Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery
Discover how yoga can help you manage anxiety, connect with your body, and accept yourself.
An online course to help you learn and practice new ways of relating to your body, connecting with others, and looking after yourself.
This four-week group course is for people recovering from eating disorders. Each session lasts two hours and includes experiential activities, group discussion, peer support, and embodied practices such as yoga, breathwork, and meditation.
The course is designed to help you learn and practice skills to eat mindfully, connect with your body, and feel more at ease in yourself.
What This Course Covers
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Establish Your Foundation
Learn what embodiment is, why it matters when you have an eating disorder, and three practices to help you feel more at home in your body.
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Connect with Your Senses
Understand what interoception is, how eating disorders disrupt it, how to manage sensory overwhelm, and ways to attune to hunger and fullness.
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Befriend Your Mind
Explore practices to cope with urges and obsessive thoughts, and interrupt cycles of restricting, purging, and bingeing with awareness and self-compassion.
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Restore Your Nervous System
Learn how the nervous system is involved in anxiety and depression and ways you can work with the body to shift your state of mind.
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"I thought I would never ever be able to attend an online course with people I don't know, let alone talk about private/personal things. I'm so grateful for this experience. I felt so isolated and ashamed and alone with my disordered eating, so it was beyond beautiful to meet people that can relate."
Michelle
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The most memorable part of the course was the kind and sensitive nature of the group leader and the way she spoke about the delicate topic felt wonderfully supportive 🤗 also, the opportunity connect with other participants was profoundly helpful 😍
Charlie
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This was a rich sharing community. It was so much more than just yoga! I have a better understanding now of the body mind connection and how it affects me. I also have some tools and work arounds to USE. It was good to be with others and share experiences.
Wren
Is this course right for me?
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For safety reasons, this course is not suitable for those who:
Have self-harmed within the past 30 days
Have attempted suicide within the past three months
Have experienced active suicidal thoughts within the past month
Have a BMI <16 or indications of medical instability
If you are unsure whether this course is appropriate for you, please discuss this with your GP or mental health provider. If you are currently experiencing acute medical or psychological symptoms, we recommend seeking or continuing with treatment and considering this course at a later stage in recovery.
Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery is for people aged 16+ who are actively working toward recovery from an eating disorder and are able to safely take part in gentle movement, meditation, and group discussion.
The course is intended to sit alongside ongoing treatment or support. It does not replace medical or psychological treatment.
For more information about the eligibility criteria for participation and limitations of this course, please refer to our Informed Consent and Community Agreements.
Upcoming Courses
We are pleased to offer these courses at no charge to participants, thanks to a generous grant from the National Lottery Community Fund.
