Certified Instructors Blog

November 17, 2009

Running Pain and Yoga


Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller @ 6:34 pm

Distance running can cause a tremendous amount of stress on the body. Yoga is now recognized as a way for runners to stretch tight muscles and help lessen running pain. Runners tend to gravitate towards power yoga and fast paced vinyasa flow. It’s wonderful to see runners now practicing yoga but this approach of stretching muscles and getting an extra workout is only the tip of the iceberg. Yoga can offer so much more than just stretching. It can help you access a deep place of calm relaxation. A place where healing and recovery takes place.

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October 31, 2009

Running form as a meditation practice


Laura Houston
Laura Houston @ 7:06 pm

As I was running today, I thought about how my running has become a meditative process, and how I have benefited from that. My training partner told me his wife used to be a runner, but quit. When I asked her about it, she said she had used running to work out problems and conflicts.

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