Accessible Yoga

Accessible Yoga At Accessible Yoga we envision a world where everyone has access to the teachings of yoga. Contact info@accessibleyoga.org for more info!

Accessible Yoga offers a range of programs seeking to make yoga available to everyone. We have Accessible Yoga Ambassadors, Community Forums, and the Accessible Yoga Conference.

In so many ways, aging is a blessing and our yoga practice can truly flourish as we grow older. But it can be challengin...
10/08/2025

In so many ways, aging is a blessing and our yoga practice can truly flourish as we grow older. But it can be challenging to find reliable information about how to share and practice yoga in a way that supports aging bodies and minds through the transitions that arise with each decade.

In Yoga for Older Adults, our 21-hour on-demand training, Jivana Heyman offers the fundamentals of serving older adults from the perspective of the koshas. You’ll also learn specialized topics from expert guest teachers.

🍁 Now through this Friday, October 10, save 20% with code FALL2025 🍁

Sessions with :
- Working with Our Aging Bodies
- Expanding Energy & Breath as We Age
- Our Aging Minds
- Creating Appropriate Practices for Older Adults
- Eternal Awakening

Guest Teacher Workshops:
- Yoga & Health Care: Supporting Older Adults with Eve Adler
- Mental Health, Dementia & Grief: A Decolonized Perspective with Ekta Hattangady
- Building Strong Foundations for Easeful Aging with Carol Krucoff
- Empowering Older Adults with Reduced Mobility Through Asana Practice with Jess Geevarghese

Plus, Practices for Older Adults:
- An Ayurvedic Menopause with Kallie Schut
- Yoga for Arthritis with Dr. Steffany Moonaz
- Yoga for Post-Stroke Recovery with Sunny Barbee
- Chair Yoga for Stability & Focus with Liz Oppedijk

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Rest is an essential practice for everyone, especially for people who are marginalized and are dealing with systemic str...
10/07/2025

Rest is an essential practice for everyone, especially for people who are marginalized and are dealing with systemic stressors. However, many people find restorative yoga challenging, whether it’s because of trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, lack of comfort, or accessibility.

In our 20-hour on-demand online series, Restorative Yoga Series: Making Rest Practices Accessible, we’ll examine how everyone can benefit from the practice of rest.

This series features a diverse and dynamic group of presenters who will look at restorative yoga in a broad and inclusive way:

Tamika Caston-Miller
Indu Arora
Katie Blecker
Shawn J. Moore
Rodrigo Souza
Shannon Kaneshige
Tejal Patel
Theo Wildcroft
Arturo Peal
Jivana Heyman

🍁 Now through Friday, October 10: Save 20% with code FALL2025 — learn more about the series at the link in the first comment! 🍁

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Chair Yoga is revolutionary because it makes the practices of yoga available to so many people!Whether you're a teacher ...
10/07/2025

Chair Yoga is revolutionary because it makes the practices of yoga available to so many people!

Whether you're a teacher looking to make your classes more accessible or a student wanting to adapt your practice, our on-demand course Chair Yoga for Everyone is for you.

🍁 Now through Friday, October 12, save 20% with code FALL2025 🍁

In this 17-hour course with and expert guest teachers, you'll learn:
- Building strength and flexibility through chair asana
- Sharing the heart of the yoga teachings when leading a chair practice
- Nervous system regulation through skillful breathing exercises
- Cultivating focus through meditation

Special guest workshops include:
- Wheelchair yoga and yoga for those with disabilities with Rodrigo Souza
- Chair yoga for older adults with Jacquie "Sunny" Barbee
- Therapeutic chair yoga practices with Melissa Shah
- Creative and adaptive teaching with Karen James

Link to start now in the first comment!

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Join us to celebrate ’s groundbreaking new book! 🔥In Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, & Sa...
10/03/2025

Join us to celebrate ’s groundbreaking new book! 🔥

In Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, & Sacred Resilience in Yoga History, Anjali illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Her research explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation.

This FREE special launch event will feature a conversation between Anjali and Dr. Alka Arora .arora_phd, professor of Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Plus, if you join live, you could win a copy of Anjali’s book or a spot in her upcoming reading circle!

Details:
- Friday, October 17
- 1-2pm Pacific
- Hosted by at

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Have you explored Accessible Yoga’s catalog of on-demand online programs? Now’s the perfect time!🍂 For a limited time, s...
10/02/2025

Have you explored Accessible Yoga’s catalog of on-demand online programs? Now’s the perfect time!

🍂 For a limited time, save 20% on any of our on-demand courses and workshop series—just use code FALL2025 at checkout.

{The fine print: This offer is available through Friday, October 10. Coupon code may be applied to any pricing tier. Applies to new enrollments only. Cannot be used in conjunction with scholarship offers or other discounts.}

Our collection of high-quality yoga education—which centers accessibility and inclusivity and is led by Jivana Heyman and expert guest teachers—includes topics such as:

🍂 Chair Yoga
🍂 Yoga for Older Adults
🍂 Cultivating Neurodiversity-Affirming Spaces
🍂 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Experiences
🍂 Much more!

Plus, every program offers continuing education credits and content access for one year!

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the practical tools you need to share the practice with every body.

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The Accessible Yoga Training Online with and special guests starts Friday!In our upcoming training, you’ll learn to des...
09/24/2025

The Accessible Yoga Training Online with and special guests starts Friday!

In our upcoming training, you’ll learn to design yoga classes where all students can practice together in a way that honors and celebrates people of all ages, sizes, abilities, and experience levels.

The training is live with pre-recorded sessions, and you’ll have one year with the material.

3 tiers of payment plans—with a special community rate—are available!

Link in bio to save your spot!

⭐️ Our all-star faculty:
Jivana Heyman
Rodrigo Souza
Tamika Caston-Miller
Nityda Gessel
Shanna Small
M Camellia
Anjali Rao
Dani Anderson
Tan Hubbard
Tristan Katz
Ann Swanson
Amma Fandino

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“If you’re looking for yoga training that goes beyond poses and breathing techniques to address the more profound questi...
09/21/2025

“If you’re looking for yoga training that goes beyond poses and breathing techniques to address the more profound questions of how we practice and teach with consciousness and respect, this is it.”

Thanks to our recent training participant for the praise. 🙏🏼

Our 50-hour Accessible Yoga Training Online starts on Friday!

Details:
- September 26 - November 7
- Tuesdays & Fridays
- 10am-12pm PT
- Tiered pricing & payments plans available with a special community rate!

Save your spot at the link in bio.

What makes our 50-hour training unique? Swipe to check it out for yourself!Our incredible faculty delivers a comprehensi...
09/20/2025

What makes our 50-hour training unique? Swipe to check it out for yourself!

Our incredible faculty delivers a comprehensive curriculum that will offer you the skills to create accessible practices and spaces.

Accessible Yoga is more than learning variations of postures, although you’ll receive that too; this training is valuable because it offers the *why* behind the decisions you will need to make as a teacher committed to sharing yoga with every body in the room.

The training starts Friday, but you can access pre-recorded content this weekend.

Link in bio to get started!

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The way postures like headstand and handstand are shown on social media make inversions not only feel out of reach, but ...
09/09/2025

The way postures like headstand and handstand are shown on social media make inversions not only feel out of reach, but can discourage us from practicing them at all. This mainstream image of yoga as acrobatics can dampen our curiosity about the purpose and benefits of inversions—which can be incorporated into adaptive practice in a way that’s accessible, safe, and gentle.

Inversions offer tremendous benefit, but also can be potentially harmful if not practiced safely. They impact so many systems of the body, including the cardiovascular system and the immune system. In particular, people with blood pressure regulation issues need to be thoughtful when turning their body upside down.

In our upcoming free 60-minute workshop, Accessible Yoga founder, , will discuss:

- The physical and energetic benefits of inverted asana

- The challenges and contraindications of inversions

- How to make inversions more accessible to all of your students

It takes place next Tuesday, September 16.

Save your spot at the link in the first comment!

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How are we wielding the power and responsibility we have as yoga teachers? In our upcoming 50-hour Accessible Yoga Train...
09/04/2025

How are we wielding the power and responsibility we have as yoga teachers? 

In our upcoming 50-hour Accessible Yoga Training Online, you’ll learn all sorts of tools to make yoga available to every body—how to adapt asana, poses that help build strength and flexibility, creating mixed-level classes, trauma-sensitive principles, and much more. 

But we’ll also explore *how* we use our skills and knowledge to create experiences that uplift our students and communities. 

The training begins on September 26. Hope you’ll join us!

We can't wait! 🔥Join us for the online book launch for Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, an...
09/03/2025

We can't wait! 🔥

Join us for the online book launch for Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History with author Anjali Rao!

In her groundbreaking new book, explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. Her work illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga.

What you can look forward to at the FREE virtual launch party:

🔥 Host will introduce Anjali and ask her questions about the book

🔥 Anjali will offer a short reading

🔥 Community Q&A

🔥 Plus, the event will include two giveaways: One lucky live attendee will receive a FREE copy of the book, Yoga as Embodied Resistance, and another live attendee will receive access to Anjali's reading circle!

WHEN: Friday, October 17 at 1pm Pacific

Save your spot at the link in the first comment!

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We don’t want you to miss out...If you’re planning on signing up for the Accessible Yoga Training Online, now’s the time...
08/18/2025

We don’t want you to miss out...

If you’re planning on signing up for the Accessible Yoga Training Online, now’s the time!

The deadline for our Early Bird Discount Pricing as well as our extended 6-month payment plan is tomorrow!

This is your chance to save $100 on this 50-hour training.

Link in bio!

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