Picture, if you will, the typical yoga class — a small group of toned, limber athletes finding inner peace while challenging their bodies. Now imagine you’ve had a hip replacement. Or you’re confined to a wheelchair. Or you’re autistic. Something as physically and spiritually enriching as yoga may seem out of reach. At Circle Yoga in Washington, Annie Mahon and Karen Soltes practice therapeutic yoga.

“Yoga is not just about the asanas [poses],” said Mahon, the studio’s founder. “Poses are one of the limbs of yoga, but yoga is so much more.”