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The Yoga Body Myth & My Late-30s Body

September 29, 2014 by Guest Author 7 Comments

By Roseanne Harvey, It's All Yoga Baby Recently I was having brunch with my granny and she said; “You’ve gained weight. With all the yoga that you do, you should be skinny!” There’s nothing like being fat-shamed by your grandmother. But she was echoing a common misperception about the “yoga body,” something that has been presented by the dominant culture, a way of understanding the effects that yoga has upon a woman’s body. Reflections On A Changing Body Of course, my 84-year-old granny didn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: Acceptance, aging, body image, changing bodies, conscious aging, hatha yoga, mindful aging, self-love, seven-minute workout, yoga, yoga body, yoga butt

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