Category: Teaching
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Sage Advice: Choosing a Yoga Teacher Training
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Aspiring teachers sometimes write me to ask for advice on choosing a teacher training. While I can’t make individual recommendations without knowing the teacher-to-be and the offerings in his or her area, there are some general themes to my answer. Be clear on your intention. As with any undertaking, clarity about what you’re doing is…
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Read: 10 Yoga Poses for Runners
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It was fun to work with the nice guys at Men’s Journal to come up with ten yoga poses of special benefit for runners. We worked with yoga instructor and endurance sports coach Sage Rountree, which is actually her real name, to identify 10 yoga poses that will improve your running game. Rountree, herself an accomplished athlete,…
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Watch: Everything You Wanted to Know about the “Athlete’s Guide” Series
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Here’s more than you might have ever wanted to know about my books and DVD, footage from my online course on teaching yoga to athletes.
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Postview: Wilmington Yoga Center, Yoga for Athletes
I had a sweet group of yogis at Wilmington Yoga Center yesterday. They were especially good at practicing pratyahara, internal focus, given the stimulation of the ongoing expansion at WYC. The space, already fantastic, will soon be even better with the addition of a third studio. I love teaching there, as it’s like Bizarro Carrboro, with…
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Practice: Slow Sun Salutations
Taking a familiar sequence—sun salutations, for example, and slowing it way down can suss out the motor control used for transitions, helping us be smoother when we bring the sequence back up to speed. That’s the focus of my latest class on YogaVibes, Slow Sun Salutations. Click on through for a sample, and enjoy the…
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Teaching Yoga to Athletes: An Online Course and Certification
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Teaching yoga to athletes is my life’s work. This niche lies at the intersection of my professional training, vocation, and passions: studying philosophy and literature; developing strong teaching skills; training, racing, and coaching; practicing yoga. I’m hugely excited to share this field with you in a one-of-a-kind online course on teaching yoga to athletes. This…
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Retreat: Kripalu, Labor Day 2012
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I’m very excited to expand my usual Yoga for Athletes weekend workshop at Kripalu into a long-weekend format. The two extra sessions will allow us to add a second strength-building practice and to explore yin yoga together. If you have been thinking about visiting Kripalu, join us! This is sure to be a fantastic time…
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Sage Advice: Yoga Teacher Training vs. Marathon Training
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Jessica wrote with a fascinating question. She’s about to start yoga teacher training but is also signed up for the Chicago Marathon. Would it be wiser, she asked, to focus her energy on the teacher training and postpone the marathon for now? I told her that it would depend on a few factors: 1. Your…
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Yoga for Athletes Teacher Training and Certification
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I’ve just scheduled a weeklong intensive, June 25–29, 2012, for teachers who want to hone their skills in working with athletes. This is perfect for yoga teachers, personal trainers, and PE teachers. If you’ve completed a weekend intensive with me, you’ll find the weeklong to be a valuable expansion of the weekend workshop, with in-depth explorations of…
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Yoga Shelter Grosse Pointe Recap
What a wonderful group of yogis practice at Yoga Shelter Grosse Pointe! I had an absolutely wonderful time with all of them. As I promised them, here’s a recap of what we did. I hope these practice notes will help jog your memory. When there are online depictions, I’ve included a link. Underlined sequences appear…
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Kripalu Post-View, September
Yes, I was in Seattle,however briefly! I am happy to be done with my whirlwind travel week, which began with a trip to Seattle on Wednesday–and a trip back on Thursday! In between, I loved meeting the affable, laid-back, but sharp leadership of REI and of prAna, and teaching them yoga. What a nice crew,…
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But I’m Not a Teacher
I was delighted to have a few students at my intensive in San Francisco on teaching yoga to athletes who were not themselves yoga teachers. They bravely, and correctly, presumed that there’d be content germane to their personal training work and their own practices. And I just had an e-mail from a non-teacher student who’s…