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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.

03/12/2026

Amma Fandiño is an Accessible Yoga Training study group mentor and also leads Yoga for Incarcerated Populations in our 50-hour foundational training. A Certified Integral Yoga and Accessible Yoga teacher, Amma’s passion is to share yoga with communities with challenges and conditions of vulnerability on a physical, mental and emotional level.

In her home country, Colombia, Amma has been dedicated to teaching cancer patients and their caregivers. She also currently teaches trauma-sensitive yoga in prisons in Bogota. She dedicates her efforts to provide a space that promotes empowerment, rehabilitation, and healing of those deprived of liberty, as well as supporting their addiction recovery processes.

Amma has contributed to the Accessible Yoga Program since 2015 and is a regional representative of the AY group in Spanish. As a Yoga Accessible trainer, she feels honored and fortunate to support the training of yoga teachers in the Spanish-speaking community.

🌟 The Accessible Yoga Training Online is now in session, and registration is still open! Learn more at the link in bio.

03/11/2026

Ann Swanson, yoga therapist and author of Science of Yoga, believes that scientific research on yoga is key for increased access and accessibility of the practice.

We're honored to host Ann's pre-recorded session, Science of Yoga, in our Accessible Yoga Training Online. Ann looks at which of yoga's benefits are actually backed by scientific research, and how to consider contraindications to yoga practices while you're teaching.

With a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health, Ann helps people relieve pain (like from arthritis or persistent back pain) through practical and accessible yoga and mindfulness practices.

She also enjoys educating about the fascinating science of yoga to spark curiosity and motivation for folks to practice more.

You can still sign up for the training and start today! Link in bio.

03/08/2026

Want to learn how to design fluid sequences that everyone in your class can enjoy? In the Accessible Yoga Training Online, guest faculty member Shanna Small will offer a workshop on adapting flow sequences for accessibility.

Shanna is a dedicated yoga educator with a commitment to social justice and accessibility and a passionate advocate for an inclusive and mindful yoga community. Don’t miss your chance to study with her.

The first session of the training is available on demand now. Start today at the link in bio!

[Photo of Shanna smiling and wearing a bright yellow tank top.]

03/06/2026

If you are holding space as a yoga teacher, there is no time like now to learn how to create q***r- and trans-affirming spaces. However, it takes more than just calling your classroom a “safe space.”

In the Accessible Yoga Training Online, we’re honored to host faculty member Tristan Katz for a workshop on what it means to hold complexities, challenge binary thinking, and truly create welcoming yoga spaces.

Tristan is a business consultant and equity-inclusion facilitator specializing in culturally competent marketing strategies and LGBTQ+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB) training and consulting. As a longtime student of social movements and social justice, Tristan’s work centers on values-focused marketing, the exploration of power and privilege, and the intersection between solidarity and entrepreneurship.

Start the training now at the link in bio.

[Photo of Tristan smiling and seated at a desk.]

03/05/2026

"'Neurodiversity-affirming yoga' is just yoga," writes Becky Aten , a neurodiversity advocate and yoga facilitator.

Becky also helps support behind the scenes... and is joining the upcoming Accessible Yoga Training Online as a faculty member!

In their workshop, Becky will demystify the language and concepts of neurodiversity, and discuss ways to affirm and support neurodiverse needs within the context of yoga practice. You'll deepen your understanding of the diverse ways neurodivergent folks think, feel, move, and connect with the world, and cultivate a neuro-affirming approach in your classes.

The 50-hour virtual training starts today! Payment plans are available with a special community rate!

[Photo and quote of Becky smiling in front of a body of water. They are wearing a black t-shirt with colorful text that says "Neurodivergent."]

03/04/2026

The Accessible Yoga Training Online starts tomorrow!

In this 50-hour virtual training, you’ll learn how to share the practice of yoga for real people with real, diverse bodies and experiences—rather than start with the idea of yoga as a set of physical practices that we should all aspire to do.

〜 Study with Accessible Yoga founder and director

〜 Access workshops with an incredible guest faculty offering diverse perspectives

〜 Tiered pricing & payment plans with a special community rate are available

〜 Replay access for 1 year

Hope you’ll join us! Link in bio to save your spot.

03/03/2026

There’s nothing we love more than learning how the Accessible Yoga Training Online continues to ripple out into the world through our amazing grads. 💛

If their stories spark something in you, this is your sign. Join Jivana Heyman and inspiring guest teachers for the next cohort—starting this Thursday!

🌟 Learn practical tools to make your classes and your space truly accessible
🌟 Connect with a global community
🌟 Grow your confidence as a teacher and leader

Payment plans are available, including a special community rate to help make this training accessible.

03/02/2026

What even IS Yoga? In our upcoming Accessible Yoga Training Online, Anjali Rao is sharing essential wisdom on yoga history, philosophy, and culture.

Anjali is the author of Yoga as Embodied Resistance, and offers critical insight into the Yoga stories and histories that have been obscured by Brahminism, heteropatriarchy and colonization. She brings a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating yoga philosophy and history, with storytelling, imagery and poetry.

Anjali is an Indian American immigrant, a cancer survivor and believes that a dedicated practice of yoga in all its expansiveness can alchemize and heal the world by creating ripples of change within and around us.

Don’t miss her workshops in the Accessible Yoga Training Online, which starts Thursday, March 5! Payment plans & tiered pricing are available.

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03/01/2026

Rest is revolutionary, and yet rest practices are not always accessible in the way they are taught. In the upcoming Accessible Yoga Training Online, you'll join a workshop with Tracee Stanley to learn how to make yoga's rest practices available to every student in your class.

Tracee is the author of Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self and the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Ta***ic teachings inspired by more than 30 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Ta**ra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters.

She is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, rest, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence.

🌟 The 50-hour Accessible Yoga Training Online with Jivana Heyman and guest faculty starts on Thursday, March 5!

🌟 Tiered pricing & payment plans with a special community rates are available!

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02/24/2026

We're honored to host Anti-Racism in Yoga, a workshop with Michelle Cassandra Johnson in our upcoming Accessible Yoga Training Online. Learn how to recognize and dismantle harmful systems of oppression so you can create an environment for all to thrive.

Michelle is an six-time published author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial equity consultant and educator, and intuitive and shamanic healer. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively.

🌟 The training begins on Thursday, March 5—payment plans & tiered pricing are available with a special community rate.

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http://www.accessibleyogaschool.com/

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