Tag: Pilates
Watch: Strengthen Your Hips
My latest yoga video to stream at Yoga Vibes is Strengthen Your Hips. In this short sequence, we use moves from yoga and Pilates designed to strengthen the glutes, hamstrings, outer hips, and inner thighs. This quick class can be practiced alone or in combination with Yin for Happy Hips for a complete, hip-focused practice.…
Scheduled: Core Strength for Real People Intensive in North Carolina
I hope you’re enjoying the Core Strength for Real People video series. (A new video just joined the other 14!) Whether you’re a core enthusiast or a movement teacher, current or aspiring, I’d love to have you join me in central North Carolina in May for a two-day weekend workshop. You’ll learn how to guide…
New: Core Strength for Real People: Reset Your Hips and Spine
All the core exercises in the world are useless if you can’t balance your pelvis and spine. In these relaxing exercises, you’ll give the muscles that control movement of your hips and back a timeout. This brings them into harmony so your next core workout will be more productive! Enjoy the preview above, and buy or…
Read and Watch: 8 Yoga Poses for Injury-Free Running
The September issue of Runner’s World includes my favorite go-to core routine. I like to say it’s just enough to make you feel like you can check off the “I did my core!” box for the day. Including these a few times a week after your runs will help you stay balanced and ward off injury—and…
New: Core Strength for Real People: Pinup Warmup
Want to move over the long weekend without having to stand up? Here’s a preview of my new Pinup Warmup sequence, which focuses on mobilization through the shoulders and spine and activation of the muscles that move the joints in the upper body. As a bonus, you’ll get to hold several poses with your hand…
New: Core Strength for Real People: Stretch Your Front
The first of this odd-numbered month means a new video is up at Core Strength for Real People. This one is not for core strength, but for core release. If you get enthusiastic about ab exercises, you can get too tight across the front of your body, putting extra pressure on your back. The stretches…
Scheduled: Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste
Yoga and movement teachers: when did you last take plenty of time to play on your mat, create new sequences, collate them, and plan classes? Much of this work happens in small increments. Dedicate yourself to a full work week of creativity in Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste, and you’ll develop an invaluable playbook to keep your…
New: Core Strength for Real People: Dynamic Core
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This sequence works your abs, back, and glutes. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet, subscribe, and for less than the price of one Pilates or…
Scheduled: No Fooling: You Can Handstand
in YogaDo you think the idea of getting into handstand is a joke? Join Sage on April Fools’ Day to learn fun preparations for the pose based in yoga and Pilates. At the end of the hour, we will take a lighthearted approach to trying handstand at the wall. You need not want to get upside…
New: Core Strength for Real People: Planks and Stretches
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This efficient workout combines planks in every orientation with backbends, side stretches, forward folds for a full-body routine. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet,…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Balance in the Hips
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! Strengthen your hips front to back and side to side with this innovative, progressive sequence that builds to dancer pose and tree pose. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Leg Swing Flow
Happy 2017! The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one challenges your balance, then takes those shapes into dedicated core work. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet, subscribe, and…