Body Positive Yoga

Late last year I took a yoga class as part of essentially "practicing what I preach". I wanted to put my radical self love to work in my life and what I found was that yoga only made me appreciate my body even more and love what it was capable of. The only problem was that I was one of the very few plus sized women in that class and I certainly was the biggest, and while I could do nearly every pose quite well, there were some poses that I could not do, not because I was incapable or not flexible enough, but because my belly got in the way. So instead of hating my belly, and therefore going against everything I stand for and make work about, I turned to this wonderful resource called Body Positive Yoga which not only empowered to keep loving my body but also showed me other poses I could do to get the same stretch but not be mad at my belly and showed me beautiful pictures of gorgeous, fat women doing poses that many thinner people cannot due. This heightened awareness of self has inspired me greatly over the past year and continues to do so today.