Yoga Therapy for Eating Disorders
Learn yoga-inspired tools and teachings to support your recovery and life.
Yoga therapy is a holistic healing modality that restores physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Discover how the practices, tools, and philosophies of yoga can support you in your eating disorder recovery journey. Each virtual 1x1 yoga therapy session is customized to meet you where you are and includes centering exercises, discussion, gentle movement, breathing practices, yoga philosophies, and goal setting to foster healing. Yoga therapy is a wonderful complement to your work with a therapist, dietician, and other care providers.
What You Will Learn
How to breathe to help calm spinning thoughts, urges, overwhelm, and anxiety.
Yoga poses/shapes to learn to be in your body and invite curiosity and kindness toward it.
Grounding techniques to help calm spinning thoughts, urges, overwhelm, and anxiety.
Yoga concepts to offer new ways to think about your thoughts, actions, and body.
How to reconnect with your body in gentle ways.
How to observe yourself and others instead of judge.
How to be present.
How to exercise personal agency and choice.
The power of mantra and meditation.
And so much more.
Benefits
Everyone's experience with and goals for yoga therapy and eating disorder recovery will be unique, but here is a list of some of the general benefits based on what clients have shared and current research.
Improve overall sense of self.
Emotional regulation.
Nervous system regulation.
Quiet the eating disorder voice.
Redefine the relationship with your body.
Cultivate compassion and curiosity about your body.
Explore moments of feeling comfortable in your body.
Strengthen your self-expression.
Reframe how and why we feed our bodies.
Expand your world to be so much more than food, symptoms, and body image.
Help manage depression and anxiety.
Cultivate self-reliance.
Increase self-worth.
Enhance physical strength and health.
Improve organ function.
Calm the central nervous system.
Establish new beliefs grounded in health versus disordered eating.
Complement traditional forms of treatment and therapy.
“From breathing exercises and yoga poses, writing activities and mantras, you are equipped with strategies that enable you to focus on what’s necessary to move forward in recovery.”
Meet Our Yoga Therapists
When We Work Together
Our 60-minute virtual sessions will be tailored to meet your specific needs, goals, and intentions and include a combination of discussion, yoga poses, breathing exercises, mental techniques, meditation, relaxation, and lifestyle education. Our work together will be goal oriented to support you in your efforts to practice yoga-inspired tools in your recovery and life.
Free Discovery Call
If you are curious about how yoga therapy can be helpful in your eating disorder recovery, let's connect on a free 30-minute discovery call. Whether you are new to yoga or are an experienced practitioner, there's so much to discover about how this practice can heal, empower, and offer new tools to support your ongoing healing. I will gladly answer all of your questions during our call, and we will discover the best way we can support you going forward.