Tag: Carrboro Yoga Company
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Yoga for Athletic Recovery
Day 3 of my 2016 Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive focused on the psychology of the athlete and on athletic recovery. This was fitting, as that morning I’d yet again rolled my ankle running on the trails. This happens once or twice a year, and it leaves me laid up for several weeks, yet I…
Introducing Core Strength for Real People
in YogaI’m really bursting with excitement about this one: introducing my new video series, Core Strength for Real People! This will be an ongoing series with new content appearing regularly. To get you started, there are four doable routines and three mini-practices waiting for you. Each is ready to meet you where you are—all you need is…
Newly Certified: Stacy Sparlin
in YogaMeet Stacy Sparlin! Stacy is a gym teacher, a whitewater kayaker, and now, a certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher. We had the pleasure of her company in Carrboro all summer, as she completed the intensive version of our 500-hour Carolina Yoga Advanced Studies Teacher Training (next offered summer 2017). (Some of the content is…
Register: Professionalism for Movement Teachers
You may have seen Michelle Goldberg’s New York Magazine article “The Brutal Economics of Being a Yoga Teacher” in the last week. Interestingly, the story doesn’t get into an exploration of the actual numbers of what teachers are paid. A story by Helene Olen in Slate today asks, “Why Don’t More People Discuss Their Compensation?” Discussing these…
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 Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Balance
My latest video to stream on YogaVibes comes from my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive. Look how steady everyone is in tree pose! Watching the preview, I loved seeing my Swedish assistant Sara pass through the room. In this online yoga class, filmed on Day 1 of Sage’s 2015 Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, we investigate balance—not just…
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: 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…
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;…
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 Practices: Flexibility, Mobility, and Relaxation
Here are three more short videos, companions to the short practices in Everyday Yoga. These are focused on flexibility, mobility, and relaxation, and they make good alternate-day practices to pepper among the strength practices that posted last week. Upper-Body Flexibility and Mobility Lower-Body Flexibility and Mobility Relaxation and Recovery Watch the full-length videos—and dozens more from…