WELLNESS BLOG
Real-life yoga, wellness & wisdom
Practical guidance for feeling stronger, moving better, managing stress, and making yoga part of real life.
Find the Yoga Membership That Fits Your Life
Your yoga practice should fit your life, not the other way around. Explore the different ways to practice at Just Plain Yoga and find the option that works best for your schedule, goals, and budget.
How Yoga Helps Reduce Stress
Stress affects more than your mood. Discover how yoga, mindful movement, and breath can help calm the nervous system, release tension, and create more ease in everyday life.
Finding Strength Through Breath: A Breast Cancer Story
A personal story of navigating breast cancer and discovering strength, steadiness, and connection through breath and yoga during an extraordinarily difficult season of life.
The Power of a Siesta: Why a Short Rest Can Make a Difference
Rest is not laziness. Learn what research says about short daytime naps, why longer isn’t always better, and how practices like Yoga Nidra can help us become more comfortable with slowing down.
What Is Yin Yoga? The Benefits of Slowing Down
Yin Yoga invites us to slow down, stay with a pose, and pay attention. Learn how the practice differs from Restorative Yoga and why less movement can sometimes offer a completely different kind of challenge.
New to Yoga? What to Expect When You’re Just Starting Out
Think you’re too stiff, inexperienced, or out of shape for yoga? You’re not. Here’s what to expect at your first class and how to find a starting point that works for you.
Sitting All Day? How Yoga Can Help You Move and Feel Better
Desk work can leave us stiff, tense, and mentally drained. Learn how simple movement, breathing, and yoga can break up long periods of sitting and make the workday feel better.
Shavasana-Lite: Dying to the Stories We Tell About Ourselves
Shavasana may look like simple rest, but Corpse Pose asks us to practice something much deeper: stillness, surrender, impermanence, and the difficult art of letting go.
Beyond the Poses: What Yoga Is Really Asking of Us
Yoga can begin with poses, but it does not end there. Tina Stroh reflects on samskaras, identity, perception, and what decades of practice continue to teach her about liberation and connection.
Why Community Matters: The Power of Belonging
Community is more than gathering in the same room. After 23 years of Just Plain Yoga, Tina Stroh reflects on belonging, making room for one another, and why being known and welcomed still matters.