Body Positivity as a Practice with Amber Karnes
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Amber Karnes -- the founder of Body Positive Yoga and the co-creator of the Accessible Yoga Training -- is my guest this week! Amber shares her story of how yoga has helped her change her relationship to her body, from one that was punitive to one that's more accepting and present. Amber offers so much insight and guidance in this conversation including:
- How body positivity is not a linear path with an endpoint -- it's closer to recovering from addiction in that you are always in recovery
- Resources for a "weight neutral" approach to health
- The fatphobia that we may be complicit in when we bash our own bodies
- Why behaviors are more important than body size
- The vital question to ask ourselves every time we consume media
- The importance of doing body positive work while you are in community
I'm so grateful to Amber for sharing the years of research and work she's done in this space.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 226 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.8 | Today my guest is Amber Carnes. Amber is the founder of Body Positive Yoga and the co-creator |
| 0:14.5 | of the accessible yoga training with Jiven Heyman. You may remember Jiven he's the founder of |
| 0:20.8 | Accessible Yoga and we spoke on episode 176 so go back and listen to that one too if you have not |
| 0:27.6 | already. So Amber and I talk today about her journey of making peace with what she |
| 0:34.3 | refers to as having a bigger body and how it was challenging for her to enter yoga spaces about |
| 0:40.2 | 15 years ago when she started but it was really the beginning of the process of unraveling her |
| 0:46.3 | conditioning around just not appreciating her body and feeling like she had to punish her body and |
| 0:54.3 | she had to you know be thinner to be happy or to be acceptable. We talk about so many things that |
| 1:01.1 | I think so many of us can relate to on this episode including the bonding over over diet talk |
| 1:07.8 | and being self-deprecating about our bodies and how we can shift that. I also just want to |
| 1:13.2 | invite you to listen to the end because she and Jiven Heyman over the past year have taken |
| 1:18.4 | their curriculum and put so much of it online and there are just so many great offerings including |
| 1:23.8 | Amber's course making peace with your body which looks like a lot of fun and offers some |
| 1:29.5 | community as well. So enjoy the conversation with Amber. Well hi Amber thanks so much for being |
| 1:35.6 | here to talk to me today. Hey thanks for having me I'm excited to be here. I know that I was introduced |
| 1:42.0 | to you through Jiven Heyman. I'm wondering where you are based since everything is in the online |
| 1:47.9 | world now like all of the everything I looked up for you was online. I know right I'm based on |
| 1:54.1 | the internet but we're all based in the little zoom squares now. Yeah Baltimore. Baltimore, |
| 1:59.4 | Maryland is really okay. I've been here almost two years now but lived in Virginia most of my |
| 2:07.2 | adult life and grew up in South Georgia. So you're kind of a I mean aside from the Georgia you're |
| 2:12.8 | like a mid-Atlantic. Sure. Yeah yeah I grew up in Pennsylvania so I think most people don't really |
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