All Bodies Can Breathe - Yoga Pose Deck for all bodies

All Bodies Can Breathe - Yoga Pose Deck for all bodies

This 108 card yoga pose deck is the first, designed for all bodies. It features a range of poses including, standing, inversions, hip openers, floor work and mediations. You will also find breathing techniques for focus and resetting. What makes this deck unique from any other is that we feature photos of real people in a range of body types. At All Bodies Can (ABC) Breathe, we believe that yoga is for all bodies. Whether you are strengthening your body, mind or spirit, we want to make yoga accessible to you. The power and energy we harness is capable of magic. We have the ability to be intentional and create present moment awareness in everything we do, all it takes is practice. That is why we call yoga a practice. And, that is why we believe that All Bodies Can Breathe.

You may look at a pose, or the collection of poses and have ideas on the quality. We invite you drop what you know, and to see each pose as the full expression within that body. Our hope is that your own practice inspires and moves your body in its unique way. Next time you find yourself on the mat, consider that yoga is much more than the postures. Feel your own movement, breath, values, foundations, expressions and energy. Just as our bodies have much more going on under the surface, so does yoga.

Yoga is a path. Yoga is a journey. Yoga is the gardening of the mind. It is a rich physical and spiritual practice that comes from beautiful and complex traditions. Yoga is finding balance and strength and living within those boundaries. The inhale of yoga gives breath to us and the exhale is for all of those around us.

The combining the ujjāyī (victorious breathing), bandhas (subtle energy locks) and dṛṣṭi (gazing technique) with the movement is yoga in action (kriyā yoga). Of the 8 Limbs of yoga, the poses (asana) that we know and love, and our breath (pranayama) tend to get the most attention. However, yoga is a study that is much deeper that the physical body. And, not every pose is the same in every body. No two bodies feel the same, look the same or have the same shape.

At ABC Breathe we celebrate uniqueness. We have created this deck to honor diversity. Our volunteers gathered for this project because, they too hold this virtue close to their heart. 

May we all find compassion, loving kindness, sympathetic joy and equanimity in our heart