The Yoga Blog — yoga

We're excited to showcase the best of yoga from around the world in this new photo series! 📷

We'll be posting our favourite photo from each country A-Z every day. .
To represent your country and get your photo featured, just add #plyopicworld on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook as a comment to your photo and we'll select our favourite. 💕
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🌍 Yoga: A gift from India to the World
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Namaste 🙏

Holiday season is just around the corner, bringing that “Christmassy” feeling and many cherishing moments with family, friends, and loved ones. Smell the cinnamon and orange, listen for sleigh bells in the snow and get stabbed in the toes by a million pine needles! It’s going to be a lot of fun!

In a couple of weeks we'll have forgotten about all those hours at the shops zig-zagging around pavements, deciding who’s to be your third person in your 3 for 2s and the declarations of being completely in control, only to forget the cranberry sauce twice!

We have entered a new era of the Yoga class. With growing popularity comes an ever expanding diversity in the types of classes offered. No longer is the paradoxical ‘Express Yoga’ the new tactic of studios to get the business suit whipped off and into lycra. We have some new challengers in our midst. The dawn of the themed yoga class is upon us.

And leading the way, in it’s usual ‘move over, here comes the future’ attitude, is technology in the form of virtual reality. Yes, VR is being wheeled back out, like Sir Cliff at Christmas, for...

With Marilyn Monroe’s famous ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’ dress selling for a record $4.8 million today, we look back on an icon known for her glamorous modelling shoots and movie career. Yet, it was her less publicised fondness of yoga and it’s philosophies that let us gain a greater insight into the person she really was.

At a time when women were discouraged from lifting a finger, let alone a dumbbell, she was an earlier adopter of strength training and allegedly made 10 minutes of weight lifting part of her morning ritual. 

She was pictured doing moves like boat pose...