Marsha T Danzig
Y4A: Yoga for Amputees Founder
November 4, 1962 - January 8, 2022

Marsha Therese Danzig, below the knee amputee, yoga therapist and yoga teacher, and founder of Y4A: Yoga for Amputees, tragically died from complications of Covid-19 on January 8, 2022.

The entire yoga community continues to mourn her loss.

Marsha lived an active life, full of the things she loved – music, art, dancing, laughter – and she was surrounded by the love of friends, family, and the limb loss and limb limitation community. She successfully navigated the effects of childhood cancer, an amputation, and a kidney transplant, and was fully vaccinated, boosted, and careful in her daily life. However, the coronavirus still struck. 

Marsha was a pioneer in the yoga world. She was the first amputee to become a yoga teacher, and she dedicated her teaching to making yoga accessible to anyone with limb loss, limb limitation, or limb difference. Marsha was a major factor in helping the yoga world to become more inclusive of those with limb loss or limb limitation. Her focus on treating amputees as whole people has helped influence the yoga world’s advancement over the last several years toward being less didactic, and being more adaptive and inclusive of everyone – a true yoga for every body, every day, everywhere.

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As a result of a lifetime of teaching yoga to and for amputees, Marsha has established a vast network of resources for amputees. Also, through Marsha’s Y4A teacher training program, there are 95 Y4A teachers listed on the Y4A webpage representing the US, and places as far away the UK, Turkey, Australia, Spain, and Russia, a worldwide reach.