If you're preparing to attend a yoga class for the first time, it would be perfectly natural to feel some low-level anxiety. You might be worrying: What's it like to execute a Downward Dog pose? How ...

Celebrating International Yoga Day on the beach in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2022. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images International Yoga Day, dedicated to celebrating yoga as part of the “intangible ...

Whenever my friends invite me to sunrise yoga sessions, I recoil. For one thing, I’m not a morning person. Another: I don’t like yoga. I prefer cardio-based workouts. Besides, it’s embarrassing trying ...

If you’ve never done yoga, it looks intimidating. People are flexible, fit, trendily dressed—wait, I might be thinking of Lululemon ads rather than actual yoga classes. It turns out you can have a ...

In my first yoga class, I stuck out as the only guy in a room full of women. I was awkward, fell out of poses and stumbled through the class. At one point, the teacher singled me out, and I was so ...

Recently, I found myself on the floor of a well-appointed outdoor yoga studio in a trendy neighborhood of Los Angeles, panting as I contorted myself into what seemed like the hundredth in a series of ...

About 10 years ago a friend invited me to a yoga class. Just divorced, I was feeling open to new things. Yoga was really not something I'd considered before, but I didn't evaluate it, overthink it or ...

Phyllis Sues has never exactly rushed into things. She launched a business at 50 and became a trapeze enthusiast at 75. At 85, she took her first yoga lesson, got into tango dancing shortly after, and ...

Yoga is a fantastic form of exercise that focuses on strength and flexibility. It has multiple long-term health benefits and is an excellent choice for people of any age. If you’re about to start your ...

We might earn a commission if you make a purchase through one of the links. The McClatchy Commerce Content team, which is independent from our newsroom, oversees this content. Yoga is a fantastic form ...