Part 4 Moving Inward & Upward

• How has our media culture impacted your relationship with your body?

• Describe the dominant portrayal of the “yoga body.”

• What would be the personal and cultural effects of not only redefining the “yoga body,” but what it means to have a “good body”?

• How does your body image intersect with your race, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, age, or size?

• How do the systems and structures of society operate to privilege some while oppressing others?

• What is one way you can help remedy this?

• What becomes possible when we become at peace with ourselves? How can we support this process for others?

• What does “love your body” mean to you?

• Think of at least two ways you can deepen the meaning attached to this phrase and at least one way you begin a practice of self-acceptance with the goal of unconditional self-love for your entire being.

• Conduct one random act of kindness for yourself today and then one for another person without any expectations about the outcome.

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