Yoga for Runners: Improving Mobility, Recovery, and Performance

Help runners move, recover, and train with greater balance through practical, runner-focused yoga.

Running is repetitive and high-impact, and limited mobility, recovery, or movement balance can contribute to muscular imbalances, reduced efficiency, and overuse injuries. Yoga for Runners: Improving Mobility, Recovery, and Performance gives you a practical framework for using yoga to complement a running program. Across 11 modules, you will explore running biomechanics, planes of motion, major muscle roles, and common mobility restrictions and overuse patterns. The course connects that foundation to mobility, stability, balance, body awareness, recovery, and injury-prevention strategies.

Designed for certified health and fitness professionals who support runners, the course is especially relevant to personal trainers and yoga or group fitness instructors building runner-focused sessions. Illustrated handouts attributed to Rachel Browning reinforce guided video instruction on the hip flexors, calves and feet, hamstrings, glutes and outer hips, spine and breath, and sample sequences. You will examine active mobility, controlled movement, glute activation, foot and ankle function, core stability, and spinal mobility. The emphasis stays on practical application, from individual poses to short recovery flows, dynamic warm-ups, and complete yoga sessions.

Rachel Browning, the author of this course, is a wellness expert with over 20 years of experience as a Certified Health Coach, Personal Trainer, CMTC Certified Massage Therapist, and 500-hour Certified Yoga Teacher. She has worked with top brands like Equinox and Exhale, led corporate wellness programs, and taught yoga worldwide. Specializing in personal training, orthopedic exercise, and yoga, Rachel also mentors fitness professionals and helps launch successful gyms and studios.

Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Explain key physical demands, planes of motion, and muscles involved in running.
• Identify common mobility restrictions, muscular imbalances, and overuse patterns in runners.
• Select yoga poses that support hip, hamstring, foot, ankle, glute, core, and spinal function.
• Build runner-focused yoga sequences for warm-ups, recovery, and complete classes.