Tag: Yoga for Athletes
Yoga for Athletes Teachers: Know Your Scope of Practice
Often, yoga teachers hesitate to work with athletes because they aren’t clear on their scope of practice. Here’s what you need to know.
Last Call: Teaching Yoga to Athletes, July 8–12
Learn to help athletes—and people in general—by applying the principles of exercise physiology alongside yoga philosophy in Teaching Yoga to Athletes.
Are You Thinking About Yoga for Athletes All Wrong?
Many teachers and students think yoga for athletes is athletic yoga. Here’s why they are wrong—and how to fix it in a single yoga training!
I Miss Mondays the Most
Of all the routines that have shifted, my Mondays have changed the most during the shutdown. Used to be I’d meet my running friends for the same strides workout, spend time doing desk work, go to the studio, take Alexandra’s Pilates class, then teach Yoga for Athletic Balance. The best part was coming home after…
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!
Newly Certified: Beth Marek
Meet Beth Marek! Beth is the most recently certified teacher to graduate from my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course. She lives in El Paso, Texas, where she works as a climbing guide and yoga teacher. Beth came to yoga as a runner—she ran at Davidson College, down the road from me in North Carolina. Like…
Preorder Now: The Durable Runner by Alison Heilig
If you’re a runner, you have likely faced at least one injury—the closer you push to your limits, the more inevitable injuries become. But they don’t have to derail your running. With a little foresight, you can make yourself more injury-resistant and improve your resilience when injuries do occur. Here comes a wonderful book to…
Newly Certified: Deanna Velazquez
Meet Deanna Velazquez, one of the newest certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teachers. Deanna has a deep well of expertise in fitness. She has worked as a group fitness instructor, a personal trainer, and of course a yoga teacher. She’s lived in a range of interesting places, too, from Alaska to Austin to, briefly, Raleigh,…
New Channel at Yoga Vibes
If you’ve been thinking you’d like to try my online classes, or yoga in general, but feel unsure where to start, check out this excellent resource from Yoga Vibes. They have created a channel with week-by-week suggestions to get you started using yoga to balance your training or whatever else you do with your body.…
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…
Watch: Live Stream of Yoga for Athletic Balance, Free 10/2
Brave new world that has live streaming in it! Starting Monday, October 2, my Yoga for Athletic Balance class at Carrboro Yoga Company will be available for you to follow along in real time wherever you have an Internet connection. These classes will join the almost 100 videos I already have available at YogaVibes.com, and…
Pub Day: LIFELONG YOGA
Today’s the official release date for Lifelong Yoga. While it’s my seventh book, it also marks some important firsts—it’s my first book cowritten with my longtime assistant, Alexandra DeSiato, my first book to be published by North Atlantic Books, and the first to feature my husband, Wes, as a model. (He’s joined by two other lovely…