Tag: Yoga Journal
Read: Best Hamstring Stretches for Runners
You don’t need a ton of flexibility to run well. Unless you run hurdles or steeple, you need just enough to move through the range of motion of your stride. But you might ENJOY stretches, and that’s a great reason to do these seven!
Read: Granola Recipe for Athletes (and Everyone)
I really fell in love with granola at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and I still eat it every morning every day I’m there, and most days at home. Yoga Journal asked for my recipe, which appeared in their September issue. It’s online now—check it out. My love of granola started nine years…
Read: Three Yoga Poses That Are Perfect Right After a Run
The third piece in my series of yoga to do before, during, and after your run—all excerpts from the second edition of The Runner’s Guide to Yoga—is up at Yoga Journal. When your run has been easy, or even moderate, you can move right into a quick practice, and, you’ll enjoy the benefit of warm…
Read: 4 Yoga Tricks to Steal for Running
You’ll find another excerpt from The Runner’s Guide to Yoga at Yoga Journal. This one is about yoga to do during your run. Doing yoga during a run doesn’t have to mean stopping to strike a pose mid-stride. While the strength, flexibility, and balance you gain from the physical postures are all deployed as you move, you can also…
Read and Watch: A Dynamic Yoga Warm-Up to Prime Your Muscles for a Run
The second edition of The Runner’s Guide to Yoga is now available! It features updated photographs in addition to the originals, all of which depict real (and some really fast) runners in realistic expressions of poses real athletes can conceivably do and benefit from doing. You can order your paper copy today at Amazon and get an Amazon Kindle copy, too.…
Sage Advice: Medical Emergencies in Class
The first article I ever wrote for Yoga Journal gives advice to yoga teachers about how to deal with medical emergencies in class. Despite every studio’s and teacher’s efforts to create a safe environment, such medical emergencies do happen in yoga classes, as a result of either an acute injury or an underlying condition. Knowing…
Conditional Language, Agency, and Liberation Prison Yoga
If I were to make a word cloud of the language I use while teaching, some of the bigger words would be or, maybe, might, could, can, and try. I’d been thinking this was a weakness—offering students too many choices, suggesting a passivity that stands in contrast to the clear action of short, simple commands (“Inhale, lift your arms; exhale, lower them.”) Then…
Postview: Yoga Journal LIVE! NYC
It was a treat to connect with the sweet students at Yoga Journal LIVE! in New York last weekend. I taught three sessions and, as promised, am writing up a postview with practice notes. (This is my preferred method, as it lets me teach to the students who are there, versus rigidly following a handout.) When…
Yoga Journal LIVE! Single-Class Passes on Sale Tomorrow
Next weekend, I’ll be presenting at Yoga Journal LIVE! at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. Single-class passes go on sale Monday, April 4, right here. Using the code SAGE will save you 15 percent! Here are my offerings: Core Strength for Real People Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. Paying a little attention to…
Discount: Yoga Journal LIVE in New York
I’ll present three offerings as part of the Yoga Journal LIVE! weekend in New York: Core Strength for Real People, Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. A More Perfect Union: Building Better Balance, Saturday, April 9, 8:00–10:00 a.m. Yoga for Athletic Recovery (and Tired Moms), Saturday, April 9, 3:30–5:30 p.m. Yes! You can sign up for just…
Read: Surfers Need Yoga Too, by Jenni Tarma
One of the homework assignments for my online teachers’ intensive on yoga for athletes, available at sageyogateachertraining.com, is to design a sport-specific yoga routine that will help athletes correct the imbalances caused by training. The extra credit portion of the assignment is then to turn the homework into a magazine article or blog post. Jenni…
Everyday Yoga Excerpt: Post-Workout Restorative Hip-Opening Poses
My friends at Yoga Journal are offering Everyday Yoga excerpts to pique your interest in the book and jump-start your home practice. While the book is for not just athletes but everyone, the excerpts are keyed to pre- and postworkout routines, and you can string them together to do a complete practice. This is a postworkout recovery/hip-focused routine to help…