• #repost @nimblelimbsyoga ・・・ In honour of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, here are two collections of essays I’ve been working my way through over the past year that I can highly recommend. Modern yoga has become synonymous with a certain ‘look’ and an aspirational lifestyle which can be incredibly harmful to those suffering from eating disorders, disordered eating or diet culture (the latter of which unfortunately affects all of us 😠). Yoga *can* be a healing tool that can help people to connect with their bodies and start treating them with respect but it can also have the very opposite effect and become just another tool to punish the body or another comparison to measure self worth against. As a yoga teacher it’s important to me not to perpetuate any form of diet culture in my classes and this book edited by @carolyncostin (aka the queen of eating disorder recovery writing) has taught me a lot about how to use yoga to aid recovery rather than hinder it. Yoga spaces are often seen as catering for only certain body types and people of size or colour often don’t feel included or seen. @melaniecklein’s anthology of empowering stories by people in bodies that aren’t traditionally seen as ‘yoga bodies’ is beyond inspiring and reading it makes me feel so privileged to be doing this work.💪❤️ #eatingdisorderawareness #eatingdisorderawarenessweek #eatingdisorderrecovery #yogaforeatingdisorders #yogaforeatingdisorderrecovery #yogaforeverybody #yogaforeveryone #yogaforall #yogaforallbodies #healingyoga #yogaforhealing #yogaforrecovery #yogaforrealpeople #balance #healing #namasteireland #female_igers_ireland_ #bodyloveyoga
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    #repost @nimblelimbsyoga ・・・ In honour of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, here are two collections of essays I’ve been working my way through over the past year that I can highly recommend. Modern yoga has become synonymous with a certain ‘look’ and an aspirational lifestyle which can be incredibly harmful to those suffering from eating disorders, disordered eating or diet culture (the latter of which unfortunately affects all of us 😠). Yoga *can* be a healing tool that can help people to connect with their bodies and start treating them with respect but it can also have the very opposite effect and become just another tool to punish the body or another comparison to measure self worth against. As a yoga teacher it’s important to me not to perpetuate any form of diet culture in my classes and this book edited by @carolyncostin (aka the queen of eating disorder recovery writing) has taught me a lot about how to use yoga to aid recovery rather than hinder it. Yoga spaces are often seen as catering for only certain body types and people of size or colour often don’t feel included or seen. @melaniecklein’s anthology of empowering stories by people in bodies that aren’t traditionally seen as ‘yoga bodies’ is beyond inspiring and reading it makes me feel so privileged to be doing this work.💪❤️ #eatingdisorderawareness #eatingdisorderawarenessweek #eatingdisorderrecovery #yogaforeatingdisorders #yogaforeatingdisorderrecovery #yogaforeverybody #yogaforeveryone #yogaforall #yogaforallbodies #healingyoga #yogaforhealing #yogaforrecovery #yogaforrealpeople #balance #healing #namasteireland #female_igers_ireland_ #bodyloveyoga
  • #repost @neda ・・・ For the final #NEDAblog post of #NEDAwareness Week 2021, we have a round-up of ~ five ~ posts from @ybicoalition.⠀ ⠀ Read these powerful stories by swiping up on today’s Instagram Story, by clicking the #NEDAwareness “Blogs, Roundtables, at ybicoalition.com/blog or Resources” *LINK IN BIO*
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    #repost @neda ・・・ For the final #NEDAblog post of #NEDAwareness Week 2021, we have a round-up of ~ five ~ posts from @ybicoalition.⠀ ⠀ Read these powerful stories by swiping up on today’s Instagram Story, by clicking the #NEDAwareness “Blogs, Roundtables, at ybicoalition.com/blog or Resources” *LINK IN BIO*
  • NEDAwarenees Week YBIC Blog FIVE: “... But what’s the missing piece? What is making it feel difficult for me to pursue this topic as someone both in recovery from an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, and as someone who works as a therapist with people who are either also in recovery or are in an active state of their eating disorder and seeking additional somatic support to add to their care team. Everybody has a seat at the table. Along with the markers of my identity named above, I am also intersectional in my identities – inhabiting a body comprised of multiple ethnicities, who identifies as a queer nonbinary femme, who is chronically ill/disabled (shout-out to any fellow Crohn’s Disease or IBD warriors who understand the added layer of complexity around the digestive system), but who more visibly than any of these things; is fat. Not fat, as in “holy shame spiral, this is a negative word to fear,” but fat as in, “literal body descriptor.” Average height. Brown Hair. Browner eyes. Thighs that touch. Arms that jiggle. Belly of abundance. Fat. (please notice here any sensations, emotions, memories, feelings, or images that may have arisen for you in this moment of experiencing the word fat and please take time separately to sit with and reflect upon that)....” Rachel Otis @somewhere_under_the_rainbow READ MORE at our blog here: http://ybicoalition.com/whose-table-which-seat/ or in link in @ybicoalition bio. #NEDAwareness #eatingdisorder #body-acceptance #whatayogilookslike #ybicoalition #fatphobia
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    NEDAwarenees Week YBIC Blog FIVE: “... But what’s the missing piece? What is making it feel difficult for me to pursue this topic as someone both in recovery from an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, and as someone who works as a therapist with people who are either also in recovery or are in an active state of their eating disorder and seeking additional somatic support to add to their care team. Everybody has a seat at the table. Along with the markers of my identity named above, I am also intersectional in my identities – inhabiting a body comprised of multiple ethnicities, who identifies as a queer nonbinary femme, who is chronically ill/disabled (shout-out to any fellow Crohn’s Disease or IBD warriors who understand the added layer of complexity around the digestive system), but who more visibly than any of these things; is fat. Not fat, as in “holy shame spiral, this is a negative word to fear,” but fat as in, “literal body descriptor.” Average height. Brown Hair. Browner eyes. Thighs that touch. Arms that jiggle. Belly of abundance. Fat. (please notice here any sensations, emotions, memories, feelings, or images that may have arisen for you in this moment of experiencing the word fat and please take time separately to sit with and reflect upon that)....” Rachel Otis @somewhere_under_the_rainbow READ MORE at our blog here: http://ybicoalition.com/whose-table-which-seat/ or in link in @ybicoalition bio. #NEDAwareness #eatingdisorder #body-acceptance #whatayogilookslike #ybicoalition #fatphobia