About Us

DIY DATBASE FOUNDERS

NINA ZOLOTOW, RYT500 created and manages this database to help spread the message that yoga is for everyone and anyone. Nina is also Editor in Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog and co-author with Dr. Baxter Bell of Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being and co-author with Rodney Yee of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body (with its companion 50 Card Practice Deck) and Moving Toward Balance. Her special areas of expertise are yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety) and yoga for healthy aging. She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California, has studied yoga therapy with Shari Ser and Bonnie Maeda, and is especially influenced by the teachings of Donald Moyer. She has studied extensively with Rodney Yee, and is inspired by the teachings of Patricia Walden on yoga for emotional healing.

JIVANA HEYMAN, C-IAYT, eRYT500, is the founder of Accessible Yoga, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings. Accessible Yoga offers conferences, trainings, an Ambassador program, and an online network dedicated to sharing yoga with every body. 

For over twenty-five years Jivana has specialized in teaching yoga to people with disabilities with an emphasis on sharing yoga philosophy. His passion is making yoga accessible to everyone. Jivana has led more than fifty yoga teacher training programs around the world. In December 2015, Jivana was invited to teach Accessible Yoga at the United Nations in Geneva, and he continues to work toward expanding access to the teachings of yoga. To learn more about his work, visit www.accessibleyoga.org.

DIY DATABASE CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Although anyone can donate photographers to this blog (see LINK), the following professional photographers have committed to donate photographs on a regular basis.

SARIT Z ROGERS. Bio coming soon.