Summer Yoga Video Week 1
The time has come! Starting today. Each Monday for 8 weeks a new Performance Yoga video will be posted online to help you retain your mobility and strength over the Summer. Some weeks there will be one video, some weeks two! So get your mat out, take some time out and enjoy! If you haven’t […]
Why does my foot cramp during Yoga?
Does this sound familiar.., you started a yoga class hoping to improve flexibility, strengthen your core, and get a little ‘me time’ in your life. You’re enjoying the exertion, the breathing, when all of a sudden…cramp! Right in the middle of a pose, and often the same pose each time, your foot cramps up, causing […]
Top 5 Benefits of Evening Yoga
Top 5 Benefits of Evening Yoga Yoga can be used in your life to affect you in different ways. An active practice can get you going in the morning and calming, deeper, restorative poses/ stretches can work differently at night on a more hydrated body and help you wind down at night. Relative to Evening […]
What makes Performance Yoga Effective?
My goal with Performance Yoga is not to teach people to become better at ‘Yoga’, but better at how they move on a day to day basis. Teaching people to know their own bodies, strengths, weaknesses and how to address these issues with corrective movement patterns interests me much more than simply demonstrating poses. I […]
Sports Yoga Sequence
Yoga positions, called asana, are the basic physical part of a yoga practice. Although yoga poses are a type of exercise for your body, they are also much more. The word yoga itself is from Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, and refers to the union of mind and spirit. Yoga began in India more than […]
Christmas Charity Yoga Sat Dec 6th 10am
Christmas Charity Yoga Class At 10am on Sat 6th Dec, I will teach a Yoga Class for new and existing Performance Yoga Students in our headquarters at Sports and Spinal Physiotherapy, Clonmel. This class will be a Charity Yoga Class. It is a FREE Yoga Class for adults where you will have to opportunity to donate […]
Sports Yoga for Cyclists
While working with cyclists attending the Sports Surgery Clinic for physiotherapy: purists, adventure racers, triathletes, and spinners, I gained a valuable insight into the key trouble spots affecting performance. Cycling most of the circumference of Ireland recently with Cycle Against Suicide I know I felt some of these along the way: Stiff necks and upper […]
Tag Rugby, How Sports Yoga can help.
Despite being a non-contact sport TAG Rugby, is not without injury risk for the players. Sprinting and quick change of movement components of the sport bring with it injury risks for twisted ankles, knees and muscle strains particularly in the hamstrings which act as a decelerator when slowing down from a sprint. This type of […]