The following post was contributed by Julia Travers for the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Photo credit: Caleb Asch Photography
Like many people, I often try too hard in many areas of my life and get caught up in judgements and expectations.
Yoga and Body Image Coalition Podcast featuring Sabrina Strings and Beth Berila.
Dr. Sabrina Strings discusses some of the barriers for why many mainstream yoga spaces are alienating for women of color. In this podcast, she discusses what needs to change
Podcast featuring Beth Berila and Roopa Singh
Roopa Singh talks about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and commercialization in yoga. Whereas many people in the West invoke the definition of yoga as union, Roopa reminds us that it also means liberation, both individually
Podcast featuring Beth Berila and Ela Wojtowicz
Ela Wojtowicz discusses how yoga has helped her reframe and accept her challenges of being differently-abled and inspired her to become a yoga teacher in order to make yoga more accessible to people of all abilities. In this podcast,
Radical Acceptance and Welcoming
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Teo Drake
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Teo Drake talks about making the world as we know it more welcoming to those on the margins. He discusses transforming and creating a safe space for people
Yoga and Advocacy for Disability Rights
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Carrie Barrepski
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A disability rights advocate, writer, and yoga teacher, Carrie Barrepski brings the gifts of yoga to people living with disabilities.
She works to change the stereotype of the “yoga body”
Yoga and the Aging Body
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Linda Sparrowe
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Many of us in the West are taught to resist aging. The mainstream yoga culture still places a great deal of emphasis on youth and flexibility.
How to Create "Me Time"
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Dana A. Smith
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In this episode of the YBIC podcast, yoga teacher and life coach Dana A. Smith offers several practical tips for creating and sustaining a home
Yoga, Body Image and Disordered Eating
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Hala Khouri.
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Hala Khouri describes how eating is so often connected to shame in U.S. culture and offers signposts for listeners to more kindly relate to our bodies.
Feminism and Yoga: What’s the Connection?
Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Melanie Klein.
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This week’s YBIC podcast features Melanie Klein, Co-Founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Klein discusses her journey to feminism and yoga. Feminism, she
