Tag: Core
Read: 12-Minute Core-Strength Yoga Sequence for Real People
Are you a real person? Me, too! I often feel pressed for time, and I certainly have a real body; that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t keep my core strong. I do that by taking and teaching Pilates classes and supplementing that with a home practice like this one I wrote up for Yoga Journal. Core strength is…
Yoga for Aging Athletes: Core Engagement 101
Over at Yoga for Aging Athletes, Alexandra has posted a piece—including a video—explaining core engagement. A highlight: you can like your cupcakes and still have a strong core! In our “Basics” posts, you’ll find quick overviews and tutorials for basic ways to stay strong and healthy. Let’s start with the most basic of basics: core…
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: Everyday Yoga Short Practice: Core Strength and Stability
The third of the companion videos illustrating routines from Everyday Yoga builds core strength and stability. In only 16 minutes, you’ll work all the muscles of your core, connect to your breath, and bring balance to your body. Watch the full practice, and dozens more, at Yoga Vibes.
Watch: Everyday Yoga Short Practice: Lower-Body Strength and Stability
Here’s another of the short practices from Everyday Yoga. This is another strength-builder, working your shoulders, core, hips, and legs—and all in only 16 minutes! See the full practice—and dozens more, including several free options—at Yoga Vibes.
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…
Everyday Yoga Excerpt: 9 Yoga Poses to Balance Core Strength
My friends at Yoga Journal are offering Everyday Yoga excerpts to pique your interest in the book and jump-start your home practice. While the book is for not just athletes but everyone, the excerpts are keyed to pre- and postworkout routines, and you can string them together to do a complete practice. This is a postworkout core routine to…
Notes on the Core from Running Summit East 2015
It was, as ever, a treat to present at the Running Summit in Morristown, NJ, last weekend. The presentations, participants, and facility are all top-notch. (At right is Wendy presenting on running form analysis. If you are in New York City, you should definitely schedule a custom running analysis session with Wendy at NY Custom PT!) I…
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…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Backbends
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…
Read: A Refreshing New Use for the Yoga Block
I’ve got another pose up at MindBodyGreen today, on using a block to check your alignment in core work: You know to use a yoga block to bring the floor closer in Triangle Pose, and you might love resting on a block for Bridge Pose, but have you used the block for feedback in your core work?…