Accessible Yoga Association

 

Continuing Education 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 Continuing Education 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. 

August 2022: Environmental Justice & Yoga

This month, Accessible Yoga’s monthly programming focuses on yoga and environmental justice. Featuring presenters who center care for our planet in their work and teaching, these programs are designed to help us renew our connections to the earth and our natural rhythms, embody environmental justice, and to take right and hopeful action even as we face the myriad impacts of climate change.

Asana Class

Threads of Connection: Restoring Yourself and the Planet through Practice
Asana Class with Diana M. Hulet

Friday August 12th, 2022

4pm-5pm PDT (Los Angeles)
7pm-8pm EDT (New York)
(Replay available for registrants)

(Convert to your local timezone)

Our time on the mat is a place where the invisible landscapes within the body unfold, shimmer, and reveal themselves. From the outside, one might never know what is felt and sensed within each shape and breath. Connections become apparent as nervous systems downregulate and they extend beyond our identification with being an individual self. Environment justice is social justice. The emerging dialogue about climate, biodiversity, pollution and suffering can be overwhelming, and solutions rarely come from reactive minds.

In this hour long accessible yoga class, Diana will guide you through postures inspired by the natural world and allow time for contemplation and deep rest. Yoga serves as the invitation to inhabit the body again, and encounter a sense of belonging here on the planet. From this place, a real conversation can happen.

Discernment, or viveka, arrives with consistent practice, and presents the opportunity to study how each of us is implicated in environmental injustices. What has been hidden comes to clarity and when issues become seen, taking action is possible. For some, action will look like metta meditation and for others, getting active within local environmental justice movements. 

However we choose to engage our yoga, it is also imperative that we remember joy and let our gaze fall upon the mystery and wondrous aspects of being alive here and now. Diana will close practice with a guided meditation, and then open up a dialogue for discussing topics further or for any questions. 

Recommended props: 

  • blanket or cushion/chair for meditation practice, notebook, any other props for accessibility and comfort

Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum) 

August 2022 
Asana Class
Community Rate
$10

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August 2022
Asana Class
Sustainer Rate
$20

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August 2022
Asana Class
Supporter Rate
$30

Register

August Bundle:
Asana Class + Workshop

+ Community Forum
$20–$50

Register
Apply for a Scholarship
Ambassadors attend FREE (get details)

Workshop

Human Nature: Embodying Environmental Justice Workshop with Kendra Graves

Wednesday August 17th, 2022

9am-10:30am PDT (Los Angeles)
12pm-1:30pm EDT (New York)
(Replay available for registrants)

(Convert to your local timezone)

The pandemic pushed people living in urban centers into the outdoors — a safer space to gather, recreate and relax from the increased stress of enduring a global health crisis. These last few years has also seen an amplification of our awareness about the crisis of climate change.

Now more than ever, people are seeking to reconnect with nature, even as our environments have become places we both fear and grieve.

Thankfully, yoga gives us an opportunity to go beyond reconnecting with nature by teaching us to sense and feel our interconnection with the earth.

In this workshop, we’ll contemplate how yogic practices and principles can help us unite our spiritual, political and natural worlds. We’ll practice movement, stillness and inquiry to observe how we interact with earth's elements in our inner, social, built and natural environments. We’ll share ways we can embody and enact systemic and cultural change to realize justice and liberation.

Please bring along: something to write with, something to write on, and something from nature.

Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum) 

August
Workshop

Community Rate
$10

Register

August
Workshop
Sustainer Rate
$20

Register

August
Workshop
Supporter Rate
$30

Register

August Bundle:
Asana Class + Workshop
+ Community Forum
$20-$50

Register
Apply for a Scholarship
Ambassadors attend FREE (get details)

Community Forum

Environmental Justice & Yoga

Featuring Raeeka Yassaie, Ash Williams & Mary Paffard, hosted by Reggie Hubbard

Wednesday August 31st, 2022

12pm-2pm PDT (Los Angeles)
3pm-5pm EDT (New York)
8pm-10m BST (London)

(Replay available for registrants)

(Convert to your local timezone)

*The first 90 minutes of our Community Forum will be a panel discussion and Q&A with our presenters. We'll then host a 30 minute community 'mixer' where you can stay to network and connect with fellow community members.

This month, join experienced teachers and environmental advocates Raeeka Yassaie, Ash Williams and Mary Paffard, along with host Reggie Hubbard, for a Community Forum discussing yoga and environmental justice. Presenters will share their experience and expertise on the topic, discussing the interrelationships of climate justice, land back movements, and anti-racism work, grassroots organizing, and environmental justice as a spiritual practice. They will also offer a vital reframe of the earth as part of our collective body and offer ideas for supporting front-line activists through the practice and teaching of yoga.

The panel discussion will last 90 minutes, including some time for audience questions. Participants are invited to stick around after the panel concludes for a 30-minute social mixer and networking session, with the option to share their own experiences and meet other community members whose work centers environmental justice & yoga.

We are offering FREE registration for this event.

Register for FREE (All Welcome)
 If you'd like to make an optional 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) 

August
Community Forum

Community Rate
$10

(optional donation, or register for FREE via button above)

Register

August
Community Forum

Sustainer Rate
$20

(optional donation, or register for FREE via button above)

Register

August
Community Forum
Supporter Rate
$30

(optional donation, or register for FREE via button above)

Register

August Bundle:
Asana Class 
+ Workshop
+ Community Forum
$20-$50

 

Register
Apply for a Scholarship
Ambassadors attend FREE (get details)

August 2022 Program Bundle:
Environmental Justice & Yoga

Workshop + Asana Class + Community Forum

Bundle
Community Rate
$20

Register

Bundle
Sustainer Rate
$35

Register

Bundle
Supporter Rate
$50

Register

Bundle
Full / Partial
Scholarships

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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 2022, 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.

Learn More & Become an Ambassador
Apply for a Continuing Education Scholarship

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