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Sandra Vanatko smiling, seated cross-legged on a yoga mat, hands resting on her knees

Radiant Heart: What Happens When We Stay With What Feels Good

This month I’ve asked you to stay with a lot of hard things. To hold a breath a little past

Sandra Vanatko in a standing yoga pose, from the Steady Ground practice in The Practice with Sandra Vanatko's October series

Steady Ground: We Suffer Twice, and Only One of Those Is Real

This month I’ve asked you to stay with a lot. To hold a breath a little longer than comfortable. To

Sandra Vanatko in gyan mudra during a seated breath meditation, hand resting at the heart

The Practice of Staying: What My Breath Taught Me About Presence

This month, inside The Practice, we’re working with something simple and not at all easy: staying. Staying with our experience,

Sandra Vanatko standing in a wide squat, holding a yoga block, during a home yoga practice

Do It Anyway: A Practice for Staying Present With What’s Hard

My teacher used to say something that used to drive me a little crazy. Whenever a pose or a breath

Sandra Vanatko demonstrating an arm and breath kriya, fists raised in a V from the heart center

Breath as Medicine: The Quick Shift I Come Back to Again and Again

I’ve been teaching for almost twenty years, and there’s a practice I still don’t have a name for. It’s an

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Yoga for Digestion and Elimination: Why Warmth in the Center of the Body Matters

There’s a part of the body that tends to run cold and hard without us ever noticing — the low