WHY Eat?
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH FOOD AND YOUR BODY
WITH BARBARA RUZANSKY
Fall Weekend Eating Disorder Retreat at West Hartford
YogaNovember 13 - 15, 2009
$290 plus $45 for whole food
meals. (Deposit: $125 with your application)
Eating Disorders and Yoga Application (pdf
format) or (doc
format) Free yourself from the destructive patterns and daily obsessions with
food. During this weekend retreat you will learn how
healthy eating and other holistic practices can heal you
physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Our work will
support healthy lifestyle changes through a strong emphasis
on developing intuition, empathy and compassion. You will be
immersed in a safe and supportive environment to help you
face self-destructive patterns and embark on the journey of
healing. Change your relationship with food and your body.
Learn how food can become your ally, not your enemy.
- Daily led meditation & yoga practices
- Holistic & spiritual practices
- Inquiries regarding self-nourishment, compassion and
humility
- Whole food cooking demonstrations
- Sharing one whole food meal and a healthy snack in a
private setting
Schedule:
Friday: 5:00 - 10:00pm
Saturday: 1:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday: Noon - 8:30 pm
The retreat is appropriate for anyone who struggles with
food and eating including anorexics, bulimics, compulsive
eaters, overeaters, and emotional eaters.
Research done during an eating disorder retreat led by
Barbara Ruzansky and Ana Forrest at West Hartford Yoga in
2006 is published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of
Treatment and Prevention, Volume 17, Number 1, January -
February 2009. The article "Yoga Workshop Impacts
Psychological Functioning and Mood for Women with Eating
Disorders" is written by L.P. Lourdes et al. View PDF of
complete article.
Barbara’s own path to health is at the heart of her
teaching. Barbara – founder and director of West Hartford
Yoga - spent much of her life struggling with eating
disorders and depression, including years in a variety of
treatment programs. Discouraged by the lack of improvement,
she eventually found the miracle of healing through yoga,
whole foods cooking, and other spiritual and holistic
practices. She has been working with people struggling with
eating disorders for twenty years.
Barbara is
joined by
Gillian Galen, and
Nykki Poole.
"This eating disorder workshop was one of
the most insightful, meaningful and beautiful experiences I
have ever had. We learned how to heal ourselves of toxic
thinking and create the safe space inside ourselves that we
had been searching for."-- Eating Disorder Workshop participant, 2006
Please Note: This program is not for people who require 24
hour psychological support or who are medically compromised
as a result of dangerously low body weight or frequent
purging.
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