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Yoga for Diabetes

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Challenge Overview

Managing diabetes is about more than just monitoring blood sugar—it’s about supporting your whole-body health. Stress, fatigue, digestion, and circulation all affect how you feel day to day, and yoga offers a natural way to bring balance, energy, and relaxation into your daily routine.

Our collection of yoga classes for diabetes is specifically designed for people living with the effects of this metabolic disorder. Whether you're managing hypoglycemia, calming your nervous system, or supporting your circulatory system, these accessible classes use asana, meditation and breathwork techniques to help you feel your best.

What You'll Experience in Yoga for Diabetes:

Led by yoga therapist Evan Soroka, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in adolescence, this series offers gentle yet effective practices to:

  • Support Energy & Vitality

    – Counteract the fatigue of low blood sugar with therapeutic yoga that supports circulation while restoring strength and steadiness.

  • Reduce Stress & Boost Relaxation

    – Use breath-centric flows, meditation and pranayama (breathwork) techniques to calm the nervous system and promote a sense of calm.

  • Aid Digestion & Gut Function

    – Stimulate the vagus nerve and abdominal region with gentle postures and guided breath awareness to enhance the "rest and digest" response.

What You’ll Get:

Seven targeted practices, each designed to address specific challenges related to diabetes:

  • Hypoglycemia Rest & Recovery

  • Diabetes De-Stress

  • Heart of the Matter

  • Diabetes R&R

  • Time for a Gut Check!

  • The Still Point Meditation

  • Yoga Nidra for People With Diabetes

Who This Is For:

This yoga and diabetes program is designed for people with diabetes who want to use yoga as a tool for greater well-being. Whether you’re managing stress, supporting digestion, or seeking gentle movement and meditation-based relaxation, these practices offer a holistic approach to feeling better every day.

Take control of your well-being with yoga practices that support your body’s unique needs. Breathe deeply, move mindfully, and find balance—one class at a time.

Certificate of completion

3 CEU’s Upon Completion

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Challenge Outline

3.2hrs to complete

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Section 1
  • If you’ve experienced hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), you know how depleting it can be. This gentle practice is designed to increase your vitality during these times so that you have more energy for your day or night.
  • Experiencing stress is a common side effect of living with diabetes. In this sequence, you’ll sync your breath with gentle movement, extending your exhales at times, which can produce a feeling of calm. You’ll also do an asymmetrical dynamic bridge pose that provides a nice neck stretch, a standing forward bend flow, gentle reclined twists, and more.
  • Take care of your heart and mind in this meditative class that’s designed for people with diabetes. Enjoy a slow vinyasa sequence that includes a warrior l flow, prone backbends, a dynamic bridge variation, and more. At the end of class, you’ll rest and experience a heart-centered body scan. Enjoy this opportunity to let go completely.
  • In this rest and relaxation class, you’ll do gentle movements on hands and knees and lying down that are designed to calm your nervous system. You’ll also rest with your legs on a chair or bolster as Evan guides you in a simple breathing practice to relieve tension.
  • This therapeutic practice is for people with type 1 diabetes who have gastroparesis (nerve damage that prevents the stomach from emptying properly). You’ll focus on building heat in the abdominal region and stimulating the vagus nerve, which plays a crucial role in the “rest and digest” function of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Section 2
  • Cultivate inner stillness with this guided breath-centric meditation designed for people with type 1 diabetes. The pranayama practices you’ll explore during this experience are nadi shodhanam (alternate nostril breathing) and sitali (cooling breath).
  • This guided relatxation practice for people with diabetes is designed to help you relax and let go. Explore a few grounding visualizations and body scans so you can connect with your breath, release tension, and tap into your own healing capability.

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Meet Your Teacher

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Evan Soroka
is a yoga therapist based in Aspen, Colorado. She grew up under the influence of mother nature inspired... Read more

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely, you can include this challenge in your Yoga Alliance training hours, with each hour equivalent to one continuing education credit.
This challenge is entirely self- paced, allowing you to learn at your convenience.There are no imposed deadlines or time constraints for Challenge completion.
No prerequisites are required; this challenge is open to anyone interested in deepening their knowledge and practice.
No, the challenge is accessible to all individuals interested in enriching their understanding and practice of yoga.Yoga teaching certification is not a prerequisite.

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