YOGA THAT MEETS YOU WHERE YOU ARE
Hi, I’m Cyndi. I’m a yoga teacher who believes the practice should adapt to the person, not the other way around.
My approach to yoga is rooted in accessibility, choice, curiosity, and connection. I create welcoming practices with options for different bodies, abilities, experience levels, and ways of moving. Props, chairs, walls, blankets, blocks, bolsters, straps, and modifications aren’t “lesser” versions of yoga. They’re more ways to practice.
Why I Teach
I didn’t come to yoga because my body could do everything. I came to yoga learning how to listen to the body I have.
My own experiences with disability and chronic illness have shaped the way I understand movement, accessibility, and what it means to truly make space for people. I also know what it feels like to look around a yoga space and not see many bodies that look like mine. For a long time, the images associated with yoga seemed to suggest that a practitioner should look, move, or be built a certain way. I wanted to feel that I belonged in the yoga community without having to change my body to fit an image of what a yogi is “supposed” to look like.
Those experiences influences how I teach. Rather than asking students to fit themselves into a particular version of a pose, I encourage them to explore what the pose can look and feel like in their own body. My goal is to create a space where you have choices, where props are welcomed, and where there is no single “right” way to practice.
My classes are intentionally accessible and beginner-friendly, with an emphasis on foundational postures, mindful movement, breath, and options that allow you to explore the practice in a way that works for you. I don’t currently teach advanced postures such as handstands or complex arm balances. Instead, I offer ways to make a pose more supportive, more accessible, or more challenging.
If you have an established practice and want to deepen a posture or explore a more advanced variation, you are welcome to do so when it feels appropriate and safe for your body and for those practicing with you. You never have to do more, and you never have to do less.
I believe accessibility doesn’t necessarily mean easy, and beginner-friendly doesn’t mean beginner-only. Yoga belongs to every body. You don’t need a particular body type, level of flexibility, or physical ability to deserve a place in the practice.
My role isn’t to create space for you to explore your practice with curiosity, autonomy, and respect for the body and mind you bring to the mat.
Yoga should adapt to the person, not the person to the pose.
Meet Cyndi
Cyndi Olea Geddes is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) whose approach centers accessibility, choice, and meeting people where they are. She believes yoga should adapt to the person, not the person to the pose.
Before becoming a yoga teacher, Cyndi worked in higher education and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, experiences that continue to shape her commitment to creating spaces where people feel seen, respected, and empowered to make choices in their own practice. Through OLEA Yoga, she offers private, semi-private, group, workplace, adaptive and accessible, and retreat and event yoga.
Drawing from her lived experience with disability and chronic illness, Cyndi creates welcoming, beginner-friendly practices with options for different bodies, abilities, and ways of moving. Her teaching incorporates props, chairs, walls, and variations as tools for exploration and support.
Ready to Explore Your Practice?
Whether you’re brand new to yoga, returning to your practice, or looking for a more accessible approach, there’s a place for you here. Explore my offerings and find the practice that works for you.
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