Black History Month Featured Body Positive Trainers
For far too long, beauty and fitness standards have overrepresented thin, cis, heteronormative, white bodies leaving Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, fat and plus-size bodies severely underrepresented, if at all. From yoga to cycling to lifting kettlebells, we hope that our Body Positive Fitness Finder can help you find the anti-diet trainer that works for you.
Body Positive Superhero: ILYA PARKER
Ilya Parker merged a restoration-based movement practice with community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education, and apparel in support of body diversity.
FREE Yoga For All Mini-Course with Amber Karnes and Dianne Bondy
Do you want to make your Yoga practice more welcoming, accessible, inclusive and inviting? Get a FREE Yoga For All mini-course with Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes.
Body Positive Superhero: ANNA CHAPMAN
Anna Chapman is a Podcast Host (where you belong), Joy Creator, Size Inclusion Educator and Certified Accessible Yoga and Teacher. Anna Chapman's mission is to create a safe space for people to connect and land in their bodies through yoga. The most empowering act of self-care is to take up as much unapologetic space as is needed both on the mat and in life.
Kate Mosher's Journey to the Mat
"Showing up for ourselves on the mat is a movement towards a gentler, kinder, softer relationship with yourself and your body." - Kate on self acceptance and body liberation through yoga.
21 Day Yoga Challenge with The Yoga Casa
Join The Yoga Casa in their 21 Day Yoga Challenge. Make new friends on the mat and maybe win a prize or two!
Radically Fit Oakland Fundraiser
Radically Fit Oakland is looking for donors to support their mission so they can continue to offer fitness services that are accessible to everyone in their community. Last year they subsidized over $21,000 for members through their sliding scale program!
Anti-Diet Culture New Year’s Round Up
The New Year is here! Down with diet culture and New Year's Resolutions. Up with sustainable and attainable goals that fit you and your lifestyle! Learn more about the body positive fitness professionals offering alternatives to resolutions and promoting inclusivity and diversity in fitness, year-round.
Pop Gym and the People's Power House Fundraiser
Pop Gym is looking for donors to support their efforts to open a queer positive and body positive martial arts and self-defense space in New York! Check out the People's Power House Fundraiser!
Body Positive Superhero: JUSTICE WILLIAMS
Justice Williams is a trans activist who is creating safe spaces for queer and trans bodies. Justice is also a personal trainer and he is this month's Body Positive Superhero! Each month we're highlighting the work of one of our heroes of the Body Positive Fitness community. Justice reminds us that working out is not punishment, but should be a celebration of movement and recently kicked off the Queer Gym.
Body Positive Fitness Finder Success Story! - Ruth & Wendy
Ruth found her personal trainer, Wendy Welsher, through our Body Positive Fitness Finder and they're quite the match. Read our full interview with Ruth.
Body Positive Superhero: SHOHREH DAVOODI
Shohreh Davoodi is a personal trainer, intuitive eating counselor, private studio owner, podcaster, and this month's Body Positive Superhero! Each month we're highlighting the work of one of our heroes of the Body Positive Fitness community. Shohreh helps people unlearn diet culture while improving their relationships with exercise, food, and their bodies.
