The Orenna Journal is a yoga and wellbeing journal exploring yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest and the wider ideas that shape how yoga is understood and experienced.
Through considered writing, it offers space to look beyond the surface of practice and explore its traditions, contexts and contemporary interpretations with greater depth and curiosity.
The Orenna Journal brings together considered writing on yoga, philosophy, history, wellbeing and place. Articles move between tradition and contemporary understanding, exploring not only how practices are approached, but where they come from, how they have developed and how their meanings can differ across contexts.
Rather than offering quick answers, the Journal creates space for thoughtful enquiry, evidence-informed discussion and a more nuanced understanding of yoga and wellbeing.
Discover the Journal through four interconnected areas. Each offers a different way into the wider conversation around yoga, rest, wellbeing and the relationship between practice, evidence and place.
Explore yoga practices, philosophies, texts and traditions, from their historical contexts to the ways they are understood and practised today.
Consider restorative practice, meditation, stillness and the different ways attention and awareness are approached within yoga.
Find contemporary wellbeing through an evidence-informed lens, distinguishing emerging research from established knowledge and examining claims with appropriate context.
Writing shaped by landscape, seasonality and the quieter observations that connect practice with everyday experience.
Written & curated by Orenna Wellness
Thoughtful writing exploring yoga, philosophy, wellbeing, evidence and place.
Crystals are geological structures, beautiful objects and, for many people, symbols of intention, protection or connection. Explore what crystals actually are, why humans have valued particular stones, how modern crystal meanings developed and where tradition, personal experience and scientific evidence begin to diverge.
Do mudrās really work? Traditional texts, modern yoga and contemporary wellness culture make very different claims about their effects. Explore what mudrās may offer, what research has investigated and why traditional meaning, personal experience and scientific evidence should not be treated as the same thing.
What do familiar yoga mudrās actually mean? Explore Añjali, Jñāna, Chin, Dhyāna, Abhaya and other commonly encountered gestures, while distinguishing traditional contexts, symbolic interpretations and modern yoga explanations.
Why are mudrās so often described as directing, sealing or containing prāṇa? Explore the traditional subtle-body models behind yogic mudrā, including nāḍīs, cakras, kuṇḍalinī and the central channel — and why these concepts should not be confused with modern biomedical anatomy.
Discover the latest articles from The Orenna Journal, with new writing across yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest, wellbeing, evidence and place.
