Yoga and body image : 25 personal stories about beauty, bravery & loving your body PDF
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About the Authors Melanie Klein, MA (Santa Monica, CA), is a writer, speaker, and Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies. As a body image advocate and proponent of media literacy education, she is also the cofounder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, on the advisory board for the Brave Girls Alliance, and the founder and co-coordinator of the LA chapter of Women, Action & the Media. Anna Guest-Jelley, MA (Nashville, TN), is the founder of CurvyYoga.com, a training and inspiration portal for curvy yogis that has been featured in The Washington Post, Yoga Journal, US News & World Report, and Yoga International, among others. Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota Copyright Information Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body © 2014 by Melanie Klein and Anna Guest-Jelley. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. As the purchaser of this e-book, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. The text may not be otherwise reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or recorded on any other storage device in any form or by any means. Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written permission of the publisher is a violation of the author’s copyright and is illegal and punishable by law. First e-book edition © 2014 E-book ISBN: 9780738741772 Cover design by Kevin R. Brown Cover photo: Sarit Z. Rogers/Sarit Photography; Model: Courtney Sauls Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Llewellyn Publications does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business arrangements between our authors and the public. Any Internet references contained in this work are current at publication time, but the publisher cannot guarantee that a specific reference will continue or be maintained. Please refer to the publisher’s website for links to current author websites. Llewellyn Publications Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive Woodbury, MN 55125 www.llewellyn.com Manufactured in the United States of America 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
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