Accessible Yoga School Blog

"If we are going to move it forward, stop leaning into performative allyship, and really build solidarity and community in an authentic way, we’re gonna have to think about it from a new...

by Jivana Heyman

Our primary tool when teaching yoga is our language, and the words we choose are essential in sharing the heart of the teachings. Many of us have been trained to avoid...

"Our job as accessible yoga teachers is to see through the veil of ableism, to understand that yoga is something that is already accessible to everyone. The essential concepts of yoga are that we...

by Jivana Heyman

As yoga teachers, we need to help our students find safe and effective ways to practice whether it’s online or in person. One of the most helpful ways of doing this is to...

by Jivana Heyman

I’m always curious about the ways that the term “accessible yoga” is understood and translated by the yoga community. What I’ve noticed recently is that...

By kelley nicole palmer

There is this particular part of my way of working as a yoga teacher and coach that is part resistance, part deliberate dismantling, and part releasing the need to follow...

"The true success is that every person you come in contact with has what they need, and until we reach that, we haven’t really produced anything worthwhile or meaningful."

-kelley nicole...

“I want to invite you to start imagining possibilities outside of the 'right' way. Some of us can't imagine beyond what is current, what is normalized. The only way we shift this it to begin...

"Belief initiates and guides action—or it does nothing."

— Octavia E. Butler

My belief is in collective action. We are living an intertwined existence with every other being on...

Marketing has gotten a bad wrap. Systems like capitalism and white supremacy have us convinced that marketing is only one thing: manipulation to get someone’s money. 

Conscious Marketing...