Category: Yoga
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Scheduled: New Year’s Eve Goals, Intentions, and Release
in YogaI’ve just scheduled a special workshop at Carrboro Yoga Company for New Year’s Eve focused on goals, intentions, and release. (Goals and intentions are a critical part of my latest book, Racing Wisely, but they apply to everyone, especially at the new year.) Please join me! As it’s Cyber Monday, you can sign up for…
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Kripalu Preview
In January, I’ll be returning to one of my favorite places: the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. I’ve been traveling to teach there since 2009 (read pre- and postviews from my previous visits here, including detailed notes on what we’ve covered in each of the sessions). There are two offerings for you…
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Next Book Is in the Oven
I’ve just pressed send on the e-mail submitting the last chunk of the manuscript for my sixth book. Fitting with the book’s frequent references to food, I told Wes that after today, the book was in the oven. I’ll still take it out to review edits and proofs—to baste it—but most of my work is…
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Metta Meditation at Wanderlust 108 Atlanta
It was a glorious day and a wonderful crowd for the inaugural Wanderlust 108 Mindful Triathlon in Atlanta yesterday. There was a 5K run/walk through beautiful Piedmont Park; an inspiring talk by Keith Mitchell; a rollicking concert by the Good Times Brass Band; and very sweet yoga focused on connection and a healthy dose of…
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New Site: sageyogateachertraining.com
New today: my professional development courses for yoga teachers have a home of their own at sageyogateachertraining.com! Whether you want to specialize in yoga for athletes or learn ways to up your game as a yoga teacher, you’ll find resources to sharpen your vision and confidence, jump-start your sequencing, and help you continue to grow. Please click on…
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Read: Comfort and Affliction
To help students progress, a yoga teacher (or a coach) needs to know when to push and when to back off. I wrote a piece on developing this skill that’s online at the prAna blog. Journalist Finely Peter Dunne famously said the job of a newspaper is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”…
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Read: How to Keep Your Teaching Fresh: Yoga Instructors Share Their Secrets
Yoga teachers will find some nice insider tips from experienced teachers in this post on Thrive, the Kripalu blog. I added my voice: Sage Rountree, author of several books on yoga for athletes and yoga sequencing: Our practice grows when we have a good balance of consistency and variety. First, we need the consistent elements…
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Quick Poll: 500-Hour Intensive Option
Yoga teachers: after loving the summer intensive version of our Carolina Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training, we’re considering adding an intensive version of our advanced studies training (what the Yoga Alliance used to call the 500-hour level, and what is now known as the 300-hour). In this format, you’d be able to complete the bulk of the required…
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Refine Your Sequencing
Much of my work in the last year has been taxonomical—categorizing and collating the sequences of poses I teach in class. There are various approaches to building a yoga pose sequence for class or home practice; mine is based on a chunking model. Each sequence constitutes a chunk, and these chunks can be strung together to create a short…
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Now Available: Classroom Management and Safety
We always have a lot of fun in the teacher trainings and intensives I lead. But I can’t remember having as much fun or belly laughs in a workshop as we had in Classroom Management and Safety. What is often a weighty, serious, and scary topic is less frightening when you break it down with…
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Update: Track Your Habits
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post for my Active Yogi blog at Yoga Journal about awareness of our habits—what in yoga we call samskara. It begins: For the last few days, a robin has been attacking its reflection in the window to my home office. Over and over again, it flings itself at the…
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Read: Sustainable Yoga Teaching
In my latest post at prAna Life, I talk about ways to structure your teaching schedule so you have a sustainable yoga career, rather than burning out. “Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.” —Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, trans. Swami Satchidananda As a yoga teacher,…