earn MVP status teaching yoga for athletes
go pro in:
- enhancing athletes’ balance and recovery
- coaching mindful focus for mental training
- turning athletes into champions
with the proven self-paced training and mentorship that since 2012 has helped hundreds of yoga teachers develop a niche helping peak performers win big
You want to make a difference in the lives of your athletic students.
And you sure wouldn’t mind earning good money while you do that.
Maybe you even nurture a secret dream of having a huge impact by working with athletes, from your local running club to your local professional teams.
You could become everyone’s favorite yoga teacher, a hero who helps their students reach peak performance in sports while achieving balance in life.
But you might not yet have a clear vision for how you can start to reach the athletes you want to help. On your worst days, you even feel like an imposter, a phony. Like you couldn’t possibly have the skill and know-how to reach your pie-in-the-sky goals of turning athletes into champions.
Every teacher ought to feel like they matter to their students, like they are spreading yoga’s gifts. That goes for you, whether you are teaching professional athletes or “regular” people—and regular people deserve balance and peak performance, too.
You’re probably closer than you think to a profitable career teaching yoga to athletes. The keys:
- see your role clearly: you’re the guide, not the hero
- understand the athletes’ needs in yoga
- find ways to deliver yoga that meet athletes where they are
In my twenty-plus years of teaching yoga to athletes, experience has led me to all those answers. I want to use my decades of experience to help you:
- earn $150–$400 or more per lesson by delivering results for your students on the field or court
- land your dream gig working with athletes using my playbook and career coaching
- take your teaching skills and your career to the next level by going pro
- feel like a starting QB leading athletes of all sports and levels in studio, gym, or one-on-one settings
- expand your understanding of yoga, sports training, and the connections between them so you can serve your students best
- earn CEUs or work toward your 300-/500-hour training
- get my direct coaching throughout
about your coach
I’m Sage Rountree, and I’ve been in this game in many roles: as an athlete, as a yoga practitioner, as an endurance sports coach, as a studio owner and teacher trainer, and as a specialist in yoga for athletes. My students have included NFL and NBA players, Olympians, endurance athletes at every level, pickleballers, and many University of North Carolina teams and coaches, including hall-of-famer Roy Williams, my private client for over a decade.
And I’ve written 11 books on yoga for athletes and teaching yoga, as well as dozens of articles on the subject for magazines like Yoga Journal, Runner’s World, and Triathlete.
As you’ll see when you poke around this website, over the last twenty years I’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge about sports, yoga, good teaching, and how all these subjects mesh to create fantastic yoga teachers who lead meaningful classes to athletes both at their training facilities and in packed studios.
I want to help you get there. (By the way, step one, if you haven’t done it already, is to watch my free on-demand workshop on how to double your income teaching yoga to athletes. Get it here.)
When you’re ready to join the big leagues, earn MVP money, and have a major league impact on your students, I’ll be your coach in Teaching Yoga to Athletes, an online training and mentorship to help you teach at the top of your game.
hear from Alison
Program graduate Alison Heilig is founder of Miles to Go Athletics, CEO/editor-in-chief of Fit Bottomed Girls, an ultramarathoner, and a competitive weightlifter.
Here’s how she grew in Teaching Yoga to Athletes.
You’ll be the star player of your niche as the go-to expert on yoga for athletes. Feel confident landing the gigs of your dreams while having a huge impact on your students’ performance and their lives.
This self-paced program is available on demand. Start today from wherever you are. You’ll work at your own pace and at a time that’s convenient for you. Use your lifetime access to review the materials (and new additions) at your leisure.
You’ll have me as your coach, guiding you to win at your career.
this yoga for athletes teacher training includes
- Clear Lectures: easy-to-understand on-demand video lessons with searchable transcripts so you understand the philosophy, physiology, and psychology of teaching yoga to athletes
- Private Podcast: an audio version of these same lessons for folks who prefer to listen on the go, or on a run
- Teaching Yoga to Athletes Manual: read along to more fully digest the information you’ll be learning to advance your career
- Teaching Yoga to Athletes Library: get hard-to-find copies of my early books to help you understand the athlete’s perspective and feel comfortable teaching yoga to athletes
- Teaching Yoga to Athletes Workbook: exercises you’ll complete with my feedback so you feel really confident you’ve mastered the material
- Movement Analysis Tool: my quick, easy method to assess your students’ needs that you can immediately use in the classroom
- Classroom Coaching: I’ll personally review your teaching and help you improve quickly—with friendly support
- Pitch Support: together, we’ll get your website and marketing materials in order and devise the best plan to get you the gigs you want
- Two 1:1 Strategy Calls so we can make the most of your journey through the course and into your career
Students from New York to New Zealand, Canada to Malawi, and Copenhagen to Kenya have loved this course and find that going all in on your teaching career reaps amazing gains.
If you’ve been dreaming of working with athletes of all sports and levels, or even simply wondering how yoga fits in your own training, this course will give you concrete skills to:
- serve your students and elevate their game and focus using simple yoga techniques that have a big impact on performance
- sharpen your skills teaching athletes and everyone, so you earn more referrals and retain students for years
- develop smart, time-saving systems and grow your business so you can do more of the work you love
- double (or triple, or quadruple) both your income and your impact as you turn athletes into champions
“Sage has a way of meeting the athlete where they are and using yoga to enhance them. She does a wonderful job of teaching yoga teachers to have that same connection.”
Jamie McDaniel
Teaching Yoga to Athletes student
you’ll also receive these bonuses
- A Year’s Worth of Monthly Office Hours: live 90-minute meetings so you can ask all your questions, even once you’re done with the training and working with athletes. Out in the field is where questions often arise, and having a mentor is priceless!
- The Complete Yoga for Athletes Curriculum with follow-along classes, lesson plans, and meditations you can teach as is or adapt to suit your students. Use these proven lesson plans in your classes and hit the ground running.
- My Full Movement and Mindfulness Libraries so you can practice self-care and keep up your own studenthood while getting fresh ideas to teach to your own classes. Your attention to your own practice shines through in your teaching, and your students will notice and be drawn to you as a result.
- Professionalism Templates that help you pitch teams, write your biography, spiff up your website, and generate helpful content. Following my playbook will get you positioned to make the game-winning shot every time.
program graduates
Hundreds of teachers around the world have graduated from Teaching Yoga to Athletes. A few notable alumni:
Steve Krojniewski, who works with teams at Notre Dame.
Jenni Tarma, founder of Kaari Prehab and a distinguished teacher trainer for Yoga Medicine.
Steve Shelton, who works with football players in Chicagoland.
is this yoga for athletes teacher training right for you?
This course empowers teachers—or teachers-to-be—of any style of yoga to begin teaching yoga to athletes.
It has also proved useful for:
- coaches
- PE teachers
- personal trainers
- physical therapists
- athletes interested in designing their own practices
you’ll learn how to teach yoga to athletes of every kind
- I’ll give you clear and easy ways to describe yoga philosophy that resonate with athletes of every age
- You’ll see exactly how yoga fits in the context of a training cycle and how you can maximize athletes’ recovery gains by offering the right yoga at the right time
- Get an inside look at the needs, abilities, and limitations that athletes bring to a yoga practice
- Use my simple movement analysis tool and yoga for athletes curriculum to lead classes for athletes in any sport, at any level of experience, and at all points in the training cycle
- Define your business goals, structure a working plan, and embark on a successful career teaching yoga to athletes and everyone
your investment
$2,497
or 12 months at $249 per month
what alumni say
Hear from program graduates about their experience in Teaching Yoga to Athletes—and how it changed their careers for the better.
rest easy agreements
To help you feel confident getting started, I offer not one, but two full refund opportunities.
1. “redshirt me”
First, there’s an unconditional 30-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. Say you get in to the curriculum and realize that the time isn’t optimal, and this isn’t the right season for you. You can take a redshirt—a full refund—and I hope you’ll return later to get in the game.
2. “put me on the trainer’s table”
Plus, I offer a 90-day make-this-work guarantee: if you’re doing all the work I ask and not booking clients for at least $120 an hour, I’ll personally refund your money or work with you one-on-one until you do. We will figure out the hitch and get your career back in fighting shape.
frequently asked questions
How long will Teaching Yoga to Athletes take me to complete?
That’s up to you. The course is designed so you can jump right to the lessons that will get you fast off the blocks! And you can learn in a fashion that suits your brain and your interests.
If you’re a sprinter, we can get you just what you need to have an immediate impact in only a few hours inside the course. Then you can pop in at your leisure to fill any gaps in your knowledge and get my coaching.
If you want to go deep—say, you’re thorough, like a marathoner or ultrarunner—you could spend 50 to 60 hours working through all the content inside the training, and more with my mentorship.
What if I’m not sure I want to work with athletes?
The Teaching Yoga to Athletes course is really an exercise in figuring out how to help our students by determining what stresses they undergo in daily life—whether through sports training, a tough job, or illness and injury—and learning to devise routines to support them. In that way, it’s appropriate for all yoga teachers, especially those who want to sharpen their abilities to work with special populations.
I’m not an athlete—or I haven’t played the sport I’m interested in. Will that matter?
Nope! I’ve never been a linebacker! In the course, you’ll learn how to quickly assess an athlete’s needs based on their sport and their position, using a simple movement analysis tool.
Your early books focus on endurance athletes. Does Teaching Yoga to Athletes include all sports?
Indeed! We discuss everything from curling to surfing. Each unit contains homework and discussion that will get you thinking about the best ways to help athletes in all sports. You’ll get to focus on the sports of particular interest to you, and to hear from others about their interests.
Anatomy is hard for me. Is that a dealbreaker?
Nope! You’ll learn to focus on the physiology of adaptation, not the pathology, which is not your job. I’ll get you right up to speed on the basics of exercise physiology in ways that are easy to understand and apply!
What exactly should a class for athletes look like?
It depends on the athlete and the point in the season. Inside the training, I help you arrive at your own best conclusions about what will best serve the athletes you are working with.
But if you’d like an example of how I teach yoga to athletes, check out Yoga to Do Before Your Run, Yoga to Do During Your Run (yoga philosophy on the go!), and Yoga to Do After Your Run, all in this secret, unlisted YouTube playlist.
How can I find clients if there are no major teams near me?
Athletes are everywhere! From country clubs to local sports shops, there are plenty of opportunities. The course includes strategies to reach these clients.
Is Teaching Yoga to Athletes geared to new teachers, or experienced teachers?
Everyone, including non–yoga teachers. But the more experience you have, the better, whether it’s as a yoga teacher, as a coach, or as a personal trainer or physical therapist. The course guides you through several exercises (with my feedback) to structure useful routines for athletes in various sports and at different stages in their training cycles. If you have experience teaching movement, great; if you only have experience doing movement, you are welcome, too. We go beyond the poses, as well, to create meditations and visualizations to help sharpen the mental game. Finally, we investigate the profession, covering questions on pricing, business structure, and marketing.
I don’t have a traveling yoga studio supply of mats, blocks, and equipment. Can I still take yoga to teams?
Oh, yes! Teaching yoga to athletes at their facility is like catering—when you think ahead, you can make do in any situation, even on a field or basketball court. In the course, I’ll share lesson plans for classes that don’t need any props at all.
Will I earn CEUs?
Yes! If you track Yoga Alliance CEUs, you can claim 30 for completing this course. (The amount of time you spend in the course and working with me can go far beyond 30 hours if you want to dig deep, but that’s the current maximum CEUs I can offer per YA guidelines.)
Does this count toward my 300/500 certification?
It will indeed, if you are doing your certification with me! If you are doing it elsewhere, I am happy to advocate for you with your teacher trainer.
Don’t drop the ball!
Lean forward at the tape and win the career of your dreams.
I can’t wait to help you turn athletes into champions!
