Category: Yoga
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Register Now for Sequencing Early Bird Discount
Everyday Yoga isn’t just my next book, it’s also the distillation of my approach to sequencing yoga classes. And it’s the textbook for this upcoming continuing education course for yoga teachers, part of our 500-hour advanced studies yoga teacher training but also open to everyone from every style, teacher and student alike. I’m really looking forward to…
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Everyday Yoga Excerpt: 9 Yoga Poses to Balance Core Strength
My friends at Yoga Journal are offering Everyday Yoga excerpts to pique your interest in the book and jump-start your home practice. While the book is for not just athletes but everyone, the excerpts are keyed to pre- and postworkout routines, and you can string them together to do a complete practice. This is a postworkout core routine to…
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Everyday Yoga Excerpt: 5 Pre-Workout Warmup Poses
My friends at Yoga Journal will be running a nice series of Everyday Yoga excerpts over the next few weeks. While the book is for not just athletes but everyone, the excerpts are keyed to pre- and postworkout routines, and you can string them together to do a full home practice. We’re starting with a dynamic preworkout yoga—what…
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Scheduled: Everyday Yoga Event at the Regulator Bookshop
As the release of Everyday Yoga approaches, I’ve scheduled an event at another local independent bookstore, the Regulator in Durham, on Tuesday, July 7, at 7 p.m. Join me and you’ll be in a great position to go enjoy dinner at Rue Cler afterward! Join Sage at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham for an Everyday Yoga event. She’ll give a brief talk…
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Scheduled: Everyday Yoga Book Event at Flyleaf Books
Join me at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill to celebrate the release of Everyday Yoga! On Wednesday, June 10, 7–8 p.m., I’ll give a brief talk about getting started doing yoga at home; offer time for Q&A; and lead a fun, accessible, all-levels, street-clothes-appropriate, mat-free yoga sequence. And you can pick up a copy of the book, which I’ll happily sign!
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Recommendation: Yoga’s Touch, by Martia Bennett Rachman
My down-the-interstate neighbor in Black Mountain, North Carolina, Martia Rachman, has produced an absolutely beautiful book on yoga assists and, more broadly, a safe and effective approach to the practice. Here’s the blurb I wrote for Yoga’s Touch: Hands-On Adjustments, Alignment, and Verbal Cues: Learning good hands-on assists helps teachers best serve their students. But…
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Watch: Behind the Scenes of Everyday Yoga
Here’s a fun time-lapse video that Seth K. Hughes grabbed as he shot the beautiful art for Everyday Yoga. Yes: we’re wiping off the model’s feet with window cleaner in the first few frames! Behind the scenes – Everyday Yoga from Seth K Hughes on Vimeo. The book will revolutionize your home practice and will be out…
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Summer Preview: Yoga Teacher Trainings
Summer in a college town like Chapel Hill, NC, is glorious. Parking is abundant, and beer trucks don’t block the downtown streets. The sun is up early; evenings are sultry and lovely; and summer sublets are easy to find with two-thirds of the population out of town. So come join me for one or more of…
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Newly Certified: Lori Archer, Kansas City
This beauty is Lori Archer from Kansas City. We connected when she came to Carrboro last summer for my Yoga for Athletes Five-Day Teachers’ Intensive (also available online), and we’ve continued to work together on her certification in Sage Yoga for Athletes. I’m happy to get to see her regularly when she comes to North Carolina as part…
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Newly Certified: Alix Blair and Tracy Kim
Congratulations to the most recently certified students to finish my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course! Certification is a detailed process that involves in-depth study, mentorship, and work beyond the course content, as well as a written exam and submission and critique of a teaching video. By the end, both I and the student teacher are very…
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Read: Closing with Grace
The way you end your yoga class deeply affects the student experience. In this piece, online at the prAna blog, I describe some steps to include to ensure your students enjoy a thoughtful transition off the mat: Your yoga class is a vehicle for student transformation when it has a clear direction. This moves from the…
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Holiday Teaching Schedule
As we hit the quiet time of year, the schedule at my yoga studios is condensed, with unique workshops to celebrate the holidays. Here are my special offerings, all at Carrboro Yoga Company. With the exception of New Year’s Eve, these are regular drop-in classes. Monday, December 22, 6:00–7:15 p.m.: Yoga for Athletes Wednesday, December 24, 2:00–3:15…