When the world outside is blanketed in darkness, it can be easier to calm the senses and draw attention inward. Here are a few meditation practices that can light you up from the inside, connect you to the deeper truth of who you truly are, and help you stay connected to community.

Doing this practice regularly not only shifts your mood, but it actually changes the neural pathways in your brain. At first, and especially if you’re new to this sort of thing, you may find you have resistance to this. You might think “how can this even work?” Or you might feel it’s too new age or woo woo — not practical or action-based.

Los Angeles-based yoga teacher, life design coach and writer Mary Beth LaRue has created the life of her dreams—but she had to overcome her fair share of fear and self-doubt to get there.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar breaks down the 5 things you didn’t know about vinyasa yoga.