The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga

By: Jivana Heyman

Narrated by: Jivana Heyman

Yoga teachers can become living examples of yoga in practice, and invite all students to join them on this transformational journey.

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. It is a source for information and inspiration to accompany teachers on their journey–whether they’re new or experienced.

In this book, 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.

Topics include: approaching teaching as a practice; considering power, consent, and trauma in yoga spaces; sharing yoga with disabled students, older adults, and those with larger bodies; making asana, pranayama, and meditation accessible to everyone; and adapting teaching methodology and sequencing.

©2023, 2024 Jivana Heyman (P)2024 Jivana Heyman

Beautiful Premise

I truly appreciate the content in this book, but it was not the greatest listening experience. Jivana has a gentle speaking voice, which is lovely, but in this context becomes sleepy and dull. He also says "quote, unquote" for every little thing, which is clunky and off-putting. It was difficult for me to appreciate what he was saying while being distracted by the incessant "quote, unquote" around so much of what he discussed.

Fantastic!

This is an amazing book! And I loved the author’s calm voice. I never wanted to end. I learned so much and loved listening to this book during my evening walks.