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Sage Endurance News
August 2009

Pose of the Month: Supported Fish

This supported version of the fish pose backbend is wonderful for almost everyone, and it’s especially useful for those who spend a lot of time with their arms on handlebars, oars, steering wheels, or keyboards. Use a real yoga bolster or make your own by folding a blanket or rolling beach towels together. Add a pillow if you need one. Check that the lumbar spine doesn’t curve too much, then arrange your arms and legs however feels best. Stay here for a few minutes, breathing.

Workout of the Month: Breathing

Speaking of breathing, you breathe during every workout. But how often do you pay attention to how your breath correlates with your effort and your motion? Here’s my video disquisition on breathing for runners. It applies to athletes in every sport, naturally.

Service Idea: American Lung Association Events

While we’re on the topic of breathing, I’ll point out that the American Lung Association raises money with a fun challenge: stair-climbing races, part of the Fight for Air Climb Series. Visit the ALA’s site to find an event near you. You can start training by eschewing elevators!

Teaching News

Please join me in September for my first weekend teachers’ workshop, September 18–20, at the Carrboro Yoga Company. You don’t have to be currently teaching to attend; this will have direct relevance for your home practice, as well, so please consider joining the nice group already enrolled! We’ll meet Friday evening, 6–8:30, Saturday afternoon, 1:30–3:30 and 4–7, and Sunday afternoon, 1:30–4. Cost, which includes a manual, is $195 if paid in full by September 1; $225 thereafter. You will earn 10 contact hours toward a Yoga Alliance recertification—and if you are a USA Triathlon certified coach, you’ll earn 7 CEUs. Read more and sign up at the CYCo. site.

Registration is open for my weekend workshop on yoga for athletes at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, February 5–7, 2010. We had a wonderful group this year, and I’m sure next year will be great, too. It’s a good time of year to recommit to—or begin—a yoga practice that will complement your sports and your life.

I’ll return to Kripalu in May to lead a five-day workshop, May 2–7, 2010. Registration for this week will be online by November. We’ll do pre- and post-workout yoga each morning, and in the afternoons we’ll look at restorative poses and discuss principles of training. You’ll leave confident in using yoga to balance your training and your life, and with a plan for the rest of your season.

More on all of these events appears at the Workshops page.

More Online

The video on breathing is the first installment of my video series on yoga for runners, at Competitor Running. I’m happy to take suggestions for future topics. You can also get some pointers on yoga for athletes—and get a preview of my YogaVibes class, which will be available to stream online later this month—by watching my short vignettes on the YogaVibes site. These change weekly; collect them all!

I’d love to have you as a fan of my business and a friend on Facebook, and please follow me on Twitter.

Writing News

The Athlete’s Pocket Guide to Yoga is selling well! People seem to have a strong positive initial reaction to it—pick one up, and you’ll instantly be taken in by this spiral-bound, glossy, full-color book that will help you get a home practice started, or help you include new routines in your current practice. You can find it at Amazon, bike and tri shops, and bookstores almost everywhere. It makes the perfect companion to The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga.

The last installment of the four-part century ride series is now up on Athleta Chi. Cruise over to read Kathleen’s debriefing.

My piece for yoga teachers with advice on landing a studio job is online at the Yoga Journal site.

Discounts, Sponsors, and Affiliations

If you would like a video for home practice, get a 10-percent discount off your purchase of the Athlete’s Guide to Yoga DVD through Endurance Films when you use the code SAGE108.

Check out Rudy Project’s great sunglasses and helmets. If you have your eye on just one item in particular, write to me and I will share my generous pro deal discount with you.