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Change is not easy. It is uncomfortable and requires effort. Change is hard, but often harder to stay the same–or for some–stuck. Change is difficult for many of our eating disorders clients. Yoga for eating disorders can help your clients move through the discomfort in order to grow and transform.

Stand in your power, stand in your truth. Mindfulness yoga can help your eating disorders patients hone their inner strengths. Can you be the change agent?

Are your patients able to express themselves honestly and openly? Many of our eating disorders clients have a difficult time using their voice. They may find that they are able to express their thoughts and feelings through non-verbal communication. Mindfulness yoga can help them access what is stuck and bring it forward. 

Yoga therapy for eating disorders can help your patients who are in constant battle with their bodies. Through mindfulness yoga, individuals begin to enjoy their body for the first time. 

Virtual yoga therapy for eating disorders can achieve similar or greater results for your patients that struggle with eating disorders through increased access, accessibility, flexibility in scheduling, safety and privacy.

Mindfulness yoga innervates the vagus nerve resulting in positive emotions, calmness, connectedness to mind and body, clarity and safety. 

Through mindfulness yoga, our patients with eating disorders can grow and transform. In yoga for eating disorders,  clients often find themselves in physically uncomfortable yoga postures-a metaphor for the uncomfortable emotional situations one may need to endure to grow and transform. Challenges and obstacles are life’s greatest teachers-both on and off the yoga mat.

Mindfulness yoga therapy can elicit transformation in your patients who struggle with eating disorders.

Thank you to my yoga teacher for this thought provoking parallel. This is why mindfulness yoga is most appropriate for patients who struggle with eating disorders.

The postures in mindfulness yoga therapy are a great metaphor for helping your clients let go of the entanglement with their eating disorder. The root of tension is often attachment.