Trust, Connection, Play, Change – Jenny Sauer-Klein
From Accessible Disruption - Strategy Table Pathways by Tahira Endean, Ryan Hill, Anthony Vade
November 6, 2025 · 45 min · Season 2 · Episode 7
About this episode
Jenny Sauer-Klein discusses her journey in making change accessible through AcroYoga and her latest project aimed at transforming corporate events.
In this episode of "Accessible Disruption," hosts Anthony Vade and Tahira Endean speak with Jenny Sauer-Klein about her career in making change accessible and appealing. Jenny shares how she first disrupted the traditional yoga world with AcroYoga, a practice she co-founded that combines yoga, acrobatics, and Thai massage. She contrasts the somber, individualistic nature of traditional yoga conferences with AcroYoga's exuberant, playful, and community-based approach. The practice was designed to reward strength as well as flexibility and emphasize that "we can do more together than we can alone". Jenny explains that pioneering AcroYoga required overcoming participants' initial fears and limiting beliefs. The key was building trust and confidence through gradual, incremental steps and creating psychological safety. She used playful, non-acrobatic icebreakers to build rapport, enabling strangers to feel safe enough to try more risky physical movements together. Jenny later applied these values of trust, connection, and playfulness to the corporate world through "The Culture Conference". She also discusses the difficult decision to leave AcroYoga, which taught her the importance of…
People in this episode
Hosts: Anthony Vade, Tahira Endean
Guest: Jenny Sauer-Klein
Topics covered
- trust
- connection
- play
- change
- AcroYoga
- corporate events
Keywords
- psychological safety
- community-based approach
- letting go
- Culture Conference
Mentioned in this episode
Products: AcroYoga, The Culture Conference
Books & works: Accessible Disruption
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