Discover the leading yoga program for eating disorder prevention and recovery.

Learn to help your clients and students build skills for mindful eating, emotional resilience, and positive embodiment.

The Eat Breathe Thrive Immersion is an experiential weekend training designed to give you new insights into how to support clients struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image challenges. It offers the most comprehensive introduction to our yoga for eating disorder prevention and recovery programs. It is aimed at mental health professionals, yoga teachers and yoga therapists, educators, and healthcare providers.

Eat Breathe Thrive programs combine yoga, psychoeducation, and peer support to help people help one another build skills and change their lives. Our approach is practical, somatically-focused, and backed by research. It was developed by people with lived experience of eating disorders and informed by our work helping more than 10,000 people in 58 countries recover from eating disorders. The program has been the subject of five research studies, including two randomized controlled trials

This training covers:

the four pillars of eat breathe thrive

Explore four key skills shown to prevent eating disorders and help all people improve their relationship with food, body, and self

Meditations for Mindful Eating

Explore meditations to help your clients connect with hunger and fullness signals and manage emotional eating.

Yoga for Eating Disorders

Discover mindful movement practices that support body awareness, emotional wellbeing, and physical vitality.

Psychoeducation and Experiential Activities

Learn practical exercises derived from neuroscience, psychotherapy, yoga philosophy, and nutrition science that you can incorporate in your work to help your clients make lasting changes.

Who is this training for?

This training is for mental health professionals, yoga teachers and yoga therapists, dietitian and nutritionists, teachers and educators, academics and researchers, peer support professionals, caregivers, and anyone working in a professional capacity with people affected by eating disorders.

There are no prerequisites. Graduates receive a Certificate of Completion that may be eligible for 15 CE hours, and eligibility to apply for the Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator Training.

Learning Objectives

In this training, you will learn:

The four pillars of Eat Breathe Thrive: functional action, embodied intimacy, inner awareness, and self-regulation

Somatic practices that can help clients determine what and when to eat, as well as end cycles of restricting, overeating, and substance abuse

Therapeutic exercises that can help clients shift self-sabotage behaviors, cope with difficult emotions, and deepen their capacity for strong relationships

Insights from new research on interoception, and how this critical skill can help clients cope with anxiety, lift depression, and eat mindfully

Exercises to help clients understand the underlying causes that drive negative body image and transform self-criticism into self-compassion and empowerment

A neuroscience-informed and yoga-based appraoch to cope healthfully with depression and anxiety using the body’s natural excitatory and calming systems

How you can get invovled with the growing movement to integrate yoga in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders

              
                      “It is difficult to put into words the profound impact this training had on me... it spoke directly to my experience of healing, and the science of WHY it works. Eat Breathe Thrive beautifully integrates and builds trust in one's own embodiment, intuition and emotional intelligence and THEN backs the experience with evidence based research. I am so proud to be part of such an amazing organization.”
                —
                  Lara Scriba, Yoga Teacher, Registered Nurse, and Reiki Practitioner

Steps to Becoming a Facilitator:

Experience the entire Eat Breathe Thrive intervention in a single weekend. This weekend training is offered virtually and includes both on-demand and live components.

Learn to lead the standard Eat Breathe Thrive intervention with guidance and support from a supervisor. 50 hours, online.

Learn to lead an adapted form of the standard Eat Breathe Thrive intervention, aimed at the more acute phases of eating disorder recovery. Includes supervision. 30 hours, online, optional.

Is this course right for me?

This training is for mental health professionals, health professionals, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and educators seeking to integrate yoga safely and effectively in their work with clients or students.

If you are in recovery from an eating disorder, we recommend you wait to take this course until you are in a solid place in your recovery. We welcome peer support mentors and coaches, but this course is not aimed at folks in active recovery. If you’re seeking tools for your own recovery journey, please consider our Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery course or Seven-Week Series instead. If you are unsure, please speak with your treatment team.

For more information about the eligibility criteria for participation and limitations of this course, please refer to our Informed Consent and Community Agreements.