My guest for today is Karen Shideler, and we are examining BODY IMAGE and DIET CULTURE in the yoga industry. We will unpack how our language as teachers can be exclusive, "toxic body affirming," why yoga challenges are trash and our mutual disdain of Apple watches. Karen is a yoga and group fitness teacher, teacher trainer, and lululemon ambassador. Karen is passionate about sharing movement and exercise as a way for people to find more freedom in being themselves. She credits her yoga practice as the thing that allowed her to reclaim her own body after experiencing many years of shame and anxiety.
Mentioned in this episode "Your Body, Your Yoga" and "Your Spine Your Yoga" by Bernie Clarke, "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origin of Fat Phobia" by Sabrina Strings PhD, Body Kindness podcast with Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN - White Supremacy of Yoga with Sabrina Strings PhD, Yoga is Dead podcast, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. and The Body is Not An Apology: the Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor.
Find Karen on IG at @iadoreyoga and follow for her ZOOM class schedule.
