Category: Teaching
For Yoga Teachers: A Self-Assessment Bonanza
Are you sick of yourself yet? Me, too. Not only am I getting a lot of enforced downtime to watch my brain and all its patterns, I’m using the shutdown to record fresh video lectures for my main online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes.* This means I spend several hours a day literally watching myself.…
The Last Yoga Class I Taught
Two weeks ago yesterday, I taught my last yoga class. My business partner and I had just resolved to suspend all studio operations at the end of the day. I was subbing yin yoga for a colleague who began social distancing before the rest of us caught on. I stood at the door to hold it…
Online Classes and Courses Galore
I hope you’re staying centered and calm (enough) this week! Yoga can help a lot. For many years, I’ve been amassing an extensive library of online classes for students of any amount of experience and continuing education courses for yoga teachers, so if you find yourself in need of some at-home de-stressing or something to…
Learn More about Upcoming Teacher Trainings at Carolina Yoga Co.
Once you’ve been practicing yoga for a while, you may feel the call to teach it or to learn more about the practice in the context of a teacher training. The first step is typically a 200-hour training. At Carolina Yoga, we’ve been offering these since 2011.
Newly Certified: Tyra Clemmenson
Meet Tyra Clemmenson, the most recently certified teacher to graduate from my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course!
Now Available: Audiobook of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
The audiobook version of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses is now available! You’ll hear me reading this book Alexandra DeSiato and I cowrote. It’s available today in both Audible and CD format.
Not Too Late: Kripalu Workshops for Athletes, Teachers, and Everyone
If your 2020 needs more yoga in it already, it’s not too late to join me for one or both of these workshops I’m leading at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in western Massachusetts later this month: Yoga for Athletes: Strength, Flexibility, and Focus—the eleventh year I’ve offered this program in January. People…
Kripalu Preview: Meet Amanda Frayeh
Meet Amanda Frayeh, PhD, who joins me at Kripalu in January 2020 for two workshops: Yoga for Athletes and Teaching Yoga to Athletes. You’ll benefit from her work in sport psychology and kinesiology, as well as her excellent sense of humor!
Newly Certified: Beth Marek
Meet Beth Marek! Beth is the most recently certified teacher to graduate from my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course. She lives in El Paso, Texas, where she works as a climbing guide and yoga teacher. Beth came to yoga as a runner—she ran at Davidson College, down the road from me in North Carolina. Like…
Moving Soon: Carrboro Yoga Company to a New Two-Room Space
Since the spring, Carrboro Yoga has been condensed to one room as we prepare to move out of Carr Mill Mall, where we spent our first 15 years. Happily, that move is coming Monday, September 9! If you’re reading this after that day, you will find us at South Green, 101 Two Hills Drive (aka…
Watch: Yin for the Upper Body at Yoga Vibes
My newest video available at Yoga Vibes is a yin yoga practice for the upper body. Description Join Sage Rountree for a 30-minute yin class designed to open your shoulders and relax your mind. Increase mobility in the shoulders from multiple angles as you move through four yin-style poses. As a bonus, they’re all done…
Watch: Rest and Restore at Yoga Vibes
My newest video available at Yoga Vibes is a special treat for you: it’s restorative yoga! If you aren’t familiar with the practice, prepare to fall in love. It’s long holds of fully supported poses with the goal not to stretch but to let go completely. (If you find letting go tough, start off with…