Episode 135: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Amber Karnes.
Amber is the founder of Body Positive Yoga. She’s a ruckus maker, yoga asana teacher (E-RYT 200), social justice advocate, and a lifelong student of her body. Her commitment to accessible, adaptive yoga practice empowers thousands of diverse practitioners around the globe.
She is the creator of the Body Positive Clubhouse, an online community using the tools of yoga to build unshakable confidence and learn to live out loud. Amber is the co-creator of Yoga For All Teacher Training, Accessible Yoga Trainer, Yoga International featured teacher, serves as a board member for Project Yoga Richmond and Accessible Yoga, and is a contributor to the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.
Through her workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, and online yoga and wellness offerings, she seeks to further the message of inclusivity, consent, agency, body sovereignty, and accessibility for all (on and off the yoga mat). She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband Jimmy, and blogs at bodypositiveyoga.com.
00:05:05
What Amber was like as a kid
00:06:15
What her relationship was like with her body as a child
00:10:15
How she felt about developing before her peers
00:11:45
Amber’s history with dieting
00:12:45
How she got into yoga and what it was like as a larger person
00:16:45
Does she still get insecure walking into a yoga studio?
00:23:30
How her yoga journey has progressed
00:28:00
The surprising reason she started teaching
00:31:15
Her first exposure to the body positive community
00:37:30
How she started to develop a supportive community and why it’s so important
00:43:00
Navigating the yoga world while being in a larger body
00:46:45
How her experience as a yoga student has informed how she teaches
00:51:00
The benefits of yoga outside the physical practice
00:51:45
The Yoga + Body Image Coalition
00:54:30
Amber’s opinion on the evolution of yoga culture
00:59:15
The draw of online yoga
01:01:15
The Body Positive Clubhouse
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