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“How Do I Make Myself Relax?”

The youngest participant in my recent weekend on yoga for athletes at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health was a twelve-year-old swimmer. Toward the end of the first session's savasana—the quiet relaxation period at the end of practice—he raised his hand. The...

Newly Certified: Lauren Reese

Newly Certified: Lauren Reese

I'm very excited to introduce Lauren Reese to you as the latest certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher. When you have the chance to study with her—or just to be in her sweet company—you'll understand why. With her mother, Lauren co-owns Breathe Yoga Atlanta. I first...

Newly Certified: Jenni Tarma

This is Jenni Tarma, holder of the record for Highest Word Count in Teaching Yoga to Athletes Homework. Each of her assignments as she moved through the certification process included several pages of precise, complete, well researched information. She's both a...

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...

Just Scheduled: Intensive on Teaching Yoga to Athletes

I've booked the dates for my next intensive on teaching yoga to athletes at my home studio, Carrboro Yoga, in beautiful central North Carolina, July 8–12, 2013. If you're more of a winter-in–New England type, I'm teaching a similar program at Kripalu starting January...

Teaching Yoga to Athletes: Online vs. In Person

In January, I'll repeat my intensive on teaching yoga to athletes at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the Berkshires. We had a wonderful time last year and I'm already looking forward to this iteration of the intensive. I had a great question about the...

But I’m Not a Teacher

I was delighted to have a few students at my intensive in San Francisco on teaching yoga to athletes who were not themselves yoga teachers. They bravely, and correctly, presumed that there'd be content germane to their personal training work and their own practices....