New Yoga for Athletes with Sage Rountree – Hamstrings
Mar 19, 2012
Has it been a few years since you studied anatomy? More than you’d like to admit? Fret ye not! With smarty pants Sage on your side, you’ll find it easy to keep a few simple concepts in mind as you develop your practice, allowing you to better target tight muscle groups.
It’s tempting to think of your hamstrings as one big muscle, when in fact they’re comprised of three distinct groups. (More on that here.) In this online yoga class for athletes and everyone, you’ll learn to stretch all areas of the hamstrings from standing positions. Using Sun Salutations, pyramid pose, rishi folds, and a wide-legged straddle, you’ll experiment to find your personal tight spots and bring them into balance. Finish with some fun core work and a hip opening sequence. If you have a block handy, you’ll learn new ways to check your alignment with it, like in this short free yoga video:
“Christina’s World” – Hip Stretches with Sage Rountree
Mar 12, 2012
“Christina’s World” ~Andrew Wyeth, 1948
Release, relax, and open your hips as you brush up on your American art history in Sage Rountree’s new online yoga class. This short sequence (14 minutes) is perfect for after a workout or a long day. You’ll stretch your hips, back and chest from all directions. Relax into a prone twist; stretch the outer hip in a user-friendly variation on pigeon pose; release your hip flexors and chest in “wild camel,” and soften into cobbler pose both as a forward fold and as a reclining pose. Our starting position evokes the iconic Andrew Wyeth painting, “Christina’s World.”
New Yoga for Athletes from Sage Rountree – Nemeses
Mar 8, 2012
Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer
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What’s more diverting than a good nemesis?
Even in your practice, you’ll find certain poses that just set your teeth on edge. Ones that you start the class dreading and cause you to inwardly groan when they’re cued. You may even think your teacher knows and pops them in there just to get your goat. Congratulations, you, my friend, have nemeses!
Ready to face them? In Sage Rountree’s new online yoga class for athletes and everyone, we look at our nemeses: poses that frustrate us. Find more freedom in Warrior I; fly into crow; open into camel; experiment with really letting go in corpse pose. Along the way, you’ll build strength, flexibility, focus, and the equanimity to approach both the poses you love and the poses you find challenging.
New Yoga for Triathletes: Stress and Rest
Mar 2, 2012
While triathletes often experience the benefits of cross training, they are also frequently challenged in discovering a balance between strengthening and stretching, training and resting. As an endurance sports coach, triathlete, and yogi, Sage Rountree brings her extensive knowledge and unique approach to each of her yoga for athletes classes, guiding students to that place of balance and helping them achieve their athletic potential.
In her newest online yoga for athletes class, join members of the UNC Chapel Hill Triathlon Team in examining the proper application of stress, which induces change, and rest, where the body grows stronger. Move through Sun Salutations, balance poses, and a core plank series while stretching hips, quads, and the IT band.
New “Honest Effort” Yoga with Sage Rountree
Feb 27, 2012
Continuing with Sage Rountree’s new online yoga series, today’s class builds upon the foundations introduced in last Wednesday’s class, further exploring the concept of safely exploring your edge. Many athletes are conditioned to push as hard as possible, ignoring bodily cues of pain and discomfort. Similarly, many beginner yoga students are unused to differentiating between a comfortable edge of exertion and overdoing. Sage’s classes will help you safely tune into your body’s signals, improving your athletic performance and overall quality of life.
In this online yoga class for athletes and everyone, you’ll look at ways to put out an honest effort, without holding back but without overdoing it. Moving through Sun Salutations, core planks, and lunges, you’ll find the appropriate edge while building self-awareness for sports and life.
New Yoga for Athletes with Sage Rountree
Feb 22, 2012
Are you new to yoga? Athlete or no, this class is perfect for you!
As you begin to learn more about yoga, you’ll probably hear the term “ahimsa” used frequently, and you may think to yourself, “What the heck is that?” Simply put, ahimsa means “to do no harm”, but the implications of this tenant reach much further than one may initially think. Just remember, yoga is a lifelong process of learning – you don’t need to figure it all out at once!
In Sage Rountree’s newest online yoga class for athletes (and everyone), you’ll work towards discovering the appropriate edge of intensity, and how to apply the idea of ahimsa to yourself and your practice. Learn how to protect yourself from harm in poses by making wise choices. You’ll move through Sun Salutations and a fun core challenge before exploring the edge in IT band and groin stretches, finishing with backbends and relaxation.
Verge Yoga Flow – Online Yoga with Cara Bradley
Jan 5, 2012
Looking for a well-balanced, challenging online yoga class? How about Cara Bradley‘s Verge Yoga Flow? This intermediate to advanced practice will help you unblock, unfold, and unleash yourself as you move through strengthening and stretching asana with attention to breath. Cara’s unique dynamic balancing series and attention to core strengthening help you access muscle groups often overlooked in traditional practices.
Cara founded Verge Yoga in 2009 and trains athletes and teams from club to professional. A former in-line skate star, she discovered flow yoga and found that it merged her love of fitness and sport with her desire to live in the present moment.
Enjoy!
New Online Yoga for Athletes Class from Sage Rountree
Jan 3, 2012
If you’re an athlete, you’re probably in the less intense segment of your training plan – the perfect time to bring a little more juice to your yoga mat time. Sage Rountree’s new online yoga class for athletes (and everyone!) moves you through a strengthening practice designed to support your training and improve your athletic performance. You’ll spend some time stretching your quadriceps in dancer pose and half camel, creating opening in chronically tight spots around your hips and pelvis. Along the way, practice finding an efficient form and full breath that supports your efforts.
New Online Yoga for Athletes Class – Focus on the Hips – on YogaVibes
Dec 1, 2011
Join Sage Rountree in her newest Yoga for Athletes class on YogaVibes, just posted today!
In this online yoga class for athletes and everyone, you will work your whole body, with a particular focus on the hips. You’ll stretch and strengthen your feet in standing balance poses, work your core and shoulders in planks and bows, and unwind in a lovely reclining hip-stretch sequence at the end.
Check back frequently to view Sage’s weekly yoga classes. If you are new to YogaVibes, check out Sage’s growing library of full-length classes and shorter sequences.
Click on the video below to see this week’s Yoga for Athletes Class: Whole-ly Hips.
Yoga for Athletes Class: Whole-ly Hips
Rolf Gates Online Yoga Class on YogaVibes
Nov 25, 2011
Whether you are worn out from shopping, experiencing the dreaded turkey hangover, or out of town with no yoga studio in sight, we’ve got the perfect thing for you! A 30-minute online Vinyasa yoga class from Rolf Gates!
This 30-minute online yoga class is perfect for the end of the day, as a compliment to any cardio workout, or for a post-Thanksgiving yoga fix. Release stored tension from a long day with Rolf Gates’ Time to Unwind yoga practice.
Time to Unwind
