Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga

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 these pages, 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 m