Disabled People Do Yoga.

Elizabeth Wright
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJan 7, 2020

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“Um, I just wanted to ask you… how much can you actually do? I’m a little concerned that you won’t be able to participate fully in the class… I wouldn’t want you to waste your money.”

This barrage of questions hit me as I walked through the door of the studio and the yoga teacher baulked at my disability. Flushing, I glanced at the people that were coming in the door behind me, hoping that they hadn’t heard what had…

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Elizabeth Wright
The Startup

Elizabeth is a disability activist, Paralympic Medalist and keynote speaker on disability, inclusion, and allyship. linktr.ee/elizabethlwright