Hi everyone, welcome to episode 59 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I wonder if I've ever told you. I have two

favorite classes to teach. One of them is Pranayama, but the second more constant class I have been teaching

for the past decade is beginner's yoga. In fact, when I look back at how the studio, my studio,

Aham Yoga has grown over the past eight years,

the one constant is we've hosted beginner yoga classes and that's how we feed the studio.

Beginer's yoga to me personally is a very special class.

There is so much joy and satisfaction I get by bringing yoga to someone who's not done it before

and to see them really grow and transform in their practice well beyond the beginner series.

It just, it really lights me up.

I am a huge advocate for teaching beginners how to do yoga and to make our asana classes more welcoming,

more accessible and just making the practice that much more doable for anyone who wants to try

it. And I've been, I'm also heading into the season where I am working on a training for

beginners yoga specifically for yoga teachers,

because I've noticed this is an area we really struggle in.

But I found the perfect guest to really geek out about on beginners yoga.

I'm chatting with Natalia Tabilo, who's a body positive yoga teacher, journalist, and the founder of yoga for all bodies.

She's originally from Chile, but now lives in San Francisco. We became friends on

Instagram and I instantly knew that I wanted to have her voice, her message and her

passion on the podcast. She created yoga for all bodies because she didn't feel like she was welcomed or she fit into a yoga studio here.

She talks about that in today's podcast.

Her platform, Yoga for All Bodies, is an inclusive and accessible practice.

And it's based on variations, prop usage, sensations and just the freedom to be who you are on your mat and really embracing

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