On January 11th, 2024, Jivana Heyman held a book launch event to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body. We hope you enjoy this replay.
Jivana spoke about the book’s theme of aligning your teaching with the essence of yoga in order to expand the possibilities and creativity in your teaching, and was also joined in discussion by Rodrigo Souza.
The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga is designed to empower yoga teachers and yoga therapists with the tools they need to make their classes equitable and accessible to all students.
It’s a companion on the path of teaching for new and experienced teachers alike.
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
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.
-Â Matthew Sanford, author of Waking, founder of Mind Body Solutions
