Accessible Yoga: What is it? Who is it for? What are the benefits

Accessible Yoga is an inclusive practice that honours all people, all bodies, and all things. It adapts each yoga posture (asana) to the person in front of you. Every person is unique, their bodies, statures, and composition. There are many limiting factors that may affect your body, or even just the season that you are in that can affect your ability to practice yoga. This is the beauty in accessible yoga, it can meet you where you are. 

A few examples of who may want to practice accessible yoga. 

- you may sit at a desk all day (maybe on a couch all night)
- you may be suffering from an illness
- you may be a mom who carries and feeds their baby most of the day
- you may have balance issues
- you may be recovering from surgery or an injury
- you may be wheelchair bound
- you may be a senior who wants to move their body
- you may be a person who wants to try something new. 

Whatever it may bed, accessible yoga is here to support you. 

Accessible Yoga holds all the benefits of a traditional yoga practice. 
- improves muscle strength and endurance
- improves balance
- improves blood circulation
- Improves posture
- improves alertness of the mind
- helps to cope with stress
- improves lung capacity and aerobic conditioning
- improves motor function and control
- improves muscle rigidity by increasing flexibility

Accessible yoga can benefit any body, in any season, with any accommodations. The chair is there as a support, just like a bolster, a block, a strap and a blanket. 

If you are interested in trying an Accessible Yoga Class, Try It Here.

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