Making Your Yoga Teaching More Accessible with Jivana Heyman
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:30.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land. |
| 0:34.0 | Today my guest is Jivana Hayman. |
| 0:45.0 | Jivna is the founder of accessible yoga and the author of three books, |
| 0:49.0 | the newest of which is The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga, best practices for sharing yoga with every body. |
| 0:56.0 | As usual, I loved Jivina's most recent book and that's what we focus on today. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the second time I've had Jeevenna on the show and you can find |
| 1:06.3 | the first interview. It is episode 176 if you listen to this one and want to go back to |
| 1:10.8 | listen to that one. It's always great to have someone on for a second time because you both kind of loosen up a bit, you have a shared connection from the last time. |
| 1:21.0 | So we really went deep in this conversation. We talked about so many things, including |
| 1:27.2 | the importance of breaking down some of the hierarchical traditional power structures in yoga teaching and becoming a more collaborative |
| 1:35.2 | teacher. |
| 1:36.3 | We talked about his view of creativity in teaching and its connection to spirit. |
| 1:42.5 | We talked about his pet peeve about the word modification, |
| 1:45.0 | which I love hearing his take on that. |
| 1:49.3 | And it's just an all-around great conversation. |
| 1:51.9 | I love sharing his work with the world and I love the work that he does in the world. |
| 1:57.1 | Before we begin the interview, a quick bit of housekeeping. I have the schedule for |
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