These Are The Toughest Challenges You’ll Face as a Curvy Yoga Teacher
Being a yoga teacher can be challenging, even more so if you’re a curvy yoga teacher. Here’s yoga teacher Dianne Bondy’s advice for curvy yoga teachers.
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The Do’s and Don’ts When Teaching Yoga for Bigger Bodies
These tips will help make your yoga teaching more inclusive, and provide you with a basic, helpful guideline for teaching yoga for bigger bodies.
The Curvy Yogi’s Guide to Using Yoga Props
Read the Curvy Yogi’s guide to using yoga props to get the most out of your yoga practice.
Dear Body, A Love Letter
It’s very easy to not love our bodies, but they are the only way we can experience life! Dear body, we love you.
Dharma or Exercise: Why Do You Practice Yoga?
Yoga teacher and activist Dianne Bondy asks: why do you practice yoga? Do you include compassionate self study and ahimsa in your practice?
Are YOU a Self-Righteous Yoga Teacher?
Sometimes teaching yoga can lead to feeling self-righteous. Here, one yogi shares how she left these feelings behind to include ALL yoga as “true yoga.”
Yoga as a Practice Of Compassionate Self Study
Compassionate self study can open up your heart, mind, and soul so you can let love pervade all aspects of your life—including your yoga practice.
Do I Look Fat In These Yoga Pants?
Author and activist Dianne Bondy shares some inspiring real talk about yoga pants and how what you wear can have a huge effect on body image. Read it here.
Why Yoga Props Bolster Our Teaching and Practice
For all our different bodies, moods, and needs, there are different ways to enhance your yoga practice. Heighten your practice and teaching with yoga props!
What Does ‘Yoga For All’ Mean?
The word yoga means union and connection—and yet we have managed to create and perpetuate exclusion within the practice. Yoga For All seeks to change that.
It’s Time to Take Back Our Lives: How the Quest for Perfection Threatens Us All
We are a culture obsessed with acquisition and perfection. We never seem to have enough. Nothing is ever good enough as it is—especially not our bodies.
My Yoga Practice Is My Therapist
Teacher Dianne Bondy shares why her yoga practice is her cheerleader, her happy AND sad place, and is something that is well and truly her own.
Why You Can’t Heal A Body You Hate
Inspiring piece by author & yoga teacher Dianne Bondy on why acceptance is the first step to loving the skin you’re in & why you can’t heal a body you hate.
The Politics of Yoga
Yoga teacher and activist Dianne Bondy weighs in on the politics of yoga: yoga culture, body image, and mainstream media’s portrayal of yoga practitioners.
5 Tips for a More Consistent Yoga Practice
There always seems to be something to compete with our yoga practice time. Here are five tips to help you get to your mat on a more regular basis.
Shoulder Stand Variations for the Abundant Yogi
Bigger bodied yoga practitioners have to be creative in their approach to certain poses. Here are some Shoulder Stand variations for larger bodied yogis.
Who Defines The Perfect Yoga Body?
There is a new movement in world. People are figuring out what it means to be more aware and fully conscious of the messages we are receiving from the media,
Yoga, Body Image and You
The newest trend in yoga today is to talk about Yoga and Body Image. The conversation has started across the yoga community about what we are seeing in advertising and
Round Bodied, Big Bodied, Embodied: A Call for the Robust Yoga Teacher
Every week in my social media inbox, I receive an amazing inspirational account from someone who has found yoga and is surprised that they can do it because of their
5 Simple Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
I don't know about you, but I’m totally over winter. I’m surrounded by 5 feet of snow and I am pining for the days of flip flops, capris and beverages