#44: Yoga for Health at Every Size with Anna Guest-Jelley of Curvy Yoga
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Christy talks with Anna Guest-Jelley, the founder and CEO of Curvy Yoga, about why she ended her long history of dieting, how yoga helped her heal her relationship to food and her body, and lots more!
Anna is founder and CEO (Curvy Executive Officer) at Curvy Yoga, a training and inspiration portal offering classes, workshops, teacher trainings, retreats, a virtual yoga studio and lots of love and support to people of every size, age and ability — in six different countries, on three different continents, as well as in over 40 of the United States.
Anna is a writer, teacher and lifelong champion for women’s empowerment and body acceptance. Author of Permission to Curve: Inspiring Poses for Curvy Yogis & Their Teachers, and co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body (Llewellyn), Anna has been featured online and in print at The Washington Post, xoJane, The Daily Love, MariaShriver.com, US News & World Report, Southern Living, Vogue Italia, Yoga International, Yoga Journal, CrazySexyLife and more. Visit Curvy Yoga online at CurvyYoga.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 44 of FoodSake. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison and today's guest is super exciting and inspiring person. |
| 0:24.3 | She's the founder and CEO of Curvy Yoga, Anna Gascelli. |
| 0:28.5 | She went through years of body image dissatisfaction and was on and off more diets than most people |
| 0:34.0 | I've ever known. |
| 0:35.5 | But it only served to make her feel worse about her body so she realized there had to be |
| 0:39.5 | a better way. |
| 0:40.5 | And we'll talk to her about how she got off the diet roller coaster and went on to create |
| 0:45.2 | her amazing company which offers yoga training to people of all shapes and sizes including |
| 0:50.5 | larger body people. |
| 0:52.0 | She's super cool and I can't wait for you to hear our conversation in just a moment. |
| 0:56.6 | But first I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your |
| 1:00.4 | relationship with food. |
| 1:02.2 | The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it |
| 1:07.0 | is. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized |
| 1:12.7 | tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now. |
| 1:17.6 | Take the quiz and get your results today at KristiHarrison.com slash quiz. |
| 1:22.6 | That's KristiHarrison.com slash quiz. |
| 1:25.4 | The second resource I want to share is my Intuitive Eating Online Course. |
| 1:29.6 | It's a 13 week program that I created to help you work through all the principles of |
| 1:33.9 | intuitive eating and depth and really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas where people |
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