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Embodiment Activities
Embodiment activities are activities that get you into your body and out of your head. Embodiment activities connect with your physical experience instead of your physical appearance and shift your thinking from “how does my body look?” to “how does my being feel?” Activities like surfing and yoga help you access this state. In psychology, this is often referred to as "flow" (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975), a state in which you lose track of time and are immersed in a sense of enjoyment, alignment, and focus. It is also sometimes referred to as "adult play."
The more often you can be present in your body the more you will live your life from a 1st person perspective (as opposed to a judgmental bystander). Releasing yourself from this judgmental bystander builds an appreciation of your body’s capabilities and opens the door to recognizing yourself as a whole person. When we show up as our whole, embodied selves, life becomes significantly more fun!
Optimal experience, or flow, within positive psychology, has received worldwide attention since its birth: it depicts the psychological mental state of a person who is immersed in an activity with energized concentration, optimal enjoyment, full involvement, and intrinsic interests, and who is usually focused, motivated, positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand.
~ Bonaiuto et al, 2016
Yoga For Eating Disorder Recovery
Yoga is a sacred practice that teaches you how to bring your mind, body, and spirit into union. If you have been stuck in intense cycles of anxiety and insecurity, weight loss and weight gain, or binging and restricting food, yoga can help you recenter from these extreme states to create more balance and control in your life. In each private yoga session, Haley will work with you to understand your specific needs and goals and help you create a practice accordingly.
Private yoga sessions are available to clients in northwestern Puerto Rico. Yoga for eating disorder recovery and eating disorder recovery coaching are separate services. You do not need to also be working with Haley as a coach in order to work with her as a yoga practitioner.
Through mindful movement, strength-building postures, breathwork, and learning to work with your nervous system, yoga will help you shift your mindset from focusing on how your body looks to how your being feels.
Yoga can help:
- Increase self-awareness
- Expand your window of tolerance
- Refine your perception of the present to support adaptive thinking
- Build connection to a higher power / your own spirit
- Healthily ground yourself through challenging emotions (reduce emotional eating)
- Increase awareness of your thoughts & ability to stop downward spirals
- Slow down your mind
- Release worry
Private Surfing Lessons
Surfing is a spiritual activity. It inspires feelings of awe, joy, gratitude, confidence, timelessness, connectedness to Self, and connection to the humbling power of nature. And it is FUN.
If you are interested in reclaiming your ability to be present and have fun at the beach, all while improving your body image and reach out to learn more about private surf lessons .
Private surf lessons for eating disorder recovery are facilitated by local partners in Isabela, Puerto Rico and can be booked by the hour. You will be accompanied by an emotional support coach and a technical skills coach.