Sage Rountree is America's leading expert on yoga for athletes. She is a certified endurance sports coach as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country as well as at Carolina Yoga Company, a yoga studio she co-owns. An accomplished competitor in running and triathlon, Sage has raced distances from sprint triathlon to Ironman , 400 meters to 40 miles, including the Boston Marathon and the 2008 Short-Course Age-Group World Championship in Vancouver, Canada, where she represented the U.S. as a member of Team USA. Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, Competitor, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines. Sage is the author of The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, The Runner's Guide to Yoga, The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga, and The Athlete's Guide to Recovery.
""Yoga is not only good forathletes it is essential, for both the physical and mental benefits Sage shares the benefits that yoga has brought to her life as an athlete and offers easy to follow yoga postures and breathing techniques to help athletes of all sports get started with a safe and effective yoga routine and to help them avoidor rehabilitate aninjury."" Beryl Bender Birch, author of ""Power Yoga"" and ""Beyond Power Yoga,"" Director/Founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute, and contributor to ""Yoga Journal""Sage s clear approach to incorporating yoga into a training season perfectly addresses all the things athletes need to hear about flexibility and balanced conditioning and Sage delivers it in a way that athletes can relate to. Karen Dubs, creator of the Flexible Warrior Athletic Yoga DVD series""