Online Course

Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery

Discover how yoga can help you manage anxiety, connect with your body, and accept yourself.

Connect with others on the recovery journey in this live course, where you'll share struggles and celebrations, access support, and build community. Discover four simple, life-changing skills to help you cope with big emotions, care for your body, and cultivate self-compassion. Each session also includes a short yoga and meditation practice to help you integrate what you learn into your daily life.

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Course Content

Week 1: Establish Your Foundation

- The history, depth, and breadth of the yoga tradition, and how yoga can help you in eating disorder recovery
- How to create a sacred space within yourself and your home for your yoga practice
- Three keys for coping with trauma: grounding, orienting, and resourcing
- Embodied practices to help you cope with anxiety, fear, and panic
Week 2: Connect to Your Senses

- Interoception: what it is and why it matters
- How eating disorders interfere with the body’s natural communication system
- Tools to manage sensation overwhelm
- Embodied practices to help you recognize hunger, fullness, and big emotions
Week 3: Befriend Your Mind

- The monkey mind: how to manage rumination, obsessive thoughts, and urges
- The magical pause: how yoga can inadvertently “ruin” your life (in a good way)
- Tools to interrupt cycles of restricting, bingeing, purging, and overexercising
- Embodied practices that support mindful awareness and self-compassion
Week 4: Restore Your Nervous System

- 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

Is this course right for me?

For the safety and well-being of all participants, we are unable to offer the course to individuals who:
- Have engaged in self-harm behaviors within the past 30 days
- Have attempted suicide within the past three months
- Have experienced thoughts of suicide in the past month
This course is designed to complement treatment and teach skills to support you in recovery; it is not a replacement for treatment. If you are in the midst of a severe mental health crisis, it's important to know that yoga, group discussions, and experiential activities can sometimes be more destabilizing than supportive. We encourage you to speak with your medical and mental health providers if you’re unsure if the course is right for you. If you are currently experiencing any of the above challenges listed above, we encourage you to seek or continue with treatment, and apply for a course when it can be more supportive to your experience.

Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery is designed for anyone aged 16+ who is in active recovery from an eating disorder. During the course, you will meet with others on the recovery journey and explore principles and practices to support your personal recovery.

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