From the Spring 2025 Subject – Yoga for Each-BODY
The time period ‘modification’ sometimes stirs up ideas of inadequacy—this connection to ‘one thing lower than’ is commonly seen in training and plenty of areas of life. For instance, recipes are modified to swimsuit people with particular diets. Instruction and checks are modified to swimsuit learners with particular lodging. In yoga, props are sometimes seen as modifying a pose or sequence if one has bodily limitations. But, the definition of ‘modification’ is unrelated to any inadequacy. The definition of ‘modification’ is kind of the other. “One thing that’s modified barely, particularly to enhance it or make it extra acceptable or much less excessive” (Cambridge Dictionary). The time period modification is just a scaffold to make one thing far more extensively accepted by many with ease and luxury. Understanding the definition dispels the parable of modifications being adverse or {that a} pose/sequence must be carried out in a different way due to shortcomings or limitations.
God has made His kids excellent and distinctive. As a substitute, it’s all about altering the mindset of modifications. Yoga modifications are just like studying scaffolds present in training, that are described as strategies that assist college students in serving to them study new expertise or full new duties they won’t be capable of do on their very own. The objective is to assist college students obtain studying outcomes independently. When examined in opposition to this backdrop, modifications are seen as a constructive, offering the assist one wants to perform one thing independently.
Dr. Donna Jagielski
Dr. Donna Jagielski is the founder and CEO of Blessings Steadiness Breath Yoga, a nonprofit 501c3 group based mostly in Phoenix, Arizona. The mission of the group is to make yoga accessible to populations who’re underrepresented, underserved, marginalized, and justice-impacted. Dr. Jagielski has been main the yoga program on the Maricopa County Juvenile Detention Middle for over three years. The Yoga for Empowered Ladies, a yoga and journaling program for justice-impacted girls has been awarded a number of funding grants. Dr. Jagielski serves because the Well being & Wellness trainer at New Freedom a behavioral well being and re-entry group and as an adjunct professor of training
