About
Image Description - Emily, a fat white woman, sits on her yoga mat. She is wearing a neon yellow shorts and tank top set. There is a small bookcase, a potted plant, and a window behind her.
All Bodies Welcome Yoga is a virtual + Pittsburgh pop up studio led by me, Emily Anderson (she / her). I’m glad the wilds of the internet have brought you here! I’m a yoga teacher, and yoga therapist in training, who helps individuals and groups enjoy their bodies and their lives.
ABWY is a yoga studio for all bodies - yoga beginners, fat people, queer people, chronically ill people, aging people, inflexible people, and beyond. This studio is committed to accessibility, deconstructing diet culture, intersectional feminism, and JOY. We start with moving our bodies, but you’re invited to go deeper - into moving your breath + energy, and studying your mind + reactions.
The practice of accessible yoga is an act of body liberation, and body liberation is about justice for all. This virtual space is anti racist, pro abolition, and will not tolerate fatphobia, transphobia, ageism, ableism, or homophobia, or any other systems of oppression.
I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher certification in 2018 with Joni Sturgill of Healthy Body Peaceful Soul, hosted at Sterling Yoga in Dormont, PA. In 2023 I began a multi year, 800 hour program to become a certified yoga therapist with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, one of the first accredited yoga therapy schools worldwide.
Additional yoga teaching certifications I hold:
Chair Yoga, April 2019
Accessible Yoga, November 2019
Pain Care Aware - Teaching Groups, October 2023
I live and teach on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Osage Nation and the Haudenosaunee.
Somatic Softies
Join us in Somatic Softies, our membership community! Somatic Softies allows me to connect with students and provide a specially crafted monthly curriculum for embodied practice. Members get exclusive weekly videos to deepen their study of yoga, discounted access to my group classes, and more. If you are ready to change the way you feel about, and in, your body, I hope you will consider joining us in the virtual studio.
Seva
To be a teacher is to be a servant. It is important to me that yoga is financially accessible. I prioritize working with organizations that sponsor free community yoga. In the virtual studio, I have a “no one turned away for lack of funds” policy (more details on the class schedule page). I also offer free online classes on YouTube that focus on accessible yoga with seated options for every video.
Testimonials
I think lots of people use the term “body positive” now because it’s trendy, but an actually body positive space requires you to be ready to actively accommodate, work with, and celebrate difference in physical appearance and ability. Emily’s yoga practice does all those things, and I found that I really loved yoga.
-Sabrina
Your YouTube videos and live classes are perfectly pitched for me! And THANK YOU for making yoga so accessible for folx who don't fit the "yoga mold"…Thank you so much for offering yoga that feels like I'm inhabiting my body, instead of fighting against it.
- Jodi
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