Upcoming
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS:
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP IN ALBUQUERQUE
NECK AND SHOULDER CARE
Stability & Mobility Therapeutic Reset
August 1st, 1:30-4:15 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!
3 DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP & YTT MODULE
Functional Alignment & Yoga’s Paradox
at Nirguna Yoga, Albuquerque, NM
August 7, 8, 9 2026
Open to all! Join me for a dynamic weekend of deep study.
Friday Aug. 7th 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Yoga‘s Paradox: The Alchemy of Transformation & Community Potluck
3 DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Awake, Relaxed, Embodied
Iyengar Yoga Intensive with Avery in Denver at Evolition
October 2nd, 3rd, & 4th
UNLOCK THE JOY OF DEEP PRACTICE!
Join Sadhdana Support
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.
This flexible monthly yoga membership gives you unlimited access to all of Avery's live and on demand classes, plus members-only benefits like a monthly Philosophy Session, Trans Hang, Yoga Q&A, access to our Yoga Accountability Club, Discord community, weekly inspiration, individualized support for your journey and more! Use as much or as little as you like, week by week.
Become a member to easily access Avery's teaching from anywhere you are!
"I have been coming to understand this big picture slowly through my year of training with you and it really has been such an empowering gift you have brought into my life.
Highly recommend all of the offerings listed above. So good, I feel like I’m getting away with something.
Oh ya, I am, it’s my soul."
Hi, I'm Avery
(they/them)
I teach 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 attunement to transform how you show up in the world. When we explore this work together, we are affirmed in our inherent wholeness and belonging.
Yoga is a relational practice. It's a way to come into harmonious relationship with yourself, your body, mind… and through that, with the external world. Yoga is a healing practice rooted in liberation that fortifies our ability to not only survive, but thrive amidst these challenging, imbalanced times. Committed Iyengar yoga practice can empower integration towards inner and collective freedom.
Somatic healing isn’t a new trend – come discover a practice with deep roots.
BKS Iyengar revolutionized an embodied approach to spiritual transformation. Come feel for yourself the difference this beautiful method offers.
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. I know that when we are embodied, awake, and relaxed, we access our inner power and guidance, which helps us rise to meet the challenges of our times with skill, courage, and love.
I specialize in functional asana, stability, embodied self love, somatic mindfulness, and intimate, experiential yoga philosophy.
This approach is inspiring, accessible, and empowering. Anatomical organization and nervous system regulation helps people get real relief from pain, fatigue, and overwhelm. Through affirming embodiment and connection to the sacred, my students access tangible transformation in body mind and consciousness.
I offer fun, functional, yoga asana as the ground from which we can explore and embody all eight limbs of Patanjali’s system. I bring depth, clarity, humor, and a nurturing, enthusiastic reverence to my teaching.
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.
We can find joy in our lives, no matter what external conditions.
I support people to have a powerfully revitalizing yoga practice – and through that, reclaim agency and hope in their lives.
I support queers, trans folks, and other counter-culture yoga lovers to break the burn out cycle, be nourished, and spiritually strong without bypassing the wisdom of their body and lived experience.
As a white, queer, non-binary, trans teacher I’m committed to collective healing. My offerings center queer and trans folks, outsiders, allies, change makers, people who care. I believe learning to relax, get in your body, 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, sincere, 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
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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 . . .
✨First Class Free✨
Join me on the mat. Let’s play!
Deeply caring, creative, empowering Iyengar Yoga classes. Adaptive, uplifting, and FUN!
Livestream on Zoom or On Demand
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 an affirming, thriving, intimate online yoga community that is here to nurture you on your path of self-care, healing, and resilience through sadhana: a committed, embodied, spiritual yoga practice.
Easily access:
- All Avery’s livestream classes – 5 per week!
- The whole On Demand Library
- Monthly Yoga Q & A
- Monthly Trans* hang
- Personal support for you practice
- Monthly Yoga Sutra and Philosophy Study
- Yoga Accountability Club + New Moon Intentions
- Access to a kind, relaxed Discord community
- Weekly inspiration + practice themes
- 40 page Home Practice Guide ebook
On Demand Yoga Library
Over 1000 excellent yoga classes with Avery at your fingertips! Choose from a variety of class lengths, levels, themes. Use the filter tool to search for what you need, for example, look up ‘top surgery preparation,’ ‘nervous system regulation,’ ‘anxiety releif,’ ‘psoas,’ ‘back care,’ ‘inversions,’ or ‘self worth.’
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)