What is it that increases our youthful vibrancy? What makes a smile come to our lips and puts a twinkle in our eyes? Be present in your body and recall when you were an infant and first connecting ...

Backbends are a wonderful way to build strength, flexibility, and mobility. You can start at a beginner stage and transition into intermediate or advanced backbends over time. Backbends are an ...

In WH’s resident yogi Jessica Skye’s latest column, she demystifies backbends. The backbend – it’s one of the Marmite poses of yoga. However elegant and ‘Gramable a slinky arched back can look; our ...

I’ll never forget the first time I saw someone drop back into Wheel Pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana) from standing. I was a student at the time, long before I completed my 200-hour teacher training, and I ...

A 5-year-old girl in Rancho Palos Verdes , Calif. has become paralyzed from the waist down after performing a backbend in her home. When Eden Hoelscher collapsed and started crying on the morning of ...