Health & Fitness
If you’ve ever thought that accessible yoga was all about tailoring the practice for older or less “able bodied” folks, you’re gonna wanna listen to this one. Maria and Chara talk with Jivana Heyman, teacher, activist and founder of Accessible Yoga. And in this conversation we learn why all yoga teachers have a responsibility to make yoga accessible and what that means we need to do both on the mat and off. Jivana shares what decades as an activist have taught him about people and pandemics and he leaves us with some deep questions that have changed how we think about and share the practice of yoga.We talked aboutHow online teaching supports accessibility.The overlap of epidemics, accessibility and social justice movementsHow can we take the philosophical teachings of yoga out of the academic realm and make them more practical and accessible.When social justice feels overwhelming, how yoga helps us identify what we can do.What is the practice of service?How yoga teachers can help their students to come into a place of safety and belonging to access the practices of yogaWhat it means to create safety and accessibility as yoga teachersWhy svadhyaya is how we make anything into yogaHow you can tell you are doing your practice.Why self care is service to yourselfRESOURCESThe first online version of the Accessible Yoga Training: https://www.accessibleyogatraining.com/coursesJivana’s book Accessible YogaEmbodying the Yoga Sutras Book by David Charlton and Ranju Roy Here's the podcast we did with themMichelle Cassandra Johnson. Her book Skill in Action. The podcast we did with her.Elements of Yoga: Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers & Students w/Chara Caruthers