best Stretches for When You’re Recovering From Low Back Pain
Capable of move slightly without grimacing? Good. These moves will help escort you all the way in which back to your usual self.
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10. The 9 Best Yoga YouTube Channels
No more being frustrated by your studio’s limited class schedule or not knowing whose class to livestream.
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11. 24 Cues for Legs Up the Wall That You’ve Probably Never Heard
Sometimes all it takes is a single unusual cue to provide help to (or your students) truly settle into the magic of this trending restorative pose.
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12. The Absolute Best Yoga Poses to Practice After Sitting All Day
Step away out of your computer. After which turn to those stretches.