Welcome to Bright Fierce Hearts podcast. In this episode, Kylie and Em chat to The Adaptive Yogi, Jennie Jackson, about practicing and teaching adaptive and inclusive Yoga and coming to fiercely and unconditionally love your body.Jennie Jackson’s vision and purpose is, as a ‘peaceful warrior’, to help her students achieve body peace and acceptance through her Hatha Yoga classes that focus on accessibility, inclusivity and body positivity. We met Jen in a coaching group and absolutely fell in love with her infectious kindness and humour and loved having this beautiful conversation with her.We hear Jen’s journey to become a Yoga teacher and the milestones of acceptance of living in a curvy body, with a disability, along the way. We dive into the pitfalls of Western Yoga’s body focused, goal oriented culture. We talk about the philosophy that underpins Yoga, especially around non-harming and non-attachment.Jen tells us about the barriers that she has faced along the way and shares some of the powerful stories of her students that are living with disabilities, who have benefited from Yoga practices. She also shares some beautiful practices that we can take into our lives to find ways to be more accepting of the bodies we are in and to offer ourselves fierce love.Enjoy the conversation this week. We certainly did!NOTES:Jennie Jackson – The Adaptive YogiJen is a yoga teacher from New Zealand and is a passionate advocate for the powerful practice of Yoga, including mindfulness, breathing and meditation. She has experienced how profoundly life changing these practices have been for herself and her students.Jen found her self-confidence, self-worth and a desire to help others grow through Yoga. She was gifted a new lease on life after living with a degenerative disability and through a challenging journey of immobility and pain, was lucky to end up with a prosthesis device that helps her walk and do yoga pain free – amazing! Jen has been a certified yoga teacher since 2016 and a yoga practitioner since 1998. She specializes in restorative and accessible Yoga for ALL, breathing, mindfulness and meditation. Offering group and private classes, courses and retreats in New Zealand and Bali. Her ‘Yoga for ALL’ philosophy attracts those that previously thought they ‘couldn’t’ take part, advocating diversity and inclusion, no matter what ability, size, age or state you are in, you are welcomed and catered for!Jen has her own home boutique studio and is online with an impressive class library! Also, she teaches chair Yoga at a Senior Citizens Hall and a very special wheelchair adaptive class at a university with 4th year students to assist, and contributes to a popular American based adapted Yoga platform.Jen’s drive is to make Yoga more inclusive for all bodies, showing up as a Yoga teacher with a disability and a Curvylicious physique – she’s not your ‘normal’ Yogi! Loving helping women on the journey towards body peace and celebrating the joy of movement!Find Jen here:Instagram: @theadaptiveyogiFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/theadaptiveyogiWebsite: https://www.theadaptiveyogi.co.nz/And here is the link to the prime time ‘TV appearance’! https://fb.watch/ewJUKAfhx9/