Tag: Yoga Teacher Training
Watch: Sequencing Intensive: Warrior Flows
Here’s another practice filmed during Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste. It’s an exploration of several of the practices in Everyday Yoga. In this online yoga class, filmed during Day 3 of Sage’s Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste, we practice several routines outlined in EVERYDAY YOGA: Leg Swing Flow; Warrior I Flow;…
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…
Register Now for Sequencing Early Bird Discount
Everyday Yoga isn’t just my next book, it’s also the distillation of my approach to sequencing yoga classes. And it’s the textbook for this upcoming continuing education course for yoga teachers, part of our 500-hour advanced studies yoga teacher training but also open to everyone from every style, teacher and student alike. I’m really looking forward to…
Summer Preview: Yoga Teacher Trainings
Summer in a college town like Chapel Hill, NC, is glorious. Parking is abundant, and beer trucks don’t block the downtown streets. The sun is up early; evenings are sultry and lovely; and summer sublets are easy to find with two-thirds of the population out of town. So come join me for one or more of…
Walking in Circles
January marked my seventh year of visiting the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, where I led my annual weekend of yoga for athletes and a five-day intensive on teaching yoga to athletes (always available online, and offered in North Carolina this July). For most of us who visit, a stay at Kripalu is like being in yoga…
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…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Momentum, Core, and Inversions
In this class, filmed during my five-day teaching yoga to athletes intensive (also available online!), we explore principles of working from the core and controlling momentum. If you like to play, this is the practice for you! Expect to giggle and learn plenty as you roll around and maybe kick to handstand at the wall. Yoga…
New Site: sageyogateachertraining.com
New today: my professional development courses for yoga teachers have a home of their own at sageyogateachertraining.com! Whether you want to specialize in yoga for athletes or learn ways to up your game as a yoga teacher, you’ll find resources to sharpen your vision and confidence, jump-start your sequencing, and help you continue to grow. Please click on…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Before, During, and After
My newest class at YogaVibes talks you through timing. You’ll learn techniques to practice before, during, and after a workout, as well as hearing why I chose them. If you were at the free classes I offered during last winter’s tour of REI stores (thanks, prAna!), you’ll get a refresher on the sequences we practiced…
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.”…
Quick Poll: 500-Hour Intensive Option
Yoga teachers: after loving the summer intensive version of our Carolina Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training, we’re considering adding an intensive version of our advanced studies training (what the Yoga Alliance used to call the 500-hour level, and what is now known as the 300-hour). In this format, you’d be able to complete the bulk of the required…
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…