Discover how to eliminate filler words that can diminish your impact as a yoga teacher. Learn to be specific and engaging in your instructions to create a more meaningful yoga practice for your students. Don’t miss out on this valuable tip! Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats. Amazon Barnes & Noble Books A Million Bookshop.org Indigo Powell’s Target Walmart And sign up for my teachers’ newsletter to get Sage advice in your inbox weekly: Please leave this field emptyLet Me Plan Your ..read more

Are you thinking about yoga for athletes all wrong? Many teachers and students make this common error: they go way too hard. Yoga for athletes is not athletic yoga. It shouldn’t be a workout—as we teachers like to say, it should be a work-in. The more serious an athlete is, the more specific conditioning they are doing for their sport. They don’t come to yoga to build strength! They come for relaxation, recovery, and maybe flexibility. They come to feel better. They come to find a complement to all the work they do in training. Too often, though, teachers think, “Athletes! Got to make them wor ..read more

Thanks to Flyleaf Books, our fantastic local independent bookseller, for hosting me earlier this month! I spoke on the subjects of my two recent books: The Art of Yoga Sequencing and the second edition of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery. Both are about finding balance—especially the balance between making things happen and letting things happen. A highlight of the talk was having most of the cover team there: Alexis Besosa, one of the two cover models; Radhika Deshmukh-McDiarmid, our fantastic photographer; and Jenni Rawlings, whose blurb appears on the front cover. The post Watch: Book ..read more

I had a great time chatting with Sarah and Tish of the Another Mother Runner podcast about all things recovery! The episode is live today wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: The show notes read: Any runners looking to avoid injury, feel stronger, or improve their performance need to listen to this enlightening, entertaining episode with guest Sage Rountree, Ph.D., a recovery coach, former Ironman, and author of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton, Sage tells: -how she’s gracefully accepted being a walker now, not a runner ..read more

Can reading a personal finance book really make you a better athlete? Absolutely! As I explain in The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, your best tools for peak performance are sleep, nutrition, and stress management. Less stress, better recovery. And one smart way to reduce your stress is to get a handle on your money—and your relationship to it. I made a list of my top-5 books for athletes to up their game, and it’s live now at Shepherd. Read it here! This list also has some more obvious choices from fantastic writers on endurance sports and performance more generally: Matt Fitzgerald, Steve Mag ..read more

Join me for a book event this Thursday! Where: Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC When: signing 5:30 p.m.; talk and Q&A at 6:00 p.m. Register: walk in or reserve a seat here The post Book Event at Flyleaf Thursday, March 14 appeared first on Sage Rountree ..read more

The Art of Yoga Sequencing publishes March 12, just over two weeks away! Have you preordered the book yet? If you have already preordered . . . I am excited to give you free access to my Sequence Library! This is a companion video demo library that brings the sequences in the book to life. Between the book and the library, you’ll find it a breeze to plan creative classes for every format and all students. Just shoot me a screenshot of your preorder and I’ll personally reply with a code to make the $39 Sequence Library free! Drop me an email and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Preview t ..read more

Athletes, tired people, yoga teachers: join me Thursday, 2/22, at 6 p.m. Eastern for a FREE practical session on recovery! It’s part of the Endurance Event, which has a great lineup of superstar speakers. I’ll be joining to bring the event to a close by talking about how NOT to work out—and guiding you through some easy, sweet practices to enhance your recovery. What to know: It’s live online—and at no cost to you! Dress in cozy clothes Have a few beach towels or your favorite yoga props at hand We’ll do some chatting as well as some extremely gentle and relaxing movement R ..read more

Ice baths are hazing. And they may not be doing what you mean them to. They are a stressful experience designed by your superiors (coaches, your higher self) to make you tougher Coaches often require them solely because they were forced to do them in their student years For groups, they are intended as a bonding experience They can be dangerous! And the science is out on whether ice baths improve your recovery. One recent study showed that those who took a room-temperature bath recovered faster than those who suffered in an ice bath. So why suffer? The takeaway: you can skip it! An ..read more

There is a fresh video now available in my Core Strength for Real People series. This one: takes you through two crosses of the legs—wide and narrow builds strength and balance around your hips moves you from your back, through table pose, to standing Here’s a preview: Think of it as a trip to finishing school, where you’ll work on your posture as you curtsy! What to do: You can rent or buy the full video or subscribe to the whole series at Core Strength for Real People. Check it out And when you sign up for my “Regular People” newsletter, I’ll share a code for a rental of your c ..read more