Yoga with Avery - Avery Kalapa, (they, them)

They have been practicing since 1999, and teaching since 2004. Avery is an advocate for trans and queer wellness, a community organizer, the steward Sadhana Support Collective, an online yoga community, and teaches life changing retreats, workshops, and private sessions. Known for their heartfelt enthusiasm, devotion, and depth of technique, Avery's teaching uplifts inner healing rooted in collective liberation. They believe all people, especially folks who have been left out of or turned off by mainstream wellness, should have access to the power and revitalizing nourishment of deep, classical yoga without having to code switch or assimilate in order to practice. Avery blends alignment and gender affirming spirituality in asana with somatic precision, reverence, and care. Both rigorous and accessible, Avery’s approach to will reorganize your energy, dissolve away old patterns, social conditioning, and dysphoria, and help you come home to a loving, embodied connection within yourself. Their deeply inclusive Iyengar Yoga classes strengthen you as you regulate your nervous system. They weave in yoga philosophy, and a lot of JOY as a rebellion from the forces that are trying to keep us small and scared! Avery specializes in functional asana with an orientation towards stability, and offers a broad range of teachings, both therapeutic and advanced. Avery’s work supports queers, trans folks, and socially conscious yoga lovers to break the burn out cycle, be nourished, and spiritually powerful without bypassing the wisdom of their body and lived experience. Their upbeat, empowering approach to classical yoga helps people get real relief, and access tangible transformation in body mind and consciousness. Yoga, a healing practice rooted in liberation, fortifies our ability to not only survive, but thrive amidst systemic oppression. Some of our greatest joy, vitality, strength and wisdom is rooted in reclaiming the parts of us systemic oppression has tried to conquer, and dismantling the ways we perpetuate inherited patterns of harm – and committed yoga practice can empower this integration. Avery teaches asana as the ground from which we can explore and embody all eight limbs of Patanjali’s system. Their vast knowledge of functional anatomy and somatic alignment empowers tangible body mind spirit transformation for their students.Avery brings depth, clarity, and a nurturing, enthusiastic reverence to their classes. They teach gender affirming yoga. They love exploring just the right approach to help students gain access to a direct experience of yoga, as both a healing art and transformational path. They love meaningful attention to detail, ​precision in body and awareness, courageous surrender, and commitment to embodied spiritual awakening. Self discipline, stability and joy are keys to feel at home in your body, create clarity of mind, and access spiritual intelligence. Avery is both rigorous and compassionate in their teaching. Avery is a sincere student of Yog. Avery has traveled around the US and to India to study yoga, both advanced practices and therapeutic applications. Their practice and devotion is inspired by the legacy and profound path laid out by BKS ​Iyengar and his family. They are also grateful for the practice of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka​. Avery has over 15k contact hours with brilliant teachers including the Iyengar family: Prashantji, Geetaji, and Abhijata Iyengar. Avery is a sought after teacher, speaker, and leader who is involved in various yoga equity projects. Avery is based in unceded Tiwa land, Albuquerque, New Mexico and is also a goofball, an artist, parent, gardener, and writer. Learn more: yogawithavery.com.