Disabled Yoga Teachers Have Something Truly Crucial To Offer
Huff PostI’ve been a yoga teacher for decades, but when I first became disabled, I feared that chapter of my life was over. “Yoga will not take my pain away, will not take my disability away, but yoga will make me feel whole again.” And the guidance that disabled yoga teachers offer isn’t just for disabled people. “I worked at the front desk in a studio in San Francisco before becoming a yoga teacher, and I realized how inaccessible the classes were,” says Natalia Tabilo, a disabled yoga instructor in Alameda, California. Photo Courtesy of Audrey ML Audrey ML, a yoga instructor in Brittany, France, who teaches online, says students come to her classes “specifically because I’m disabled, because I’m chronically ill, because I’m neurodivergent, because I’m queer, because I’ve got these identities that I’m very proud of and that I use in my teaching.” As for Tabilo, students come to her classes because of her intersectional identities, not in spite of them. And ML’s experience as a disabled person allows her to offer classes that are truly accessible — to disabled people and to anyone else craving something more inclusive than most mainstream yoga classes offer.
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