This week’s podcast episode is a conversation with De Jur Jones, a yoga teacher and yoga therapist who is known for her work making the therapeutic benefits of yoga accessible to marginalized communities.

De Jur talks about teaching where she feels yoga is “necessary but not always available,” and how her students – from incarcerated adults, to low-income individuals, sex trafficking survivors, and foster youth – use the breathing and simple movements they learn in yoga classes. You’ll hear some of her strategies for offering therapeutic yoga teachings that are appropriate for the specific students, as well as sensitive to their context and environment. And, I think you’ll also enjoy De Jur’s examples of bringing yoga practice into everyday life, and even onto airplanes in her role as a flight attendant!

Listen to expand your ideas of yoga and to find out how you can support greater access to yoga therapy for many more like De Jur’s students. Whether you’re a teacher or a practitioner, you’ll come away from this conversation with some inspiration.

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Organizations we mentioned in the episode:

UpRising Yoga https://www.uprisingyoga.org/

Prison Yoga Project https://prisonyoga.org/

Prison Yoga and Meditation https://prisonyogaandmeditation.org/

Accessible Yoga https://accessibleyoga.org/

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To connect with De Jur, you can visit her website https://www.idreaminyoga.com/

or follow her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mzdejur/

or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/de.jur.9  

To connect further with me (Addie), check out my website movedtomeditate.yoga

and/or follow me on Instagram @addie_movedtomeditate.