Yoga and Eating Disorders: Expert Insights on Recovery
Led By Chelsea Roff, Dr. Catherine Cook-Cottone, & Maris Degener.
Yoga can help build skills to support eating disorder recovery — but it can also be a double-edged sword.
This course brings together three experts to explore how yoga can safely and effectively support individuals struggling with eating disorders.
Led by Chelsea Roff, Dr. Catherine Cook-Cottone, and Maris Degener, this series blends lived experience, scientific research, and clinical practice. Chelsea Roff shares insights from a decade of applying yoga therapy in community and clinical settings. Dr. Cook-Cottone draws on her work as a psychologist and researcher studying positive embodiment. Maris Degener offers a personal perspective from her work integrating yoga into eating disorder treatment programs.
Whether you're a yoga teacher, therapist, clinician, or someone in recovery, this course offers practical tools and insights for applying yoga in a way that supports eating disorder prevention and recovery.
Yoga and Eating Disorders: The Double Edged Sword
Yoga can be healing for individuals with eating disorders — but it can also be a trigger or way of masking eating disorder behaviors.
While this practice offers powerful tools for recovery, it can also reinforce harmful patterns when practiced or taught without awareness. This short course explores how to practice and teach yoga in ways that supporting eating disorder prevention and recovery.