I am a plus-size athlete who has completed a 200 RYT & BYTA yoga instructor. My 200 hours of yoga teacher training (YTT) is in Vinyasa yoga from My Vinyasa Practice. YogaSkills bestowed me with a Kemetic, African-based, mini certification in Healing Racial Trauma and Inner Alchemy. 

 

I am currently studying for certifications in meditation from Yogamu and accessible yoga from Yoga for All. It is important for me to remain a student while instructing students. In this way, I practice shaucha, a niyama, which refers to purging unconscious bias.

 

I hope to inspire other plus-sized women to take up yoga or to deepen their practice because if I can do something as a plus-sized woman then all plus-sized women can do something, too. We’ll employ the 8 limbs of yoga to determine what their something is.

(photo credit: @paulawirth)