Category: Teaching
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Not Too Late for Summer Intensives
Today feels like the first day of summer proper, as the first weekday with the kids out of school. If your summer isn’t booked down to the last minute, there’s still time to join me at one or more of these upcoming intensives: Yoga for Athletes: Balance, Strength, Flexibility, and Focus 1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley,
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Newly Certified: Kirsten Larson
Meet Kirsten Larson, one of the newest certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teachers. This beauty lives on the eastern side of the Research Triangle, but we’ll get to see lots of her at Carrboro Yoga as she moves through our teacher training. She’s already a wonderful teacher, though. Her classes are inclusive, clear, and calming,
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Newly Certified: Tracey Turner-Keyser
Meet Tracey Turner-Keyser, one of the newest certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teachers! In addition to being a wonderful yoga teacher, Tracey is also a high school running coach and a wonderful family therapist—this is a triple whammy of goodness in helping people feel balanced, connected, and capable of peak performance. Tracey is not only
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Scheduled: Teaching Yoga to Athletes Intensive in North Carolina
The hometown version of my five-day intensive on teaching yoga to athletes will be Monday–Friday, July 17–21, this year. (You can also catch it at the 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley, California, Sunday–Friday, June 18–23, and online anytime at Sage Yoga Teacher Training.) This is always a highlight of my teaching schedule—not only do I
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Correct Dates for Sequencing: June 26–30
I’m reposting with the correct 2017 dates for Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste—I’d incorrectly used the 2015 dates before! I do hope you’ll join on June 26 for a week of creative work. Yoga and movement teachers: when did you last take plenty of time to play on your mat, create new sequences, collate them,
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Scheduled: Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste
Yoga and movement teachers: when did you last take plenty of time to play on your mat, create new sequences, collate them, and plan classes? Much of this work happens in small increments. Dedicate yourself to a full work week of creativity in Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste, and you’ll develop an invaluable playbook to keep your
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Watch: You Call This Yoga
Yesterday, I had a nice hour-long chat with Howie Shareff of You Call This Yoga. You can watch the archived show here and read about Howie’s work with accessible yoga here. He produces Yoga Fest NC, which happens April 8 in Raleigh—read about that here!
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Scheduled: Classroom Management and Safety
https://www.instagram.com/p/lAvJCRFuYg/ Movement teachers: come learn how to handle everything from heart attacks to fart attacks in our fun, educational weekend on Classroom Management and Safety. It’s part of the Carolina Yoga 500-Hour Teacher Training; those not enrolled in the training are still most welcome! The very first step of the first limb of yoga is ahimsa, nonharming.
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Sale: Save $10 on the Workshop Workshop
Up your teaching game in 2017 with the Workshop Workshop, an online course to help you develop, plan, and teach successful yoga and movement workshops. This workshop quickly pays for itself! And it’s $10 off through the end of February. Are you eager to share your favorite topics with your students in workshop format, but
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Listen: Yoga Crush Podcast
Suzanne Moscovitch at Yoga Crush is creating a wonderful set of resources for yoga teachers. I spoke to her for her podcast. Listen here: https://yogacrush.co/sage-rountree/ Suzanne asks such wonderful questions—teachers at all stages, both interested in working with athletes and interested in chasing their own passions—will benefit from listening to the podcast (not just this episode!). We
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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
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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