Tag: Kripalu
Not Too Late: Kripalu Workshops for Athletes, Teachers, and Everyone
If your 2020 needs more yoga in it already, it’s not too late to join me for one or both of these workshops I’m leading at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in western Massachusetts later this month: Yoga for Athletes: Strength, Flexibility, and Focus—the eleventh year I’ve offered this program in January. People…
Kripalu Preview: Meet Amanda Frayeh
Meet Amanda Frayeh, PhD, who joins me at Kripalu in January 2020 for two workshops: Yoga for Athletes and Teaching Yoga to Athletes. You’ll benefit from her work in sport psychology and kinesiology, as well as her excellent sense of humor!
Extra Incentive: Taryn Burns Assists at Kripalu
Meet Taryn Burns! Taryn participated in my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health last January, and I’m happy to have her back as my assistant this coming January. Taryn is a natural teacher (an RYT 500, impressive for someone so young) with a winning smile and an engaging…
Listen: East West Functional Medicine Podcast
It was a special treat to chat with Sarajean Rudman for her East West Functional Medicine podcast. Sarajean is a bright light of a teacher, positive and curious, and taking her yoga classes is always a highlight of my visits to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. For the podcast, we discuss…
Read: Yoga for Athletes Is Not Athletic Yoga
I wrote a post for the Kripalu blog outlining my approach to yoga for athletes. It’s summed up in the title: it’s not athletic yoga! Instead, it’s yoga to complement what we do in training. To put it succinctly, yoga for athletes is not necessarily athletic yoga. It certainly can be: At various points in…
Scheduled: Yoga for Athletes and Teaching Yoga to Athletes at Kripalu
Time flies: 2018 will mark my tenth year on the faculty at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. What a lovely place! My trips there always restore me. The students are wonderful, the staff are caring, the food is delicious, and the setting is wonderful any time of year. Best of…
Really, Really Last Minute Gift Ideas
Happy holidays! If you’ve found it difficult to think long-term in the last few weeks, I get it. And I’ve got you covered if you would like a signed copy of one of my books delivered to a U.S. address—if you order before 11 a.m. tomorrow, December 21, I will ensure it goes out Priority…
Postview: Kripalu 2016
For the eighth consecutive year, I had a wonderful time leading a weekend on yoga for athletes, as well as spending five days investigating teaching yoga to athletes with my colleagues. (If you’d like to do the intensive, it’s always available online and next offered at Carrboro Yoga at the end of June.) Here are some photographic highlights.…
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 natural teacher and a natural writer—you might remember that one of her homework assignments…
Kripalu Preview
In January, I’ll be returning to one of my favorite places: the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. I’ve been traveling to teach there since 2009 (read pre- and postviews from my previous visits here, including detailed notes on what we’ve covered in each of the sessions). There are two offerings for you…
Read: How to Keep Your Teaching Fresh: Yoga Instructors Share Their Secrets
Yoga teachers will find some nice insider tips from experienced teachers in this post on Thrive, the Kripalu blog. I added my voice: Sage Rountree, author of several books on yoga for athletes and yoga sequencing: Our practice grows when we have a good balance of consistency and variety. First, we need the consistent elements…
Kripalu Post-View, September
Yes, I was in Seattle,however briefly! I am happy to be done with my whirlwind travel week, which began with a trip to Seattle on Wednesday–and a trip back on Thursday! In between, I loved meeting the affable, laid-back, but sharp leadership of REI and of prAna, and teaching them yoga. What a nice crew,…