Tag: prAna
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Read: REI Blog and Meeting Sage Rountree
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REI has a wonderful blog full of very useful tips for athletes of all stripes. I was happy to write a piece for them with an overview of yoga’s benefits for athletes. You’ll find lots more on yoga for athletes in my books and videos, of course, but read it here to get started. As we approach…
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Yoga for Outdoor Athletes Tour of REI Stores
Once again, I’ll be spearheading a tour of REI stores to present on yoga for outdoor athletes on behalf of my wonderful sponsor prAna. Last year’s events featured me and my assistant Steve Krojniewski; this year, more of my colleagues, students, and protégées will join, and we all really look forward to seeing you! Each…
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Read: Closing with Grace
The way you end your yoga class deeply affects the student experience. In this piece, online at the prAna blog, I describe some steps to include to ensure your students enjoy a thoughtful transition off the mat: Your yoga class is a vehicle for student transformation when it has a clear direction. This moves from the…
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Read: Comfort and Affliction
To help students progress, a yoga teacher (or a coach) needs to know when to push and when to back off. I wrote a piece on developing this skill that’s online at the prAna blog. Journalist Finely Peter Dunne famously said the job of a newspaper is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”…
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Watch: REI/prAna Yoga for Athletes Preview
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Here’s a beautiful video prAna made to promote my upcoming REI Yoga for Athletes tour. Full tour schedule is here. While most of the clinics are full, I really hope we’ll get the chance to connect. If you’ve been shut out, use the code sagefreemonth to try my classes at YogaVibes! Look closely for teacher/student footage featuring…
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Read: 6 Steps to Creating a Welcoming Class
Over at prAna Life, I offer six steps to setting a welcoming, nurturing tone that will make your students feel safe and right at home. While the piece is specifically about yoga, it would work in any movement class, and virtually any class at all. Attending yoga for the first time—or taking a class with…
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Yoga for Runners, Paragon Sports
Last week, I visited the legendary, still-family-owned Paragon Sports near Union Square in New York City for a yoga for runners class, thanks to my sponsor prAna. It was a beautifully produced event, start to finish, and there were even sandwiches! A lovely, lively community of runners congregates at Paragon, and I felt honored to…
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Read: Sequencing Yoga Classes
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A post on my flipbook approach to sequencing interesting, balanced yoga classes is online at the prAna blog today. While it’s written for teachers, the principles apply just as well to home practice. If you’d like to investigate this approach further, you’ll want to sign up for my online sequencing class, which will be available…
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Watch: FREE Yoga for Runners
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Thanks to YogaVibes and prAna, I have a treat for you! It’s a free video with a series of short yoga routines to do before, during, and after your run. All are simple and can be done in a parking lot, trailhead, or—if you want to repurpose them—office cubicle. No mat required! These will be…
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Yoga’s Benefits for Athletes
I’ve got a piece on yoga’s benefits for athletes running on the prAna blog today. Check it out! And please leave a comment if you have one.