Hey, it's Wendy!

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.

Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast

with Wendy and Jess. Today we have a very special guest. Amber Carnes is going to be joining us,

and Amber is the founder of Body Positive Yoga. Love that. She's also a yoga-assana teacher

and social justice advocate and her commitment to accessible adaptive yoga practice

empowers thousands of diverse practitioners around the globe. She's a creator of the Body

Positive Clubhouse, an online community using tools of yoga and feminism to help people build

unshakeable confidence. Yeah, and I was actually on a panel,

facilitated by self-magazine. That's how I met Amber. She was on the panel with me,

and she was just taking me to church for everything that she was saying. So the same night,

I made that mental note. I was like, yep, we got to bring on the podcast. So thankfully,

she was down. And today we're going to be talking about yoga, about her yoga practice, body acceptance,

what that means, food and more. So Amber, it is such a treat to have you on and welcome to the

podcast. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yay. So let's just start out with yoga.

So tell us about how yoga came into your life and really what inspired you to become a yoga teacher

in the first place. Yeah, definitely. So yoga was something that I came to in my early 20s.

I'm 36 now. And I didn't know anything about yoga. I like I conceptually kind of knew it existed,

but I first heard of it or was introduced to it through a weight loss program at my gym. Back when

I was still siding and kind of weight cycling and everything. So this trainer at the gym told me,

you should go to yoga because you can do it on your rest day, but it doesn't count as exercise,

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