Tag: Balance
New! Core Strength for Real People: Tall Mountain
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one is fun. The tall mountain sequence challenges your balance, engages your core, and boosts your sense of humor. With practice, you’ll get more graceful. And you’ll improve your sense of where your body is in space, which…
Core Strength for Real People: It’s Not Easy!
I’ve been having such fun with the Core Strength for Real People brand! I’ve changed the title of my Wednesday noon class at Durham Yoga from Pilates to Core Strength for Real People, indicating the hybrid of yoga asana, Pilates exercises, and balance play we enjoy in class. And I’ve been loving every aspect of the Core Strength…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: More Mat-Free Play
If you’ve done my Parking Lot Yoga sequences, you know you don’t need a mat to gain yoga’s benefits of strength, flexibility, focus, and balance. In my latest online yoga class for YogaVibes, we play with two short sequences that require no mat and yield big gains. In this online yoga class, filmed on the afternoon of…
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…
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…
Watch: Whole Body Balance
I recorded the practices during my teachers’ intensive Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste—always available online at sageyogateachertraining.com—and they will be rolling out on YogaVibes over the next few weeks. This is an opportunity to learn not just the what and how of the physical practice, but also the why: why these poses in this order? The first…
Watch: Everyday Yoga Short Practice: Upper Body Strength and Stability
All this week, Yoga Vibes will be posting video companions to the short practices in Everyday Yoga! These offer a companion to the book and will help you include a little bit of yoga most days, especially if you are traveling away from your favorite studio over the summer vacation season. This first practice is…
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…
Watch: FREE Postrun Yoga Video Routine
In this eight-minute free video—free, thanks to my friends at YogaVibes—I’ll guide you through a short, easy post-run routine that you can do in the parking lot, by the trailhead, or in your living room. Please enjoy and let me know what you think. You’ll find dozens of free, short online yoga videos and racing…