OM Yoga Magazine is your guide for daily yoga practice, from yoga poses to meditations, articles and videos. OM magazine caters for all levels of ability from beginners to intermediate, teachers and professionals. Regular features include: Yoga at Home, yoga changed my file, Yoga & Aromatherapy, amazing spaces, yoga anatomy, plant based food recipes, my yoga business plus lots more to inspire a healthy and active lifestyle.
OM Yoga & Lifestyle • Issue 124, December 2021
Welcome
Contributors
OM in 30 seconds
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N@maste • Love OM magazine and want to tell the world? Here’s your chance
Competition • Win a year's supply of HALO Hydration sticks
Headstand crazy • The most popular yoga poses of 2021. And the winner is… headstand!
YOGA changed my life • Yoga and meditation helped Alexandra Reece-Ford reclaim her life from anxiety, depression and ME
I Am Grateful
YOGA AND Aromatherapy
Amazing spaces
om loves • Beautiful things for beautiful people
MUDRA COLLECTION
Planet yoga • Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga
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Relax with Restorative Yoga • Relaxing 20-minute Restorative Yoga practice.
A 360º overview of… Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) • Throughout 2022, OM will take you on a journey through all the key poses that make up Sun Salutation, perhaps yoga’s most graceful and familiar sequence
Kassandra Reinhardt • US-based YouTube yoga sensation Kassandra Reinhardt has amassed a huge following for her safe, accessible classes and personable style. Here, she talks to OM about her own yoga journey
Yoga for neck pain • Can yoga help with neck pain? Here are eight poses that may help.
Calming the vagus nerve • An exploration of the most extraordinary nerve in the body, the vagus nerve, and the simple practices that can help to soothe us and bring us greater calm.
Christmas gift guide • 16-pages of wonderful, ethical yoga goodies and Christmas gift ideas
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MAN ON THE MAT SKANDASANA (SIDE LUNGE POSE) • Skandasana, or side lunge pose, promotes flexibility and strength in the inner thighs and hamstrings, builds mobility in the feet and ankles, and improves balance
YOGA & POETRY • The yogi, mystic and author known simply as Deep talks to OM about how the practice has shaped his poetry
Yoga V stress
Beat stress with yoga • Yoga is our secret weapon in the war against stress.
Breathe better • How a simple breathing technique can start to shrink your stress.
5 ways to manage stress with yoga • Yoga and how it can help in the battle against stress.
Connected by breath • Using breathing practices and co-regulation to reduce stress in children.
Yoga for stress • A simple Iyengar Yoga sequence for easing stress.
Light fantastic • Light therapy has long been known to affect our moods and emotions. A new high-tech solution, Lucia No3 – the Lucid Light Experience, takes this to a whole new level
Seeking perfect health • Can meditation keep our immunity strong?
What is stress and how can yoga help? • Simple yoga practices to navigate through the stress maze.
My story • Jackie Heffer-Cooke was a stressed-out TV executive… until she discovered yoga. Here she tells her story
Yoga for mental health • 4 ways to boost mental health and inner resilience.
mental wellbeing yoga and the older person • How yoga can play a role in countering stress and improving mental health among the older community.
Meditation for resilience • Build a more resilient mind and body in yoga and in life with this simple...