Episode 36 - Dismantling Diet Culture with Body Positive Yoga Teaching Gillian McCollum
In this episode, Gillian shares her journey and how she shifted her yoga teaching and health coaching to be more inclusive.
She shares:
👉🏻 How diet culture shows up in yoga
👉🏻 What instructors and yoga students can do to dismantle it
👉🏻 The importance of body acceptance work when healing our relationship with food
👉🏻 How embodiment practices like yoga can help support a body acceptance practice
Gillian is a body positive yoga teacher and anti-diet health coach, whose mission is to help women find lasting peace and freedom with food and their body.
Her unique approach combining both intuitive eating and body acceptance practices supports women in their recovery from chronic dieting, overcoming emotional and binge eating, food and body preoccupation and body shame.
Gillian has helped empower thousands of women through her speaking, activism, private and group coaching and body positive yoga classes to find a stronger sense of self trust and a deeper connection to their intuition so that they can live a more fulfilling and purposeful life.
CONNECT WITH Gillian McCollum
Website: https://www.gillianmccollum.com/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianmccollum
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https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anti-diet-club-podcast/id1590863754
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From this Episode:
Podcast Host
Christine DeFilippis
Movement motivator, body liberator and unconventional fitness professional, Christine is the owner of Pop Fit Studio, a HAES & weight inclusive fitness studio in the US. She is also the creator of FitProEd, an online education platform for group fitness instructors that would like to expand their expertise. After close to 30 years in the fitness industry, struggling with eating disorders, weight cycling, body dysmorphia and a lot of unhappiness, Christine shifted her focus to joyful movement and created the Breaking Body Biases podcast to amplify voices of fitpros, dietitians and other wellness practitioners looking to destroy diet culture.
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