As part of the monastic tradition, yogic knowledge has been passed down in secret

If you’ve read anything about Bikram yoga in the past year, it probably hasn’t been good.

When I developed Pranava yoga, I was aware that yoga had been very much a classroom activity.

Vanda Scaravelli was an inspired and inspiring woman, who came to yoga relatively late in life.

 The first time I talked about ‘creating space’ as a theme in one of my classes

At the time of the full moon in August 2003, I was working with a teacher.

Candida Fridman looks at Kabbalistic Yoga where postures mimic the Hebrew alphabet and speaks to Zvi Zavidowsky in Israel.

Each month Yoga magazine takes apart one classic yoga asana, explaining precisely the movements and breath, plus which parts of the body it will help. This month we look at trikonasana, the triangle pose One of the first poses beginners learn, this is an apparently simple sideways stretch with feet apart. However, like many other deceptively easy asanas, there are many elements to remember.

Yoga is often seen to be a solitary activity, but practising with your partner can be much more fun. Laura McCreddie finds out why two is so much better than one Attempting to build a relationship on love alone is like building a house on quicksand. Sooner or later you will find yourself six feet under surrounded by wreckage with no idea how you got there. As any relationship expert will tell you, one of the most important foundations of a partnership is trust – and partner yoga is the ideal way to inject some trust into a relationship.

What is ‘kundalini’? The name originates from the Sanskrit words ‘kundal’ meaning ‘coiled’ and ‘kund’ meaning pit or hole. These meanings mirror the physical nature of the energy which exists in a coil at the base of the spine. The word ‘kundalini’ has become synonymous with ‘energy’. Some texts describe the energy as a serpent, other representations include a reservoir of water, a goddess, a spiral or a lock of hair. Kundalini lies coiled three and a half times at the base of the spine.