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Avery Kalapa

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈affirming Iyengar Yoga
𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄
Embodiment is powerful❤️‍🔥come practice
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Friendly reminder: there’s just 1 WEEK left to save $250! We know you know: The system wins when we run ourselves ragged. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Life can feel very full. There’s often so many needs, too much for one heart to hold. Our retreats aren’t the only way to relax, but they are a profoundly replenishing form of support that we’ve seen, over and over, help people deeply reset and make lasting positive changes in their lives. If you haven’t had enough space lately to soften, be in your body, process the grief, actually relax, savor an un-rushed meal, play and laugh - the 2027 Queer Trans Retreat in Mexico is calling you! Does imagining joining this beautiful week-long Queer & Trans Retreat help you feel better about your 2027? Now is the best time to send in your application and register! Be in touch if you have questions 🌞
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Friendly reminder: there’s just 2 WEEKS left to save $250 at the 2027 Queer Trans Retreat at @mardejade_retreat this spring with G & Avery 🌞 Does imagining joining this beautiful week-long Queer & Trans Retreat full of Iyengar Yoga, Liberation Somatics, and community joy by the beach in Mexico next year help you feel better about your 2027? JOIN US Now is the perfect time to send in your application and register! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤎In addition to early bird, there are extra equity discounts for QTBIPOC and trans folks! Plus, the next three people to register will get entered into a drawing for a FREE MASSAGE 😍 Payment plans are available 💌 Link in bio / yogawithavery.com to learn more, book a call with us, apply!
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Celebrating Patricia Walden on her 80th birthday 💐 Heartfelt article full of Patricia quotes, photos, reflections, just published on my blog. 💌 With gratitude for my beloved teacher… Link in bio! Invite to some Patricia stories below, if you’ve studied with her? 🪷 #PatriciaWalden
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Each year for Halloween, we dress up Bhava’s skeleton, Vlad. And, Halloween is just around the corner. This year we took suggestions from the community and everyone put their votes in to a little jack-o’-lantern box. The suggestions arranged from Dolly Parton to Dr. Frank-N-Furter and many fun suggestions in between. Come down to Bhava and see Vlad‘s new Halloween costume. #halloween #yogastudio #albuquerque
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Camaraderie is precious, especially when those in power are doing divide and conquer. Being in it together, knowing we’re on the same team, as we do something hard. Good medicine! I hope you too, get to feel held and celebrated, especially when it’s new and scary. Typically, practicing asana together, we don’t cheer; yoga is not a performance art. BUT in this sweet moment of togetherness in open practice at the Iyengar Yoga Therapy Intensive with Lois Steinberg @lois_steinberg we couldn’t contain the energy. (This is NOT what we were teaching the therapy students, just to be clear 😂 … but get a bunch of CIYTs together and it’s a special sort of play time🥰) Sutra 1.33 includes mudita, sympathetic joy, basically the opposite of envy and competition. Really grateful for all the good and hard work, learning, Lois and the home team, and to everyone who came to @iyengar_yoga_champaign_urbana for this week’s training. 💓 #chakrabandhasana Thanks @vandana_shah13 for the photo ✨
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Disrupt the scroll✨Sound on, sit tall, close your eyes if it helps you internalize your awareness. Tune in. No, I didn’t cut out the silent pauses. The silence is important, so nourishing. This clip is from the beginning of a recent yoga class I taught. I always start class with a small sit, to help us transition from the outer world to the inner universe. Helpful to gather awareness and say hello to the body and mind, before entering the field of asana. This was the first few minutes of a great class. But on its own, it’s a nice little guided meditation. ✨If you paused for the 3 minute sit, let me know how it went in the comments? ✨ Love to have you come to class soon, check the link bio for the schedule. First 1 is free! And there’s over 1000 classes with me on demand, for Yoga whenever it works for your schedule. 🙏🏼🧡
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2 FREE YOGA CLASSES 4U🌻 Come soothe your mind, nourish your body, awaken your spirit! Use code BACKTOYOGA tomorrow through next Friday for 2 FREE livestream and/or on demand Iyengar Yoga classes with me! INVITE FRIENDS 🙏🏼 Autumn equinox is on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to reset your yoga practice rhythm. ✨ Access the zoom class schedule and on demand library at yogawithavery.com 🧡 Local ABQ friends, I’m also teaching a hips and twists workshop tomorrow at @bhavayoga_abq - love to have you there! I’m grateful for the harvest in my garden, the beauty of community, for sadhana, and that there’s water in the Bosque today. What is helping you connect to gratitude right now? Our inner healing is connected to the world’s healing. Come practice!
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Happy news! 🌈 SAVE THE DATE QUEER TRANS YOGA RETREAT IS BACK! April 24-May 1, 2027 2027 Queer & Trans Retreat: Iyengar Yoga, Liberation Somatics, and Community Joy At @mardejade_retreat with G and Avery Add your name to the waitlist and will let you know when applications open in September! There’s no retreat like this, friends. We took an intentional break from organizing retreats in 2026 to rest. We are delighted to have another one on the books for next year! Our goal this year’s retreat: expand our capacity for compassionate embodied presence and delight within ourselves and with each other as we navigate challenge and change. Recover from burn out, be deeply nourished, and create a fresh start through deep asana and pranayama, playful, affirming somatic practices, nature connection, and joy in beloved community! We are continuing our commitment to reserving at least 50% of slots for BIPOC and 50% trans. Equity pricing and four (4) 50% off QTBIPOC scholarships will be available. Learn more at yogawithavery.com Thanks for shares; tag a friend in the comments you’d love to spend a week at the beach with!
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Appreciating this miraculous, intelligent, trans body I get to be in ✨💚 May you too, find joy and power in your embodiment! Awake and alive Video from a couple years ago, swimming in Mexico. Song by @riomasmusic “I am free… in my body… nothing can take that away from me…”
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I love this Iyengar Yoga set up for #prasaritapadottanasana ✨ such a wonderful asana for pelvic health, length in the spine, gentle calming release for the eyes and brain. With the sitting bones on the wall like this, not only is it more restful, but it’s also very stabilizing for the hip joints. (Hot tip for pronouncing this asana name. Pra-sa-ri-ta doesn’t have any long vowels, if it rhymes with margarita, it’s wrong!) It’s Restorative and Pranayama week, in my classes: such powerful support to strengthen your resilience, nourish the body and mind, replenish capacity to be present. Come practice! Livestream or on demand, so much goodness is available to you. My next in person workshop at @bhavayoga_abq will be focused on hips, twists, forward bends, love to have you join us September 5th. There’s also still just 6 spots left for my Iyengar Yoga workshop in Colorado, first week of October! Come immerse yourself in this wonderful 3 day workshop at @myevolition - 10% discount for @imiyaiyengar members! 💌 #iyengarmethod #restorativeyoga #alignment #nervoussystemregulation
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Tomorrow Night Free Community Potluck & Lecture! FUNCTIONAL ALIGNMENT For accessibility + transformation with Avery Kalapa August 7th-9th Free Community Potluck Friday night (August 7th) 6pm We are so excited for this weekend’s Teacher Training module with Avery! Avery will help bring to light the many paradox in Yoga. The practice of yoga invites us to explore a rich field of “both-and,” beyond perceived binaries and limitations. Alignment in asana isn’t about dogmatic right and wrong; it’s a way of understanding your divine design, your mental, physical, and emotional patterns, and how to get free. Empower your practice and teaching with a framework for functional alignment that is both practical and mystical. Discover new ways of working with embodiment and awareness that allow for greater accessibility, healing, and tangible transformation in body, mind and nervous system. Full Weekend immersion $250 WEEKEND SCHEDULE Friday Night | 6:00pm – 8:00pm Yoga‘s Paradox: The Alchemy of Transformation Saturday | 10:00am – 5:00pm The Art of Functional Alignment: * Key frameworks to empower your practice and teaching * Alignment, Stability, Mobility: reduce pain and open new possibility Sunday | 11:00am – 6:00pm The Art of Functional Alignment cont: * The connection between physical alignment, the mind, the subtle body, and nervous system regulation For more information: NirgunaYoga.com/AveryKalapa #nirgunayoga #alignmentyoga #abqyogis #yogaactivism #yogateachertraining
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PSA 💌🏳️‍⚧️ there’s been a real uptick of hateful trans phobic comments n messages on Instagram these days. Feels bad to be on the receiving end of that stuff. A lot of delusion and suffering out here. It’s one reason I’m choosing to put most of my energy elsewhere. I’m actually doing really great, l’ve been focusing a lot on lyengar yoga practice & study, Vipassana meditation, rad queer community and fam. I love the BEAUTIFUL work I’m exploring with my students in Sadhana Support Collective. Sangha is magic! Come to Restorative tonight if you need to rest. Our monthly trans hang is right after. Tomorrow morning’s class we’ll be exploring functional shoulder strength and stability, embodied presence for equanimity and compassion… I teach 5 classes weekly on Zoom, it’s easy to sign up, sliding scale, and you can try your first one free. I also have a huge on-demand library with over 1000 classes. I regularly teach in person workshops, and I also offer private sessions in person in Albuquerque and virtually worldwide. Local friends, join me at @nirgunayoga this Friday, I’m offering a free yoga philosophy talk followed by a potluck. There’s an option to stay on for the weekend workshop or just come to the dharma talk. The first weekend of October, I’ll be teaching a three day workshop in Denver at @myevolition - stay in the loop at 🌈 YOGAWITHAVERY.COM 🌈 These fun photos by the lake at @featheredpipe were taken by the talented and generous @kellyfogelphotography 🙏🏼 May peace truth trust and awakening continue to unfold in our hearts minds and collective reality. With love, Avery (still they them)
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