Category: Teaching
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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…
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Does . . . Not . . . Compute
Have you ever had moments of great confusion followed by moments of clarity? They might have happened in a lecture or a workshop, when your preexisting beliefs were shattered and the reorganization of the pieces led to a more full picture of how things work. I talk about this vis-à-vis yoga teaching (with application for…
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Kripalu Perspectives
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I’m happy to be featured in this episode of Kripalu Perspectives, talking about yoga for athletes of all kinds. Please join me for a weekend workshop at Kripalu this September 23–25. We’ll do yoga, eat gloriously, enjoy some quiet time, and explore the fantastic trail system at the height of autumn’s glory. Read more about…
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Teaching Yoga to Athletes
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Jessica, a marathoner, triathlete, and yoga teacher, wrote me from San Diego, asking about how to get started in the field of teaching yoga to athletes. I was heartened to hear that she actively trains and competes. It’s certainly not a prerequisite for teaching a great class for athletes, but it definitely helps to be…
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Southeastern Collegiate Fitness Expo
This past weekend, I had the privilege of teaching at the Southeastern Collegiate Fitness Expo at N.C. State in Raleigh. The expo, which brought together rec center workers from across the Southeast, was held at State’s lovely Carmichael Recreation Complex. I taught three classes: a Yoga for Athletes class, Spin and Yoga, and a master…
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D.C., NYC
A few yoga for athletes options for you cosmopolitan East Coasters. I’ll be in Washington, D.C. (well, technically, Chevy Chase) this weekend to lead my intensive on teaching yoga to athletes at the Yoga Fusion Studio. As part of the weekend, I’m offering a 90-minute class open to all athletes—no yoga experience required! It’s this…
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Kripalu Postview
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As predicted, the participants in my workshop on yoga for athletes at Kripalu were great. We had a huge range of sports and yoga experience, from longtime teachers to first-time yogis. With such a turnout, I’ve scheduled an encore weekend in fall, when the leaves should be glorious and the trails ripe for running. It’ll…
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Kripalu Preview
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Talking about Agnistambhasana There’s still time to sign up for my upcoming weekend at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, February 4–6. If you’re worried that it’s too much yoga for you, rest assured! First, yoga for athletes is not athletic yoga, as I explained below. Second, each year we have had a fantastic…