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Upcoming
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS:
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP IN ALBUQUERQUE
Solstice Special
Winter Solstice Restorative Rest Ritual, Pranayama, Long Savasana
DEC. 20th, 1:30-4 PM
Every month on the 1st Saturday at Bhava, in Albuquerque NM, you have an opportunity to come feel amazing with Avery! Each Iyengar Yoga workshop explores a different theme. All the workshops are open for registration, through the end of the year. Plan ahead for feeling good!
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP IN ALBUQUERQUE
Sankalpa
New Years Yoga Workshop
JAN. 3rd, 1:30-4 PM
Every month on the 1st Saturday at Bhava, in Albuquerque NM, you have an opportunity to come feel amazing with Avery! Each Iyengar Yoga workshop explores a different theme. All the workshops are open for registration, through the end of the year. Plan ahead for feeling good!
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Sadhana Support Collective is an online yoga school for the sincere seeker: asana, pranayama, counterculture philosophy in a queer and trans affirming community where co-inspiration and mutual support thrives.
Hi, I'm Avery
(they/them)
I teach deep, transformative Queer + Trans affirming Iyengar Yoga rooted in collective liberation.
Transformative healing within and collective change are inextricably connected.
We know the old paradigms are destructive, but how to create something different, when oppressive social conditioning is woven into our nervous systems?
Classical yoga grounded in alignment based asana practice empowers us to reorganize at the root level.
Cultivate inner freedom to transform how you show up in the world!
And when we explore this work together, we are affirmed in our inherent wholeness and belonging.
Welcome
I’m Avery Janeczek Kalapa (they, them) a Level 2 Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, community weaver, and a queer + trans wellness organizer; eRYT500, YACEP, BFA.
I have been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching since 2004.
I teach yoga in the rigorous, adaptive, somatically precise method of the Iyengar lineage through an anti-oppression framework that uplifts inner healing towards collective liberation.
I specialize in functional asana, stability, radical self love, and intimate, experiential yoga philosophy.
I share inspiring, accessible practice through an empowering approach to anatomical organization and nervous system regulation that helps people get real relief from pain, fatigue, overwhelm, and burn out.
Through affirming embodiment and connection to the sacred, my students access tangible transformation in body mind and consciousness.
I support queers, trans folks, and other counter-culture yoga lovers to break the burn out cycle, be nourished, and spiritually powerful without bypassing the wisdom of their body and lived experience.
I primarily teach asana, but not just asana for the body – asana as a conduit to explore all the aspects of yoga philosophy and more.
Come benefit from my decades of passionate, nerdy devotion!
For over 25 years, I’ve been excavating deep practice and I’ve developed a broad skill set to help you discover your yoga.
As a white, queer, non-binary, trans teacher I’m committed to justice and liberation, my offerings center queer and trans folks, outsiders, allies, change makers, people who care! I believe learning to heal, relax, and be present in diverse spaces is key to creating a world where all beings – you included – can be happy, safe, and free.
I warmly welcome Black Indigenous people of Color and am honored and appreciative to have BIPOC folks who are open to a white teacher in any of my yoga offerings and spaces.
I believe everyone, especially folks who have been left out of or turned off by mainstream yoga spaces, should have access to the revitalizing nourishment of deeply informed, classical yoga without having to code switch or assimilate.
Simply put, I helped rad, sweet people like you have a delicious, more committed, life-changing yoga practice.
Eternally grateful for Avery’s yoga teachings and the profound impact they have had on my life! They demonstrate a deep understanding of yoga science and philosophy and shares infectious enthusiasm with students. Avery radiates loving kindness and shows us what is possible with committed yoga practice and an open heart!
KEEP IN TOUCH
Avery is an exceptional teacher.
Having failed to find Iyengar yoga that I loved in my area, I had forgotten how much I loved and benefitted from the depth and the inspiration that only a truly committed, experienced, nurturing, social justice informed, gender competent, and down to earth teacher like Avery can offer.
If you are trans, check them out!
If you want to understand yoga as a deeply spiritual approach to caring for your body, mind, and heart – take their classes!
If you are looking for yoga informed by practices of decolonization and rooted in care for community with an awareness of the complicated history of yoga as practiced in the US – their class is for you.
RECENT PODCASTS
tune in
TRANSLASH PODCAST WITH IMARA JONES
Trans Wellness
Amid relentless political attacks, rest is not a luxury for trans people—it’s a necessary act of survival. In this episode, Imara explores how our communities can cultivate wellness, restoration, and resilience in the face of burnout and grief. She’s joined by yoga instructor Avery Kalapa who shares their advice for reducing anxiety and finding peace within ourselves through movement.
THE TEACHER’S GUIDE TO ACCESSIBLE YOGA
Teaching Asana
What do yoga teachers need to know to make asana more accessible for their students? Join Jivana and this episode’s guest, Avery Kalapa, as they describe an accessible asana practice that is rooted in awareness, compassion, and inner exploration. Together they offer advice to yoga teachers to explore the intention of asana and approach an asana practice with courage and curiosity.
QUESTIONS TO HOLD
An Invitation to Live in the Field of Questions
What does it mean to be in relationship to questions? What does it mean to BE a living question ourselves? Join us in honest conversation with Avery Kalapa (they/them) exploring the juicy, sometimes scary, and always revealing space that exists when we unhook from familiarity and open ourselves to new possibilities.
ROOT AWARENESS
Beyond the Binary
Through my own healing journey and peeling back the layers of inner and outer conditioning, I now am asking the deeper and uncomfortable questions of who I am beyond any duality. In Chapter 11, Embodiment Beyond the Binary, I share my own gender story and how my understanding of gender intersects with my ecological self . . .
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Livestream Classes
Transformative Asana Online
Join me on the mat. Let’s play! Deeply caring, intimate, creative classes.
Adaptive, uplifting, and FUN
Livestream on Zoom or On Demand
SADHANA SUPPORT COLLECTIVE
Online Yoga Membership
Get compassionate support, inspiration and expert guidance for your practice! Join a relaxed, thriving, intimate online yoga community that is here to nurture you on your path of self care, healing, and resilience.
Easily access all of Avery’s livestream classes, on demand recordings, community connection, member’s only workshops, weekly practice themes and Q&A, playful yoga challenges, and more!
On Demand Yoga Library
Private Sessions
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the perfect present: being more present
It’s always a good season to gift the ones you love with yoga.
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“Avery’s teaching weaves profound joy and deep spirituality, physical exuberance and emotional release. Their knowledge and skills are vast. They are a caring and careful teacher, always offering modifications and alert to individual needs, adapting accordingly. And, their love of – and commitment to yoga are wonderfully infectious.”
~ Christina Bristol (she/her)