On episode 17 of Taking the Middle Seat, I'm talking to Emily Martin, owner of Any Body Yoga. She champions body positive and mindfulness based yoga. I could not love her mission more - To create brave spaces for all bodies to practice radical self love through embodied movement. (From Any Body Yoga Facebook page) You're going to love her encouragement when she says, "There is no wrong way to have a body."
She has a rad series of classes coming up called Body Positive Yoga: A Yoga Series for Healing Body Image. Get all the info on the Facebook event.
Emily mentions another yoga teacher who she loves - Dana Falsetti who also has a podcast you might want to check out. A body positive activist and yoga teacher I love to follow is Jessamyn Stanley.
*** I want to encourage listeners to purchase any recommended books from We Are Lit, a Grand Rapids local and woman owned business. If she doesn't have the book right on her website, you can just request it on the website here.
Emily recommends all sorts of great resources:
Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook, The Body is Not an Apology (OHMYGOODNESS, this is such a gorgeous book), A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook.
Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness and Yoga for All Training
I loved Emily's favorite things! She loves milkweed and Frosty Boy (they close October 14!) and Tunde Olaniran.
I'll be back soon to explore the magic in the middle seat.
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