Yoga provides us with the unique opportunity for growth and exploration. Yoga Humans seeks to aid that exploration by providing knowledge and tools tailored specifically to new teachers and advancing practitioners.
We invite you to explore learnings from our teaching experiences, build our mini-flows into your classes or home practice, flow to our curated playlists and reach out with any ideas on how we can grow with one another in practice.
Our Story
Yoga Humans began in 2020 and was founded by Izzy Martens and Kyle Shrivastava. While this website remains full of resources, all of the most active and updated content can now be found at yogahumans.substack.com.
More background: On their first date, Izzy and Kyle quickly jumped into a conversation about yoga. This shared passion became a bedrock of their relationship. As new yoga teachers when they first met, Izzy and Kyle often found themselves discussing and wishing that there were more resources specifically designed to meet the needs of new and developing teachers. Soon after, Yoga Humans was born.
Yoga Humans is based on the belief that the beauty of yoga (like humans) is not one-size-fits-all. On this website, we offer a variety of resources to help aide in your teaching or your practice, and inspire you to think of creative movements or look at something in a new way.
So, welcome to our online community. A place designed for yoga practitioners and teachers. Where having all the answers is less important than simply being open to the questions that come up along the way.
Yoga Humans is a space for creativity, exploration and conversation about what yoga is. Whether that means the artistry and creative expression that comes with building a sequence, or the knowledge and history that drives the practice. Yoga Humans is a place for questions, for wonderment, for experiments, for connection and, of course, for practice.
So, welcome, humans.
Whether you are a yoga-teaching-human, a yoga-practicing-human, or just a curious-human – you’ve come to the right place.
JOIN THE YOGA HUMANS COMMUNITY
We hope that this website will be less about content and more about collaboration. We know that to be a great yoga teacher, you need a community around you that can help support you. People who you can ask questions, seek feedback from, and connect with. We hope that Yoga Humans can be that place. Below you have the option to sign-up to be a member of this website. Your free membership allows you to access all of our downloadable content, leave comments on posts, and interact with others in the community, and will give you access to special offers like free yoga classes.
All humans are welcome here.
Creativity
Ingenuity
Humility
Empathy
Growth
We value...
Our Mission
Yoga Humans seeks to create an empowering community of yoga practitioners that connects, informs and inspires.
We hope you’ll engage with our community by joining our monthly newsletter, where we’ll send you specialized content that will be a gift to receive in your inbox, following us on Instagram and TikTok so you can see our flows and tips in action, and by posting comments / asking your questions on the website.
We’re so glad you’re here.
Meet Moose and Meeko
Two cats.
Moose and Meeko are the real masterminds behind Yoga Humans. With inscrutable eyes for design and a "don't-hold-back" approach towards giving feedback, they are crucial members of the Yoga Humans team.
Moose and Meeko often look on in wonderment as their humans roll out their mats and move around in (sometimes frightening) postures. They consider themselves masters of the yogic tradition and have perfected the "down dog" pose, though they resent the name and think the yoga community should consider changing it. Perhaps all poses could be cat-themed?
