Accessible Yoga School Blog
3 Ways to Make Pranayama More Accessible
by Jivana Heyman
1. Celebrate your breath.
If you’re breathing, you’re doing it right. Starting with this affirmation can completely shift our experience of breathing practices. On the...
3 Self-Study Prompts to Help You Tap Into a Realm of Infinite Possibilities
by M Camellia
This morning I woke up feeling chilly. I made myself a hot cup of coffee and went about my morning routine. Somewhere along the way, I set my coffee down, and when I next went to take...
Reimagining Everything: A Guided Meditation with kelley nicole palmer
"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...
Do you use possessive pronouns when teaching yoga?
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...
How does ableism show up in yoga practice and teaching?
"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...
Disruption as a Practice: The Responsibility of Yoga Teachers in Dismantling Systems of Oppression
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...
Redefining Success: A Dharma Talk on Resource Redistribution with kelley nicole palmer
"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...
3 Ways to Practice Sustainable Solidarity
“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...
Turn Your Beliefs Into Actions: Self-Study Prompts from kelley nicole palmer
"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...
What is Conscious Marketing?
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...
