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A 20-minute yoga practice from Yoga With Kassandra for a side stretch along the overlooked external and internal obliques and IT band.

This 15-minute core workout is inspired by yoga and challenges—and benefits—you physically as well as psychologically.

This morning Yin Yoga sequence takes less than 45 minutes and connects you to your breath and your body before you start your day.

A Yin Yoga sequence for spring helps create balance in the body and mind with stretches for the transition from winter to spring.

We may not be able to solve all the world’s problems, but we can look inward to connect with ourselves.

When you feel like doing nothing, but know you should be doing something, maybe you need to tune in rather than work out.

This Yin Yoga sequence for tight shoulders stretches and soothes and brings increased flexibility and relief.

The poses in this slow-flow sequence help soothe tension by gently activating, stretching, and releasing the psoas muscle.

The glutes are the largest muscles in our body. Underusing these important tissues can ultimately lead to knee and back pain. And when we sit for long periods of time, they can basically “forget” to fire and support the pelvis—a condition known as gluteus medius tendinopathy, gluteal amnesia, or dead butt syndrome (DBS). That’s right: Dead butt syndrome is real! And although it mostly affects the sedentary, active people may also experience DBS if they sit for hours at a time. Our glute...

We know that exercise is great for our general health, but can mindful movement like vinyasa yoga also boost our immunity? “Exercise and movement are very important for supporting our immunity and overall health,” says Dr. Vani Gandhi, an infectious diseases and integrative medicine specialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. But when it comes to immunity, not all forms of exercise are equal. “There’s a relatively new field of medicine called exercise immunology,” Gand...