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Winter 2025

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

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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: A Journey of Relaxation and Rejuvenation

Sponsored Article Nestled on the cliffs overlooking Newquay’s iconic Fistral Beach, Fistral Beach Hotel offers an adult-only retreat that combines relaxation, adventure, and wellness. The hotel’s Yoga & Wild Swimming retreat invites you to reconnect with nature, refresh your spirit, and nurture your body through mindful practices, all set against the breathtaking backdrop of the North Cornish coastline. Reading time: 3-4 minutes The Yoga & Wild Swimming Break includes three thoughtfully designed yoga sessions that provide a holistic approach to…

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From Our Writers

A Yoga Journey Through Injury and Healing

By Laura Collins

“You’re only as young as your spine is flexible”

By Sian Siekierski

Elevating Women in Yoga

By Rosie Lux

Productivity v speed

Productivity v Speed

By Nikita Thakrar

How breathing, mindfulness and relaxation practices can get you into the flow to sail through life and work with greater ease. By Nikita Thakrar Many...

Yoga therapy for cancer

Yoga and yoga therapy for cancer patients and survivors

By Evi Dimitriadou

Both yoga and yoga therapy can address the different needs that cancer patients experience during the different treatments. By Evi Dimitriadou Cancer and cancer treatment-related...

6 Tips for Better Sleep if you Suffer from Itchy Skin

6 Tips for Better Sleep if you Suffer from Itchy Skin

By Dr Eva Melegh

Tips for Managing Night time Itching - By Dr Eva Melegh Reading time: 3 minutes If you suffer from a skin condition such as eczema,...

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Active Yoga

Let It Shine: How to Balance the Solar Plexus

The solar plexus, situated about two inches above the belly button, is often referred to as our personal power centre. Reading time: 3 minutes It represents our…

By Margaret Young

Let It Shine: How to Balance the Solar Plexus

Man on the Mat – Matt Mulcahy

MATT MULCAHY IS THE MAN ON THE MAT Tree Pose (Vrksasana) Benefits An iconic standing balance that draws its roots from hatha yoga, tree pose remains popular…

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Matt Mulcahy Tree Pose

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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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Featured article of the month

Yoga: A Journey of Relaxation and Rejuvenation

Sponsored Article Nestled on the cliffs overlooking Newquay’s iconic Fistral Beach, Fistral Beach Hotel offers an adult-only retreat that combines relaxation, adventure, and wellness. The hotel’s Yoga & Wild Swimming retreat invites you to reconnect with nature, refresh your spirit, and nurture your body through mindful practices, all set against the breathtaking backdrop of the North Cornish coastline. Reading time: 3-4 minutes The Yoga & Wild Swimming Break includes three thoughtfully designed yoga sessions that provide a holistic approach to…

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Yoga Wear

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New Yoga Silhouettes

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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

Practice as devotion

What part does devotion play in your yoga practice? By Paula Hines How do you feel about discipline? My understanding had always been that consistency of practice…

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Yoga is for every body – November 2020

Yoga is for every body Your pictures. Your community

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Yoga is for Every Body

5 best social distancing health & wellness holidays to boost your immunity

5 best social distancing health & wellness holidays to boost your immunity Lefay Resort & SPA Lago Di Garda, Italy Escape to the spectacular vistas of Lake…

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social distancing health & wellness holidays

Mr & Mrs

Couples who Savasana together, stay together, says Victoria Jackson, as she shares her yoga practice at home with her husband My husband hasn’t been to a yoga…

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Mr & Mrs

OM Travel – November 2020

Feeling fine at Fykiada Retreats It has been a tough year for all, but Fykiada Retreats, a small firm running yoga holidays in the Greek islands, is…

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Connect and accept

A meditation to practice awareness and acceptance beyond the mat. By Jill Lawson Yoga practices have been around for centuries, helping countless individuals strengthen the union of…

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connect and accept

Seriously funny

Mike Nevitt has been teaching and practicing yoga, meditation and related arts for over 40 years. Now he’s looking to get people to see a lighter and…

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Yoga of Humour

How yoga really works

Yoga for the science-minded student. By Jax Pax I gently bent over into a ‘Standing Half-Forward Bend’, extending my spine, hoping to give space to my thoracic…

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How yoga really works

Contributors – November 2020

Dr Rachel Evans disorder recovery, based in Derbyshire. It’s a career choice that was inspired by her own struggles with an eating disorder and experiences of recovery….

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November 2020 Contributors

OM Meets – Mumtaz Haque

OM meets… Mumtaz Haque Nottingham-based teacher Mumtaz Haque continues to break down barriers, encouraging all to the yoga mat. Here, she talks to OM about her yoga…

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OM Meets Mumtaz Haque

Have a nice day

We can all play our part in making the days better both for ourselves and others. By Victoria Jackson Sometime during my childhood I became aware of…

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Have a nice day

OM in 30 Seconds – November 2020

Nottingham-based teacher Mumtaz Haque continues to break down barriers, encouraging all to the yoga mat. She talks to OM about her yoga journey and her experiences as…

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OM in 30 Seconds Nov 2020

Cover me

Paula Hines gives a big shout out to all those teachers providing cover for her classes Yoga teachers are used to doing lots of the things required…

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Cover me

Becoming a social media yoga influencer

David Holzer explores why yoga teachers are pairing up with industry brands…and how you can go about it For some of us who make a living from…

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Becoming a social media yoga influencer

Live like Jamie

How a family must rally together and remember to celebrate, even in the face of tragedy. By Siri Arti I was teaching in Germany when I saw…

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Live like Jamie

The HOT yoga diet

Nourishing your body for hot yoga. By Sarah Jackson Hot yoga is a favourite among many yogis today. Not only does it have all the benefits of…

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The HOT yoga diet

A Year of Self-Love – July: Forgiveness

July – Forgiveness The relationship we have with ourselves sets the foundation for every other relationship in our lives. By nourishing this special relationship, we learn that…

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Forgiveness

Small Steps lead to BIG THINGS

How small, consistent steps can create big and long-lasting changes if you want to build a yoga or meditation practice, says Dawn Wright When you want to…

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Small Steps

Beyond mindfulness

Mindfulness can be the beginning of a far deeper, richer spiritual experience. By Jo De Rosa Mindfulness is a great first step towards the ‘control ’of the…

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Beyond mindfulness

Yoga: the poetry of the body

Yogini and poet Kaye Martindale takes a look at the enigmatic way poetry shines a light on the practice of yoga. Here, she explores the deeper meanings…

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Yoga: the poetry of the body

Proud as a peacock

Why shouldn’t we be proud of ourselves? Jill Lawson presents a meditation on how we can take pride in all that we are…without strutting around like a…

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10 #trending styles of yoga

Do something different! We’ve picked 10 great mind-body practices this month to shake up your usual yoga routine. It’s always good to try something new, so here’s…

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Trending yoga styles

5 Reasons to Hug Yourself

When you can’t hug your family or friends in the age of coronavirus 5 Reasons to Hug Yourself I am missing a hug in these corona virus…

By Judy Hirsh Sampath

5 Reasons to Hug Yourself

Men need self-care too

Simple ways for guys to bring more calm and contentment into their day-to-day lives Five quick ways to take time for yourself 1. put down your phoneThis…

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Digital learning

New online yoga teacher training course launched For some students the idea of learning to teach yoga in a far-flung exotic hotspot such as Bali is out…

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Digital learning

ICE, ICE BABY

Laura-Jane Devanny experiences a Boreas Healing transformation workshop, complete with Wim Hof Method ice immersion bath Named after the Greek god of winter and the north wind,…

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OM Meets… Cat Meffan

OM meets… Cat Meffan OM catches up with inspirational yoga teacher, blogger and YouTuber Cat Meffan How did you first get into yoga I grew up doing…

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Planet Yoga – August 2019

Planet yoga Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga UK: A stretch too far Some public libraries in the UK have begun offering yoga…

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Planet Yoga

Yoga changed my life – Shermin A Ali

Nisi lacus sed viverra tellus in hac. Massa massa ultricies mi quis hendrerit dolor magna. NAME: Shermin A Ali AGE: 46 OCCUPATION: Marketing co-ordinator YOGA YEARS: 7+…

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Shermin A Ali

Namaste – Readers’ Letters August 2019

N@maste Love OM magazine and want to tell the world? Here’s your chance Kino rocks! It was wonderful to see Kino MacGregor in your July issue. She’s…

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Namaste - Readers letters