Category: Teaching
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Yoga Journal LIVE! Single-Class Passes on Sale Tomorrow
Next weekend, I’ll be presenting at Yoga Journal LIVE! at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. Single-class passes go on sale Monday, April 4, right here. Using the code SAGE will save you 15 percent! Here are my offerings: Core Strength for Real People Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. Paying a little attention to
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New: The Workshop Workshop
Yoga and movement teachers: there’s a new course for you at Sage Yoga Teacher Training! The Workshop Workshop is an online workbook course that will lead you through all the steps for planning, placing, and promoting a workshop to help your students grow. The first 20 people to use the code BLOG will each save
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Newly Certified: Christina Roberts
Meet Christina Roberts, the newest certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher. Christina is a health coach, yoga teacher, and dedicated runner about to qualify for the Boston Marathon (I just know it—read her running blog here!). Christina lives in the Lehigh Valley, where she teaches both endurance athletes and teams. You can find her weekly Prehab
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Newly Certified: Jeanine Encizo
Meet Jeanine Encizo, the most recent certified Sage Yoga for Athletes teacher! Jeanine came to yoga as a longtime runner, competitive in both cross-country and track. Like many of us, she found the yoga asana practice to be a lovely complement to the miles she was putting in. Her clear teaching reflects her experience and
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Discount: Yoga Journal LIVE in New York
I’ll present three offerings as part of the Yoga Journal LIVE! weekend in New York: Core Strength for Real People, Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. A More Perfect Union: Building Better Balance, Saturday, April 9, 8:00–10:00 a.m. Yoga for Athletic Recovery (and Tired Moms), Saturday, April 9, 3:30–5:30 p.m. Yes! You can sign up for just
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Scheduled: The Workshop Workshop
I’ve always had a fondness for metanarrative—stories that are about themselves. It was the topic of my master’s thesis (on metanarrative cinema, and yes, this included The Muppet Movie and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure) and, in a way, of my doctoral dissertation (on images of the professor and the university in drama since Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf). Thus: the
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“How Do I Make Myself Relax?”
The youngest participant in my recent weekend on yoga for athletes at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health was a twelve-year-old swimmer. Toward the end of the first session’s savasana—the quiet relaxation period at the end of practice—he raised his hand. The question: “How do I make myself relax?” This question sits at the heart of the
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Postview: Kripalu 2016
For the eighth consecutive year, I had a wonderful time leading a weekend on yoga for athletes, as well as spending five days investigating teaching yoga to athletes with my colleagues. (If you’d like to do the intensive, it’s always available online and next offered at Carrboro Yoga at the end of June.) Here are some photographic highlights.
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Newly Certified: Jo Marchi
Meet Jo Marchi, who has just finished her certification in Sage Yoga for Athletes! (Start yours at sageyogateachertraining.com.) We had the great pleasure of Jo’s company in Carrboro last summer for the five-day Teaching Yoga to Athletes intensive. Not only did everyone benefit from her upbeat positive energy and enthusiasm, we were able to pick her
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Scheduled: Yoga Journal LIVE! New York
I’ll present three offerings as part of the Yoga Journal LIVE! weekend in New York, then hustle home to graduate our 8-month yoga teacher training: Core Strength for Real People, Friday, April 8, 5:30–7:00 p.m. A More Perfect Union: Building Better Balance, Saturday, April 9, 8:00–10:00 a.m. Yoga for Athletic Recovery (and Tired Moms), Saturday, April
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Scheduled: Yoga for Athletes Weekend, Shreveport
Friends in northern Louisiana and environs: please join me at Breathe Yoga Shreveport for one or all of these sessions in February! Friday, 2/26, 6:00–8:00 p.m.: Yoga for All Athletes: Sage will lead us through an all level, all sports practice. Saturday, 2/27, 9:00–11:30 a.m.: Teaching Yoga to Athletes: Explore the basics of teaching yoga to athletes. Saturday 2/27, 1:00–3:00
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Newly Certified: Briana Roehling
Meet Briana Roehling, newly certified in Sage Yoga for Athletes. Briana and I are birds of a feather—like me, she has coaching certifications from USA Triathlon, Road Runner’s Club of America, and Spinning, and has competed in running races and triathlons of every distance; she’s also a personal trainer. While her strength is obvious, I