136: The "Fat Yogi" - Body Image & Yoga
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
If you hang out on social media, it’s easy to get caught up in the seeming importance of the outward appearance of yoga. It’s easy to develop ideals of what a yoga body should look like when in reality, you don’t need a skinny, perfectly-toned body to be a great yoga student - and as most yoga teachers will tell you, it’s irrelevant. Join Lucas Rockwood and Anat Geiger as they demystify the stereotypical notions of body image and yoga.
Anat Geiger teaches Taoistic principles of Yin and Yang in her classes. Anat has a background in dance, performance, and theater. She is certified at the 500hr level and has studied with Teresa Caldas, Dona Holleman, Paul and Suzee Grilley. She lives in Amsterdam and her "home studio" is called, YogaGarden.
In this Show, You'll learn:
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That yoga is open to all, regardless of body shape
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Anat’s view on the topic of yoga for yoga people vs yoga for everyone
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More about the trend of “Big-bodied” yoga classes
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Mainstream yoga: the good and the bad
Links & References from the Show
www.Anat.nl
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Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com
http://YogaBody.com
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http://instagram.com/yogabodyfitness
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yoga students, if you want to deepen your practice, discover optimal health, |
| 0:04.4 | and learn practical tools that will improve your life, |
| 0:07.2 | then you have come to the right place, my friend. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 0:17.0 | So hello and welcome everyone, this is Lucas Rockwood with the yoga talk show. Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:18.0 | We have a special show today, it's called Body Image and Yoga, and I'm joined today with Anat Geiger. |
| 0:24.0 | Yoga teacher Anat Geiger teaches Taoist principles of Yin and Yang Yoga in her classes, |
| 0:29.8 | and she has a background in dance, performance, and theater, and she's certified at the $500 level and |
| 0:35.0 | has studied with Teresa Caldas, Donna Holman, Paul, and she lives in Amsterdam, and her home |
| 0:41.6 | studio is called Yoga Garden. |
| 0:44.1 | You can learn more about Anat at her website which is her name, |
| 0:47.6 | Anat. N.L like the Netherlands, Anat. |
| 0:51.6 | Nel. Thanks so much for joining us, Anat. N.L. |
| 0:52.5 | Thanks so much for joining us, Anat. |
| 0:55.1 | So I'm excited to speak to you about an issue |
| 0:57.5 | that I often get hasled about. |
| 0:59.3 | I have this business called Yoga Body. |
| 1:01.2 | And so people often think that I've created this business with this yoga body ideal, which is kind of |
| 1:06.4 | funny because I'm a funny looking guy with big hips and long arms, and I never had any kind of |
| 1:10.9 | ideal physique in mind. For me it was always this function you know I |
| 1:15.8 | always wanted to have a limber body I wanted to have an agile body I wanted to feel |
| 1:20.0 | strong and empowered when I came to yoga I certainly didn't feel that way. |
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