The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this final wrap up episode, Jivana offers an overview of his book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and highlights a few topics that are of particular importance to him. Whether you’ve read the book or not, this episode addresses many key elements in making yoga accessible for yoga teachers and yoga therapists.

Join Jivana as he quickly reviews all the chapters in his book and more, including:

1. What motivated Jivana to write this book
2. The connection between the book at the Accessible Yoga Training
3. His personal story and why he teaches yoga
4. What Accessible Yoga is
5. The importance of ethics in teaching yoga
6. Practicing the Yama’s as a yoga teacher
7. Humility as a teacher
8. Financial accessibility
9. Sequencing Accessible Yoga classes
10. Teaching subtle practices such as pranayama and meditation
    
    

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

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How does being a student of yoga translate into teaching yoga? Loving the practice and wanting to share it with others is at the heart of becoming a teacher. As a teacher, you also continue learning and evolving, deepening your own understanding and practice. This journey of teaching and learning is a continuous cycle that enriches both teacher and students.

In this podcast episode, Jivana talks with Kino MacGregor about her personal experience of becoming a yoga teacher, including the challenges she faced, the importance of maintaining a student’s enthusiasm, and the pivotal moments that shaped her path. 

Topics include:

1. Western media’s portrayal of yoga teachers
2. Physical performance vs. spiritual development
3. Overcoming insecurities and imposter syndrome
4. Kino’s upcoming book, Accessible Ashtanga
5. The purpose of tapas in yoga
6. Teaching yoga as service

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

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Kino MacGregor (she/her) is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut. She is a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. Kino is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and over 800,000 subscribers on YouTube and Facebook, Kino’s message of spiritual strength reaches people all over the world. She’s sought after worldwide as an expert yoga teacher and inspirational speaker. Kino is the author of four books, podcaster, and co-founder of Miami Life Center. 

Connect with Kino:

kinoyoga.com |  @kinoyoga

In yoga culture, teachers are often placed up on pedestals, creating an unequal power dynamic. So, what happens when teachers get down from the pedestal and learn alongside the student? When teaching is approached as a practice, a collaborative and intuitive relationship with the student can be formed and opportunities for growth discovered.  

Join Jivana Heyman and this episode’s guest, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, as they unravel the intricate layers of teaching yoga as a practice. Together they reflect on the role of wonder and curiosity in teaching, self-trust, and the value of sharing the sacred practice in community.

Topics include:

1. Countering dominant culture’s power hierarchies 
2. Cultivating humility and learning from mistakes
3. Intuition in teaching
4. Advice to new teachers
5. Trust, faith, and spiritual practice
6. Communing and building community 
7. Incorporating humor

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

www.jivanaheyman.com |  @jivanaheyman   |  facebook.com/jivanaheyman

Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her) is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer. Michelle teaches workshops and immersions and leads retreats and transformative experiences nationwide the focus on exploring embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Michelle is the author of Skill in Action, Finding Refuge, We Heal Together, published by Shambhala Publications, and A Space For Us, published by Beacon Press.

Connect with Michelle:

www.michellecjohnson.com |  @skillinaction

“Yoga is a destruction process. It's taking away all that stuff that we've picked up, and we thought is us and that we've just hung on to, and it's dismantling that.”  – Shanna Small

Society teaches us to seek external validation to feel complete. Yoga teaches us that we are already whole, full and complete. Through yoga, we can dismantle false beliefs and recognize the connection between suffering and the stories we create in our minds.

Join Jivana and podcast guest, Shanna Small, as they reflect on overcoming societal conditioning and trusting one's innate wholeness through yoga philosophy, beyond the eight limbs of yoga.

Topics include: 

1. The concept of wholeness
2. The distinction between pain and suffering.
3. Destruction of ignorance and mental modifications
4. Being our own guru
5. How yoga can help us address systemic problems
6. Spiritual bypassing and service
7. The teachings of Karma Yoga
8. The transformative power of understanding the Gita

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

www.jivanaheyman.com |  @jivanaheyman   |  facebook.com/jivanaheyman

Shanna Small (she/her) is a writer and yoga teacher who speaks to the intersectionality of yoga and social justice.  She has practiced Ashtanga yoga and studied the Yoga Sutras since 2001. Shanna finds joy in making yoga accessible for all. She is a contributor for Yoga International, OmStars, OmPractice and Embodied Philosophy. You can also find her online at Shanna Small Yoga. Shanna teaches trainings and workshops on diversity and inclusivity, the Yoga Sutras, and accessibility. She is a founding member of Yoga For Recovery Foundation, a non-profit that helps those recovering from addiction, trauma, and systemic oppression.

Connect with Shanna:

shannasmallyoga.com |  @shannasmallofficial

Teaching yoga is a great privilege and responsibility! With an ethical approach that includes compassion, respect, boundaries, and clarity, yoga teachers can honor the gift of yoga, exemplify the yoga teachings, and share their best selves with the world. 

In this podcast episode, Jivana and guest Judith Hanson Lasater talk about guidelines for ethical teaching, creating a relationship with students that recognizes their agency, and the interconnectedness of personal practice and life.

Topics include:

1. Embodying the Yamas and Niyamas
2. Kindness as the root of ethics
3. Boundaries and ethics
4. Personal agency of students in their yoga practice
5. Self-work and the personal journey of a yoga teacher
6. Judith’s new book “Teaching Yoga with Intention”

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

www.jivanaheyman.com |  @jivanaheyman   |  facebook.com/jivanaheyman

Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT, has taught yoga since 1971 in almost every state of the U.S. as well as on six continents. She is a founder of Yoga Journal magazine and the author of 11 books on yoga, the latest of which is Teaching Yoga with Intention (Shambhala, 2022).

Connect with Judith:

www.judithhansonlasater.com |  @judithlasater

What is the purpose of a yoga practice? This simple, but powerful inquiry, can help take us to the essence of yoga. When we go beyond technique and approach yoga as a philosophy, we honor this ancient tradition and form a deeper understanding of our practice as a purposeful act. 

Join Jivana and this episode’s guest, Indu Arora, as they delve into the delicate balance between tradition and innovation and inspire practitioners and teachers to approach yoga with sincerity and self-inquiry.

Topics Include:

1. Yoga as a philosophy beyond external techniques
2. Innovation and accessibility in yoga
3. The role of mentors and community
4. Addressing cultural appropriation, commodification, and capitalism in yoga
5. The subtle teachings of yoga
6. How yoga teachers can communicate the heart of yoga

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

www.jivanaheyman.com |  @jivanaheyman   |  facebook.com/jivanaheyman

Indu Arora (she/her) is a Yoga and Ayurveda teacher, mentor, and author, based in the U.S.. Indu has been sharing about Yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, and ayurveda for the past two decades worldwide. She is inspired by and taught Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga, Kashmir Shiavism, and Sivananda Yoga lineages. She has studied in a traditional Guru-Shishya parampara setting. Her core philosophy is “Yoga is a work-in and not a work-out.” She is the author of Mudra: The Sacred Secret (2015), Yoga: Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision (2005, 2019), and SOMA: 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care (e-book, 2020; updated hard copy, 2022).

Connect with Indu:

www.yogsadhna.com |  @induaroraofficial  |  facebook.com/InduAroraOfficial

In the early days of yoga, a student had to study for decades before becoming a teacher. Today, a person can become a yoga teacher with little time and experience. So how can teachers gain deep experience to be inclusive and authentic in their teaching? 

In this podcast episode, Jivana talks with Anjali Rao, who wrote the foreword for The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga. Anjali talks about what it means to be a yoga teacher and growing as a teacher through ongoing practice and study. Topics include:

1. Challenges and benefits of the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training framework
2. The value of lived experience in teaching
3. Celebrity culture in modern yoga
4. Humility and service in teaching yoga
5. The dynamics of the teacher-student relationship
6. Social media presence and teaching
7. Holding space for community through yoga teaching

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

www.jivanaheyman.com |  @jivanaheyman   |  facebook.com/jivanaheyman

Anjali Rao (she/her) is a yoga practitioner-educator offering a multidisciplinary approach to sharing the teachings of yoga, integrating history, storytelling and art. She is a cancer survivor, and Indian American immigrant. She serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Accessible Yoga Association and the host of The Love of Yoga Podcast. 

Connect with Anjali:

www.yoganjali.me |  @yoganjali

Our culture presents yoga as primarily a physical practice for flexible, thin, white bodies — and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Yoga is for everyone, and yoga teachers are truly on the front lines of a major trans­formation in the world. Yoga instructors hold in their hands the tools to change lives, and in turn, entire communities. 

The potential is really awe-inspiring. The question is: How are yoga teachers wielding that power? And how can they show up in a way that lifts people up and shows them their own beauty and potential? 

Join Jivana Heyman for an introduction to this limited podcast series and to his book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga. Topics include:

1. Why he wrote the book and how it’s related to his work.
2. How we can shift yoga culture.
3. Some general topics that he covers in the book, including yoga philosophy and adapting poses, and more.
4. His guest teachers and the way they are incorporated in the book.
5. His love of yoga teachers.

Check out Jivana’s new book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, and get more information about the book on his website.

Connect with Jivana:

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Jivana wraps Season 1 of the Yoga Revolution Podcast by reflecting on the writing, publishing, and promotional process he’s experienced over the past couple years. He shares about his history and experiences with both activism and yoga, including his first introduction to the practice (his grandmother), and how his connection to the practice has grown and changed throughout life. He also hints at some exciting offerings and happenings coming soon, including upcoming book clubs and forthcoming books, as well as where you can follow along with his work. Find the links below. Finally, Jivana reads a few sections from Yoga Revolution and offers suggestions for how to live our yoga practice authentically and connect our spiritual nature with our varied human experiences.

Learn more about Yoga Revolution by Jivana Heyman.

Order your copy of Yoga Revolution at Shambala, or wherever books are sold. 

Also by Jivana Heyman:
Accessible Yoga: Poses & Practices for Every Body (2019, Shambala)
The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body (2024)


Connect with Jivana:
www.jivanaheyman.com
@jivanaheyman
facebook.com/jivanaheyman
www.accessibleyogaschool.com
@accessibleyogaschool
facebook.com/accessibleyogaschool

As this season of the Yoga Revolution Podcast comes to a close, Jivana chats with Beth Frankl, the editor of his two books, Accessible Yoga andYoga Revolution, the book that inspired this podcast.

Beth is an Executive Editor at Shambhala Publications, where she has worked for more than 23 years. She and Jivana discuss the book writing and publishing process, including where and how to begin, and how to compare publishing models (e.g. self-publishing v. working with a traditional publishing company). Beth also shares about some of the inspiring teachers, thought leaders, and authors she has worked with over the years and how the book writing process can be reflective, therapeutic, and, at times, quite challenging. The two reflect on the beauty of the writer-publisher relationship and how it's a form of collaboration and spiritual practice over both the short- and long-term.

Learn more about Shambhala Publications.

Learn more about Yoga Revolution by Jivana Heyman.

Order your copy of Yoga Revolution at Shambala, or wherever books are sold. 

Also by Jivana Heyman:
Accessible Yoga: Poses & Practices for Every Body (2019, Shambala)
The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body (2024)


Connect with Jivana:
www.jivanaheyman.com
@jivanaheyman
facebook.com/jivanaheyman
www.accessibleyogaschool.com
@accessibleyogaschool
facebook.com/accessibleyogaschool