I'm Lilia Joy

I'm a disabled queer neurodivergent artist, writer, somatic worker, and yoga teacher with a focus on accessible sustainable body-celebrating movement for liberatory embodiment.

My work is rooted in a deep belief in the connection we share and the hope that our hearts, songs, moves and art can change the world.

Soft Hearts Society is a project for community resourcing, collective healing, mining hope together & finding joy in this world & each other.

Yoga & Movement

I approach yoga as a system for liberation, path for preparing body & mind for resistance, container for spiritual connection, re-indigenization practice, and political act of self preservation as Audre Lorde described self care. It is both personal and communal.

I believe that meeting ourselves where we’re at in all our nuance, messiness and beauty is a key part and point of the practice and of life.

I believe yoga should be accessible to all kinds of people with every type of body and that, to quote Susanna Barkataki, “if you can breathe you can do yoga”.

Hire Lilia to speak about:

Disability & Access

Somatic Wellbeing

Anxiety Support

Trauma Awareness

Queer Competency

Creative Courage

Neurodivergence

With gratitude, reverence, and a commitment to equity I want to name that the city of Seattle where I live and practice are on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.

Thank you to the land protectors who have ensured we can continue to have clean air to breathe and a living Earth to hold us.

It’s equally important to me to acknowledge and offer gratitude the early yogis of Asia, specifically modern India and China as well as those of Africa who developed, codified, preserved, and passed along the remarkable practice of yoga.

Thank you to those who have modeled moving with compassion, courage, awareness, and in community.