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Accesible Yoga Training


  • Down Under School of Yoga 1054 Beacon Street Brookline, MA, 02446 United States (map)

Accessible Yoga Training with Jivana Heyman

June 13-15, 2025

Friday, June 13th • 6:15pm-9:15pm
Saturday, June 14th • 1:30pm-8:30pm
Sunday, June 15th • 1:30pm-8:30pm

All sessions held at Down Under School of Yoga, Brookline

Want to learn the skills and tools needed to create integrated Accessible Yoga classes where students of different abilities can practice together?

Join the upcoming Accessible Yoga Training Online with Jivana Heyman and guest teachers!

In this 40-hour virtual program, you'll:  

  • Learn to design yoga classes where all students can practice together in a way that honors and celebrates people of all ages, sizes, abilities, and experience levels.

  • Take a deep dive into how to safely and appropriately adapt asana on the mat, chair, wall for a range of physical abilities. 

  • Explore the many ways that yoga can be adapted for students with disabilities or physical challenges, older adults, people with larger bodies, and more.

  • Learn how to make your classes welcoming to everyone, empower students with agency, and approach students in a trauma-informed way.

...and so much more!

Tiered pricing, payment plans, & partial scholarship are available.

Get details & sign up here

 

Jivana Heyman (he/him), C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings and supporting yoga teachers. He’s the author of Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body; Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion; and The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body.

Over the past 30 years of teaching yoga, Jivana has focused on welcoming all people to practice and celebrating our individuality and our differences. His work has focused on dismantling ableism in the yoga world, as well as emphasizing the intersection of yoga and social justice. His books, classes, and trainings support yoga teachers and yoga therapists in finding ways to bring creativity and collaboration into their teaching while still respecting the ancient yoga tradition.

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