Embody Yoga’s Roots Teacher Registry
Sol Le Rouxhe, he/they
France
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Yoga for Accessibility in a Queer Dance Space
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In this project I go over my experience of addressing accessibility issues that I noticed at a queer dance retreat and the yoga class that I taught to spark conversations around accessibility.
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Rachelle Balagtas, she/they
Jersey City, NJ
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Becoming Kapwa Sangha: A Yoga Circle for Filipinx to Connect & Cultivate Kapwa
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A yoga workshop outline for Filipino and Filipino-American peoples, blending yoga with learning about Indigenous beliefs.
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Instagram & Yoke Yoga: @rachelleabalagtas
www.rachellebalagtas.com
Sahar Soflaee, she/her
Kerman, Iran
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Yoga Cards for Meditation based on poetry [trauma-informed]
This project is focused on creating a set of yoga cards (11 cards in total), available both as a digital product and a physical deck. Each card will contain a meditation inspired by my own poetry and personal writings.
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s.soflaee95@gmail.com
IG: @saharsoflaeeyoga
Constina Alston-Howley, she/her
Brooklyn, NY
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The intention of the project is to uplift black voices / experiences in yoga.
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Facebook & IG: @authentic_flowbk
Parisa Shirazi Chavoya, she/her
Milwaukee, WI USA
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My project shares about my background and how my 300hr program provided me with the tools to live out yoga's roots through my personal life and my professional work as a yoga and sound healing guide. This program encouraged me to organize other wellness practitioners also join in on the fight for social justice resulting in the founding of a wellness collective called Milwaukee Wellness for Palestine.
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Insta - @parisayogashala
Nikki McMaster-Martorano, she/her
Boston, MA, USA
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This year I had the honor of implementing a yoga program at the elementary school I teach at. Using the embrace yogas roots module, I am actively developing a dynamic curriculum that supports diverse learners and honors yogas roots!
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helloterraflow@gmail.com
https://terra-flow.mailchimpsites.com/
@NikkiMcMaster_
@CoachMacBoston
@Terra.Flow.Yoga
Carly Joelle Bennyhoff, she/her
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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Sharing yogasana with Bhav Brigade, a collective of pop-up donation-priced yoga offerings where 25% of proceeds benefit local non-profits. Classes are taught in accessible, hierarchical language in free community spaces. Also, building an online yoga studio, Mindful Mornings, where live & instant replay classes happen 5 days/week (January 2026 will be our 5 year anniversay!).
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​@createmindfulmoments
Kate Kirby, they/them
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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I couldn’t see myself reflected in any of the existing yoga studios in my city. So I decided to take it upon myself to make a yoga space I envisioned after the deep learning I experienced in the 300 hour training.
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Thethirdspacestudio0@gmail.com
thethirdspace.offeringtree.com
@thethirdspacestratford
Navreet Pabla, she/her/they
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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If My Heart Could Talk: A Guided Nidra Experience
If My Heart Could Talk' is a growing movement of heart healing, inner child liberation, and ancestral remembrance: rooted in yoga, storytelling, and somatic truth. It transforms my book into an embodied experience, where each chapter becomes a practice of returning to the body. The five chapters are: "dear mother, dear father, dear ancestors, dear inner child, and dear heart." This work creates a shared place to be seen, to feel deeply, and to release what generations carried without words.
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Rosie Hopper, they / them​
East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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My project centered Hindic and yogic traditions to bring participants healing and enlightenment through the sound of live musical offerings on bansuri, harmonium, chimes and singing bowls, along with the chanting of several yoga sutras of Patanjali in English and Sanskrit.
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Elizabeth Ericson, she/her
Rockville, Maryland
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This summer I launched Intuitive Walking, a class focused on mindful svadhyaya and exploring students’ movement and walking samskaras. It was explicitly welcoming to people in larger bodies, trans and nonbinary people, older people, neurodivergent people, and those with chronic health conditions. Next year I will be teaching Intuitive Walking in addition to a couple other inclusive courses. My goal is to provide a psychologically healthy place for people to move and connect.
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Klaudia Paletta, she/her/Ella
Ventura, California
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Para Doña Yoga, Spanish yoga for 55+ latino community
Our Para Doña Yoga program offers chair yoga classes for Spanish-speaking adults aged 55 and above. These classes center a population that is often excluded from traditional wellness programs.
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Instagram: PinkMeansGo
Yoke: PinkMeansgo
Amy Bullard & Charmaine Shah, she/her
York, North Yorkshire, UK
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Teapot Yoga Online Studio 1, 2
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Charmaine and Amy were partnered up as buddies when they were studying for Ignite's 300 hours training and have continued to work together since then. Together they run an online accessible yoga studio: Teapot Yoga. At Teapot Yoga there are three key pillars that underpin their work:
1. Embodying yoga as a liberatory practice – yoga is a living tradition that has freedom, joy and bliss at the heart. We practice yoga in its true essence for self-discovery, personal and collective liberation. We also take the time to critique and shape the practice of yoga itself so that we continue to make this practice inclusive and accessible to all.
2. Accessible yoga – ensuring that any person who accesses our classes can find a way to connect with the practice no matter their level of mobility.
3. Anatomy – we believe in embodied wisdom and we find that understanding our anatomy in intricate detail, from the mechanics of the breath to the way our femur bone moves in our hip joint, gives us the access to this wisdom. We learn more about our brains, how our minds work, how trauma impacts us, to help enhance our wellbeing. We become ultra aware of the layers of our existence (physical, energetic, mental, wisdom and bliss) – an essential step in the eight limbs of yoga.
They offer two live classes per week as well as a monthly live call. On Wednesdays 6pm-7pm GMT Charmaine teaches Gentle Strength & Restoration that focuses on accessible asana, the breath and more. On Sundays Amy runs a meditation and energy work class: Contemplate & Embody that includes a practice plus community sharing circle. Monthly we hold our sanghas for the community to come together and reflect on our yoga and more broadly spiritual practice.
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www.theteapotcollective.co.uk
Booking site: www.bookwhen.com/teapot
Instagram: @theteapotcollective_
Instagram: @charmaine_yoga
teapotyoga@gmail.com
