Backbends are a wonderful way to build strength, flexibility, and mobility. You can start at a beginner stage and transition into intermediate or advanced backbends over time. Backbends are an ...

In WH’s resident yogi Jessica Skye’s latest column, she demystifies backbends. The backbend – it’s one of the Marmite poses of yoga. However elegant and ‘Gramable a slinky arched back can look; our ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the 2006 issue of Yoga Journal. I think of ...