The Post Rugby Podcast

Alecs Donovan is former Ospreys player and Wales International who has recently retired to focus on running her two Yoga businesses Yogability and the Yoga Hub. She has been a Yoga teacher for over 5 years after getting into Yoga after rupturing her achilles and now teaches players from the Bristol Bears and also a number of professional and former professional players in Wales. Her Yogability method is targeted at helping athletes incorporate Yoga into their training regime combining Yoga with mobility exercises to improve their performance. She describes Yogability as ‘Yoga without the zen’.

In this conversation we talk about her journey in women’s rugby and some of the challenges and harsh realities of the sport. We then move onto talk about Yoga and how this practice helped her recover from a snapped achilles to representing her country and now to her teaching Yoga to some of the best players in the game to help with their mobility and also recovery from the demands of professional sport.

Huge gratitude to Alecs for sharing her story and shining a light on the powerful practice of Yoga. You can check Alecs out here on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/alecs_donovan1/

or visit her website here to get involved in a Yogability class by visiting her website here: 

www.yogability.fit

Finally, The Post Rugby Podcast would like to invite you to our Free Facebook Group - The Post Rugby Community to connect with other rugby players (current and retired) and like minded people to continue your journey to a happier and healthier life post rugby.

The time for raising awareness for improved physical and mental health in the game of rugby is over and the time for taking action is here. I hope you found some inspiration listening to the podcast today and are encouraged to take action by trying some of the things the guest talks about. See you next time :)