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.
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!
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Scheduled: Teaching Yoga to Athletes Intensive in North Carolina
The hometown version of my five-day intensive on teaching yoga to athletes will be Monday–Friday, July 17–21, this year. (You can also catch it at the 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley, California, Sunday–Friday, June 18–23, and online anytime at Sage Yoga Teacher Training.) This is always a highlight of my teaching schedule—not only do I…
Newly Certified: Lori Archer, Kansas City
This beauty is Lori Archer from Kansas City. We connected when she came to Carrboro last summer for my Yoga for Athletes Five-Day Teachers’ Intensive (also available online), and we’ve continued to work together on her certification in Sage Yoga for Athletes. I’m happy to get to see her regularly when she comes to North Carolina as part…
Scheduled: Yoga for Athletes Five-Day Teachers’ Intensive in North Carolina
I’ve just scheduled my annual five-day teachers’ intensive at my home studio, the Carrboro Yoga Company. Come enjoy a wonderful week with like-minded colleagues in beautiful central North Carolina. There’s even a brand-new Hampton Inn nearby, so you can live car-free for the week in our vibrant, walkable town. This workshop usually has participants from…
Online Course Tour
It was a treat to play with recording and editing this tour of my online course on teaching yoga to athletes. The sound isn’t perfect, but never fear: the sound is great in the actual course videos. Enjoy—and let me know what questions you have about the course!
Just Scheduled: Intensive on Teaching Yoga to Athletes
I’ve booked the dates for my next intensive on teaching yoga to athletes at my home studio, Carrboro Yoga, in beautiful central North Carolina, July 8–12, 2013. If you’re more of a winter-in–New England type, I’m teaching a similar program at Kripalu starting January 27; details here. Each program is equivalent to the content portion…