Accessible Yoga Association
Monthly Programs
Monthley Programs are 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.
February 2022
Yoga of the Heart: Grief, Trauma & Healing
This month, Accessible Yoga’s monthly programming focuses on Yoga of the Heart. Featuring incredible teachers and presenters from our community who are routinely sharing their wisdom around grief, trauma, and healing, each offering promises to deepen our collective understanding of what it means to allow our whole selves, including our tenderest parts, to show up for our yoga practice.
Asana Class
Trauma-Informed Chair Yoga
Asana Class with Kamala Itzel Hayward
Friday, February 11th, 2022
12pm-1pm PST (Los Angeles)
3pm-4pm EST (New York)
(Replay available for registrants)
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This class is an offering to those who are living with the impact of trauma or stress. A traumatic experience can live in the body for years, making it difficult to regulate the nervous system and experience a sense of abiding peace. However, healing from trauma is possible. In this chair Yoga class, students will be invited to explore the path of healing the body-mind connection, practice tools that encourage the regulation of the nervous system, and explore the possibility of feeling more grounded and safe in their bodies and in the present moment. The class will be done entirely seated in a chair. There will be an opportunity for participants to lie down on the floor for the final portion of the class for those wishing to do so.
Recommended Props: This will be a Chair Yoga session, with the option to come to the floor for Yoga Nidra and closing the class. You might like something to your rest feet on if your feet aren't comfortably resting flat on the floor while seated in a chair.
Kamala Itzel Hayward (she/her)
Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum)
Workshop
Healing The Heart: Moving Together through Individual & Collective Grief
Workshop with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Sunday February 20th, 2022
9am-10:30am Pacific (Los Angeles)
12pm-1:30pm Eastern (New York)
(Replay available for registrants)
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We are moving through so much at this time. We've spent almost two years in a reconfigured state of being due to COVID-19, and the many other pandemics that have caused suffering for us for so long. It is vital that we have time to move, breathe, be in community with one another, and heal together. In this workshop, we will explore individual and collective grief, and how to heal the heart as we grieve. The session will also include meditation and some gentle movement, and invite you to tend your heart. All are welcome.
Recommended props: You might like to have a journal, a pen and some water close by, along with any props that will support you in feeling comfortable for meditation and gentle movement.
Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her)
Tiered pricing to reflect your financial situation.
Discounted Bundle available to attend all three events (Workshop, Class, and Community Forum)
Community Forum
Yoga of the Heart: Grief, Trauma and Healing
Featuring Shakira B. Bethea, Sangeeta Vallabhan & Molly Lannon Kenny, hosted by Ashley Williams
Friday February 25th, 2022
2pm-3:30pm PST (Los Angeles)
5pm-6:30pm EST (New York)
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Join experienced teachers Shakira B. Bethea, Sangeeta Vallabhan & Molly Lannon Kenny, with host Ashley Williams, for our February 2022 Accessible Yoga Community Forum, Yoga of the Heart: Grief, Trauma & Healing.
Presenters will share some of the wisdom they’ve gleaned through their own experiences with loss, grief, and processing. With an emphasis on the profound need to turn inward and approach your own heart with a spirit of radical authenticity, their sharing will invite us to remember that while there are no asanas that can directly counter grief, a holistic yoga practice can still help you foster radical acceptance and loving care for yourself in the face of personal or collective loss. The presenters will also talk about the importance of offering trauma-informed practices that support and benefit everyone.
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. As the topic of grief can be a tender one, we encourage attendees to approach this conversation from as resourced a place as possible. Feel free to bring a warm cup of tea, a journal, and your (always) whole heart.
Shakira B. Bethea (she/her)
Sangeeta Vallabhan (she/her)
Molly Lannon Kenny (she/her)
Ashley Williams (she/her)
We are offering FREE registration for this event.
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)
February 2022 Program Bundles
Yoga of the Heart: Grief, Trauma and Healing
Workshop + Asana Class + 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 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.
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