Lately it seems like everyone has a blog, whether for hydroponic tomato growers, lovers of all things Pomeranian, or aficionados of tango. The yoga world is no exception, and this practice that spent so long in remote mountain caves is now online and accessible for everyone with an internet hook up and a love of all things asana.
Blogs can be a beautiful thing. They can give you a sense of community and connection and a valuable source of information at no cost and with very little investment of time. The challenge becomes in separating the gems from, let’s face it, the glass. You hardly have time to squeeze in your practice of yoga, let alone time to search and read and screen the best of the best blogs.
No worries! Spirit Voyage has trolled the web, repeated the sun salutations, chanted the “om” and found you ten yoga blogs to follow. You’re certain to find the right style, speed and format that will best support you and your practice from our list.
1) Spirit Voyage www.spiritvoyage.blog.com
If we may so ourselves (and we don’t mind if we do), the Spirit Voyage blog is a wonderful resource for all things yoga, chant and Kundalini. Articles range from interviews with sacred chant artists like Snatam Kaur to entries on Kundalini yoga kriyas to balance the chakras to mantras for prosperity. Quality is high, the photos are informative, and there are helpful links to products and websites that might be of interest to the yogic community.
2) Yoga Mint www.yogamint.com
This wonderful blog offers bit sized pieces of advice to freshen your day like a little mint. It covers yoga and all things related to the yogic lifestyle. Recent articles include advice on how to wash your hair the yogic way and how food can help your neck!
3) Yoga Journal blogs.yogajournal.com
Yoga Journal is always a wonderful resource for any yogi and the blogs online are from members of the yoga world who are sharing yoga with seniors in libraries, their young sons in their living rooms, and themselves in the dark where no one can see them. You’ll learn how very not alone you are if you are still trying to master downward dog and find a friend you’ve never met working on Peacock pose.
4) Elephant Journal www.elephantjournal.com
Elephant Journal is hardly a journal. It’s more like an online world that pulls together yoga and yogic living into an elephant sized resource. They aren’t afraid to tackle issues like the environment and even controversial topics like marijuana use for PSTD.
5) I am Woman http://www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/iamawoman/blog/
This blog is devoted to Kundalini yoga for women as taught by Yogi Bhajan. In addition to its discussions of Yogi Bhajan’s teachings and Kundalini, it also addresses topics of interest to women around the world, such as genital mutilation in Africa and the passage of the health care bill in the US stipulating that insurance companies cannot raise premiums for women simply for being women.
6) Yoga Like Salt http://yogalikesalt.wordpress.com/
Small town yoga at its best. This well-written and insightful blog is from a small town northern California yoga teacher who taps into the pulse of yoga outside of the big cities and away from famous yoga studios. A recent post eloquently examined whether your backbends could be making you angry.
7) The Everything Yoga Blog http://www.itsallaboutyoga.com/
This blog is about, you guessed it, everything yoga. The writer of this blog enjoys just about every style of yoga and blogs about all of them. Good for book reviews and diet tips as well.
8) Yoga Abode http://www.yogaabode.com
A wonderful resource for yogis, especially European yogis. Featured poses, interviews with yoga teachers, and much more.
9) Metal Yoga’s Blog http://metalyoga.wordpress.com/
This blog reminds us of what we like about the yoga world. This is the word craft of a metal rocker with long hair, tattoos and great form. Well-written, well-thought and frankly, stereotype shattering. Heavy on yoga theory, this is a wonderful place to read about one man’s journey into the yamas and niyamas of yoga.
10) Peace Love Yoga http://peaceloveyoga.blogspot.com/
A niche blog for the lovers of Ashtanga yoga, this blog has beautiful demonstration videos and lovely photos of travel around Iceland. It reminds us to get up off the mat and take our yoga out into the world.
Did we miss anything? Tell us about your favorite yoga blogs!
*Editor's note: Ramdesh failed to mention her own blog No Ordinary Light which is one of the best yogic lifestyle blogs out there.
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If I might add an 11th, this blog I’ve recently found is fast becoming a great resource. Smart and capable, this yogi knows what’s up.
Yoga is for Lovers
http://yogaisforlovers.wordpress.com
Yoga has become extremely popular in the last decade, but few yoga teachers are really masters of the art of yoga. Yoga is more than exercise or stretches or postures on a mat. It is a spiritual combination of the body, mind, soul, intellect and breath.
All above giving listing is very very good and fantastic and wonder full as well as informative and all blog keeping the wonderful information, thanks for providing such a nice listing..
Thank you for this beautiful list. I can suggest a blog I found really inspiring! Gloria Latham, owner of Semperviva Yoga studios in Vancouver runs her own personal yoga blog which is wise and uplifting – Chai with Gloria at http://glorialatham.com/chai/. I hope you enjoy it.
I started a blog that is about yoga and a bunch of other stuff!
I am lucky enough to be published in one of the sites above.
The Elephant Journal is a great resource for yoga articles and stories
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/i-hate-handstands–marylee-fairbank/
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/letter-from-a-bully–marylee-fairbanks/
This has been very helpful in directing me to the information I am looking for and on just which site to find it. Thank you.
Hello everyone,
I’m glad I came across this blog, with such a variety to keep up with to also help me with my practice. This is always a great journey for anyone to take for the mind, body & soul.
Wishing everyone good health and well being, Ervin Ruhe Jr.
Thanks for the great list. You’ve put a lot more thought into your selections than I have seen on other sites. It has been great to see the spread of good information about practicing yoga over the last several years, but it has become hard to weed through it all and to focus on the best sites. Thanks again, and I look forward to updates as new blogs come out.
Sue
Thanks for the terrific list of blogs! I just started my yoga blogging journey. I look forward to checking out these sites and mentioning them on my resource “More About Yoga” tab.
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Its a nice nice list of Yoga blog. We have launched ourselves some time last year and it could happen that you have not visited our Blog. So we thought of leaving our blog url for http://www.yogaexpertsonline.com/.
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There are so many great new blogs out there, we might just have to write a follow up to this post!
That would be wonderful to do a follow up! I just launched my yoga blog, and I’m also busy working on my new yoga business for teen girls! Uber excited, classes begin next week!
http://www.bethetreeyoga.blogspot.com
Thanks!
I would like to share the blog I started in 2009, as seva (in spanish).
Thank you.
Valerie
(Arvind Kaur)
Great list, thanks very much for sharing…I also wanted to say that I very much agree with Sanjeev, there are very few real ‘proper’ yoga teachers, who embody and teach the spiritual-mental-body all together…most take it and teach it as a fitness class.
Thanks again for sharing!
I too have a yoga blog…www.beewellyoga.com and would love your personal feedback and/or a follow-up story on yoga and writing and how blogging fits into a yoga lifestyle. Thanks for a great list!
Check out http://yogamedblog.wordpress.com, and its companion website http://www.mahasriyoga.com
It has been great to see the spread of good information about practicing yoga over the last several years, but it has become hard to weed through it all and to focus on the best sites. Thanks again, and I look forward to updates as new blogs come out.
nice sharing, thank you
Awesome thanks so much.. I have been researching about yoga recently and came across this blog/article thanks for all the great sources of information.
I couldn’t refrain from commenting. Well written!
It’s amazing how much yoga becomes part of our life. Yoga is a way of life for me.
Hi, my name is Christine and I have a blog entitled Peace, Love, Yoga, Cupcakes.
http://peacewithinyoga.blogspot.com
It incorporates a little bit of everything that I love, including yoga! I keep a laid back approach and enjoy sharing information on yoga, health and nutrition, inspirational stories and of course baking. It’s all about balance, right?
Peace
I really enjoyed your article about Yoga. One of the things that always makes my feel connected is the point where the sea meets the earth. Beaches are a great place to practice and you can’t deny the feeling of being so close to nature.
Have a little look at this video of a great lady talking about her yoga classes that she does on the beach in Mauritius.
http://puttingonthelux.com/discover/lux-me-spa-wellness/lux-me-sunset-yoga/
I know we cant all jet set away to islands in the sun, but what a place to stretch out and get connected!