Category: Teaching
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Quick Poll: 500-Hour Intensive Option
Yoga teachers: after loving the summer intensive version of our Carolina Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training, we’re considering adding an intensive version of our advanced studies training (what the Yoga Alliance used to call the 500-hour level, and what is now known as the 300-hour). In this format, you’d be able to complete the bulk of the required…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Gentle and Restorative
Ahhh, restorative yoga! The sweetest style of yoga, appropriate for virtually anyone. The less you feel like you have time for a restorative practice, the more you need it! The idea of writing The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery came to me while I was in a restorative yoga class. Who knows what wonderful things will happen when you…
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Refine Your Sequencing
Much of my work in the last year has been taxonomical—categorizing and collating the sequences of poses I teach in class. There are various approaches to building a yoga pose sequence for class or home practice; mine is based on a chunking model. Each sequence constitutes a chunk, and these chunks can be strung together to create a short…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Table Legs
The latest in my series of classes filmed during my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive has a fun warmup sequence. Yoga Class Description In this yoga class for teachers and everyone, filmed at the end of Day 2 of Sage’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, we use table pose as a home base to explore the…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Planks Galore
Yoga Class Description In this yoga class for teachers and everyone, filmed in Day 2 of Sage’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, you’ll move through a well-rounded routine designed to bring balance to your body. Start with supine warmup, then move to standing poses, both dynamic and static. The practice culminates in a series of…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Backbends
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Second in my Yoga Vibes series of ten practices filmed at my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive is an investigation of both passive and active backbends. These simple but powerful poses can improve posture, increase balance in the body, and prevent injury in athletes and everyone. Watch the preview or the full class here. Take…
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Watch: IT Band Aid
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If you don’t know what your IT band (or iliotibial band) is, that’s great news—it’s probably not a problem area. If it is a hotspot for you, or if you have soreness at your outer hip or knee or general tightness along the outer thigh, this free video at YogaVibes has some ideas to help! Yoga Class Description…
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Read: Mindful Racing
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I’m very excited to lead our meditation at Wanderlust 108 in Atlanta, GA, on September 28. Today at the Wanderlust blog, you’ll find an excerpt from Racing Wisely, with some thoughts on mindfulness and running: Any practice can be a mindfulness practice, and many can be mindlessness practices. It’s all about intention and attention. Why are you here?…
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Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Spine and Hips
For those of you interested in the thinking behind why we do what we do in my yoga for athletes classes, here’s a new series at Yoga Vibes! Filmed during my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, these classes include explanation about the theory behind my sequencing, with ample free time for you to explore the poses…
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Now Available: Classroom Management and Safety
We always have a lot of fun in the teacher trainings and intensives I lead. But I can’t remember having as much fun or belly laughs in a workshop as we had in Classroom Management and Safety. What is often a weighty, serious, and scary topic is less frightening when you break it down with…
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Read: Balanced Breathing for Better Running
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Get to know your breath and you’ll have a powerful tool for keeping yourself calm and focused on the run or anytime, as I explain in this piece at Competitor. Your breath can have a profound effect on your nervous system. Consider the admonition to take a deep breath when you are upset—this has a basis…
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North Carolina Literary Festival
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If you’re in central North Carolina this weekend, join me at the North Carolina Literary Festival at N.C. State University, where I’ll speak at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday, April 6). While the title of my talk is “Intention and Goals: Tools for Your Personal Best,” I’m looking forward to talking about whatever will be most…