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Our coalition is committed to body love by developing, promoting and supporting yoga that is accessible, body positive and reflects the full range of human diversity. Our mission not only advocates yoga as an essential tool in personal transformation, from the inside out, but also includes a critical social justice component by challenging industry leaders and media creators to expand their vision of what a yogi looks like.
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Ybic Podcast With Sarah Joy Marsh: Reclaiming Your Relationship with Your Body
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Sarah Joy Marsh, MA, E-RYT-500 yoga teacher, therapist and author, is a vibrant, compassionate catalyst for transformation to those that suffer from addictions – in particular disordered eating patterns/emotional eating. The combination of her ability to identify when a conditioned mind crowds out clear thinking and to inspire the courage to bring …
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Ybic Podcast With Roopa Singh: Yoga and Cultural Appropriation
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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 and collectively. In this insightful conversation, she raises questions about yoga, safety, visibility, and who is pres…
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Yoga and Body Image Podcast : Yoga As A Tool For Social Change
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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 in order for yoga spaces to become more inclusive and welcoming to diverse communities. She also moves the conversation beyond individual changes in particular yoga studios to …
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Jessamyn Stanley talks about how to listen to our own body wisdom and tap into how we feel rather than how we look. Cultivating self-love is how we can create an empowered body image and yoga community that counters narrow body ideals. She challenges yoga clothing companies, yoga studios, and yoga students to recognize the beauty of all yoga bodies…
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Feminism and Yoga: What’s the Connection? Podcast featuring Dr. Beth Berila and Melanie Klein.
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YBIC podcast features Melanie Klein, Co-Founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Klein discusses her journey to feminism and yoga. Feminism, she describes, taught her cultural analysis and the systematic nature of inequalities. Yoga taught her how to come home to her body. After experiencing disordered eating, abusive relationships, and negati…
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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. In her work, Khouri normalizes people’s struggles with body issues and helps us connect with ourselves and with one another. She discusses the difference between being fit and being healthy. As she …
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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 who are different or more marginalized then ourselves. Radical welcoming is the incarnation of all voices and power to be heard and felt. Hard talks, awareness, and discomfort are the embodiment…
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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 practice. She discusses the challenges that prevent many of us from maintaining at home practice and offers us practical solutions to overcome them.“In order for me to do and to give, I have to take ca…
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