Upcoming Courses & Workshops
Postpartum Yoga Therapy Group: Support, Connection, and Healing for Moms Navigating Body Image and Eating Disorder Struggles
Join us for a 4-week Postpartum Yoga Therapy Group. Through gentle yoga, mindfulness, and meaningful conversations with other new moms, we’ll help you find tools to support this transformative phase of life with kindness and care. First-time and seasoned moms welcome.
Yoga & Eating Disorders Mentoring Group
Enrollment is open for the next cohort of the Yoga & Eating Disorders Mentoring Group beginning September 12, 2024. This program is for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, mental health professionals, dietitians, wellness coaches, movement teachers, and anyone who wants to learn about the role of yoga in eating disorder recovery.
Telling Your Recovery Story
Join us for a 4-week workshop series that invites storytelling and connection with others on the recovery journey. We will listen to stories of recovery as windows into understanding and sharing our own stories.
Taking Action: A Workshop on Inclusive Eating Disorder Recovery for Yoga Professionals
The yamas and niyamas are essential ethical frameworks that guide our personal yoga practice, and our practice as yoga professionals. In this 3-hour virtual workshop, we will learn how the yamas and niyamas guide us as we take actions that ensure we are holding inclusive spaces for the eating disorders community.
Permission to Slow Down Yoga Series
Join us for a 6-week virtual gentle and restorative yoga class series emphasizing the power of slowing down and doing less. Through gentle breathwork, movement, and meditation, you'll learn to observe your busy mind and body with curiosity and compassion rather than judgement or competition.
Yoga Tools for Eating Disorder Recovery
This 6-week virtual series will guide you in building a toolbox of simple yoga practices that you can apply anytime and anywhere. The “yoga tools” you will learn include grounding, breathing, mantra, gentle movement, and more.
The Joy of Writing Life Stories: Becoming Your Own Heroine/Hero
We are so happy to welcome back renowned writing and meditation teacher Jennifer Schelter, MFA, YTT 500 to lead another writing course for our community. Whether you're new to writing or a more experienced writer looking for a recharge, this course is an opportunity to learn how you are the heroine/hero of your story by writing your own.
Sunday Slow Down: Gentle Yoga Series
Join us for a 6-week gentle yoga series Sunday evenings led by Yoga for Eating Disorders teacher Heather McCornack and discover new ways to slow down and support your recovery each class.
Yoga & Journaling Workshop: Healing Your Relationship with Food
This 90-minute virtual workshop is for anyone, at any stage in eating disorder recovery, who wishes to cultivate a healthier relationship with food (and ultimately, themselves). You will be guided through a yoga practice and journaling prompts and leave with at least one next healing step to take towards a better relationship with food.
Meditation & Recovery Workshop
Did you know there is more than one way to meditate? In fact, there are many ways, and finding the style that resonates with your personality, preferences, and goals can make all the difference when you are curious about how meditation could be helpful for your recovery. Join us for this 2-hour workshop led by Abbey Morris on meditation as a tool and practice for recovery.
Summer Recovery Empowerment Series
This 4-week virtual series will teach you yoga tools to help support your recovery journey. Each week will include an empowering theme and include yoga practices like breathing techniques, affirmations, meditations, visualizations, and movement.
Everything Yoga Without the Mat
You are invited to join us for Everything Yoga Without the Mat, a six-week virtual class that takes place off of the mat and explores how philosophical teachings of yoga and other contemplative practices can be applied to recovery.
Body Breath Voice: A Practice of Movement & Sound
You are invited to join us for a 6-week yoga series that combines slow flowing yoga movement, breathing, and the healing nature of sound.
The Next Chapter: Writing Personal Stories for Healing & Loving Kindness
This 4-week virtual course led by renowned meditation and writing teacher Jennifer Schelter, MFA, YTT-500, is an invitation to write down stories that matter to you—stories that heal, offer self-worth, and radical self-acceptance. Inspired by the New Year, this course invites you to explore: What's your next chapter about?
Free Group: Your Body is Your Home
Join Y4ED faculty members Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN, RYT-500, and Candice Poole, MA, LPC, NCC, for 4 virtual interactive discussions based on themes from the book Reclaiming Body Trust, by Hilary Kinavery MS, LPC, and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD.
Candlelight Yin Yoga Class
Join us for a special yin yoga class. Light a candle and come to your mat for a practice themed in Gratitude in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Integrating Yoga into Psychotherapy for Eating Disorder Recovery
This 2-hour training will focus on integrating seated shapes (yoga postures), breathing techniques, meditations, and hand mudras in the therapy room that are specific to meeting needs of somebody who is experiencing an eating disorder.
The Joy of Writing Life Stories: Ways Into Prose For Loving-Kindness & Healing
Perhaps you’ve been thinking about it for years. How to put pen to paper, how to make time, and how to get started? Join renowned writing and meditation teacher Jennifer Schelter, MFA, YTT 500, for a 6-week online writing course to begin writing down stories that matter to you—stories that heal, offer self-worth, and radical self-acceptance.
Gentle Yoga: Movement for Healing and Connection
Join us for a 6-week gentle yoga series led by Yoga for Eating Disorders teacher Heather McCornack. With readings from the book, The Wisdom of the Body, by Dr. Hillary McBride as inspiration, this yoga series is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself in gentle and mindful ways.
Summer Yoga Series: Embrace Your Here-and-Now Body
Join us for a 6-week virtual series to improve your relationship to your body, just as it is, right now — as an instrument to support your life, instead of an ornament to be judged — so you can have a more peaceful, authentic summer.
Blurred Lines: Exploring the Intersection of Diet Culture & Yoga
This workshop will help you gain an awareness of how diet/wellness culture may be showing up (consciously or subconsciously) in yoga spaces, on social media, and in marketing and other media. Learn how yoga teachers can use their scope of practice to create a safe place for all bodies.
Tender and Fierce Self-Compassion: Yoga & Meditation Series
In this 6-week series, we will explore the practices of yoga and meditation as tools for both tender and fierce self-compassion in eating disorder recovery.
Moving Into Meditation Recovery Group
Join us for a 6-week series on meditation for your recovery. From mindful movement to breathwork to walking meditations and more, we will experience a variety of ways to meditate so that you can find the practice that best aligns with your personality, preferences, and needs.
Body Image & Embodied Interventions for the Therapy Room
Join us for an experiential training on how to integrate embodied interventions into the therapy room to help clients heal from eating disorders and body image challenges.
Everything Yoga Without the Mat
Did you know that practicing Yoga poses or “asana” is just one small aspect of the entire practice of Yoga? This virtual class will guide you on a unique transformative Yoga journey that takes place off of the mat and invites you to explore the philosophical and introspective aspects of yoga.
Yoga & Eating Disorders Mentoring Group
Enrollment is open for the next cohort of the Yoga & Eating Disorders Mentoring Group beginning March 3, 2022. This program is for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, mental health professionals, dieticians, wellness coaches, movement teachers, and anyone who wants to learn about the role of yoga in eating disorder recovery.
Finding Self-Love & Healing in Community: A Group for BIPOC Women
This group is for women who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color to serve as an opportunity to take part in a safe space for healing individually and as a collective as well as to learn and grow together. We will explore themes such as coping with body image, racial stigmas and repetitive trauma, cultivating grounding skills, and building resilience in difficult times to foster a centered sense of self and love for self.
Compassionate & Mindful Yin Yoga Series
Join us for a 6-week virtual yin yoga class series to support your recovery and well being. Follow along live or with the recording (Note: Only the teacher will be recorded, not the participants).
Body Peace and Mindful Ease Yoga Series
Join us for a new 6-week virtual yoga class series that invites you to move with gentle ease and breathe with intention to create space for peace in your body and mind. Follow along live or with the recording (Note: Only the teacher will be recorded, not the participants).
Self-Care Strategies for the Holidays and Beyond
Join us for a virtual 2-hour workshop that will help you to curate your own self-care toolbox from a place of self-love and compassion that can be used to help with any potential stress of the holiday season as well as daily life.
Exploring Gratitude - Thanksgiving Day
Join us for a special holiday writing workshop to celebrate Thanksgiving in community and explore the practice of giving thanks.