Yoga rising : 30 empowering stories from yoga renegades for every body

Yoga rising 30 empowering stories from yoga renegades for every body

Melanie Klein, 1972-

Book - 2018

Yoga Rising is a collection of personal essays meant to support your journey toward self-acceptance and self-love. This follow-up to the groundbreaking book Yoga and Body Image features 30 contributors who share stories of major turning points. Explore how body image and yoga intersect with race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, dis/ability, socioeconomic status, age, and size as part and parcel of culture and society. Collectively, we can make space for yoga that is body positive and accessible to the full range of human diversity. With a special emphasis on how you can take action to build community and challenge destructive attitudes and structures, Yoga Rising is a resource for the continuing work of healing ourselves ...and our world as we move toward liberation for all.

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Subjects
Yoga > Psychological aspects.
Body image.
Yogis > Biography.
Biographies.
Genres
Biographies
Published
Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Melanie Klein, 1972- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316).
ISBN
9780738750828
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Yoga, Body Image, and Self-Worth
  • Rediscover, Reconnect, and Repair: A Lifelong Commitment
  • Perfectionism and My Pathway to Yoga
  • A Recovered Perfectionist
  • Saying Good-Bye to the Inner Critic
  • Kriya Yoga-Living Yoga
  • On Living Bold and Discovering Your Power
  • Part 1. Moving Inward & Upward
  • Part 2. Healing the Body and Mind Through Practice
  • Finding the Right Fit: A Journey to Self-Acceptance
  • Sparkle Girl
  • The Expert Within
  • Evolving Addiction
  • Rebirth & Reconnection: My Journey with Cancer
  • Dragons and Other Demons
  • Part 2. Moving Inward & Upward
  • Part 3. Yoga for Every Body and Every One
  • Take Up Space and Be Seen
  • Learning to Love the Whole
  • Instagram, Yoga, and Learning to Love My Big, Black Body
  • Whose Yoga Is It Anyway?: An Indian American's Adventures in YogaLand
  • The Rapunzel Game
  • So We Can Breathe
  • Part 3. Moving Inward & Upward
  • Part 4. Challenging Exclusivity and Creating Space
  • Yoga and the Pre-Baby Body
  • Never the Perfect Body
  • How I (Didn't) Get a Yoga Body in 21 Days
  • Privilege Makes the World Go Round
  • Focusing on Ability in Dis-Ability of Yoga
  • Part 4. Moving Inward & Upward
  • Part 5. Igniting Your Inner Yoga Renegade
  • Finding Refuge on the Yoga Mat: How Modern Practitioners Need to Say No to Our Culture and Yes to Ourselves
  • #Selfie@Sixty
  • Combating Weapons of Mass Perfection
  • Yoga Girl: Living Authentically in the Social Media World, an Interview with Rachel Brathen
  • From Body Issues to Bodyful
  • Finding My Yoga Home
  • Lessons Learned, Lessons Taught
  • Part 5. Moving Inward & Upward
  • Conclusion
  • Resources
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Library Journal Review

While both of these books include "yoga" in the title, they contain diverse messages, written for different audiences. -Psychotherapist/yoga teacher Byron (director, Welkin YogaLife Inst.) has found that comprehensive yoga therapy can correct imbalances and help to harness artistic personal resources. She presents a variety of exercises and intention-setting practices that assist in everything from purifying one's environment and refining the senses to accessing creative potential and busting out of one's cocoons. Klein's (sociology & women's studies, Moorpark Coll., CA) work challenges the corporate view of yoga as a practice for the beautiful and fit. Stories from 30 women of different races, ethnicities, gender identity, age, and ability level portray how yoga has helped them battle cancer, accept their bodies, find refuge from the world, and fight addiction. Included are "thought starters" at the end of each chapter, which ask readers to reflect on and personalize the message. VERDICT Yoga for the Creative Soul would work well for seasoned yogis who want to hone their practice with an artistic bent, while Yoga Rising provides inspiring reading for all women regardless of their workout proclivities. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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