A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler

Fear, control, and manipulation at Yoga to the People.

How Rebekah Neumann’s search For enlightenment fueled WeWork’s collapse.

Everyone wants women to be mindful, calm, and deliberate. But sometimes a little chaos gets things done.

Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.

Baba Ramdev renounced the material world twenty-three years ago to become a Hindu ascetic. Now he’s on TV selling toothpaste, instant noodles, and toilet cleaners and the company he is believed to control is poised to become the biggest consumer goods seller in India.

On self-improvement, New Year’s resolutions, and Sylvia Plath.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

How a scandal involving sex, money and a Wiccan coven brought down yogi John Friend.

The man who brought together heat, yoga, monthly fees to use his methods, and raw sexuality, on allegations that he has slept with scores of his followers: “Only when they give me no choice! If they say to me, ‘Boss, you must fuck me or I will kill myself,’ then I do it! Think if I don’t! The karma!”

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.