“Teach not what you know, but what you know as it applies to your student”

These are the words of one of the fathers of modern Yoga traditional yoga therapist.

I feel that in teaching, as in any coaching or therapy, we aim for a productive conversation with a client and try hard to meet them where they are. Some yoga teachers come with a strong agenda of “putting square pegs into round holes” and I think this turns people away from yoga. That is a missed opportunity for an athlete because the techniques of yoga are proven to improve performance, recovery, mental health and strength, and also not least, with time, yoga will extend our sporting shelf life.

So the Yoga For Sports Method is yoga should be adapted and applied to suit the individual person’s needs. It is not yoga just for the sake of being ‘good at’ yoga. It is yoga with a particular direction and outcome in mind. It is based on assessment, knowing functional movement patterns and careful planning. Current evidence based medicine and sports medicine is confirming the value of many of the old yoga practices, such as breathing protocols (pranayama), meditation, non-sleep deep relaxation, visualisation and the use of postural exercises. Yoga is a technology and an ancient wisdom tradition that has always been about optimising mind-body performance.