Yoga for Addictive Eating

Category: Wellness Practitioners When: Sunday, February 21, 2010 Time: 6:45 – 7:45 PM Click here to view the classroom

Co-Presenter: Victoria Potter, Counselor and Yoga Instructor

This session will explain and explore the use of yoga to assist with the healing process of eating disorders.

Participants will learn about the unique challenges faced by obese and eating disordered clients when considering and participating in yoga. They will learn ways to work with those challenges – both the cognitive and physical ones – as well as ways to interpret, enhance, and target yoga experiences to address eating issues. Participants will also learn why you should target these markets, as well as the three essential ways to reach them.

Learning objectives of your session:

• Practitioner participants will get to experience what it is like to view the world through the mind and body of an eating disordered person. You will also be able to experiment with devising and delivering yoga that is tailored to this clientele.

• Non-practitioners will gain some understanding of the issues faced by eating disordered individuals. Obese or eating disordered participants will gain some reassurance that their experience is not unique, and encouragement to stay with yoga as a healing modality for them, despite some of the challenges and ideas about how to approach and ask for assistance with their unique issues.

• All participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of professionals who have used yoga themselves to both recover and treat eating issues.

Speaker Bio: Nancy Anderson Dolan ate compulsively from two years of age. Hitting 300 lbs at 29 years old finally scared her into finding ways to address her food addiction. The combination of counselling, alternative medicine, and yoga has brought her not only weight loss of over 140 lbs but also a peace and presence that is undeniable. In her journey she earned a degree in psychology, practiced shamanism for 20 years, studied interventions from art therapy to brain chemistry, and, of course, yoga. Read full bio »