body image Archives - Body Positive Yoga

Keeping your chest out of your face during yoga

by Amber Karnes | Oct 8, 2018 | Yoga Poses | 0 |

This video shows a quick tip for keeping your chest away from your face while you practice. I find this especially helpful in inversions, forward folds, and even savasana.

How to be grateful for your body (even when it feels impossible)

by Amber Karnes | Nov 30, 2017 | Body Image, Self-care | 9 |

Body acceptance in our culture is a tall order even on the best of days, but it becomes even more complicated when we are in pain, disabled, or have limitations that affect us. Let’s talk about ways to appreciate the body we have even when it’s not the body we want.

Kimberly Rae Miller on body neutrality, Beautiful Bodies, and the strange history of dieting

by Amber Karnes | Oct 6, 2017 | Podcast | 0 |

Today on the Body Positive Yogacast, I’m chatting with bestselling author, actress, and mama Kimberly Rae Miller. We’ll talk about her latest book Beautiful Bodies, and cover topics like body neutrality, the strange history of dieting, and how a personal tragedy brought her to a place of body acceptance.

Yoga turned my body into a place I could call home

by Amber Karnes | Aug 31, 2017 | Body Image | 0 |

Body Positive Yoga founder Amber Karnes shares how yoga helped her connect to her body.

You don’t have to love your body.

by Amber Karnes | Jul 19, 2017 | Body Image | 5 |

Learning to appreciate your physical appearance and learning to love your body is one path toward self-acceptance, but fixating on just the outer stuff is another trip down the same road of placing value and worth on appearance.

Body Gratitude Mindfulness Recording

by Amber Karnes | Feb 28, 2017 | Body Image | 0 |

I know what it’s like to struggle with an eating disorder and how easy it is to get caught...

There’s No Wrong Way To Have a Body: Body Positivity, Disability, & Why It’s OK If You Still Feel Fat Some Days.

by Amber Karnes | Aug 11, 2016 | Body Image | 9 |

I feel so strongly about body positivity and yet, so many days I find myself feeling anything but positive about my body. Some days I feel like a fraud.

Rosie Molinary on radical self-acceptance, living your purpose & the myth of effortless perfection

by Amber Karnes | Apr 2, 2015 | Interviews | 2 |

In this video interview, I talked with author, teacher, and activist Rosie Molinary about radical self-acceptance, living your purpose, the myth of “effortless perfection”, and much more.

5 tips for coming back to your yoga practice after an absence

by Amber Karnes | Nov 20, 2014 | Body Image | 20 |

This post has been brewing in my heart and mind for a while. It’s one I haven’t really...

How yoga healed the relationship with my body

by Amber Karnes | Oct 11, 2012 | Body Image | 4 |

From the very first class, the one where my tracksuit pants flapped all over the place and so did my limbs, and, to be honest, my belly, yoga gave me relief from myself. The worrying, obsessing, self-hating internal dialogue stopped for an hour, and for a few hours after that too. I hadn’t had a moment’s break from that since I was eight years old. It felt so great.

Yoga and the unexpected road to "perfect"

by Amber Karnes | Oct 2, 2012 | Body Image | 9 |

Gotta admit it, when I first started yoga, I wanted to be perfect. To be perfect, I needed to be thin, happy, flexible, and have a dogmatic aversion to gluten and fast food. And in my usual perfectionist, overachieving fashion, I opted to apply for the four month volunteer program at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, instead of taking a beginner class. I was ready for the fast track and I was desperate.

Modifications for yoga twists (and tips on making friends with your belly)

by Amber Karnes | Sep 18, 2012 | Body Image, For Yoga Teachers, Yoga Poses | 16 |

If your body is shaped less like a celery stalk and more like a butternut squash, yoga twists may feel totally uncomfortable. Find out how to safely modify twists for your body!