Category: Teaching
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Backbends
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Second in my Yoga Vibes series of ten practices filmed at my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive is an investigation of both passive and active backbends. These simple but powerful poses can improve posture, increase balance in the body, and prevent injury in athletes and everyone. Watch the preview or the full class here. Take…
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Watch: IT Band Aid
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If you don’t know what your IT band (or iliotibial band) is, that’s great news—it’s probably not a problem area. If it is a hotspot for you, or if you have soreness at your outer hip or knee or general tightness along the outer thigh, this free video at YogaVibes has some ideas to help! Yoga Class Description…
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Read: Mindful Racing
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I’m very excited to lead our meditation at Wanderlust 108 in Atlanta, GA, on September 28. Today at the Wanderlust blog, you’ll find an excerpt from Racing Wisely, with some thoughts on mindfulness and running: Any practice can be a mindfulness practice, and many can be mindlessness practices. It’s all about intention and attention. Why are you here?…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Spine and Hips
For those of you interested in the thinking behind why we do what we do in my yoga for athletes classes, here’s a new series at Yoga Vibes! Filmed during my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, these classes include explanation about the theory behind my sequencing, with ample free time for you to explore the poses…
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Now Available: Classroom Management and Safety
We always have a lot of fun in the teacher trainings and intensives I lead. But I can’t remember having as much fun or belly laughs in a workshop as we had in Classroom Management and Safety. What is often a weighty, serious, and scary topic is less frightening when you break it down with…
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Read: Balanced Breathing for Better Running
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Get to know your breath and you’ll have a powerful tool for keeping yourself calm and focused on the run or anytime, as I explain in this piece at Competitor. Your breath can have a profound effect on your nervous system. Consider the admonition to take a deep breath when you are upset—this has a basis…
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North Carolina Literary Festival
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If you’re in central North Carolina this weekend, join me at the North Carolina Literary Festival at N.C. State University, where I’ll speak at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday, April 6). While the title of my talk is “Intention and Goals: Tools for Your Personal Best,” I’m looking forward to talking about whatever will be most…
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Watch: Wall Folds Yoga for Athletes Short Practice
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My latest class at Yoga Vibes is a half-hour practice for recovery and release through the hips. Wall Folds: Yoga for Athletes Short Practice Yoga Class Description In this short online yoga practice for athletes and everyone, we use legs-up-the-wall pose as a home base for a series of stretches targeting the hamstrings and…
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Reflection on Over a Decade of Teaching at Carrboro Yoga
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The 10-year anniversary of the Carrboro Yoga Company—and hence of my teaching yoga—passed quietly on March 1, 2014, because I was busy teaching an intensive at the studio on classroom management and safety as part of our 500-hour yoga teacher training. The studio was founded by my friend and longtime Kripalu assistant Donia Robinson. When…
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Read: Sustainable Yoga Teaching
In my latest post at prAna Life, I talk about ways to structure your teaching schedule so you have a sustainable yoga career, rather than burning out. “Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.” —Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, trans. Swami Satchidananda As a yoga teacher,…
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REI/prAna Tour Practice Notes
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I’m one week in to a six-week tour of teaching Yoga for Athletes at REI stores. Last week, I visited Berkeley, Portland, and Seattle; this coming week, it’s Boulder, Denver, and Salt Lake City. The full tour schedule is here. If you’re on the wait list for a clinic, or find yourself nearby and interested,…
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Watch: REI/prAna Yoga for Athletes Preview
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Here’s a beautiful video prAna made to promote my upcoming REI Yoga for Athletes tour. Full tour schedule is here. While most of the clinics are full, I really hope we’ll get the chance to connect. If you’ve been shut out, use the code sagefreemonth to try my classes at YogaVibes! Look closely for teacher/student footage featuring…