Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery

4 week Yoga Course

This course starts on Wednesday 1st March 2023 and finishes on Thursday 23 March. Outlined below is the time and dates for each zoom class:

Tuesday 31st Feb 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Wednesday 1st March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Tuesday 7th March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Wednesday 8th March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Tuesday 14th March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Wednesday 15th March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Tuesday 21st March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

Wednesday 22nd March 2023 6:45PM - 8PM NZ

You will receive a Zoom meeting email the day before each class as a reminder. If you cant make it on the day let me know and we can reschedule for a time that suits.

2 Days a week including lectures, yoga, group discussion in a safe and judgement free zone.

Connect with others in recovery, discover simple life changing keys to recovery, explore yoga practices for recovery.

Week One: Explore your environment

In this session, you will learn:

•   The history,and depth of yoga, and how yoga can help you in eating disorder recovery
•   How to create a safe, non judgemental space within yourself and your home for your yoga practice
•   Keys for managing past trauma: grounding, orienting, and resourcing
•   Yoga practices to help you cope with anxiety, fear and panic

Week Two: Connect to Your Mind, Body and Soul

In this session, you will learn:

•   Interoception: what it is and why it matters
•   How the monster (Eating Disorder) interferes with the body’s natural communication system
•   Tools to manage overwhelming sensations and feelings
  
•   Yoga practices to help you recognize hunger, fullness, and big emotions

Week Three: Befriend Your Mind

In this session, you will learn:

•   How to manage rumination, obsessive thoughts, and urges
•   Tools to interrupt cycles of restricting, bingeing, purging, and overexercising
•   Yoga practices that support mindful awareness and self-compassion

Week Four: Restore Your Thought Processes

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
•   Yoga practices to stimulate the vagus nerve and relaxation response