YOGA FOR EATING DISORDER RECOVERY

FREE LIVE VIRTUAL PROGRAM OFFERED MONTHLY BY EAT BREATHE THRIVE

FACILITATORS VARY MONTH TO MONTH - LARA SCRIBA, MELANIE TAYLOR, REBECCA STEPHENS & HANNAH MCCARTHY
MEET THE TEAM

CONNECT WITH OTHERS IN RECOVERY

The live format of this course allows you to meet with others on the recovery journey, share struggles and celebrations, and access support.

DISCOVER FOUR SIMPLE, LIFE-CHANGING KEYS TO RECOVERY

Learn four key principles to support you build skills for mindful eating, emotional resilience, and body acceptance.

EXPLORE YOGA PRACTICES FOR RECOVERY

Each session of the course includes a short yoga and meditation practice, designed specifically to support your recovery.

COURSE CONTENT

WEEK ONE: ESTABLISH YOUR FOUNDATION

In this session, you will learn:

  • The history, depth, and breadth of the yoga tradition, and how yoga can help you in eating disorder recovery

  • How to create a sacred space within yourself and your home for your yoga practice

  • Three keys for managing past trauma: grounding, orienting, and resourcing

  • Embodied practices to help you cope with anxiety, fear and panic

WEEK TWO: CONNECT TO YOUR SENSES

In this session, you will learn:

  • Interoception: what it is and why it matters

  • How eating disorders interfere with the body’s natural communication system

  • Tools to manage sensation overwhelm

  • Embodied practices to help you recognize hunger, fullness, and big emotions

WEEK THREE: BEFRIEND YOUR MIND

In this session, you will learn:

  • The monkey mind: how to manage rumination, obsessive thoughts, and urges

  • The magical pause: how yoga can inadvertently “ruin” you life (in a good way)

  • Tools to interrupt cycles of restricting, bingeing, purging, and overexercising

  • Embodied practices that support mindful awareness and self-compassion

WEEK FOUR: RESTORE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM

In this session, you will learn:

  • How the nervous system is involved in anxiety and depression

  • The transformative effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system

  • Tools to shift the state of your nervous system in any given moment

  • Embodied practices to stimulate the vagus nerve and relaxation response


Eat Breathe Thrive is a not-for-profit organization that aims to prevent and help individuals overcome eating disorders. Their mission is to provide skills and resources for healthy eating, emotional resilience, and positive embodiment. Our founder, Melanie Taylor, is honored to be a facilitator of Eat Breathe Thrive Programs, the Director of Education focused on the development of Eat Breathe Thrive facilitators, expanding their curriculum around the world, and most importantly working together with such an impactful group of people in the world on such an important cause.