This article is reposted with permission from YOGAudacious.com from the 2014 series. How did you find yoga? I began practicing yoga because of a dance injury to my Psoas. I began with a six month study of Iyengar yoga that transformed my understanding of my body and my love affair grew from there. I started taking all kinds of classes; vinyasa, kundalini, tantra, power vinyasa, restorative, and yin. The hardest… read more →
Elen Bahr shares her experience from the Yoga and Body Image Coalition weekend workshop in the Twin Cities. Photo credit: Andy Howe Five words spontaneously became the theme of February’s Yoga & Body Image Coalition workshops in the Twin Cities. Over 100 people, most of whom had never met, came together over three days of discussion and workshops intended to address a complex and deep-rooted topic, the relationship between yoga… read more →
Yoga: A medium for communication and learning. Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Chelsea Jackson. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Dr. Chelsea A. Jackson discusses yoga as a “medium for communication and learning.” In her work with marginalized teens, she uses yoga and storytelling as a way to empower youth to speak their stories. She describes yoga as a reciprocal relationship between student and teacher, both in the yoga and in… read more →
NOTE from Melanie Klein: When Anna Guest - Jelley and I embarked on writing and curating Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories about Beauty, Bravery, and Loving Your Body in what became a three-year project, we did so in order to highlight the complex and interwoven issues that intersect with yoga and body image as separate topics as well how they intersect with yoga and body image jointly. We… read more →
This article is reposted with permission from YOGAudacious.com from the 2014 series. How did you find yoga? I had a friend about 4 years ago that had fallen in love with the practice. At the time, I was an avid runner, and thought spending an hour on a mat was counter intuitive. I remember how nervous I was my first time entering a yoga studio because I had heard so… read more →