Self-paced 5-hour online course.
Unlimited access for flexible study
Eligible for 5 CEUs with Yoga Alliance
Practical ways to make yoga accessible
Learn how to adapt and make your classes, sequences, language and teaching spaces accessible and welcoming for those with different abilities, needs, ages and backgrounds.
Support, empower and inspire others
Facilitate a holistic approach that empowers, supports, and inspires practitioners to explore and adapt the practice of yoga to their own unique needs, intentions, and lifestyle.
Understand the role trauma plays
Learn how accessibility and inclusivity are directly related to trauma. Explore the principles of trauma-informed care and understand its significance in the yoga community.
In order to bring yoga to more people, to better understand and serve our students, and empower them to explore beyond the physical postures, we must dive into concepts of accessibility, inclusivity, and trauma. This course is specifically designed for yoga teachers who are ready to bring accessibility and inclusivity into their offerings and into the spaces in which they teach.
This course is packed with resources and practical tools on how to ensure your offerings are inclusive and accessible. You’ll learn how to adapt the physical practice of yoga to those with various disabilities. These include examples of seated, prone, and supine sequences, how to adapt Sun Salutations, how to incorporate adaptive and accessible components within a ‘regular’ Hatha or Vinyasa flow, plus a practice with an adaptive student.
You’ll learn how to ensure your cueing and language is inclusive, and how to make your workshops and retreats and the spaces in which you teach more accessible. You’ll understand how to adopt a holistic approach that empowers, supports, and inspires practitioners to explore and adapt the practice of yoga to their own unique needs, intentions, and lifestyle.
Teaching Accessible and Inclusive Yoga, with Laia Bové is eligible for 5 Continuing Education Credits with yoga Alliance.
You will learn...
... What accessibility and inclusivity means in yoga and why it matters.
... Inclusive language and verbal cues.
...Basics of trauma, resilience and trauma-informed yoga.
...How to adapt the physical practice of yoga for those with disabilities.
... Practical modalities to create accessible teaching spaces and workshops or retreats.
Meet your teacher:
Laia Bové is an E-RYT 500 teacher and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) . She teaches regular classes in the Tampa Bay area, as well as private classes, workshops, and retreats in the US and internationally. Laia is a lead teacher for the 200 hour Teacher Training at Sun Yoga Tampa. She also teaches yoga to adaptive athletes, and to elite, Olympic and Paralympic athletes from several countries including Spain, Canada, France, and the United States.