This Studio Is Diversifying Atlanta’s Yoga Scene

The Live Be Yoga team gets to know Chelsea Jackson Roberts in Atlanta, who teaches Yoga Journal’s Inclusivity Training for Yoga Course. They also meet Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati, executive director of Kashi Atlanta, who is proud to have taught “more black yoga teachers than anywhere else in the Southeast.” Music by DJ Taz Rashid.

Sign up now for Yoga Journal’s new online course Inclusivity Training for Yoga: Building Community with Compassion with Chelsea Jackson Roberts, PhD, for an introduction to the skills and tools you need as a teacher and as a student. In this class, you’ll learn how to better identify student needs, make compassionate and inclusive language choices, gracefully offer pose alternatives, give appropriate assists, reach out to neighboring communities, and expand and diversify your classes.