Seven-Week Course

Eat Breathe Thrive Series

Eat mindfully, build resilience, and feel better in your body.

This course combines yoga, experiential activities, and peer support to help you improve your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.

Eat mindfully and explore meditations that help you connect with your hunger and fullness signals while fostering a healthy relationship with food. Discover yoga practices that support body awareness, emotional well-being, and physical vitality. Build resilience through research-backed tools from neuroscience, psychology, and movement science designed to help you manage anxiety, lift depression, and cultivate positive mental states. Join a program grounded in science that has empowered thousands of people to make lasting, meaningful changes in their lives.

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Course Content

Week 1: Build Connection

In this session, you will learn:
- The biological, psychological, and sociocultural causes of eating disorders and mental health challenges
- Three key variables that have been shown to help people sustain recovery from mental health challenges
- How to understand your own experience with these challenges and foster connection with others in your group
Week 2: Set the Stage

In this session, you will learn:
- Why negative feelings about our body are so pervasive, and what it takes to truly feel comfortable in your own skin
- How to break free from negative pressures from media, industry, and loved ones about how your body “should” look
- Positive ways to inhabit your body and nourish yourself in a yoga and meditation practice
Week 3: Functional Action

In this session, you will learn:
- How to eat, exercise, and make lifestyle changes to support your unique physical and mental health needs
- Tools to help you balance the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and creative dimensions of your health
- Ways to practice functional movement and self-care in a yoga and meditation practice
Week 4: Embodied Intimacy

In this session, you will learn:
- How to experience your body as a vehicle for greater connection with yourself and others
- Practices to deepen your capacity for intimacy and cultivate meaningful, lasting relationships with others
- Ways to connect more deeply with yourself through a yoga and mindfulness practice
Week 5: Inner Awareness

In this session, you will learn:
- What interoception is, why it matters, and how disordered eating can interfere with the body’s natural communication system
- Ways to distinguish between emotional and physical hunger and more clearly understand your body’s unique needs
- Embodied practices to help you recognize hunger, fullness, and big emotions
Week 6: Self Regulation

In this session, you will learn:
- How the nervous system is involved in anxiety and depression
- The transformative effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system
- Tools to shift the state of your nervous system in any given moment
- Embodied practices to stimulate the vagus nerve and relaxation response
Week 7: Service Project

In this session, you will:
- Complete a service project together for the benefit of your community
- Celebrate the conclusion of your course together

Is this course right for me?

The Eat Breathe Thrive Seven-Week Series is for anyone looking to improve their relationship with food, body image, and mental health. We welcome all genders, sizes, and backgrounds, and aim to make our programs accessible to everyone. If you're in eating disorder recovery, we recommend waiting until you're in a stable place, as the course explores sensitive topics. If you're earlier in recovery, consider our Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery course instead, and consult your treatment team if unsure.