Meet this month's guest contributor, Blakey Elkhart Kornfeld. A yoga teacher in recovery from drug addiction, Blakey shares how she combines yoga and the 12 step program to offer others in recovery a spiritual and healing path forward.

Social media is both everywhere and nowhere. It's at our fingertips but removed from reality. So what happens when we are "somewhere" in "real life" and in walks a Facebook friend who you never met before? Learn what I did and what I learned from this "real life" interaction.

Welcome to Chime's YTT series (that's Yoga Teacher Talk, not Yoga Teacher Training), where yoga teachers share their experiences as they continue to grow personally and professionally. This month, an inspiring group of teachers share their personal mission statements for teaching yoga.

Meet this month's YogaView guest, Melissa Zuena, an artist and yogini thriving in her recovery.

Guest contributor Allison Gold Russell shares how self-doubt and insecurity as a new yoga teacher led her back to her mat as a student and rekindled her passion for the practice.

Can you recall the last time you felt angst, agitation, anger, or another "hot button" reaction to someone or something? By hot button, I mean a feeling that causes a strong physical and emotional response.

Learn to defuse or lessen the charge of an emotion or feeling with a simple mindfulness technique. The intention is to redirect the hot button feeling to a more positive one.

Sometimes our own "stuff" makes a situation more stressful than it needs to be. As seen in Elephant Journal, my easy practice for sending good out and clearing away negative feelings.

I can't speak for others' intentions for posting yoga selfies on social media, but I want to share mine. 

Meet this month's YogaView guest, Erika Tenenbaum, a yoga therapist and skin care specialist. Erika tells her story of transformation, from wearing sneakers and chewing gum to her first yoga class to completing her 1,000-hour yoga therapy certification (and some juicy details in between).