Welcome to the New Year and I hope that you enjoy reading YOGA Magazine.

We are delighted to start 2019 with a magazine packed with in- formative and interesting features, tips and plenty of yoga, both practical and theoretical. In the coming months YOGA Magazine will cover even more yoga articles and ways in which you can prac- tically apply it into your day-to-day life ...

This month we look at the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit to see whether its use is important for our yoga practice, and with today’s modern technological society full of stimulus and distractions such as social media, it’s important to take some downtime to concentrate on ourselves and retreat from the world, so we show you the options for taking a yoga retreat, whether at home or away ...

This month we feature three Kundalini meditation exercises for improving our prosperity so we can achieve success and a harmonious life, for the benefit of ourselves and others, and there are some excellent yogic tips to help you transition from autumn to winter...

This month we take a look at the benefits from an Ashtanga yoga posture practice, as taught by the late Sri K Pattabhi Jois, and there’s also the best yoga poses to practise for pregnant women in their second trimester...

This month we take a look at yoga as a tool of psycho self-development for dealing with conditions such as anxiety and stress, and we investigate whether yogic confidence forms the path to liberation...

This month we take a look at ‘tapas’, the third of the niyamas (personal observances) that can be used to enhance yoga, and we show you what to do when resistance gets in the way of your yoga practice...