Tag: Core

  • Watch: Sitting to Standing with Blocks

    In my yoga for athletes class, we’ve been working on the transition to standing from a sitting position, without crossing the legs, pushing the hands to the floor, or using much momentum. It builds core strength and fosters our sense of where we are in space. This deceptively difficult move is frustrating to a lot…

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  • Read: 10 Yoga Poses for Runners

    It was fun to work with the nice guys at Men’s Journal to come up with ten yoga poses of special benefit for runners. We worked with yoga instructor and endurance sports coach Sage Rountree, which is actually her real name, to identify 10 yoga poses that will improve your running game. Rountree, herself an accomplished athlete,…

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  • Functional Core Sequence

    What a nice group joined me yesterday at Carrboro Yoga for a core-strength workshop! Our theme was finding mountain pose, the neutral and stable alignment of the pelvis and the spine, and holding that even as our arms and legs were moving and our orientation to gravity shifted. As I promised the students, I’m posting…

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  • Reverse Vinyasa

    This is a follow-up to my variations on vinyasa post, as well as the story of a lightbulb moment. During my fantastically fun intensive on teaching yoga to athletes (there’s still room for a few more in New York next month), I was bemoaning the monotony of the standard vinyasa from plank through chaturanga to…

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