Category: Media
New! Core Strength for Real People: Side Saddle
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! Here’s one of my favorite sequences—a unique challenge to your core and hips from a side-saddle start. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet, subscribe, and for less…
The Workshop Workshop: Now Only $49
Last spring, I loved teaching the Workshop Workshop so much that I recorded an online course version for Sage Yoga Teacher Training. I’m so enthusiastic about this content that I’ve dropped the price to only $49. This means it will pay for itself the very first time you teach a workshop based on the principles you’ll…
Listen: Yoga Crush Podcast
Suzanne Moscovitch at Yoga Crush is creating a wonderful set of resources for yoga teachers. I spoke to her for her podcast. Listen here: https://yogacrush.co/sage-rountree/ Suzanne asks such wonderful questions—teachers at all stages, both interested in working with athletes and interested in chasing their own passions—will benefit from listening to the podcast (not just this episode!). We…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Tall Mountain
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one is fun. The tall mountain sequence challenges your balance, engages your core, and boosts your sense of humor. With practice, you’ll get more graceful. And you’ll improve your sense of where your body is in space, which…
Core Strength for Real People: It’s Not Easy!
I’ve been having such fun with the Core Strength for Real People brand! I’ve changed the title of my Wednesday noon class at Durham Yoga from Pilates to Core Strength for Real People, indicating the hybrid of yoga asana, Pilates exercises, and balance play we enjoy in class. And I’ve been loving every aspect of the Core Strength…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Side Kicks & Bicycles
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one, a great complement to the several videos already available in the series, targets the glutes—the bane of many runners’ and cyclists’ existence. When these big, strong muscles aren’t working properly, you lose efficiency and invite problems…
How to Use the Core Strength for Real People Video Series
Thanks to everyone for using and recommending my new Core Strength for Real People video series! I’ve been so grateful for the positive feedback. One of my running buddies asked, “How should I use the videos? I’m so type A, I wanted to do them all!” Don’t! You’re a real person! Less is more! These are…
Reblog: Hunchback, Begone! Relief for Your Upper Back, Part 1
Here’s a piece I wrote for Yoga for Aging Athletes in reply to the Buzzfeed hunchback incident. Let’s talk about the hunch! It’s been on my mind both over time—I have a prominently rounded, or kyphotic upper back, and have since childhood (one doctor called it “front to back scoliosis,” not what you want to hear…
Yoga Journal LIVE! Single-Class Passes on Sale Tomorrow
Next weekend, I’ll be presenting at Yoga Journal LIVE! at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. Single-class passes go on sale Monday, April 4, right here. Using the code SAGE will save you 15 percent! Here are my offerings: Core Strength for Real People Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. Paying a little attention to…
Read: 12-Minute Core-Strength Yoga Sequence for Real People
Are you a real person? Me, too! I often feel pressed for time, and I certainly have a real body; that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t keep my core strong. I do that by taking and teaching Pilates classes and supplementing that with a home practice like this one I wrote up for Yoga Journal. Core strength is…
Highest Recommendation: Yoga for Athletes and Active People Video with Steve
Steve Krojniewski—Krojo to his friends, and everyone is a friend to Steve—is a certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher and one of my senior assistants. Steve, who works with several University of Notre Dame teams, has produced a beautiful set of videos for athletes, active people, and everyone, available here and at his website, My True Balance…
Everyday Yoga: Now in Spanish as Yoga Diario
Do you prefer your Everyday Yoga en español? You’re in luck: Ediciones Tutor has just published the Spanish-language edition. Read all about it and order it here. Sinopsis Sage Rountree, la experta más destacada de EE. UU. en yoga para personas activas, comparte el planteamiento fresco y comprensible de su práctica diaria en esta guía de…