Includes pre-recorded lectures:

• What Is Accessible Yoga?
  with Jivana Heyman
• Making Yoga Accessible
  with Jivana Heyman
• Adapting Asana
  with Jivana Heyman
• Working with Seniors
  with Jivana Heyman
• Common Medical Conditions
  with Jivana Heyman

Includes pre-recorded practices:

• 2 x 1-Hour Integrated
  Chair / Mat Sample Practices
  with Jivana Heyman (demonstrated from the chair and the mat)
• 20-minute Integrated
  Chair / Mat Sample Practice
  with Jivana Heyman
• 1-Hour Wheelchair Yoga Sample Practice with Rodrigo Souza
• 30-Minute Wall Practice for Balance with Jivana Heyman

Includes pre-recorded lectures:

• What Even Is Yoga?
  with Anjali Rao
• The Four Paths of Yoga
  with Jivana Heyman
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 
  with Jivana Heyman
• The Bhagavad Gita
  with Jivana Heyman
• Yoga & Social Change
  with Anjali Rao

Includes pre-recorded lectures:

• Foundations of the Science of Yoga with Ann Swanson
• The Why (Connection between Science of Yoga and Accessibility & Safety in Yoga)
  with Ann Swanson
  
• Science-Backed Benefits of Yoga
  with Ann Swanson
  
• Research on Safety
  with Ann Swanson
  
• Teaching Safely
  with Ann Swanson
  

Includes pre-recorded lectures:

• Disability Culture & Communication
  with Dani Anderson
• Intro to Queer & Trans Considerations in Yoga
  with M Camellia
• Race & Equity in Yoga
  with kelley nicole palmer
• Wheelchair Yoga
  with Rodrigo Souza
• Trauma Conscious Yoga & Race-Based Traumatic Stress
  with Nityda Gessel
• Teaching Yoga for People with Larger Bodies with M Camellia
• Creating a Culture of Consent with M Camellia
• Neurodiversity & Yoga
  with M Camellia 
• Trauma-Informed Teaching & Incarcerated Populations
  with Amma Fandiño
• Considerations for Mental Health
  with Maria Kirsten †
• Conscious Marketing
  with Tristan Katz

Our new hybrid (in-person & online) delivery of our Accessible Yoga Training combines the benefits of our in-person training (which was our pre-2020 format for this course) with our new online delivery, which we began to offer in 2020. 

Trainees undertake a 3-day (18 hour) in-person training, led by one of our Accessible Yoga Trainers. This offers an opportunity to come together in community in person, and cover the most practical components of the training. The schedule for these 3 days will focus on adapting asana for the mat, chair, wall and bed, and how to lead integrated (chair & mat) classes.

This upcoming in-person training will be led by Jivana Heyman, with guest presenters Alessandra Uma Cocchi and Rodrigo Souza, in Abruzzo, Central Italy, April 30 - May 2, 2024.

Upon enrollment in this hybrid training, our trainees also receive access to our online portal, which includes 22 hours of additional learning via pre-recorded lecture and practice videos, reading, and homework, including our downloadable PDF course manual.

Topics covered in the pre-recorded videos include Introduction to Accessible Yoga, Yoga Philosophy, Science of Yoga, and a series of lectures with special guest presenters including Disability Culture & Communication, Wheelchair Yoga, Trauma Conscious Yoga & Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Teaching Yoga for People with Larger Bodies, and more.

Trainees will have a whole year of access to the online portal to work their way through the pre-recorded content, which can be commenced prior to the in-person training dates, but doesn't have to be completed in full before the live training begins.

After trainees have completed their in-person training, and all of the pre-recorded materials, they can complete a feedback survey about the course via our online portal, and request their certificate of completion for the course (40 hours).

All props are provided by our host studio (mats, chairs, bolsters, blocks, straps, blankets). 

We recommend bringing a device or materials for note taking.

The course manual is provided as a digital download (PDF) within our online course portal. To be as environmentally conscious as possible, hard-copy printed manuals won't be provided. If it is more accessible for you to work from a hardcopy manual, you are welcome to print one copy for your personal use.

If you are enrolled in the course and choose to print your manual at a professional print shop and require written permission (as our manual is a copyrighted document)  please contact us and we can provide this.

Yes. The ‘Lido d’Abruzzo’ Holiday Resort is a wheelchair accessible venue. For further details about our training venue, visit: www.villaggiolidodabruzzo.it

No, there are no prerequisites and anyone can join us! However, if you have completed a 200-hour training prior to attending our trainings, you will become a Certified Accessible Yoga Teacher.

This 40-hour training alone is not enough to become a certified yoga teacher. If you are interested in teaching yoga but have not already completed a 200-hour teacher training, we recommend that you do so in addition to completing this course.

Part of the requirements for certification will be watching a series of pre-recorded videos. You can review these before the in-person training starts, or anytime before you request your certificate upon completion of the course.

There are no prerequisites and anyone can join us! However, if you have completed a 200-hour training prior to attending our trainings, you will become a Certified Accessible Yoga Teacher.

This 41-hour training alone is not enough to become a certified yoga teacher. If you are interested in teaching yoga but have not already completed a 200-hour teacher training, we recommend that you do so in addition to completing this course.

This training is worth 41 contact hour CEUs. This includes 18 hours of in-person training (over 3 days) and 23 hours of self-paced pre-recorded lectures and practices with accompanying resources, homework tasks and required reading. Trainees receive 1 year of access to review online materials and complete course requirements to request their certification.

Attendance at the full 3-day (18 hour) in-person component of the training is required to receive your certification.

If the live training dates / times / location aren't suitable, we recommend checking out our completely online Accessible Yoga Training option, with live, online training via Zoom and additional pre-recorded content. (Please note - our Accessible Yoga Training Online option is taught in English only).

Yes. This training is worth 40 contact hour CEUs. Eligible yoga teachers will earn CEUs through Yoga Alliance. Yoga therapists will earn CEUs through the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Upon completion of the course requirements, you will receive a downloadable certificate you can submit for credit.

Your student portal is web based and can be accessed through any internet browser.

You will have access to the online student portal for 1 year from your enrollment date to access and review the pre-recorded content and resources. You will be able to download your course manual (PDF) to keep forever. 

The videos from the pre-recorded component of the training and manual are for your personal use. We ask that you don't share them with anyone who hasn't enrolled in the course. Each of our trainers often share wonderful free resources with overlapping information, and we encourage you to share those widely, or encourage friends / colleagues to take an Accessible Yoga Training if they might be interested in this content.

For our hybrid-delivery Accessible Yoga Training we offer sliding scale equity pricing.

The course fee is €730-€920 sliding scale.

For full course pricing details please click here.

Early Bird discount available for enrollments made by April 15th, 2024.

*Discounted rate available for those with certified disability and disadvantaged conditions

*Discounted rate available for previous Accessible Yoga Training graduates

Please click here for further details about our tiered pricing model.

A special discounted rate available for those with certified disability and disadvantaged conditions.

For full course pricing details please click here.

Our hybrid-delivery Accessible Yoga Training refund policy for our Central Italy (April-May 2024) programme is as follows: 

• Full refund for cancellations by March 31st, 2024.
• 50% refund for cancellations between April 1st and April 29th, 2024.
• No refund for cancellations after the Training starts.
• In case of cancellation, credit can be used for future trainings.
• Download / access of digital contents will annul any right to refund.

If you have any questions about the course, please contact Uma, at [email protected].