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At The Heart of Yoga with Julie Smerdon
Julie Smerdon has spent more than two decades on the front lines of the yoga world, earning a reputation as a world-class educator and community builder. After years of working with some of the world's most inspiring teachers, creative thinkers, and heroic students, Julie brings these incredible humans to the table for an intimate look at their thoughts about life, about yoga, and about what lies at the heart of it all.
At The Heart of Yoga with Julie Smerdon
Jivana Heyman | Accessibility, Community & Wholeness
This was my first time ‘meeting’ Jivana Heyman. He’s the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organisation dedicated to increasing access to yoga, and to supporting yoga teachers. I first heard Jivana on Daniel Simpson’s podcast “Ancient Futures, and what he was saying resonated so deeply with me that I immediately ordered his latest book, “The Teachers Guide to Accessible Yoga.”
In this episode we chat about everything from his beginnings teaching yoga to AIDS patients during the peak of the epidemic in the 1990s, and how those students taught him that yoga, in the truest sense of what it is can happen in ANY body. His story is truly inspiring and his message is similar to mine: that by shifting cultural perception about yoga away from the perfect images we see on social media, we have a starting point for a yoga that can serve humanity.
Find Jivana:
Website: Accessible Yoga School
Book: The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga
Instagram: @jivanaheyman
Facebook: Jivana Heyman