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Winter 2025

Win! A Yoga Holiday at Suryalila Retreat Centre in Spain worth €900

Shelley Aspden

My Yoga Biz – Shelley Aspden

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OM Yoga Awards 2024 – Meet the winners

Happiness Explorer 2025

The Happiness Explorer – Winter 2025

Yoga Retreats 2025

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Yoga & Functional Neurological Disorder

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6 medicinal mushrooms to elevate your yoga

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Yoga at Home – The power of two

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OM Yoga Awards 2024: Good Karma Award – Lauren Lane

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Yoga – Breathwork – Rosen Method

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Embracing Qigong

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My Secret Place – Gopeng Hill in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

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V is for Veganuary

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Yoga Anatomy: Low Lunge Pose (Anjaneyasana)

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OM Meets: Viktoriya Omelchuk

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Healthy New Year

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Featured article of the month

Sound Bath and Yoga Break in Devon

Sponsored Article Reading time: 3-4 minutes At five-star Boringdon Hall Hotel and Spa in Devon, it’s about creating moments of balance, peace, and deep restoration. Nestled in the heart of the Devonshire countryside, Grade I listed historic manor offers the perfect setting for a retreat designed to nurture the mind, body, and spirit. Boringdon Hall’s Sound Bath & Yoga Break is a carefully curated two-day experience, blending ancient wellness traditions with modern relaxation techniques. Whether you’re seeking to recharge, reconnect,…

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From Our Writers

Elevating Women in Yoga

By Rosie Lux

Looking Forward Within Our Relationships

By Jaclyn Campbell

Why Vinyasa Yoga Is a Beneficial Exercise for Older Adults

By Beth Rush

Unlocking the Power of Your Chakras

Unlocking the Power of Your Chakras

By Margaret Young

Simple Practices to Nourish and Align Your Chakra System for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-being - By Margaret Young Reading time: 3 minutes Unless you're...

Can poetry have a place in our Yoga Practice?

Can Poetry Have a Place in our Yoga Practice?

By Corie Feiner

Many of us read a poem before or after our yoga practice, but this article explores how interweaving poetry inside of our yoga...

Proprioception

Proprioception: the magic behind yoga bliss

By Sharon Heller

How the chemical release from proprioceptive input in yoga practice balances the nervous system Like clockwork, around 40 minutes into a Power Vinyasa yoga class,...

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Active Yoga

Savasana: the hardest yoga pose?

For those with a busy mind, Savasana can be a challenge, but if you’re seeking a little self-care on the yoga mat, then it’s a pose worth…

By James Adams

savasana - the hardest yoga pose

Baby backbends for better back health

Yoga backbends can improve both back flexibility and strength. By Laurel Stuart Do you find yourself more often than not feeling achy in your lower back after…

By Laurel Stuart

baby backbends for better back health

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New Year New You

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NEW YEAR Special report

All the way to awesome: your journey to your greatest self Reading time: 2 minutes Make 2025…

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Yoga Retreats 2025

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Yoga Retreats 2025

How does more relaxation, a stronger connection to nature and an all-over body stretch sound right now?…

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Boringdon Hall 1

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Sound Bath and Yoga Break in Devon

Sponsored Article Reading time: 3-4 minutes At five-star Boringdon Hall Hotel and Spa in Devon, it’s about creating moments of balance, peace, and deep restoration. Nestled in the heart of the Devonshire countryside, Grade I listed historic manor offers the perfect setting for a retreat designed to nurture the mind, body, and spirit. Boringdon Hall’s Sound Bath & Yoga Break is a carefully curated two-day experience, blending ancient wellness traditions with modern relaxation techniques. Whether you’re seeking to recharge, reconnect,…

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Yoga Wear

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Food for the Soul

Is magnesium a miracle mineral for sleep?

By Marianna Kilburn

7 surprising foods that can drain your energy

By Emma Thornton

Tips To Help Control Emotional Eating

By Alison Cullen

Could healthy fats be the key to weight loss?

By Emma Thornton

6 medicinal mushrooms to elevate your yoga

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Editor’s Choice

A healing journey

Finding your way out of PTSD: a healing journey through to the other side. By Mary Firestone Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can be a sneaky beast….

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A healing journey

Empowered rest

Taking time out to rest can dismantle the structures and expectations which deplete us and empower us to positively change the course of our lives. By Lauren…

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Anusara Yoga

Awakening hearts. Illuminating minds. Strengthening bodies. By Sarah Powell As a yoga teacher trainer I often get asked why Anusara Yoga has captured my heart? What makes…

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Anusara Yoga

Menopause Yoga

Managing menopause symptoms with evidenced-based techniques from the realm of yoga. By Petra Coveney What is the menopause? ‘The menopause’ is a medical phrase used to describe…

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Salty Yoga

Breathe better with the healing combination of salt and yoga No, this is not a yoga style where you immerse yourself in the sea, but it does…

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Salty Yoga

Mindful yoga for mums

3 reasons to love the versatility of an at-home practice for busy mums. By Rima Patel Whilst the allure of escaping life for an hour or more…

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Mindful yoga for mums

Yoga in PJ’s

Forget the fancy leggings, your pyjamas will do just fine when you’ve got a self-nurturing practice at home. By Kat Farrants When folks think of yoga they’ll…

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SUP Yoga

Doing yoga on a stand-up paddle board is not as simple as it sounds, but the rewards are definitely worth it. By Lorna Chapman Picture yourself sitting…

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Yoga Anatomy: Camel Pose (Ustrasana)

A 360º overview of… Camel Pose (Ustrasana) With Dr Kiki Morriss Camel Pose is a dynamic backbend that opens your chest and increases the mobility of your…

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Camel Pose (Ustrasana)

Yoga your way – part two

A three-part series on expanding your practice to make it support your body, your life, your needs. By Esther Marie. Part Two: Mind Yoga can support our…

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Yoga at Home – Gentle heart

Gentle heart A gentle and mindful heart-opening vinyasa flow. By Isabel Lankester Enjoy this simple vinyasa flow to gently coax open your heart. Here we learn how…

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Meet the Huslers

Meet the Huslers Husband and wife duo Adam Husler and Holly Husler will be teaching at the OM Yoga Show this year. Be sure to catch them…

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The Huslers

Workshops at the OM Yoga Show 2023

A guide to some of the many wonderful workshops taking place over the weekend Precision, Prayer + Prana with Claire Missingham Using asana and intention to feel…

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Workshops at the OM Yoga Show 2023

Hybrid Fitness

Hybrid Fitness is expanding its network of gyms, many of which boast their very own hot yoga studio High-street gyms are upping their game when it comes…

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Living the teachings: Metta – Loving Kindness

Understanding yoga’s everyday spiritual meanings. This month: Metta. By Sue Pugh Metta means ‘love’ (in a non-romantic sense), friendliness, or kindness: hence ‘loving-kindness’ for short. It is…

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Metta Meditation

How to get unstuck

The Happiness Explorer, by Lydia Kimmerling It’s common for people who work with me to be asking the question: What will make me truly happy? Usually, they…

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Your daily dose of nourishment

5 top tips on getting your daily dose of nourishment by retreat chef and mental health advocate Satori Harper Nourishment is a word that’s taken for granted…

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Why I do yoga

After 20 years of practice, Juliet Lundholm still holds a love for yoga. Here, she explains why she still bothers to get on the mat at all…

By Juliet Lundholm

Shine Retreats – Regeneration Retreat

Rediscover your shine with Shine Retreats’ Regeneration Retreat Shine Retreats has announced its upcoming schedule for its 2023 Regeneration Retreats in Tuscany, Italy. Set in a beautiful…

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Yoga is for everybody – May 2023

Yoga is for every body Your pictures. Your community George Skuodas from Yoga Guild at 3 Cliffs Bay, Gower, Wales Jackie Ngu – Yoga in Agafay, Morocco…

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Our environmental challenge: a yogic perspective

Global warming and what we can do about it: one yogi’s perspective. By Gopala Amir Yaffa Here’s the bad news. With increasingly toxic air, shorter winters, the…

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Moving to the back and finding the heart

Backbending is at the heart of yoga practice because it helps open and align the six major chakras along the spine – but simple backbends are all…

By Chris Livanos

Transcending Matters – Tarun Hari Das

Trevor Davy, aka spiritual teacher Tarun Hari Das, founder of Transcending Matters, talks to OM about how he aims to open up the power of yoga and…

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Transcending Matters

Man on the mat – Utkatasana (Chair Pose)

MAN ON THE MAT with Ravi Dixit Utkatasana (Chair Pose) Utkata in Sanskrit means powerful, fierce. Utkatasana brings together the strength of the body and the strength…

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Zen Ki Yoga

A powerful, healing yoga derived from Indian, Japanese and other eastern practices. Zen Ki Yoga is a culmination of several different styles of Japanese yoga, Indian yoga,…

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Yoga for Trauma

Yoga for trauma is a specialist approach to make the practice accessible to all. By Emma Gwillim The minute you step into a yoga studio or onto…

By Emma Gwillim

OM Meets… Ivana Horecny

OM meets… Ivana Horecny Meet this month’s cover star, Ivana Horecny, originally from Slovakia and now living the dream in California. Here, she tells OM that despite…

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Planet Yoga – May 2023

Planet yoga Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga USA: App’y days The market for meditation apps is growing fast. It is a global…

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Amazing Spaces – Yoga Cabin, Foxhills

amazing spaces Yoga Cabin Foxhills Club & ResortStonehill Road, OttershawSurrey KT16 0EL foxhills.co.uk Foxhills Club & Resort is located in Chertsey, Surrey, just outside of Woking, and…

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Yoga changed my life – Emma Gwillim

Yoga has been the ‘loyal friend’ to Emma Gwillim over the years. She now teaches others to listen to the wisdom of the body and breath as…

By Emma Gwillim