Yoga Journals

Yoga Journal is a magazine for those who embrace the yoga lifestyle that has been around for over 25 years. Yoga Journal is the winner of the, 2007 "Best Overall Consumer Publication" -- Western Publications Association, they won the 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003 Maggie Awards for "Best Health and Fitness Magazine," and the yoga journal web site has been called, "The Web's most expansive and impressive Yoga site." — Forbes Magazine.

Yoga journal online has followed in the footsteps of the magazine, and has developed a full service web site that provides an exhaustive supply of content on the topic of yoga and the whole healthy lifestyle. The yoga journal 2003 calendar was a great gift idea for the yoga enthusiast on your gift shopping list.

Yoga journal has pregnancy resources from safe yoga poses to do while you are in the various stages of pregnancy, ways to modify your yoga practice so that you can safely gain strength and prepare for childbirth, and it has tons of healthy recipes that pregnant moms will love.

The yoga journal web site has a yoga journal video that you can watch online and see several different asanas being properly performed. There is a video on the extended triangle pose, the downward facing dog pose, the head-to-knee pose, the bridge pose, the boat pose, the warrior I pose, and the wide-legged forward bend pose. When you are first learning these poses, it can be helpful to be able to watch these videos so that you can see how they should be done.

Some of the other features of the web site include: Pose Finder, Yoga 101, Expert Advice, Class Search, Yoga Events, and the new yoga news blog.

You can purchase books, DVD's, apparel, videos, and back issues of the magazine on the 'Shop VJ" page. You can subscribe to several free email newsletters under the following topics: Daily Insight, Eating Wisely, My Yoga Journal, My Yoga Mentor, and Wisdom. The Yoga directory has listings for yoga teachers and studios throughout the United States. YJ events lists events and conferences that might be of interest to yoga enthusiasts.

When you purchase a yoga journal subscription you will also get two bonus offers if you pay immediately. You can get two free trial issues of Yoga Journal and two booklets, one is called, "Calm, Cool and Collected." It's an e-book by Seane Corn that has a restorative yoga sequence. The other free bonus is an e-book called, "Yoga for the Neck and Shoulders," which is a guide to 11 poses that will relieve tension in your back, neck and shoulders.