Sage Rountree

New Pub Date | The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook is ahead of schedule, so its new publication date is a week earlier. Preorder your copy now, and you should expect it on or around September 8.

Today I got some good news (a rarity for 2020): The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook is ahead of schedule, so its new publication date is a week earlier. If you preorder your copy now, you should expect it on or around September 8.

I can’t wait to share this book with you. It holds all the things I’ve learned in my 17 years of teaching yoga, and it’s the teacher training manual I…

A Word on Newsletters | As I confess in The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook (now available for preorder and publishing September 15!), writing newsletters is one of my least-favorite tasks. But that doesn't mean they aren't critical!

As I confess in The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook (now available for preorder and publishing September 15!), writing newsletters is one of my least-favorite tasks both as an author/yoga teacher and as a small business owner.

But that doesn’t mean they aren’t critical! Especially in times like these, where you may be changing your schedule or operating procedures week to week, having a…

Newly Certified: Jennifer Schell. Meet Jennifer Schell, a newly certified graduate of my online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes! Jennifer has a background in fencing and teaches classes for athletes in Greensboro, NC, and online.

Meet Jennifer Schell, a newly certified graduate of my online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes! Jennifer started with the content side of the course and collected her homework as she went along, then submitted it all to me when she upgraded to certification. This is a smart way to move through the training if you want to do it one unit at a time or aren’t sure whether you want full…

Coming in two months: The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook! Here's a peek at the index.

Two months from today, The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook will be officially published! Between now and then, I’m working on an updated website with lots of resources for teachers of every level of experience. These are keyed to the book, which is full of workbook prompts from the global (find your why) to the specific (make an outline for your workshops).

Yesterday I dipped into the…

Newly Certified: Amanda Frayeh

Meet Amanda Frayeh, the most recently certified teacher to graduate from my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course! Amanda took the content side of the course at Kripalu in 2019, then joined me in January 2020 as my assistant. While that seems like ages ago, it was only six months (whoa). In between and since, she’s been moving toward certification while working full-time as a yoga teacher, and now…

Last chance to sign up: Applied Anatomy with Jenni Rawlings and Jenni Tarma online live in real time OR in your own time starts Saturday.

Yoga teachers and movement geeks: here’s your last chance to sign up for a wonderful applied anatomy training that happens online in real time (or, if it’s better for you, your own schedule) starting this Saturday. Carolina Yoga Company is hosting this training with two wonderful teachers who are experts not only in anatomy and yoga but also in teaching online and in taking sometimes weighty…

Cannot Predict Now: Who knows what the yoga field will look like in the months to come? Here's one growth area I see, and a course to help teachers meet this moment and help students with yoga.

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Who knows what the field of teaching yoga will be like in the next three months? The next six? The next twelve? Not I—and I have a book on the subject, The Professional Teacher’s Handbook, coming out in three months!

One growth field I see is bringing yoga to a group, either in person or virtually, rather than assembling a random collection of students together…

Now Available for Preorder: The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook. This manual will help you take your training online, create an inclusive classroom, and take your teaching and career to the next level—all to help your students best.

Meet The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook, a new book to help both current and aspiring yoga teachers of any style and approach:

chart their course

choose the right trainings and continuing education

promote themselves mindfully

plan and assess their classes

develop healthy relationships with students, clients, and employers

navigate the landscape of online teaching

be professional whether…

If you’re a yoga teacher or teacher in training who is eager to find ways to make your classes antiracist and antixenophobic, I am happy to invite you to a free, live webinar hosted by Duke professor and Durham Yoga Company teacher Nadeesha Perera.

We will meet online on Sunday, June 21, 2:30–4:00 p.m. If you would like to join, please send me a message and I will get you login details.

Two…

New format: summer intensive yoga teacher training now online summer 2020—join me and my co-teachers virtually in real time!

For several years, we’ve been offering three formats of our 200-hour yoga teacher training at Carolina Yoga Company: our eight-month one-weekend-a-month format, a three-week summer intensive format, and a nine-week weekday daytime format. Because we expect social distancing and limits on gatherings to stay in place, this summer we will offer our three-week intensive online in real time!

This…

If you've been teaching online or if you're considering getting started, you might have looked at the hundreds of professionally produced videos already available and asked yourself, "Who would want to watch ME over this?" Here's who.

If you’ve been teaching online or if you’re considering getting started, you might have looked at the hundreds of professionally produced videos already available and asked yourself, “Who would want to watch ME over this?” The answer: the people who will connect with you for who you are: you, uniquely you.

One thing I miss when following along with slick videos is a sense of the teacher’s…

Of all the routines that have shifted, my Mondays have changed the most during the shutdown. Here is how you could reenact—or create afresh—the Monday routine we used to have.

Of all the routines that have shifted, my Mondays have changed the most during the shutdown. Used to be I’d meet my running friends for the same strides workout, spend time doing desk work, go to the studio, take Alexandra’s Pilates class, then teach Yoga for Athletic Balance. The best part was coming home after class to the same meal every week: a bread-cheese-and-salad spread that my family…

During the shutdown, not only am I getting a lot of time to watch my brain and all its patterns, I'm recording and editing fresh video lectures for my Teaching Yoga to Athletes course, so I look at myself all day long. Here's what I've learned.

Are you sick of yourself yet? Me, too. Not only am I getting a lot of enforced downtime to watch my brain and all its patterns, I’m using the shutdown to record fresh video lectures for my main online course, Teaching Yoga to Athletes.* This means I spend several hours a day literally watching myself.

On the positive side, this gives me incentive to wash my hair, put on lipstick, and use my…

Two weeks ago yesterday, I taught my last yoga class of the Before Times. Here are some lessons from yin yoga.

Two weeks ago yesterday, I taught my last yoga class. My business partner and I had just resolved to suspend all studio operations at the end of the day. I was subbing yin yoga for a colleague who began social distancing before the rest of us caught on. I stood at the door to hold it open as the students trickled in. Among them were five members of the St. John’s University men’s basketball team,…