Contents

Why Yoga and Body Image

Melanie Klein

Part One: MAKING CHOICES AND CREATING CHANGE

Coming Home To The Body: Can Yoga Help Or Hinder?

Linda Sparrowe

Yoga Is More Than Just a Workout

Dr. Sara Gottfried

How Shame Found Me on the Yoga Mat

Marianne Elliott

Too Much Is Not Enough

Dr. Melody Moore

Maybe the Problem Isn’t My Body

Anna Guest-Jelley

Part Two: ON THE MARGINS

Work in Progress

Vytas Baskauskas

Confessions of a Fat, Black Yoga Teacher

Dianne Bondy

I’m a Warrior, Hear Me Roar

Carrie Barrepski

Yoga from the Margins

Teo Drake

From Body Confident to Body Insecure and Back

Joni Yung

Part Three: CULTURE AND MEDIA

F*** Yer Beauty Standards!

Melanie Klein

What Has Always Been

Rolf Gates

Beauty, Value, and the Feminine Roots of Yoga

Nita Rubio

Power, Privilege, and the Beauty Myth

Seane Corn

Too Much and Not Enough

Chelsea Jackson

Finding and Loving the Essential Self

Alanis Morissette

Ppart Four: PARENTING AND CHILDREN

Mother vs. Media

Kate McIntyre Clere

Tuning Out the “Baby Bump” Media madness: How Prenatal Yoga helped me find real body image balance

Claire Mysko

Rx: Yoga

Dr. Dawn M. Dalili

“I’m Ugly! I’m So Ugly!”

Shana Meyerson

Part Five: GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Meeting My Own Body

Rosie Molinary

The Athletic Yogi: Sexuality and Identity
Through the Body

Dr. Kerrie Kauer

Like Father, Like Son

Bryan Kest

Doing More by Doing Less

Ryan McGraw

Virabhadrasana in the Academy: Coming Out with an Open Heart

Dr. Audrey Bilger

Where We Go from Here

Anna Guest-Jelley

Acknowledgments