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The Release of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body

October 14, 2014 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Melanie Klein loves her yoga body

By guest author Melanie Klein, Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Anna Guest–Jelley, founder of Curvy Yoga and the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body, and I both struggled with a distorted body image, our perception of ourselves, from early childhood on. In the process, we tried countless diets and experimented with a variety of fitness trends – all of which left us feeling shame, guilt and punishment for the bodies we lived in. Our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: diversity, equity, yoga and body image, yoga and body image coalition, yoga body, yoga culture, yoga is for every body, yoga practice

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

How Yoga Helped Me Overcome Depression

February 5, 2014 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Caren Baginski

by Caren Baginski I remember the first time I took an antidepressant. It was my third year of high school and I couldn't swallow pills, so I had liquid Prozac in a tiny cup. It didn't taste like anything, but during that time nothing did. I looked intensely at that drug for an hour before I took it, tears streaming down my face, feeling like a big fat failure. I remember the last time I took an antidepressant. I had moved to a new state, was on Zoloft, and weaned myself, thinking I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: mind body connection, science of yoga, yoga and the body, yoga body, yoga for anxiety, yoga for depression, yoga mind, yoga relieves depression, yoga science

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