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This week, Sheena and Zaakiyah discuss how yoga can nurture your relationship to your body and body image in 2023.

From sharing the role yoga has played in their personal journey’s relating to their bodies, to how different cultures, family norms, romantic relationships, the media and celebrities affect how we perceive ourselves. 

Listen to the end to hear the yogic principle that shifts mindsets, so you can start to loosen the grip of your mental conditioning when it comes to your body image.

Themes and Timestamps:

• Welcome to Season 2 (00:00:35)

• Yoga’s link to Body Image (00:03:35)

• Zaakiyah and Sheena’s Body Image Journey’s (00:09:45)

• Girl’s being sexualisation and Pop Culture’s shifting body ideals (00:29:10)

• Social Media’s effect on Body Image and normalizing weight fluctuations (00:38:15)

• What about Men’s Body Image (00:42:06)

• Understanding Body Image and Sexual Trauma Survivors (00:46:40)

• Body Positive vs Body Neutral and the Yogic philosophy to help (00:50:54)

Additional Resources: 

1. My Body, EM Rata

2. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxanne Gay

3. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/01/social-media-triggers-children-to-dislike-their-own-bodies-says-study

4. Free Resources to improve Body Image for Adults and Children. 

Connect with us: 

• @yogabigsisterspodcast
• @zaakiyahbhikha

• @sheena.teaches.yoga

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