Synopses & Reviews
America's leading expert on yoga for active people, Sage Rountree, shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful, lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines.
Flexibility, balance, whole-body strength, recovery, range of motion, focus--a regular yoga practice brings many benefits to people who lead active lives. For athletes in particular, the dynamic stretching of athlete-friendly yoga poses and properly designed yoga exercises can counteract the tightness and imbalances that come from daily workouts.
In Everyday Yoga, certified coach and registered yoga teacher Sage Rountree shares the yoga positions and exercises she has developed in her own yoga studio, at Kripalu, and working with active people during her popular yoga clinics around the country. She guides experienced yoga practitioners and yoga beginners on the best ways to design and develop their own at-home yoga routines.
Everyday Yoga provides endless opportunities to explore and practice yoga in your own home:
- How to design yoga sessions to address the whole body or specific areas
- How to sequence yoga poses for a satisfying practice
- How to create yoga routines of varying duration from 5 to 50 minutes
- How to make yoga poses easier or more challenging
Each Everyday Yoga routine moves the spine in every direction and loosens tight hips in routines that can last from 5 to 50 minutes, leaving readers satisfied and relaxed. By sequencing several routines together, readers can build stronger, more flexible, injury-resistant bodies.
Synopsis
Sage Rountree, America's leading expert on yoga for active people, shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful, lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines.
Synopsis
Everyday Yoga is a practical, healthful guide to practicing yoga for active people, from beginners to yoga teachers. Each Everyday Yoga routine moves the spine in every direction and loosens tight hips in routines that can last from 5 to 50 minutes, leaving readers satisfied and relaxed. By sequencing several routines together, readers can build stronger, more flexible, injury-resistant bodies.
Synopsis
Daily yoga for athletes at every fitness levelSage Rountree, America's leading expert on yoga for active people, shares her fresh, accessible approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful guide to yoga routines.
Featuring poses that develop flexibility, balance, whole-body strength, recovery, and range of motion, Everyday Yoga helps you customize your practice to meet your goals. Inside you'll find illustrated routines and practices to build strength in your core, flexibility in your hips, relaxation in your body, and focus in your mind. And you can do it all in your own home.
In this book:
- Full-body warm-ups and restorative cool-downs
- Standing and mat routines for core strength, balance, and flexibility
- How to make yoga poses easier or harder
- Short and long routines, from 5 to 50 minutes
- Sample schedules to organize your at-home practice
Enjoy the benefits that only yoga can offer. Everyday Yoga provides all the tools you need to create routines that appeal to your personal taste and level of fitness.
Sage Rountree is America's leading expert on yoga for active people. She's an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and a member of the faculty at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She is co-owner of the Carolina Yoga Company, directs the studio's teacher training, and teaches workshops nationwide. She contributes to Yoga Journal and Runner's World.
About the Author
Sage Rountree is America's leading expert on yoga for athletes. She is a certified endurance sports coach as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country as well as at Carolina Yoga Company, a yoga studio she co-owns.
An accomplished competitor in running and triathlon, Sage has raced distances from sprint triathlon to Ironman®, 400 meters to 40 miles, including the Boston Marathon and the 2008 Short-Course Age-Group World Championship in Vancouver, Canada, where she represented the U.S. as a member of Team USA.
Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, Competitor, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines. Sage is the author of The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, The Runner's Guide to Yoga, The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga, and The Athlete's Guide to Recovery.
Table of Contents
IntroductionPart 1: Building Your Everyday PracticeHow to Use This Book
Guidelines for Practicing Yoga
Creating Nourishing Practices
Where, When, and How Often to Practice
Part 2: Everyday Yoga RoutinesWhole-Body Warm-Ups
Standing Routines for Strength and Balance
Mat Routines for Core Strength and Hip Flexibility
Restorative Cool-Downs
Part 3: Everyday Yoga Practices
Short PracticesCore Strength and Stability
Lower-Body Strength and Stability
Lower-Body Flexibility and Mobility
Upper-Body Strength and Stability
Upper-Body Flexibility and Mobility
Relaxation and Recovery
Long PracticesWhole-Body Balance
Core Strength and Stability
Lower-Body Strength and Stability
Lower-Body Flexibility and Mobility
Upper-Body Strength and Stability
Upper-Body Flexibility and Mobility
Relaxation and Recovery
Part 4: Organizing Your Everyday YogaEveryday Yoga
Every-Other-Day Yoga
Twice-a-Week Yoga
Acknowledgments
About the Models
About the Author