Yoga and body image. Frank stories about beauty, courage and love for your body

Often in the mirror instead of ourselves we see a reflection distorted by our experience, attitudes and expectations. The beauty industry - a business that is beneficial to an endless desire for an unattainable ideal - now on the rise and every day sets new landmarks, which can be changed and improved. Many people succumb to this race and are in a state of constant discontent.
The book “Yoga and the image of the body” is 25 stories of people to whom Yoga helped to learn how to hear his body and accept it as it is. There are celebrities among the authors. For example, Sheina Korn - one of the world yoga stars and model - tells what it feels like to age, working in the gloss world, and Alanis Morissett - a famous singer - about overcoming a disorder of food behavior. But most of those who shared their personal stories, ordinary people - doctors, teachers of yoga, sociologists, disabled people, former drug addicts and alcoholics. Yoga helped all of them to overcome the discord with their body, which in turn had an influence on all spheres of their life.
These stories will inspire you - to do yoga, return to practice or continue it, despite the imperfection of your achievements at the moment.

What is the book.
The first part of the book is made up of stories about the capabilities and prospects that yoga practice opens.
In the second part, the authors share their experience “on the sidelines” - talk about what it means to be “others” excluded from the culture of peers, and also not fit into the generally accepted standard of the ideal body. And how practice helped them change the attitudes of perception and gain integrity.
In the third part, the authors analyze the role of mass culture and the media in the formation of ideas about the ideal of femininity /masculinity, as well as the side effect of yoga culture itself - how it forms and reproduces the idealized and unattainable standard of beauty. These stories will help everyone find an individual path to their image, despite such a cultural “noise”.
The fourth part considers the problem of educating healthy and self -confident children in the conditions of toxic information space. And overcoming the disorder of food behavior in adolescents.
In the fifth part, the theme of gender and sexuality in the context of yoga is revealed, which offers peace, peace and comfort in contrast to stereotypes imposed by culture.

Why is the book you should read.
Relations with the body is not only about weight, although it is this topic that is actively extended in the media, blogs and social networks. The nature of disconnection with its body can grow from a whole spectrum of factors - gender, weight, type of physique, ethnicity, social status, sexual orientation, gender identity, limited physical abilities, and so on. Read stories from this book to make sure: yoga is able to indicate a unique and unexpected way to reunite with yourself in all these cases.

For whom this book is.
For those who are already engaged in yoga, as well as for those who only plan to open it for themselves.
After reading the book, you will learn more about what physical and spiritual capabilities the practice provides