Melanie Klein: Reimagine Your Relationship With Your Body

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Melanie Klein, a professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, co-founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, and author of the new book, Yoga Rising: 30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades for Every Body. Her work has made her a respected leader in the conversation around yoga and body image.

In this interview, we talk about how she came to be such an advocate for the positive body image movement. Plus, since I am a former editor for Yoga Journal, we have a candid conversation about how media has contributed to this dialogue--for better and worse.

Here are some highlights:

* Melanie tells her "body story" and how yoga helped her move from an unhealthy preoccupation with her body to body acceptance

* I learn the phrase "the body project" -- the idea that we spend so many resources working on our bodies in hopes that one day we'll be "perfect" -- and I feel like a giant lightbulb has been turned on. What would the world be like if women redirected all of that time, energy, money, and brain power toward other projects?

* The ways that being a yoga practitioner has perpetuated "the body project" for both of us

* The calling that Melanie felt to start YBIC

* How yoga teacher, Bryan Kest, helped Melanie shape her views on body image

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode124

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 124 of Yoga Land.
0:12.1	Today my guest is the inspiring Melanie Klein. Melanie Klein is a writer, a
0:18.0	speaker, a professor of sociology and women studies at Santa Monica College.
0:22.2	She's also the co-founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition and
0:26.4	she has edited two anthologies, one with Anagest Jelly, which is called
0:31.6	Yoga and Body Image, and her most recent work, which is Yoga Rising,
0:37.0	30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades for Every Body.
0:41.1	I want to just give a quick shout out and thank you to Catherine Butig for connecting us.
0:46.8	I heard Melanie on Catherine's podcast, Free Cookies, and I actually DMed Catherine and was like, oh, that was a great interview.
0:54.3	Melanie is great. And then I believe Catherine suggested to Melanie to come on my
0:59.7	show. So I'm so happy that she was here and we just have a good old chat about yoga and body image.
1:08.7	I learned so much from her. She's really articulate, really thoughtful, and she's a long time
1:14.0	yogi. One takeaway that I will just never forget is this whole concept of the
1:19.3	body project, which is you know something we've all been conditioned to in our lives, which is to focus our energy, our attention, our self-worth, and frankly our finances on you know how we look and does it measure
1:37.2	up to the expectation that society has for us and that we have for ourselves. I've just been running that concept over and over again in my mind and thinking about all the years and time that I've spent on my body project and am I ready and willing to completely give it up or to remember to give it up over and over again and to focus on other things.
2:00.5	And I think the other thing that's so interesting about this,
2:03.1	Melanie talks about is that this type of conditioning on young girls and women has not
2:07.9	always existed. So there is a way out. If you're enjoying the podcast,
2:12.1	please remember to rate and review on iTunes. I appreciate
2:16.1	it so much. It really, really helps people find the podcast. Also, Jason has a few more dates in 2018, a few more travel dates. He will be in Syracuse, New York in early November.
2:28.0	Also Seattle, Washington in early November, and then he starts his two-week teacher training module in
2:33.8	Hong Kong in late November early December if you want more details about any of
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