Removing the "Blocks" In Eating Disorder Recovery
Learn about the yoga philosophy known as the kleshas, or psychological blocks. The kleshas can be a helpful lens through which to understand how eating disorder thoughts and behaviors create blocks in our lives. As Ashley Paige shares in this blog post, once we understand the block, we can learn to make new choices that will lessen its intensity and eventually remove it.
Setbacks and Cultivating Impermanence in Eating Disorder Recovery
Guest contributor Liz Dehler shares how the Buddhist teaching of impermanence can be a tool in eating disorder recovery that helps us shape a new relationship with our experiences and the world around us. Liz provides some practical ways to begin embracing impermanence in your daily life and a short meditation to practice also.
How Yoga Reaffirmed My Inner Strength
Guest contributor Hannah Latimer-Snell shares about how her relationship with yoga shifted during her eating disorder recovery from a form of over exercise to a space for self-connection and self-affirmation.
Lessons from the Mat: Doing Versus Receiving Yoga
Sharing a reflection from one early morning home practice on receiving versus doing yoga.
More Human, Not Less
Guest contributor Anita Grace Brown shares how she has learned to give herself permission to be fully human and embrace those qualities and emotions that unfortunately are often viewed as socially and culturally negative or undesirable.