Ending The War: Making Peace With Your Body, One Step At A Time - by Cara-Lea Suttie

COURSE

Ending The War: Making Peace With Your Body, One Step At A Time

With Cara-Lea Suttie

Modern society has taught many of us to view our bodies as a problem we need to fix before we can feel worthy or whole. The truth is, we are worthy and whole exactly as we are and it is time to make peace with our bodies. Whether this is a new thought for you, or you have already started down the path to peace with your body, this 10-day course will offer you tools and practices that will move you forward on your journey. Through meditation, self-reflection, and movement, we will unpack body image, self-image, and diet culture and we will begin to create new relationships with our bodies and the world we live in.

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Meet your Teacher

Cara-Lea Suttie
Hamilton, ON, Canada

Cara-Lea Suttie (they/them or she/her) is an accessible yoga guide with a passion for fostering self-acceptance and body peace through joyful and mindful movement and meditation. Cara is non-binary, pansexual, fat, and a person living with an invisible illness. They are a passionate believer in fat liberation and social justice.

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10 Days

698 students

4.8 stars

12 min / day

Body Image

English

Lesson 1

Introduction To Body Peace

In today’s lesson, we will look at what body peace is and what it isn’t. We will also work on a breathing practice that can be used for grounding oneself when the course content becomes triggering.

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Lesson 2

Connecting To Your Body

Today, we will connect with the experience of being in our bodies through a guided body scan meditation.

Lesson 3

Body Image Vs. Self Image

Today’s lesson will look at the difference between body image and self-image. We will consider how they work separately and how they work together as part of our self-identification. This lesson will also leave you with an exercise to help you look at your inner dialogue about both yourself and your body.

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Lesson 4

Identifying Challenges Meditation

We will practice a guided meditation method that practitioners can use to identify areas of their body that they feel uncomfortable with, move into examining that discomfort, and then move into re-framing their understanding of that part of their body.

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Lesson 5

A Look In The Mirror

Today, we will discuss how we view our thoughts and our emotions. We will discuss thoughts and emotions as experiences rather than facts, and then look at the practice of non-attachment and how we can change our relationship with the ways in which we think and feel. This lesson will also offer a journal prompt or exercise that practitioners can do if they wish to dig deeper into this topic.

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Lesson 6

Body As Vessel

Today will bring a guided meditation exploring the idea that our body is a vessel, and that treating our vessel with kindness and compassion is the path to our own personal well-being.

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Lesson 7

What Is Diet Culture?

Today we will look at what diet culture is, why it is harmful, and what we can do to combat its almost daily impact on our lives.

Lesson 8

Movement & Acceptance

Moving our bodies can have a lot of emotional baggage due to past trauma. Today we will move through a guided moving meditation practice - created to foster the idea that movement is a way to connect with our bodies and to find acceptance for our bodies, through the lens of accepting both strengths and limitations.

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Lesson 9

Creating A Body Peace Practice

One 10-day course won’t end the war for most of us. It is, in fact, a practice that takes time and effort. Today, we will look at ways to create that regular practice - simple choices we can make every day to support our journey to make peace with our bodies - exercise to nurture thoughts we want to hold, and release those we want to let go.

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Lesson 10

Another Look In The Mirror

On this final day, we will look forward - we will examine the relationships we want to create with our bodies and how the journey forward will have ups and downs. If we can be prepared for these challenges, we can then rely on the practice we have created to get us through them.

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4.8 (6)

Recent Reviews

Mael

December 1, 2022

This is such an excellent course with great analysis of many factors that lead to our unease with our own bodies. Cara-Lee offers concrete tools for changing our relationship with our body to a much more joyous and healthy one. Well done, and thank you. 🙏🏼❤️

Lisa

June 28, 2022

Thank you! A clear and helpful journey with useful basic tools. May you know peace.

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