Tag: YogaVibes
Watch: Everyday Yoga Short Practice: Upper Body Strength and Stability
All this week, Yoga Vibes will be posting video companions to the short practices in Everyday Yoga! These offer a companion to the book and will help you include a little bit of yoga most days, especially if you are traveling away from your favorite studio over the summer vacation season. This first practice is…
Watch: Short Balance Practice
In this new, short yoga video up at YogaVibes, you’ll learn a short routine to build your balance. We layer a series of progressively more challenging moves to target your glute and core strength, making this a great preworkout practice or standalone yoga snack. Watch the full nine-minute practice here. Look for video versions of the short practices…
Watch: FREE Postrun Yoga Video Routine
In this eight-minute free video—free, thanks to my friends at YogaVibes—I’ll guide you through a short, easy post-run routine that you can do in the parking lot, by the trailhead, or in your living room. Please enjoy and let me know what you think. You’ll find dozens of free, short online yoga videos and racing…
Watch: Yoga for Athletes Teachers’ Lounge: Christina’s World
Here’s the last in my series of classes from the Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive. Join me for an in-person version of the intensive at Kripalu in January and at Carrboro Yoga in July, or online anytime at Sage Yoga Teacher Training. In this short online yoga class for athletes, teachers, and anyone, filmed at the end of…
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…
Watch: FREE Stretch Break Video at Yoga Vibes
Got five minutes? This short yoga video will get you looser through the shoulders, spine, and hips, give you a chance to connect with your breath, and help you focus better for the rest of the day. Better yet, you can do it wherever you are, whatever you’re wearing. Best of all: it’s free! Yoga Class…
Watch: Free Yoga for Trail Runners Video
Page 66 of the October issue of Yoga Journal features four poses I love for trail runners. You can also see a gorgeous slideshow illustrating the poses here. To complement the story, I recorded a twenty-minute practice featuring each of the poses, and my friends at YogaVibes have graciously made it free to you! If, after enjoying this video, you’d…
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…
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: Table Legs
The latest in my series of classes filmed during my Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive has a fun warmup sequence. Yoga Class Description In this yoga class for teachers and everyone, filmed at the end of Day 2 of Sage’s Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive, we use table pose as a home base to explore the…