Category: Teaching
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Watch: Yoga for Athletic Conditioning
The latest video from this summer’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive will help you balance your body well for your sport training. In this online yoga class, filmed on Day 2 of Sage’s 2015 Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, we practice yoga for athletic conditioning, building hip stability, lower-leg strength, core balance, and all along the…
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Watch: Sequencing Intensive: Sweet and Spicy
The latest video from my Sequencing intensive is a combo of medium-spicy balance work and completely sweet restorative yoga. In this online yoga class, filmed during Day 5 of Sage’s Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste, we warm up and move through two standing balance sequences, taking time to build slowly into each and…
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Watch: Sequencing Intensive: Moon Salutations
Moon Salutations offer a wonderful complement to sun salutations—they focus on side bending, put no weight on the hands, and work facing the long side of the mat, meaning they target the inner and outer lines of the hips in ways sun salutations can’t. You’ll find them in my Athlete’s Pocket Guide to Yoga, and now…
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Watch: Sequencing Intensive: Warrior Flows
Here’s another practice filmed during Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste. It’s an exploration of several of the practices in Everyday Yoga. In this online yoga class, filmed during Day 3 of Sage’s Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste, we practice several routines outlined in EVERYDAY YOGA: Leg Swing Flow; Warrior I Flow;…
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Postview: Running Summit Midwest
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The Running Summit Midwest featured a fantastic lineup of speakers, including Jack Daniels—who was interesting and gracious as could be—and both Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas from the Science of Sport blog. I presented on recovery and on yoga and led a yoga session for participants, in which we investigated yoga to do before, during, and after…
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Watch: Short Balance Practice
In this new, short yoga video up at YogaVibes, you’ll learn a short routine to build your balance. We layer a series of progressively more challenging moves to target your glute and core strength, making this a great preworkout practice or standalone yoga snack. Watch the full nine-minute practice here. Look for video versions of the short practices…
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Listen: The Mindful Revolution
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I had a great time talking to Jeff Bogart on his Mindful Revolution show yesterday. Our conversation, which included some fun input from my colleague Fadia Bascom, covered my career path, the benefits of yoga and meditation for athletes, adaptation to training stress, my books,and the secret to running a successful yoga studio. You can find the full…
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Register Now for Sequencing Early Bird Discount
Everyday Yoga isn’t just my next book, it’s also the distillation of my approach to sequencing yoga classes. And it’s the textbook for this upcoming continuing education course for yoga teachers, part of our 500-hour advanced studies yoga teacher training but also open to everyone from every style, teacher and student alike. I’m really looking forward to…
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Recommendation: Yoga’s Touch, by Martia Bennett Rachman
My down-the-interstate neighbor in Black Mountain, North Carolina, Martia Rachman, has produced an absolutely beautiful book on yoga assists and, more broadly, a safe and effective approach to the practice. Here’s the blurb I wrote for Yoga’s Touch: Hands-On Adjustments, Alignment, and Verbal Cues: Learning good hands-on assists helps teachers best serve their students. But…
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Summer Preview: Yoga Teacher Trainings
Summer in a college town like Chapel Hill, NC, is glorious. Parking is abundant, and beer trucks don’t block the downtown streets. The sun is up early; evenings are sultry and lovely; and summer sublets are easy to find with two-thirds of the population out of town. So come join me for one or more of…
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Newly Certified: Lori Archer, Kansas City
This beauty is Lori Archer from Kansas City. We connected when she came to Carrboro last summer for my Yoga for Athletes Five-Day Teachers’ Intensive (also available online), and we’ve continued to work together on her certification in Sage Yoga for Athletes. I’m happy to get to see her regularly when she comes to North Carolina as part…
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Read: REI Blog and Meeting Sage Rountree
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REI has a wonderful blog full of very useful tips for athletes of all stripes. I was happy to write a piece for them with an overview of yoga’s benefits for athletes. You’ll find lots more on yoga for athletes in my books and videos, of course, but read it here to get started. As we approach…