Tag: YogaVibes
Watch: Yoga for Swimmers
There’s a new, short (half-hour) yoga for swimmers video I filmed up at YogaVibes. This practice focuses on the chest and back, with detours into the ankles and hamstrings and a swimming-specific breath exercise. It’s gentle and appropriate for just about anyone, regardless of experience. Please enjoy and share!
Yoga for Runners
I enjoyed working with a fun, jolly, game group of runners, many of them new to yoga, at CYCo. this morning. (If you couldn’t make it, the class will be on Yoga Vibes soon; meanwhile, check out the Yoga for Athletes page there, which grows each week!) Here’s what we did, for their reference and…
Yoga for Athletes Online at YogaVibes
I’m happy to point you to YogaVibes’s new Yoga for Athletes page, where you can stream dozens of instructional videos I’ve recorded over the last two years. One of my classes (Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. at Carrboro Yoga Co.: join us if you want to be an Internet yoga star!) is recorded each week and appears…
Never Fear
A central paradox of my career is the name of what I do: teaching yoga for athletes. It’s really just yoga, presented in ways that complement what athletes do, and that also work for most folks with tight hips and shoulders (read: Westerners). It’s not, as the name might imply, athletic yoga. Athletes get their…
Unscheduled Rest
In this piece for Lava Magazine, I write on the benefits of scheduled rest. We need to build downtime into our training and life plans, so that our bodies have time to cope with the stresses we throw at them. Sometimes—as when, say, a winter full of inclement weather keeps icing the roads—we have unscheduled…
YogaVibes
Please check out my instructional vignettes and class for athletes at YogaVibes.com. The vignettes, available here, include my take on yoga for athletes, an explanation of ways to access the hamstrings, and more. We had a great time filming the class, which focuses on hips and hamstrings and is appropriate for athletes (and nonathletes) of…