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Feb 2024
54m 53s

Making Your Yoga Teaching More Accessibl...

ANDREA FERRETTI
About this episode

It was such a delight to have Jivana Heyman back on the show to talk about his latest book, The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga. (You can listen to our first chat at yogalandpodcast.com/episode176).


The episode explores: What it means to be more collaborative in your teaching, how being more collaborative could help break down traditional hierarchical power dynamics that have led to teacher-student abuses in the past, the importance of overcoming impostor syndrome (especially if you don't think you look the part of the "typical" yoga teacher), his love of asana because of how accessible it makes the spiritual practice of yoga, and the importance of de-stigmatizing chair and bed yoga.


For shownotes, go to: yogalandpodcast.com/episode320


Jason's 2024 training schedule is up! You can find it at jasonyoga.com/schedule


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