Yoga for Athletes

1 Season . 3 Episodes TV-G

This video with Kerri Kelly is designed with the athlete in mind: leveraging yoga’s integrative approach to improve one’s physical health AND enhance athletic ability. It's a challenging and fun practice emphasizing strength, core and flexibility and encouraging the entire body to become more integrated, receptive and healthy. Integrating yoga into your cross training routine can have significant benefits on your sport: promotes physical balance and strength throughout the whole body, increasing flexibility and range of motion (lengthens stride) and prevents injury. Yoga also encourages qualities of awareness and resiliency that can translate to your sport. This video is part of our Yoga for Athletes Guide.

When the hamstrings are too tight, they pull the pelvis down into posterior tilt which can 1) add stress on lower back 2) cause misalignment in the hips/knees). So being more flexible is not just about feeling good, more comfortable, but about being healthy in your muscles and joints. In this practice with Kerri Kelly, we’re going to strengthen and lengthen the lower body in different ways to enable a healthy environment for hamstring flexibility. Remember, in yoga, we’re not looking to be gumby flexible but rather to develop structural flexibility and strength. This video is part of our Yoga for Athletes Guide.

In this class with Kerri Kelly we build on our foundation to support upper body opening and awakening. Upper body health is directly connected to the core strength and pelvic alignment. By bringing attention and awareness to this part of the body we enable a more receptive and balanced way of being on and off the mat. This video is part of our Yoga for Athletes Guide.