Category: Yoga

  • Scheduled: Vinyasa and Vino

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    We have a fun offering in the works at Durham Yoga—a combo of flow yoga and a fun wine tasting in partnership with Cave Taureau Wines, owned in part by my husband. Anna Cordova will lead an hour-long flow practice (I hope to be there as an assistant, with hands-on work designed to make you…

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  • Now Available: Professionalism

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    My latest online course for yoga and movement teachers is Professionalism, produced at the Carrboro Yoga Company in October as part of our 500-hour teacher training. This course includes candid discussion about career decisions, the ins and outs of being a yoga teacher and freelancer, and dealing with studios and students. We encourage you to…

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  • Scheduled: Yoga for Athletes Five-Day Teachers’ Intensive in North Carolina

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    I’ve just scheduled my annual five-day teachers’ intensive at my home studio, the Carrboro Yoga Company. Come enjoy a wonderful week with like-minded colleagues in beautiful central North Carolina. There’s even a brand-new Hampton Inn nearby, so you can live car-free for the week in our vibrant, walkable town. This workshop usually has participants from…

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  • Read: 6 Steps to Creating a Welcoming Class

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    Over at prAna Life, I offer six steps to setting a welcoming, nurturing tone that will make your students feel safe and right at home. While the piece is specifically about yoga, it would work in any movement class, and virtually any class at all. Attending yoga for the first time—or taking a class with…

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  • Now Available: Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste

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    It’s been a busy year, between production of Racing Wisely and its forthcoming audiobook and our ongoing work at the studios to build a great community led by well-trained, experienced yoga teachers. In August, I taught a course on sequencing roughly modeled on The Athlete’s Pocket Guide to Yoga and its flipbook approach (detailed in this post…

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  • Read: When Bad Genes Happen to Good People

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    Please enjoy this fantastic article by Debra Witt up at Purple Clover today, on the smart topic of how to prevent some of the issues you might witness your older relatives begin to grapple with. Along the way, you’ll see some quotes from me on yoga’s benefits for everyone. (Bonus: I see Matt Damon at…

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  • Scheduled: Summer Yoga Mala

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    Join me and my fantastic colleagues Michelle Johnson and Hollie Sue Mann next month for a yoga mala complete with recovery practices! As the light of summer reaches its peak, Michelle Johnson, Hollie Sue Mann, and Sage Rountree will lead us in their version of a summer yoga mala on Saturday, June 22. This mala…

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  • Online Course Tour

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    It was a treat to play with recording and editing this tour of my online course on teaching yoga to athletes. The sound isn’t perfect, but never fear: the sound is great in the actual course videos. Enjoy—and let me know what questions you have about the course!

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  • Yoga Teacher Training at Carrboro Yoga

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    I’m in love with this photo from the penultimate weekend of our 2012–13 yoga teacher training at Carrboro Yoga. (Thanks to Elizabeth Matteson of  Inner Voice Wellness for taking it!) In this exercise, we map some of the bony landmarks in the body using dry-erase markers, so don’t worry, this isn’t permanent. My co-teacher, Lies,…

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  • Watch: Sitting to Standing with Blocks

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    In my yoga for athletes class, we’ve been working on the transition to standing from a sitting position, without crossing the legs, pushing the hands to the floor, or using much momentum. It builds core strength and fosters our sense of where we are in space. This deceptively difficult move is frustrating to a lot…

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  • Just Scheduled: Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste

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    I’ve just scheduled a five-day teachers’ intensive to give you concrete and copious tools and sequences no matter what style of yoga (or other movement classes) you teach. This workshop, which meets August 12–16, 2013, is part of a larger initiative at Carrboro Yoga to include more continuing education (more on that in a few…

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  • Just Scheduled: Intensive on Teaching Yoga to Athletes

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    I’ve booked the dates for my next intensive on teaching yoga to athletes at my home studio, Carrboro Yoga, in beautiful central North Carolina, July 8–12, 2013. If you’re more of a winter-in–New England type, I’m teaching a similar program at Kripalu starting January 27; details here. Each program is equivalent to the content portion…

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