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| Publisher: Active Interest Media
Category: Magazine
List Price: $48.24
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 60
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 9
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 9
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
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Who Reads Yoga Journal?
Yoga Journal is for both the beginning and advanced practitioner, and the casual and committed reader.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Basics: Yoga Journal's most popular column, Basics makes yoga asana and philosophy accessible to students who are new to the practice and long-time practitioners looking for a refresher course.
- Eating Wisely: How we eat is a reflection of how we live, and for yogis, this means making thoughtful decisions about what goes on the menu. Eating Wisely examines the deep connections between spirit and food.
- Home Practice: Starting a home practice can be a big challenge for yogis. Personal Practice provides all the tools readers need to roll out their mats at home.
- Master Class: Offers in-depth instruction for the serious practitioner. Written by authoritative master yoga teachers.
- Media: A critical discussion of the latest and most noteworthy books, music, DVDs, videos, and audiotapes.
- Om: High-energy and fun to read, Om tells readers all they need to know about trends, news, fashion, people, places, and things that make the world of yoga fun and rewarding.
- Features: Features always look at some aspect of yoga, whether for physical, emotional, or spiritual well being. Some current examples: Creating a Yoga space at home; using yoga to release yourself from addiction.
Past Issues: Contributors: Most contributors are writers who have a long-established yoga practice. Current writers include Stacie Stukin, Hillari Dowdle, Dayna Macy, Nora Isaacs, and more. Magazine Layout: It is clean, featuring magnificent original illustrations and photos. It is more text than visual, with the visual in service of the article, and the reader's pleasure. Comparisons to Other Magazines: Yoga Journal is the most widely read and respected yoga magazine in the country. There are other yoga magazines but they are largely regional. Advertising: National advertisers across many categories including Aveda, Sigg, Lululemon Athletica, Ford, Eileen Fisher, and more. Product DescriptionYoga Journal has been a valuable resource for information about physical and spiritual well-being through the practice of yoga. Yoga Journal is your guide to better health, nutrition, personal growth, fitness and inner peace. You ll learn revitalizing yoga techniques taught by the masters. |
| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 A wonderful resource November 17, 2003
55 out of 56 found this review helpful
I've subscribed to YJ off and on over the last few years. Off because I just don't have the time to read everything in it. This is a fabulous magazine no matter where you are in your practice. Every issue has an article on anatomy that is practical and interesting, an in-depth study of a selected asana that is meant for beginners but has useful information for everyone, meditation articles, diet articles. Just an abundance with real respect for the roots of yoga. I have read that some people in the yogic community dislike YJ's commercialization and competitiveness. If these are fair criticisms that is unfortunate since they must not be reading their own publication. Otherwise I can recommend this magazine without reservation. I learn so much about body and spirit in every issue and it continues to inspire and inform my practice. Their website is also excellent and loaded with free content. Namaste.
Extremely useful resource for home yoga practitioners February 18, 2004
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
Yoga Journal is an excellent resource, particularly for those who practice yoga mainly at home and who are looking to further their practice. Yes, the magazine is somewhat commercialized--there are a ton of ads in addition to articles on various new yoga products and trends--but to me, that's also an indication of the publication's open-mindedness to all styles and types of yoga.
This is a magazine which helps make yoga accessible to everyone, whether you prefer an Easternized or Westernized version of practice. Each issue includes a beginner's look at a particular asana plus an in-depth depth focus on a more advanced asana; featured articles include more posture work as well as more general health and wellness topics. Whenever I pick up this magazine, I never fail to find several articles of interest to me, and I always wind up saving the issue for future reference.
Yoga Journal is definitely a worthwhile subscription or occasional indulgence for your well-being; highly recommended for yogis of all levels!
A Valued Resource December 15, 2004
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Yoga Journal is a wonderful magazine packed full of valuable information not limited to asanas. They have articles on food or ayurveda, alternative medicine and spirituality, as well as meditation, and what to look for in a yoga instructor. Besides these they provide substitutions for postures and practices when that scary inversion is simply just too much for the time being. They have full-page photos of postures that are good for cutting out and putting in a binder for creating a personal yoga workbook full of asanas relevant to you. I find that with every issue I learn something unexpected and valuable.
inspiring December 17, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This magazine is very helpful to me in my practice of yoga. Not being able to go to classes, I bought video tapes and books, and have been practicing for about 2 years now with my children at home. Since I began receiving YJ about 6 months ago, I have felt a renewed inspiration in my practice. There is always something new to try, so I don't feel stagnant. The only thing I think could be improved upon would be to add more pictures of men and maybe even children practicing yoga.
Spiritually Relaxing Reading April 6, 2005
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves. ~J. Krishnamurti
My April 2005 copy of Yoga Journal is looking a little worse for wear. I was reading it in the tub and do take a rather extreme delight in ripping out pages of interest. I have to organize the new products to try in one pile and the pages about yoga postures in another. Then, there is the page about freeing yourself from destructive emotional patterns that I should read at least four more times and the recipe for Chocolate-Grand Marnier Dessert. Of course I'm fresh out of Grand Marnier so I have to save the recipe and put it in the "recipe to make soon" file.
The Yoga Journal is not just a fun read for me. I literally try to take the teaching and the ideas and put them into practice. Literally in Yoga practice and more intellectually in taming stress and taking control of my emotions. Not that Yoga is not intellectual because it really is a very intellectually enhancing exercise. Through reading about Yoga you can learn how to calm your mind and learn how to focus on what is important in life. To say Yoga has influenced me for the better is a great understatement. The happiest place in my day is perhaps at the end of a Yoga routine when I feel completely relaxed, without any negative emotions and have a sense that in the midst of the chaos of life, there is a place of peace inside me that I can escape to anytime I choose.
If you tend to buy Yoga "workouts" then you will appreciate the "yocabulary" to explore various Yoga words in more depth. There are book/video/music reviews for Yoga inspired items. The advertising seems mostly about Yoga retreats or new Yoga DVDs like Sara Ivanhoe's Natural Journeys 20 Minute Yoga Makeover routines, which I love.
Now the only question is, is the Aveeno body wash in my shower a result of seeing an advertisement in this magazine and how many more Tazo teas are there to try?
As the Wake Up to Your Life article states: "Why wait around for enlightenment when you can enjoy everyday awakenings." You just know someone's life was changed by reading that one line in this magazine. It definitely made me think. If you love collecting quotes or you enjoy learning more about your Yoga practice, this is an essential Yoga magazine.
~The Rebecca Review
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