Category: Recovery
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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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Extreme Last Minute Gifts
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Are you the type to do your holiday shopping at the drugstore as dusk approaches on Christmas Eve? Here are a few extremely last-minute ideas from the intersection of yoga and endurance sports: Epsom salts, combined with a copy of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery (also available in German, Japanese, and Spanish). While the salts themselves may or…
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Yoga for Runners, Paragon Sports
Last week, I visited the legendary, still-family-owned Paragon Sports near Union Square in New York City for a yoga for runners class, thanks to my sponsor prAna. It was a beautifully produced event, start to finish, and there were even sandwiches! A lovely, lively community of runners congregates at Paragon, and I felt honored to…
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Yoga as Reward
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Yesterday, I taught one of the more interesting classes I’ve had the pleasure to lead lately. Somewhat surreally, it took place on the main floor of the Smith Center under the lights, but what made it special—in fact, what makes most standout moments special—is the intention behind it. I’ve been working with the UNC men’s…
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Sage Advice: Rest Up
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When I visit the UNC men’s basketball team to teach yoga, we make a lot of jokes about napping. Players can fall asleep on a dime; last summer, one of the freshmen fell asleep in legs up the wall and stayed there all the way through the closing. Several former players, now professionals, come back…
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The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, Japanese Edition (リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ )
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What a treat and surprise when this came from my publisher in today’s mail! The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, aka リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ in Japanese! As with the Spanish edition, this carries the graphs and photos from the original English edition, which is good, because that’s the only thing I recognize other than my name. The…
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Scheduled: Summer Yoga Mala
Join me and my fantastic colleagues Michelle Johnson and Hollie Sue Mann next month for a yoga mala complete with recovery practices! As the light of summer reaches its peak, Michelle Johnson, Hollie Sue Mann, and Sage Rountree will lead us in their version of a summer yoga mala on Saturday, June 22. This mala…
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Watch: Yoga for Postgame Recovery
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My latest class on YogaVibes is an hourlong practice for postgame recovery. Join the Cornell women’s lacrosse team for this yoga session for athletes and everyone. You’ll warm up the spine, shoulders, and hips, then relax into deep stretches designed to help you stay present moment to moment while preparing you for your next workout…
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Sage Advice: Moving off a Plateau
Last night, I spoke to a fantastic group of women at Great Outdoor Provision Company in Chapel Hill. Most were beginner triathletes and triathletes-in-training preparing for the Ramblin’ Rose races, a series of beginner-friendly triathlons and running races staged by Endurance Magazine. (In the photo, my face, captured midsentence, echoes the terrified expressions some of them…
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“Race” Report: Francesca’s Unvitational Forty-Miler
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As I alluded to in my Active Yogi post today but didn’t explain clearly on social media, even as I was posting photos last weekend, I traveled to Memphis last weekend for a special event: Francesca’s Unvitational Forty-Miler. (Unvitational, as virtually no one wants to be invited to run 40. And for the acronym FU40.)…
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Connection and Recovery
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There’s so much eloquent writing on yesterday’s events in Boston and how to begin to understand them, it feels presumptuous to add my voice. But here are two things I work on in my teaching, research, and writing. 1. Connection. Yoga connotes union, joining together, connection. In response to the question Why?, certainly the first question my…
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Sage Advice: High Hamstring Strain
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A student asked me about what yoga to do and to avoid while nursing a high hamstring strain. This is a common injury in both yoga and running, so those of us who do both should be especially careful to protect this vulnerable area where the hamstring attaches to the pelvis, just south of the…