Tag: Yoga Teacher Training
Sage Advice: Yoga Teacher Training vs. Marathon Training
Jessica wrote with a fascinating question. She’s about to start yoga teacher training but is also signed up for the Chicago Marathon. Would it be wiser, she asked, to focus her energy on the teacher training and postpone the marathon for now? I told her that it would depend on a few factors: 1. Your…
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…
But I’m Not a Teacher
I was delighted to have a few students at my intensive in San Francisco on teaching yoga to athletes who were not themselves yoga teachers. They bravely, and correctly, presumed that there’d be content germane to their personal training work and their own practices. And I just had an e-mail from a non-teacher student who’s…
Pace Yourself
This is the day we move cross-town into a house that’s four minutes’ scooter trip to the studio downtown, less than three minutes’ run to the trailhead (16+ miles of single track bliss!), and just a short trip down our gravel road away from going wheels-down into the most gorgeous riding in the Piedmont (see Rides:…
Does . . . Not . . . Compute
Have you ever had moments of great confusion followed by moments of clarity? They might have happened in a lecture or a workshop, when your preexisting beliefs were shattered and the reorganization of the pieces led to a more full picture of how things work. I talk about this vis-à-vis yoga teaching (with application for…
Teaching Yoga to Athletes
Jessica, a marathoner, triathlete, and yoga teacher, wrote me from San Diego, asking about how to get started in the field of teaching yoga to athletes. I was heartened to hear that she actively trains and competes. It’s certainly not a prerequisite for teaching a great class for athletes, but it definitely helps to be…
Teaching Teachers
I spent a weekend in the wonderful company of a group of teachers interested in working with athletes. Walking them through my approach to the subject helped me crystallize my own thoughts, which once again come down to this: Yoga for athletes is not necessarily athletic yoga. Yoga should complement training, not simply pile on…