Why did Frida Kahlo hold some of her classes at La Casa Azul?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

Frida Kahlo held some of her classes at her home, La Casa Azul, because she was often too ill to travel to La Esmeralda, where she was appointed as a professor of painting in 1943.12

Throughout her life, Kahlo suffered from the long-term effects of a severe bus accident in 1925, which resulted in multiple fractures and required her to undergo more than 30 medical procedures. Due to her declining health and frequent hospital stays, she occasionally conducted her teaching duties from her residence in Coyoacán to accommodate her physical limitations.21