The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body offers support and guidance for yoga teachers and yoga therapists to deepen their teaching skills and make their classes appropriate, useful, and effective in this moment.
Jivana Heyman, author, teacher, and yoga therapist with nearly 30 years of experience, shares skills and techniques through real-life scenarios, wisdom from guest teachers, yoga philosophy, and deep reflections that are directly applicable to yoga teachers today.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have your yoga teacher celebrate your differences? It would bring validation, a sense of being seen, and a feeling of belonging. It would lay the groundwork for transformational acts of self-acceptance and self-love.
JIVANA HEYMAN
An illuminating path for teaching yoga that can function as a living crucible for social change and social justice and that weaves a conception of yoga that authentically expresses the values of inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility.
- Matthew Sanford, author of Waking, founder of Mind Body Solutions
Most yoga teachers I know are incredible people who are truly dedicated to the practice and want to serve with their whole heart (and I love you for that!).
This book is a message of hope that comes out of my gratitude for all of your service.
JIVANA HEYMAN
Traditional yet fresh, respectful yet innovative, Jivana has written a book that welcomes ALL.
- Kathryn Budig, best-selling author, founder of Inky Phoenix Press & Haus of Phoenix
The Teacher's Guide To Accessible Yoga: Chapter Outline
Part One: Preparing to Teach
1. Teach What You Love
2. These Great Vows: Ethics for Teachers
3. Beyond the Eight Limbs of Yoga
4. Teaching as a Practice
Part Two: Teaching Asana
5. Power & Consent
6. Creating Accessible Offerings
7. Making Yoga Accessible
8. Making Asana Accessible
Part Three: Teaching Subtle Practices
9. Trauma-Sensitive Teaching
10. Teaching Shavasana
11. Teaching Pranayama
12. Teaching Meditation
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Featured photos on this page by Sarit Z. Rogers, from A Teacher's Guide To Accessible Yoga: Best Practices For Sharing Yoga With Every Body, and Yoga Revolution: Building A Practice Of Courage & Compassion, by Jivana Heyman
About The Author
Jivana Heyman (he/him), C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of the Accessible Yoga Association, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings. He’s the author of Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body, Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion (Shambhala Publications), and The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body (January 2024).
Jivana coined the phrase, “Accessible Yoga,” over ten years ago, and it has now become the standard appellation for a large cross section of the immense yoga world.
He brought the Accessible Yoga community together for the first time in 2015 for the Accessible Yoga Conference, which has gone on to become a focal point for this movement. Jivana is also the creator of the Accessible Yoga Training and the co-founder of the online Accessible Yoga Training School with Amber Karnes, which is a platform for continued education for yoga teachers in the field of equity and accessibility. They also created the Accessible Yoga Podcast in 2020 (now The Love Of Yoga Podcast, hosted by the Accessible Yoga Association and Anjali Rao).
Over the past 25 years, Jivana has led countless yoga teacher training programs around the world, and dedicates his time to supporting yoga teachers who are working to serve communities that are under-represented in traditional yoga spaces.
Connect with Jivana:
www.jivanaheyman.com | @jivanaheyman | facebook.com/jivanaheyman
