Accessible Yoga Association
Monthly Programs
Workshops | Asana Classes | Community Forums
Eligible for CEUs through Yoga Alliance & IAYT.
Replays will be made available for those who cannot attend live. Captions available.
Organized around a monthly theme, our monthly programs offer professional education for making yoga accessible to under-resourced and underserved communities as well as addressing other obstacles to accessibility. Our programs include a monthly Workshop, Asana Class, and Community Forum. We also offer podcasts, newsletters, social media posts, and blog posts related to our monthly themes.
Learn
The Workshop focuses on detailed educational information. Come prepared to learn an overview of the theme and learn practical application skills for working with the community or area of focus.
Practice
The Asana Class offers a sample class with safe and effective practices for the community or area we are focusing on.
Networking
The Community Forum offers an opportunity for professional networking in the area we are focused on. This includes a discussion of best practices, educational referrals, and networking with other yoga professionals.
January 2022: COVID & Yoga
Asana Class
What we CAN do to help ourselves recover from Long COVID
Asana Class with Suzy Bolt
Friday, January 14th, 2022
9am-10am PST (Los Angeles)
12pm-1pm EST (New York)
5pm-6pm GMT (London, UK)
(Replay available for registrants)
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Suzy Bolt has been teaching the Long Covid community for over 15 months, runs a large facebook group and has a Zoom recovery programme set up in Sept 2020. This asana class will explore the main issues that teachers should be aware of in their Long Covid students and the need for simplicity, repetition and different levels of activity. A workshop-style class for teachers and students alike.
Recommended Props: Please have cushions, a bolster if you have one, a belt/scarf/tie, a comfortable surface to work on and some water on hand.
Suzy Bolt (she/her)
Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum)
Workshop
Yoga for COVID: Recovery and Prevention through Pranayama and Restorative Asanas
Workshop with Monisha Raja
Monday January 17th, 2022
2pm-3:30pm Pacific (Los Angeles)
5pm-6:30pm Eastern (New York)
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Health challenges like COVID are real, and Yoga is a powerful tool that we can make use of in our self care as we weather these storms. This workshop will explore the healing potential of Yoga, through the mechanics of proper breathing and yogic proning postures.
Monisha's own personal experience has informed her in creating a class for COVID patients and all who want to strengthen their immunity, maintain optimum pulmonary health and combat infectious diseases. Modern science is now giving us the language to understand this ancient wisdom better and we will touch on the science that supports these practices. Yoga helps us to not simply survive, but guides us to self-directed thriving.
This workshop will be experiential as well, so please come prepared with props for your practice.
Recommended props: A book and pen if you'd like to take notes. For the practice we will need some cushions, yoga bricks if available, blankets or quilts, eye pillow, a yoga belt or long scarf, and a folding chair or simple dining chair without armrests.
Monisha Raja (she/her)
Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum)
Community Forum
COVID & Yoga
Featuring Dr. Anita K. Patel, Steven Inghram & Wolf Terry, hosted by Anjali Rao
Friday January 28th, 2022
3pm-5pm PST (Los Angeles)
6pm-8pm EST (New York)
(Replay available for registrants)
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Join experienced teachers Dr. Anita K. Patel, Steven Inghram and Wolf Terry, with host Anjali Rao, for our January 2022 Accessible Yoga Community Forum on yoga in the age of COVID-19. The panelists will share their knowledge and experiences of teaching yoga through the pandemic, as well as how to best serve students who are recovering from COVID. They will also discuss the intersections of science and spirituality that the pandemic has presented: finding a middle ground between the two in a community that tends to value holistic approaches to health and medicine, debunking common myths and pseudoscientific information that has been propagated by yoga and wellness influencers, and vaccination as an act of ahimsa, including advice on how to approach conversations with community members who are vaccine-hesitant.
As part of this discussion, we invite you to ask questions, share your own work and wisdom, and network with other yoga teachers and organizations. We realize this is a sensitive topic and that people have strong opinions. We hope that you can resource yourself during this conversation so that it can be productive and useful.
Dr Anita K. Patel (she/her)
Steven Inghram (they/he/she)
Wolf Terry (she/her)
We believe that this discussion is incredibly valuable, and vital, to the health and wellbeing of our global community, and are therefore offering attendance to all for free.
If you'd like to make a donation to support the programming that the Accessible Yoga Association (which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) offers, tiered pricing registration options are also available below.
We also offer a Discounted Bundle option to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum)
Equity Pricing, Ambassadors & Scholarships
We recognize that financial barriers to access are just as real as physical ones. As an organization committed to equity and promoting financial accessibility, we've created three pricing tiers for each of our scheduled community events. If you do not see a tier that reflects your financial situation, you're invited to apply for a scholarship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Accessible Yoga Ambassadors are invited to attend all of our scheduled programming for FREE. If you would like to attend multiple Accessible Yoga Associate events in 2021, becoming an Ambassador offers you the best price. Sign up today to make your first monthly or annual sustaining contribution to Accessible Yoga (as low as $9/mo. or $108/yr.) and immediately gain access to the free registration link OR register for a single event (below).
Current Ambassadors should log in to their Ambassador dashboard to access their special registration link.
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