Accessible Yoga is The Way of the Future

Yoga has been a popular practice for thousands of years, and it grows increasingly more popular with every day that passes.  While attention to strict alignment principles is a tradition of past yoga lineages, we are finding that accessible yoga practices is the way of the future.  We are learning that how we practice can be more important than what we practice.  Adapting the postures to your own individual body and ensuring that you’re moving with all 5 prana vayus can help to create a healthy practice.

Accessible yoga is a practice that helps us find ways to modify the yoga posture that will work for our body.  Many people avoid poses like Padmasana because they don’t know any lotus pose modifications.  Shooting bow pose is another tough pose that includes deep hip opening and many people are unable to practice this pose because they don’t know archers pose modifications.  Accessible yoga practices teach yoga practitioners how to develop modifications for postures that they otherwise wouldn’t.  Utilizing props such as walls, chairs, straps, blocks and blankets can help us to adapt yoga poses to our bodies.