OM Yoga & Lifestyle

OM Yoga Magazine is your guide for daily yoga practice, from yoga poses to meditations, articles and videos. OM magazine caters for all levels of ability from beginners to intermediate, teachers and professionals. Regular features include: Yoga at Home, yoga changed my file, Yoga & Aromatherapy, amazing spaces, yoga anatomy, plant based food recipes, my yoga business plus lots more to inspire a healthy and active lifestyle.

OM Yoga & Lifestyle • Autumn 2025

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Chant & Chill • Chanting can be as relaxing as meditation and breathwork, new research shows

Paramahansa Yogananda • What yoga teaches us about youth and the power of the mind*

Yoga mat recycling initiative • Manduka partners with SuperCircle to launch industry’s first end-of-life programme for yoga mats

N@maste • Love OM magazine and want to tell the world? Here’s your chance

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om loves • Beautiful things for beautiful people

Planet yoga • Stories from around the weird and wonderful world of yoga

AMAZING SPACES

OM meets… PETRA COVENEY • Menopause Yoga founder Petra Coveney talks to OM about how yoga can help women embrace their Second Spring

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Thrive through the menopause • Research by ethical vitamin company Viridian Nutrition has found over half (53%) of women cannot get the help they need for menopause.

Embrace the change • Finding your way through a healthy menopause.

Menopause modifications • How to modify yoga for the stages of menopause.

Moving through liminal space • Easing your path through liminal space, a physical or metaphorical ‘in-between’ place of transition.

Find your flow • Combining breath and fluid movement to re-connect to you and your practice.

A 360º overview of… Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I) With Dr Kiki Morriss • Warrior 1 is an energising standing pose that will help you develop strength, flexibility, balance and focus and can be added to the Sun Salutation sequence. Br Dr Kiki Morriss

Roll with it • The importance of body rolling in helping your fascia to flourish.

MY STORY • Stockport tradesman Paul Lewis reveals how yoga eased his slipped disc in six weeks, after years of physio, strong painkillers and steroids failed him

YOGA’S REAL-WORLD IMPACT • Sometimes things are bigger than us. A quick look at yoga’s powerful real-life impact on the diverse communities it serves

YOGI OF THE YEAR • Leah Miles wins ‘Yoga Teacher of the Year’ award for innovative, nature-led approach to wellbeing

REACHING THE PEAKS • From 28 years in the sky to opening Bakewell’s first yoga studio, Marie Kirkwood is flying high

Garage makeover • How one enterprising yogini turned her home garage into a zen den, a place for yoga, stillness and quiet contemplation for all the family to enjoy

Retreat at home • Reclaiming your radiance through midlife transitions with a lush home retreat.

Made with love • Welcome to our ethical goodies gift list! Whether you’re contemplating the Christmas shopping this year, buying a birthday pressie for a loved one, or looking to spoil yourself (why not!) here are 19 pages of wonderful, yoga-friendly ideas that will inspire you

Super Sonics • Fill your practice with the power of sound and vibration

Fresh and fabulous • Perfectly natural organic food from the fine folks at Organic Land

Foodie FLAVOURS • Organic Extracts for inspired baking

Unwrap and unroll • JadeYoga offers high-quality, eco-friendly yoga mats and accessories, planting a tree for every mat sold — over 2 million trees planted...