In the first episode of season two, I talk with Jivana Heyman, author of Accessible Yoga and Yoga Revolution. Jivana started his yoga teaching career supporting communities with disabilities, HIV/AIDS, MS, and heart disease patients. He coined the phrase "Accessible Yoga" after creating the Accessible Yoga Training in 2013 and, as co-founder of the Accessible Yoga School, wants yoga teachers at a basic level of training to be able to teach a spectrum of abilities in the same class at the same time.
This is just one of the solutions he sees for changing the public perception of what a yoga teacher is. We talk about what, at heart, anyone is really practicing yoga for, and how Jivana wants to support those underserved and under-represented in modern yoga, which faces a fundamental problem in its lack of community.
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Sanskrit:
1. Sangha: community of like-minded seekers
2. Viveka: discernment
3. Karma yoga: performing actions as selfless service without attachment to the results
4. Pratipaksha bhavana: a practice of substituting opposite thought forms in the mind
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References:
2. Accessible Yoga, by Jivana Heyman
3. Yoga Revolution, by Jivana Heyman
4. Accessible Yoga Association
5. Jivana's cover story in Yoga Journal
6. Accessible Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training
8. Jivana's article on yoga teacher training in Yoga Journal
10. Yoga Sutras
11. Anjali Rao
12. Bhagavad Gita
14. M Camellia
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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