Anorexia:
- Yoga Provides a community in which to feel loved
- Yoga allows the sensation of somatic presence
- shifting the way you feel in and about your body
- yoga allows you to have an intimate experience with yourself
- get to know yourself through the physical experience of yourself without having to put words to it
- explore your past through your body
- Yoga practice can be beneficial or destructive for a person with an eating disorder
- eating disorders are more prevalent in the yoga community where people hide their illness through the guise of "detoxing" "special diets", "cleansing" or "pseudo-spiritual path to enlightenment".
Addiction:
- Yoga provides an opportunity for inner work where 12 step provides an opportunity for association with and the support of a community
- the importance of BREATH and BREATH AWARENESS
Journal Assignment:
Can yoga be a useful tool for the management of addiction and other mental health issues. Please consider the articles, the film we have watched and the two articles in 20th Century Yoga (5&6). Your personal experience whether you are yourself an addict are relevant here as well.
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