Learn how body awareness practices quiet self-criticism, strengthen emotional balance, and rebuild trust through mindful daily routines.

I love being a yoga therapist. It's an absolute privilege to hold space for individuals and share the practices, philosophies, and tools of yoga to support them in the shifts and changes they wish to make in their lives. Many thanks to Sofia Health for inviting me to share about the benefits of yoga therapy for eating disorder recovery in this interview.

For Lisa Faremouth Weber, developing daily rituals and routines helped her overcome decades of suffering from eating disorders. Read Lisa’s story of recovery and how she uses daily rituals to gain power, strength, and personal sovereignty in her life.

Research has demonstrated a strong link between trauma exposure and other severe adverse experiences in both childhood and adulthood with eating disorders. In her latest blog, Niya Bajaj explores how the experiences of systemic exclusion and associated trauma impact how people seek help and how yoga therapy can support inclusive eating disorder recovery.

In her latest blog post, Niya Bajaj explores how the experiences of individuals who do not fit in the “skinny, white, affluent, girl” (SWAG) stereotype impacts if and how they seek help for eating disorders. Educating on the yoga practice of Satya, Niya identifies how yoga therapy can support inclusive recovery and guide individuals to reconnect with aspects of their identity and cultural practices to support their recovery.

In this month’s blog series, Niya Bajaj explores how yoga therapy can support a more inclusive eating disorder recovery for people wishing to incorporate their cultural foods and ancestral food practices, which they may perceive as unhealthy or undesirable due to diet culture messaging.

In this month’s blog series on yoga therapy and inclusive eating disorder recovery, Niya Bajaj investigates the impact of systemic exclusion on eating disorder recovery. She educates about how we can apply the niyama of tapas (TAH-pahs) to make systems more inclusive. Niya offers practical suggestions for how researchers, care providers, and individuals seeking care can practice tapas to build systems that are more inclusive.

Writer and yoga teacher Ashley Paige explains how the fifth chakra, also know as the throat chakra, relates to eating disorder recovery. Learn some practices to help heal this energy center so that you can be authentic in your words, and actions and feel empowered to communicate openly.

Writer and yoga teacher Ashley Paige explains how the fourth chakra relates to eating disorder recovery. Learn why taking steps to practice self-respect and self-love are cornerstones to healing our relationship with food and our body.