Tag: Yoga for Athletes
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Releasing Hips and Shoulders
Yoga Class Description In this gentle yoga practice, recorded at the end of Day 3 of Sage’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, you’ll explore range of motions, compression, and tension in the hips, spine, and shoulders. These gentle movements will help you feel balanced, free, and ready to move on to other asanas—or right…
Watch: More Free Yoga for Athletes Videos
Here are more of the yoga for athletes videos that accompany my August Yoga Journal feature on training for a triathlon: Week 5: Healthy Wrists Week 6: First Transition (T1) Week 7: Second Transition (T2) Week 8: Balance in the Water Plus bonus videos! Using a Mantra Drishti for Open Water The thumbnails are, as usual, hilarious.
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Gentle and Restorative
Ahhh, restorative yoga! The sweetest style of yoga, appropriate for virtually anyone. The less you feel like you have time for a restorative practice, the more you need it! The idea of writing The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery came to me while I was in a restorative yoga class. Who knows what wonderful things will happen when you…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Planks Galore
Yoga Class Description In this yoga class for teachers and everyone, filmed in Day 2 of Sage’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, you’ll move through a well-rounded routine designed to bring balance to your body. Start with supine warmup, then move to standing poses, both dynamic and static. The practice culminates in a series of…
Watch: Free Yoga for Athletes Videos
Have you had a chance to read the August issue of Yoga Journal? I wrote a twelve-week triathlon plan and asana sequences to complement swimming, cycling, and running you’ll find featured in the magazine. (That’s the “15 poses to build a strong, healthy body.”) There’s a set of videos to accompany the article. If you’re signed…
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…
Watch: Visualize Pigeons at YogaVibes
My latest online yoga for athletes class at YogaVibes offers a wide range of options, so you can find your way toward the benefits of pigeon pose—deep release through glutes and piriformis—whether you just ran a marathon or just decided to try yoga. Yoga Class Description In this online yoga class for athletes and…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes—Twists
My latest class on YogaVibes has a host of twists in different relationships to gravity. Wring it out!
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…
Teaching Yoga to Athletes: An Online Course and Certification
Teaching yoga to athletes is my life’s work. This niche lies at the intersection of my professional training, vocation, and passions: studying philosophy and literature; developing strong teaching skills; training, racing, and coaching; practicing yoga. I’m hugely excited to share this field with you in a one-of-a-kind online course on teaching yoga to athletes. This…
Yoga for Athletes Teacher Training and Certification
I’ve just scheduled a weeklong intensive, June 25–29, 2012, for teachers who want to hone their skills in working with athletes. This is perfect for yoga teachers, personal trainers, and PE teachers. If you’ve completed a weekend intensive with me, you’ll find the weeklong to be a valuable expansion of the weekend workshop, with in-depth explorations of…