Accessible Yoga School
Online Courses
Earn continuing education credits while you level-up your yoga practice and teaching tools
Upcoming Courses
Race & Equity in Yoga: Disruption As a Practice
August 9 - 18, 2022 | 12 hrs
Tues & Thurs | 9am-12pm Pacific | 12pm-3pm Eastern
Instructor: Kelley Nicole Palmer
Get clear on your role in dismantling systems of oppression and activate your yoga practice for social justice. Start working toward the future you believe in with practical tools for self-study, dealing with uncomfortable conversations, and finding your focus.
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Accessible Yoga Training
September 12 - 28, 2022 | 38 hrs
Mon, Wed, Fri | 12pm-3pm Pacific | 3pm-6pm Eastern
Instructor: Jivana Heyman, Amber Karnes, and more
Complete our Accessible Yoga Training online. Learn how to design yoga classes where all students can practice together regardless of age, size, ability, or experience level from accessible yoga experts.
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Re-imagine It All: Centering Healing, Joy and Liberation
October 4 - 13, 2022 | 12 hrs
Tuesdays & Thursdays | 9am-12pm PST | 12pm-3pm EST
Facilitator: kelley nicole palmer
Re-imagine It All is an invitation to use an ever growing understanding of racial equity and social justice to evaluate the way you are upholding, enforcing and leaning into systems of oppression. In a facilitated virtual community, we will center self study and curiosity as keys to unlock our ability to imagine new solutions.
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Transcending Binaries:
Yoga, Gender & Embodiment
November 1 - 10, 2022 | 12 hrs
Tuesdays & Thursdays | 1:30pm-4:30pm PST | 4:30pm-7:30pm EST
Facilitators: Trans Yoga Project co-founders: Rebby Kern, Daniel Sannito, Puja Singh Titchkosky, M Camellia, Noha Arafa & Zel Amanzi
This training is a fresh, deeper take on a “trans inclusion 101” class, expanding beyond basic definitions and concepts and allowing practitioners of all genders to truly begin dismantling the binaries that are barriers to experiencing and teaching yoga as a bliss and liberation practice.
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Making Pranayama Accessible: Finding Ease & Safety with the Breath
December 1 - 15, 2022 | 7 hrs
Tues & Thurs | 2pm-3:30pm PST | 5pm-6:30pm PST
* 1 hour introductory session Thurs December 1st
Instructor: Jivana Heyman
Join Jivana Heyman for an exploration of pranayama, focusing on finding safe, welcoming, and fun ways to approach these subtle and powerful tools.
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Accessible Yoga Training
January 18 - February 3, 2022 | 38 hrs
Mon, Wed, Fri | 12pm-3pm Pacific | 3pm-6pm Eastern
Instructor: Jivana Heyman, Amber Karnes, and more
Complete our Accessible Yoga Training online. Learn how to design yoga classes where all students can practice together regardless of age, size, ability, or experience level from accessible yoga experts.
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Accessible Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training Online
Commencing early 2023
Facilitators: Jivana Heyman, M Camellia, and Accessible Yoga School faculty
This foundational training will help you build a teaching practice that equips you with the tools you need to share yoga with all your students, while celebrating their differences and individuality.
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Trauma & Yoga Series: Exploring Power, Privilege & Healing
'On Demand' access to recordings & resources from this series coming soon! Join our interest list to be the first to know when on-demand enrollment is open.
Facilitators: Sangeeta Vallabhan, Jenn Turner, Nityda Gessel, Hala Khouri, Mei Lai Swan, Kelly Marshall & Jivana Heyman
This is an seven-part series of workshops presented on the ways that trauma impacts different communities, and the role of yoga in addressing that trauma. Each week we’ll address a different aspect of the ways that trauma impacts specific communities, as well as best practices for sharing yoga in a trauma informed way.
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Introduction to Chair Yoga
5 week online course with live Q&A | 8 hours
Self paced, with new content delivered each week.
*Enrollment is currently closed but an interest list is forming
Instructor: Jivana Heyman
Join Jivana Heyman, the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, for a five-week workshop that will explore how to practice asana safely in a chair.
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Yoga & Activism
*Enrollment is currently closed but an interest list is forming
Instructor: Anjali Rao
This program integrates tenets of yoga philosophy, along with concepts from sociology, guiding participants to take an action-oriented approach so we can co-create diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities.
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Conscious Marketing:
Justice-Focused Digital Strategies for Yoga Teachers
*Enrollment is currently closed but an interest list is forming
Instructor: Tristan Katz
Learn to create marketing strategies that work with the time, skills, and knowledge you already have AND align with your values. This course will offer a deep dive into digital marketing through the lens of yoga and social justice. Throughout our time together, you’ll gain systems and techniques to grow your work while staying genuine, authentic, and engaged.
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What Our Students Are Saying
Wonderful and rich experience
“I'd recommend the Accessible Yoga Training to a friend because it is a wonderful and rich experience, thanks to the organizers and the speakers. Each day, the Training helps us to connect to the true essence of Yoga and of our being. I've found so many tools to teach Yoga to so different populations. This Training is so important to help everybody to have access to Yoga.”
-Gabrielle Auffret, Accessible Yoga Training Online Participant
Gave me relief and more ease
“My biggest takeaway / a-ha! moment in the Accessible Yoga Training was the moment I realized that we all are temporarily abled bodied. After watching one of the first video's here on the website I realized that this gave me relief and more ease. And it was so good to be around people with the same intentions. This has an enormous effect on how we learn and can stay open to what is presented.”
-Astrid, Accessible Yoga Training Online Participant
About Accessible Yoga School
Accessible Yoga School was founded in the summer of 2020 by Jivana Heyman and Amber Karnes. This online school will:
- Address gatekeeping in yoga by platforming the voices of underestimated and marginalized teachers
- Address issues of white supremacy in yoga in all of its manifestations: racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, cultural appropriation, and more
- Provide quality education around equity issues in yoga, including practical tools from trustworthy sources to inform your teaching practice
- Offer this education in an even more accessible format: 100% online
The Accessible Yoga School will bring you in-depth courses, mentorship programs, study groups, book clubs, and more, led by yoga educators from communities who embody and share the values of interconnectedness and liberation that are the heart of yoga’s teachings.
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