As more and more athletes credit yoga with taking their performance to the next level, the field of yoga for athletes is growing in exciting directions. Specializing in yoga for athletes allows you to share yoga's benefits with a new, receptive population, and to help your students better. Studio owner Sage Rountree, a pioneer in the field, has multifaceted experience as a coach, athlete, and teacher working with endurance-sports athletes and collegiate teams.
Sage’s well-loved five-day intensive on yoga for sports training is designed for yoga teachers interested in working with athletes of all sports; it will also be useful for coaches, PE teachers, and personal trainers. At heart, this is a program that attunes you to working with special populations of every kind. Even if you are not intending to cater to athletes, you will come away with finely honed teaching skills and a sense of excitement about helping your students.
In lecture, group discussion, led classes, and practice teaching, we will:
+ discuss the needs, abilities, and limitations that athletes
bring to a yoga practice
+ survey exercise physiology relevant to yoga asana practice
+ investigate ways to modify classes for athletes of various sports
and levels of experience
+ design sequences appropriate for specific needs and points in the
training cycle
+ explore the pedagogy and business of working with athletes
Participants will gain a new awareness of the parallels between yoga and sports training and will leave feeling empowered to teach yoga to athletes in studio, gym, team, or one-on-one settings.
You'll receive the course's required readings as part of your tuition. The workshop confers 35 CEUs for Yoga Alliance.
Our gratitude and reparatory discounts take 25 percent off the full price for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and Non-White. Write us for details: info@carrboroyoga.com.
This in-person course parallels Sage’s online course. If you can’t make it in person, or you would like to see the syllabus and preview the first unit, click on over to the online course: https://sagerountree.com/courses/teaching-yoga-to-athletes/
We meet at Carrboro Yoga 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
$1200; $1008 if paid before May 1. We suggest you wait until May 1 to book any nonrefundable travel. This course has a minimum of six and a maximum of 18 registrants, so sign up now to ensure your spot!
Join us for our one-of-a-kind Yoga Summer Camp, an in-studio retreat for grownups aged 16 to 99! This is for you if you:
+ Fondly remember the joy of shared experience at summer
camp
+ Are eager to know more about yoga practices beyond the
poses
+ Would love a retreat but can’t swing the time away
+ Want to treat yourself to the ultimate staycation
+ Have been intrigued by the fun and immersive parts of yoga
teacher training without being sure you want to teach
+ Are looking for a deeply meaningful experience to enjoy together
with a family member or friend
+ Dearly love your family and
friends but want some YOU time with like-minded people so you can
go home refreshed each day
+ Like to move but don’t need to win at yoga
+ Enjoy luxuriating in final relaxation at the end of practice and
wish you could extend that period
+ Want to develop personally meaningful rituals to enhance your
self-care
Over the course of five special days, you’ll deepen your practice, make friends, find joy, and learn lots about yoga, its related practices, and yourself. We will explore various forms of meditation, get to know our Ayurvedic doshas, learn about mantras, yantras, and malas, and laugh a LOT.
Your camp counselors are Alexandra DeSiato and Alexis Besosa. Together, they will guide you in doable, active asana practices; activities designed to teach you more about the practice and yourself; meditations; art creation; and play.
Expect a schedule like this as we meet at Carrboro Yoga Friday, August 2, through Monday, August 5 (our spa day is Tuesday, August 6):
9–9:30: opening circle, intention
setting, meditation
9:30–11:30: doable yoga practice for all levels, with time for
questions, answers, and exploration
11:30–1:00: locally catered lunch and restful siesta
1:00–2:00: art activity
2:00–3:15: gentle, yin, and restorative yoga, plus yoga nidra
3:15–4:00: meditation, journaling, closing circle
Before we meet and every day of camp, you’ll get prompts for reflection, reading, and yoga-related viewing, so you can extend your experience into the evening. Or go grab dinner with your new camp friends!
Camp culminates on Tuesday, August 6, in a final-day field trip to Hillsborough Spa and Day Retreat, where we will have the space all to ourselves for lounging, reflection, journaling, enjoying the amenities, and, if you choose, an optional add-on treatment at a steeply discounted rate.
Lunch is included; we’ll reach out closer to the start of camp to check in on your dietary needs.
If you are a yoga teacher who tracks Yoga Alliance CEUs, you'll get 35 for this camp!
Because the cohesion of the group is integral to the experience, there will be no single-day drop-ins, and we won’t prorate if you need to miss a day. We have a six-person minimum and will max out at 15 students, so sign up TODAY to ensure your spot!
$800 for current unlimited members (this should autoapply at
checkout, let us
know if you run into trouble)
$900 for current 5x members (this should autoapply at checkout,
let us know if
you run into trouble)
$1008 for nonmembers
$750 for Black, Indigenous, and Non-White people, see our reparatory and
gratitude discount info and contact us at info@carrboroyoga.com for a
personal discount code