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Summary
In this remarkable, first-of-its-kind book, twenty-five contributors--including musician Alanis Morissette, celebrity yoga instructor Seane Corn, and New York Timesbestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried--discuss how yoga and body image intersect. Through inspiring personal stories you'll discover how yoga not only affects your physical health, but also how you feel about your body.
Offering unique perspectives on yoga and how it has shaped their lives, the writers provide tips for using yoga to find self-empowerment and improved body image. This anthology unites a diverse collection of voices that address topics across the spectrum of human experience, from culture and media to gender and sexuality. Yoga and Body Imagewill help you learn to connect with and love your beautiful body.
2015 IPPY Award Bonze Medal Winner in Inspirational/Spiritual
2014 ForeWord IndieFab Bronze Winner for Body, Mind & Spirit
Author Notes
Melanie Klein, MA, is a writer speaker, and professor of Sociology and Women's Studies. As a body image advocate and proponent of media literacy education, she is also the cofounder of the Yoga and Body Coalition, on the advisory board for the Brave Girls Alliance, and the founder and co-coordinator of the LA chapter of Women. Action the Media. She is a contribution to 21st Century Yoga. Culture Politics and is lectured in Conversations with Modern Yoga. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Anna Guest-Jelley, MA, is the founder of CurvyYoga.com. a training and inspiration portal for curvy yoga's that has been featured in The Washington Post, Yoga, Journal, U.S. News World Report and Yoga International among others. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Reviews (1)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Klein and Guest-Jelley gather an array of yoga practitioners--including musician Alanis Morissette and Dr. Sara Gottfried--for whom yoga has transformed the way they think about their bodies. The major gap in the conversation around yoga and body image, according to Klein, is the harmful culture surrounding yoga that has formed in the last decade, thanks to an image-obsessed fitness industry eager to capitalize on the latest craze. In telling their stories, many contributors decry this culture, arguing that there's no such thing as a yoga body. A hard-driving marathon runner finds her passion for yoga while recovering from an injury. A man with cerebral palsy learns to adapt the practice to his unique needs. Yoga helps a transgendered man reconnect with his body after years of self-hatred and abuse. But for all the diversity represented by the book's subjects, their stories tend to follow similar trajectories, and lessons can feel repetitive. Yoga is a tool to move inward, an opportunity to connect more fully, and the unity of being a whole person. In other words, whatever the question, yoga is the answer. Despite this boilerplate wisdom, the book's message of self-love is urgent and essential. Agent: Frank Weimann, Folio Literary Management. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Why Yoga and Body Image | p. 1 |
Part 1 Making Choices and Creating Change | p. 11 |
Coming Home to the Body: Can Yoga Help or Hinder? | p. 13 |
Yoga Is More Than Just a Workout | p. 23 |
How Shame Found Me on the Yoga Mat | p. 35 |
Too Much Is Not Enough | p. 43 |
Maybe the Problem Isn't My Body | p. 51 |
Part 2 On the Margins | p. 61 |
Work in Progress | p. 63 |
Confessions of a Fat, Black Yoga Teacher | p. 73 |
I'm a Warrior, Hear Me Roar | p. 83 |
Yoga from the Margins | p. 91 |
From Body Confident to Body Insecure and Back | p. 99 |
Part 3 Culture and Media | p. 109 |
F*** Yer Beauty Standards! | p. 111 |
What Has Always Been | p. 121 |
Beauty, Value, and the Feminine Roots of Yoga | p. 129 |
Power, Privilege, and the Beauty Myth | p. 139 |
Too Much and Not Enough | p. 149 |
Finding and Loving the Essential Self | p. 159 |
Part 4 Parenting and Children | p. 171 |
Mother vs. Media | p. 173 |
Tuning Out the "Baby Bump" Media Madness: How Prenatal Yoga Helped Me Find Real Body Image Balance | p. 183 |
Rx: Yoga | p. 191 |
"I'm Ugly! I'm So Ugly!" | p. 201 |
Part 5 Gender and Sexuality | p. 211 |
Meeting My Own Body | p. 213 |
The Athletic Yogi: Sexuality and Identity through the Body | p. 221 |
Like Father, Like Son | p. 231 |
Doing More by Doing Less | p. 241 |
Virabhadrasana in the Academy: Coming Out with an Open Heart | p. 249 |
Where We Go from Here | p. 259 |
Acknowledgments | p. 265 |