- Eliminate nagging aches and pains
- Aid recovery from injuries and reduce risk of new injuries
- Gain strength
- Improve recovery times after racing
- Feel better and run faster
Purchase Christine's Book, Yoga for Runners
Yoga for Runners, the book, 2nd edition is available and is now in full colour. Updated content in each chapter, integrating a more science-based approach to the practice. Sequences modified and new sequences added, of varying length. Each of the poses and isolation exercises—selected especially for runners—is described in detail to ensure correct execution. Focus is on key pillars of mobility and strength to yield the greatest benefits for healthy and sustainable running. Improve your strength, mobility, and flexibility, and speeding up the recovery process after a run. Plus, breathing and mindfulness techniques help you become more alert to the signs of a possible injury developing.Also available wherever fine books are sold. Contact us for wholesale information.
Purchase The Educational Series - Digital Downloads
This 6 Episode Educational Series is instructive for practitioners new to yoga, those with yoga experience and yoga teachers interested in better understanding the needs of athletic bodies. This series will improve your yoga practice and help you avoid running and yoga injuries.Purchase Christine Felstead's Yoga for Runners™ DVDs
INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMA complete yoga workout - this program will deepen flexibility while including key strengthening work for runners. It includes an energetic sequence of yoga poses, detailing the specific benefits to runners. This is an intermediate program, but anyone can take part. Participants are encouraged to stay within their limits while being given the tools to explore deeper. This yoga program will result in greater balance and symmetry by:
- Stretching tight areas (hamstrings, hips, lower back)
- Strengthening weak areas (inner quads, abductors, core, upper body and back)
THE ESSENTIALS, BEGINNER PROGRAM
The key to unlocking your potential as an athlete is flexibility. This beginner program is suitable for everyone, especially those new to yoga. No body is too stiff for this program as it sets the foundations for yoga while addressing areas in the body most affected by running. The four-part format allows you to focus on any individual segment or run through the program in its entirety.
- Fundamentals - how to integrate yoga into daily life to improve sitting, standing and running postural alignment
- Lower Back
- Hamstrings
- Hips
Also included is a visual anatomy reference guide. As an athlete, knowing more about your body will help to improve performance, reduce the risk of injury and learn proper alignment.