News archives
Earlier reporting, people and perspectives from the Yoga Plus journal.
Published reporting
Access and practice ·
A choice-led class inside a tightly controlled day
Rise Above Yoga’s Wisconsin teaching programme puts dignity and voluntary participation at the centre of its classroom.
Places and practice ·
A home-based practice prepares for a neighborhood address
Casa Bandha’s planned East Falls opening combines yoga and Pilates with a wider invitation to gather.
Research and practice ·
A prenatal yoga review keeps uncertainty beside the result
Ten trials suggest possible benefits, while large differences between studies limit what the pooled estimates can promise.
Teachers and access ·
An online class keeps the invitation personal
Hygia Collective’s small-group oncology yoga sessions make consent and individual choice part of the format.
Teaching craft ·
A yoga column questions the habit of pushing harder
Paulo Vieira’s account of a São Paulo class turns attention from enduring discomfort to noticing effort.
Teaching practice ·
Teaching across ages means finding another route
La Nucía teacher Jesús Hernández describes adaptation and continuity in a class where students have different possibilities.
Community practice ·
A care home opens its yoga timetable to the village
Weekly chair-yoga sessions at Los Aïnats connect a residential setting with surrounding communities.
Access and practice ·
A free yoga series puts a local teacher on the timetable
Home Remedies is inviting Spruce Pine residents into six weeks of slow-flow classes beginning November 16.
Community practice ·
An Okinawa park festival connects practice with community support
TELL’s November 15 fundraiser combines yoga, family activities and a clinician-led workshop at Yaeshima Park.
Teachers and livelihoods ·
Professional support enters the yoga-teaching conversation
A recent podcast discussion with Andrew Tanner gives mentorship and working life a place beside teacher credentials.
Teacher life ·
Twenty-five years, and a new name for the room
Michelle Jacobi’s anniversary newsletter marks the move from Centre de Yoga du Marais to Yoga Marais while keeping its community in view.
Research literacy ·
Contemplative practice can also be a conversation
A monastic-debate retreat study distinguishes changes in emotion-regulation difficulties from changes in positive or negative mood.
Practice and culture ·
Yoga clubs take a place on a coastal festival programme
A planned November 29 gathering in Dong Hoi links yoga clubs with Quang Tri’s wider culture and tourism week.
Research literacy ·
A sleep trial leaves room for an honest comparison
Tai chi/qigong did not significantly outperform matched exercise or usual care on overall sleep quality in a trial of older male cancer survivors.
Access and practice ·
Yoga joins the neighborhood workshop timetable
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria places free yoga sessions alongside sewing, digital skills and other municipal activities this November.
Teachers and livelihoods ·
A teaching life can begin with one regular class
Yoga Australia’s State of Yoga 2026 report gives a gradual start and continuing relationships a place in the conversation about teaching work.
Community practice ·
A Wednesday class makes room for belonging
A Glasgow refugee charity’s weekly sessions connect a mixed-language room with the steady work of an independent teacher.
Teacher life ·
When experience means changing the practice
A new conversation with Melanie Cooper asks how a long teaching life can make room for changing bodies and less rigid ideas of progress.
Access and practice ·
An online yoga pilot begins with everyday experience
A small pulmonary-fibrosis trial reports selected patient-reported improvements while calling for a larger, adequately powered study.
Teaching ethics ·
Ahimsa includes the puppy in the room
The British Wheel of Yoga asks teachers and venues to avoid commercial classes that use young animals for entertainment.
Places and practice ·
A new studio leaves room for neighbors beyond yoga
A Stafford opening combines a yoga timetable with plans for gardening, dancing and other community gatherings.
Teaching practice ·
A first public class with room for new teachers
Assembly’s free November sessions give recent training graduates a place on the community timetable.
Teachers and access ·
A teaching network makes room for care in hospitals
Adriana Jarrín’s work brings adapted practice and teacher preparation into a conversation about access during cancer care.
Places and practice ·
A studio move makes room for smaller sessions
Sama’s November 12 relocation in New Canaan combines a new address with rooms for small classes and private teaching.