The yamas and niyamas are essential ethical frameworks that guide our personal yoga practice, and our practice as yoga professionals. These powerful tools guide us as we take actions that ensure we are holding inclusive spaces for the eating disorders community.
In this 3-hour virtual workshop, we will learn how the yamas and niyamas apply to being an ally and advocate in our work with the eating disorders community. We will explore the yamas and niyamas as tools to uncover and address bias, examine identity and the power of story, and how to get off the sidelines and take action as allies. This workshop will hold space for reflection, discussion, intention setting and action planning so that we can create and hold inclusive spaces that better serve the eating disorder community.
Who Should Participate
This workshop is for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of yoga philosophy and practices as they apply to eating disorders healing. The workshop will enrich your skills as an inclusive teacher or therapist.
You do not need any prior knowledge or study of yoga philosophy and you also do not need to be currently teaching or providing yoga therapy specifically in eating disorder recovery. The tools gained in this workshop will enrich your skills as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist and can be applied to offerings specific to eating disorders as well as public yoga classes.
What We Will Learn
Identify how to “get off the sidelines” and take meaningful ethical action aligned with the yamas and niyamas.
Understand what it means to be unaware and the role of humility in addressing bias when supporting people with eating disorders.
Understand awareness and the role of empathy in exploring identity and supporting systemically excluded people with eating disorders.
Understand what it means to take action and the role of vulnerability as we
unpack the power of story.
Understand what it means to provide support through allyship, and advocacy with resilience.
Identify and plan to take action with responsibility to better support people with eating disorders.
Includes
Lecture, reflection opportunities, discussion and action planning.
Workbook containing key concepts, space to record goals and discussion notes, space for reflection, reminders of key actions and resources.
Certificate of completion.
Connection with others who are passionate about yoga and eating disorders.
Yoga teachers registered with the Yoga Alliance will receive 3 CEUs.
Yoga therapists registered with the International Association for Yoga Therapists will receive 3 CEUs.
This virtual workshop will be led by Yoga for Eating Disorders teacher Niya Bajaj, C-IAYT, and will meet on Zoom on Sunday, March 24 from 1PM to 4PM EST. You are welcome to participate live or via the recording. Attending live is highly encouraged.
Tuition: $60
Payment plans are available. Please contact me to set up payment.
Meet the Instructor
NIYA BAJAJ, YOGA THERAPIST
Niya Bajaj is an award-winning mentor, philanthropist, and yoga therapist who has spent her career helping high performing humans achieve their goals by working with you as a whole person, taking the experience of body, breath and mind into account to build healthier systems and structures. As a queer woman of color, she brings her interdisciplinary insights to her research, practice and the organizations she leads and advises. Connect with Niya on her website or on Instagram.