Bringing Body Liberation to the Mat: Resources

Jessamyn Stanley (via)

Resources Recommended during "Bringing Body Liberation to the Mat"

Articles:

• Why I've Chosen Body Liberation Over Body Love
• If We're Going to Talk About Health, We're Probably Going to Talk About Mental Health First

Books:

• Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook For Unapologetic Living  by Jes Baker
  and/or
• Body Positive Power: Megan Jayne Crabbe
• The Body Is Not an Apology: Sonya Renee Taylor
• Every Body Yoga: Jessamyn Stanley
• Healing Trauma: Peter A. Levine, PhD

Other Books that may be beneficial:

• Body Kindness: Rebecca Scritchfield
• Big Gal Yoga: Valerie Sagun
• Curvy Yoga: Anna Guest-Jelley

Other resources mentioned:

• Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrell
• What plus-size yoga participants wish their Yoga Instructors knew!

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