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:

1. Accessible Yoga School

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 

7. Introduction to Chair Yoga

8. Jivana's article on yoga teacher training in Yoga Journal

9. Cheri Clampett

10. Yoga Sutras

11. Anjali Rao

12. Bhagavad Gita 

13. The Trauma of Caste

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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