6 Yoga Stretches for a Tight IT Band
These yoga stretches can relieve iliotibial band syndrome, IT band pain, and hip pain.
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These Shoulder Stretches Will Unkink Even the Tightest Upper Body
Try these yoga shoulder stretches from Sage Rountree to unlock tight muscles and ease upper-body achiness.
Expert Tips to Help You Perfect Balance Poses
These beginner yoga poses build core strength, strengthen your legs, sharpen your mental focus, and improve your balance.
Yoga for Athletes: The Ultimate Get-Started Guide
If you're an athlete, yoga can help prevent injury and aid in recovery and strength-building. Here's how to add the practice to your training regimen.
5 Poses to Build Heat and Find Release
This leg-focused flow will get your heart pumping and warm up your muscles.
6 Yoga Poses to Support a Healthy Spine
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What We’re Eating Right Now: Sage Rountree’s Granola
The yoga teacher and endurance sports coach shares her favorite granola recipe that you’ll love to eat before or after yoga, bike rides, hikes, and more.
Try This Yoga Trick to Realign Your SI Joint & Relieve Lower Back Pain
Sage Rountree shows you how to use a yoga block in Bridge Pose to realign the SI joint while stretching the front of your body.
Got Lower Back Pain? Relieve SI Joint Discomfort with Tree Frog Pose
Sage Rountree talks you through a relaxing pose to give the muscles that control the relationship of your pelvis and spine a time out.
3 Yoga Poses That Are Perfect Right After a Run
Tack a few poses you can do mat-free onto the end of your run to balance strength and flexibility. Coach and yoga teacher Sage Rountree guides you in this video.
4 Yoga Tricks to Steal for Running
Doing yoga during a run doesn’t have to mean stopping to strike a pose mid-stride. Sage Rountree shares how yogic techniques of form, breath, and focus can help you maintain good form and presence of mind through your hardest hauls.
Mountain Pose Alignment Check
Coach and teacher Sage Rountree leads a quick Tadasana alignment check you can use anywhere from the yoga mat to the running trail.
A Dynamic Yoga Warm-Up to Prime Your Muscles for a Run
You know yoga is crucial to keeping your body balanced as your mileage increases, but have you considered how to make yoga an integral part of your runs? Coach and yoga teacher Sage Rountree shows you how.
15 Anti-Aging Health Benefits of Yoga That Will Make You Want to Start Practicing Now
While age does affect you in various ways, there’s a lot you can do to limit its impact on your body. Yoga is an excellent anti-aging tool, capable of relieving symptoms and in some cases improving medical outcomes. It doesn’t matter where you’re starting from or how old you are—movement and yoga can help.
Yoga for Athletic Recovery: 5 Poses to Max Out Training Benefits
You may spend serious time sweating, but it's the space between workouts that counts. Sage Rountree's yoga poses will help you get the most out of your recovery time.
12-Minute Core Strength Sequence (for Real People)
Build strength through the belly, side waist, glutes and back with core strengtheners for those of us who don't have all day to hit the gym.
Everyday Yoga for Athletes Cross-Training Menu
Try these three pre-and post-workout yoga practices from Sage Rountree’s new book to balance strength and fitness daily.
Everyday Yoga for Athletes: 6 Post-Workout Hip Openers
Recover from your workout with these six restorative poses from Sage Rountree’s new book that marry hip release and inversion to sweetly calm your nervous system.
Everyday Yoga for Athletes: 9 Post-Workout Poses to Balance Core Strength
Use this post-workout sequence from Sage Rountree’s new book to build core strength that balances the abs and back muscles.
Everyday Yoga for Athletes: 5 Pre-Workout Warm-Up Poses
Use these mat-free poses from Sage Rountree’s new book to wake up your whole body and mind for better performance.